LAB NEWS
News Archive:
September 2015
Welcome Xufei Tan and Diane Potart to our group!
August 2015
Prof. Niedre and colleagues awarded a 4 year, $1.5 million grant from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NIH). The project aims to develop new technology for in vivo detection of extremely low abundance circulating cells, and to apply this study new mobilization therapies for Multiple Myeloma. We look forward to developing and applying this technology with our collaborators Prof. Dana Brooks (NU-COE), Prof. Shashi Murthy (NU-COE), Prof. Charles P. Lin (Harvard Medical School) and Prof. Irene Ghobrial (Dana Farber Cancer Institute)
July 2015
Congratulations to Ying Mu for having her paper “Fast single photon avalanche photodiode-based time-resolved diffuse optical tomography scanner” accepted for publication to Biomedical Optics Express!
May 2015
Prof. Niedre awarded the 2015 Soren Buus Outstanding Research Award for the Northeastern University College of Engineering.
April 2015
Congratulations to Dr. Stacey Markovic for successfully defending her Ph.D. dissertation, “Fluorescence Imaging and Tracking of Circulating Cells In Vivo”! Well done Stacey!
April 2015
Prof. Niedre named a Faculty Fellow of the Northeastern University College of Engineering.
April 2015
Congratulations Mr. Paul Bohn for successfully defending his M.Sc. in development of low-cost cell phone based pulse oximeter! Great job Paul!
March 2015
Upcoming talk by our group at the IEEE-ISBI 2015 symposium in Brooklyn, NY
April 18th - Vivian Pera, Dana Brooks and Mark Niedre, “A Sparse Nonnegative Demixing Algorithm with Intrinsic Regularization for Multiplexed Fluorescence Tomography”
March 2015
Upcoming talk by our group at the OSA Optics in the Life Sciences meeting in beautiful Vancouver, BC, Canada:
April 18th - Stacey Markovic, Li Siyuan, Mario Sznaier, Octavia Camps and Mark Niedre “Computer Vision In Vivo Flow Cytometry of Low-Abundance Circulating Cells”
Feb 2015
Prof. Niedre gives short courses on Biomedical Imaging at NITK Mangalore, India, and COEP, Pune, India. Wonderful hospitality and interactions with our Indian friends and colleagues!
Jan 2015
Upcoming talks by our group at SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco:
Feb 10th - Vivian Pera, Dana Brooks and Mark Niedre, “Multiplexed fluorescence tomography with spectral and temporal data: intrinsic regularization with nonnegative least squares (Invited Paper)”
Feb 10th - Ying Mu and Mark Niedre, “Multispectral time-resolved diffuse fluorescence tomography”
Jan 2015
Congratulations to Stacey and Siyuan for having their paper “Performance of Computer Vision In Vivo Flow Cytometry with Low Fluorescence Contrast” accepted for publication in the Journal of Biomedical Optics!
August 2014
Congratulations to Graduate Student Ying Mu for being a finalist for the best student paper award at IEEE-EMBS in Chicago IL!
August 2014
Upcoming talks by our group at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference in Chicago IL:
Aug 28th - Ying Mu and Mark Niedre, “A Fast SPAD-Based Small Animal Imager for Early-Photon Diffuse Optical Tomography”
Aug 29th - Stacey Markovic, Siyuan Li, Tianxue Zhang and Mark Niedre, “ Toward Lower Contrast Computer Vision in Vivo Flow Cytometry”
August 2014
Prof. Niedre presents our lab’s work on the problem of detection, enumeration and imaging of very rare circulating cells in vivo at the Gordon Research Conference on Rare Cells in Circulation
July 2014
Graduate Student Vivian Pera presents her work on multi-spectral and temporal multiplexed imaging for diffuse fluorescence tomography at the Gordon Research Conference on Lasers in Medicine and Biology.
July 2014
Prof. Niedre promoted to Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University
April 2014
Congratulations to graduate student Juhua Huang for successfully defending his Master’s Thesis. Well done Juhua!
April 2014
Congratulations to lab Alumni Tushar Swamy for winning prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship!
February 2014
Upcoming talks by our group at SPIE Photonics West BIOS:
Feb 1st - M Niedre, N Pestana, S Markovic, V Pera, “Detection, enumeration, and tracking of extremely rare circulating cells in vivo”
Feb 1st - N Valim, V Pera, M Niedre, “Multiplexed small animal fluorescence imaging using joint fluorescence spectral and lifetime information”
Feb 2nd - V Pera, DH Brooks, M Niedre, “On the use of Cramér-Rao bounds for diffuse optical imaging system design”
January 2014
Congratulations to graduate student Vivian Pera for having her paper accepted in the Journal of Biomedical Optics! Her work considered the use of Cramer Rao Lower Bounds in instrument optimization in Diffuse Optical Tomography.
January 2014
Welcome Tianxue Zhang (undergraduate researcher) to our group!
December 2013
Congratulations to Stacey Markovic, Binlong Li and Vivian Pera for having their paper highlighted in the “In This Issue” section of Cytometry-A
November 2013
Congratulations to Dr. Niksa Valim for successfully defending her PhD Dissertation “Instrumentation and Methods for Time-resolved Diffuse Fluorescence Imaging”! Niksa is now moving on to Baylor Medical School for a post-doctoral research fellowship
September 2013
Welcome Paul Bohn to our group!
September 2013
Congratulations to graduate students Stacey Markovic, Binlong Li and Vivian Pera for having their paper on computer vision in vivo flow cytometry accepted into Cytometry-A!
August 2013
Congratulations to Noah Pestana for successfully defending his Master’s Thesis on rare-cell in vivo flow cytometry!
June 2013
Prof. Niedre gives an invited presentation at the Photonics North conference in Ottawa Canada and serves on a Canadian Cancer Society Instrumentation grant review panel in Toronto.
May 2013
Congratulations to graduate student Vivian Pera for having her paper describing a Maximum Likelihood fluorescence tomography reconstruction method accepted to Optics Letters!
May 2013
Congratulations to graduate student Noah Pestana for having his paper on rare cell in vivo flow cytometry accepted to the Journal of Biomedical Optics!
April 2013
Congratulations to graduate students Ying Mu and Stacey Markovic for having their paper on time resolved diffuse optical tomography with fast single photon avalanche photodiode accepted in Optics Letters!
April 2013
Prof. Niedre to present lab research at the OSA topical meeting on Optical Molecular Probes, Imaging and Drug Delivery in sunny Kona Hawaii.
March 2013
The Northeastern University Biomedical Engineering Society student chapter (for which Prof. Niedre proudly serves as a faculty advisor) is featured on the Northeastern website here: http://www.northeastern.edu/news/2013/03/biomedical-engineering-group/
March 2013
Prof. Niedre to give invited talk at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal on our research in rare cell detection and enumeration in vivo.
Feb 2013
Welcome undergraduate research Siyuan (Oliver) Yu to our group!
Jan 2013
Graduate students Vivian Pera and Stacey Markovic and Prof. Niedre to present lab research at SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco.
Dec 2012
Welcome Juhua Huang to our group!
Dec 2012
Congratulations to the NU Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Club for becoming an official EMBS student chapter! Prof. Niedre proudly serves as faculty co-advisor for the undergraduate club.
Dec 2012
Congratulations Noah Pestana and David Walsh whose paper “A Dedicated Low-Cost Fluorescence Microfluidic Device Reader for Point-of-Care Ocular Diagnostics” has been accepted for publication in upcoming issue of the Journal of Medical Devices.
Dec 2012
Prof. Niedre serves on a Canadian Cancer Society Instrumentation grant review panel in Toronto.
Oct 2012
Congratulations Niksa Valim whose paper “The effect of temporal impulse response on experimental reduction of photon scatter in time-resolved diffuse optical tomography” has been accepted for publication in upcoming issue of Physics in Medicine and Biology!
Oct 2012
Profs. Niedre and DiMarzio write invited editorial in the Journal of Thoracic Disease on optical imaging in the lung.
Sept 2012
Prof. Niedre presents laboratory research at the World Molecular Imaging Conference in Dublin, Ireland.
July 2012
Prof Niedre serves on a National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) grant review panel on Molecular Imaging of the Lung.
May 2012
Eric Zettergren’s paper “Tomographic sensing and localization of fluorescently labeled circulating cells in mice in vivo” accepted for publication in Physics in Medicine and Biology!
May 2012
Graduate student Vivian Pera and Prof. Niedre present their research at the Optical Society of America Biomedical Optics topical meeting in Miami, Florida
Apr 2012
Congratulations to David Weinberg for completing his M.Sc. in Bioengineering!
Jan 2012
Graduate students Niksa Valim and David Weinberg present their research along with Prof. Niedre at SPIE Photonics West 2012.
Jan 2012
Welcome Vivian Pera to the Group!
Dec 2011
Eric Zettergren’s paper “An instrument for fluorescence sensing of circulating cells with diffuse light in mice in vivo” to be published in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Biomedical Optics.
Sept 2011
Welcome Ying Mu to the Group!
Aug 2011
Congratulations to Eric Zettergren for successfully defending his Master’s Thesis “Tomographic Diffuse Fluorescence Flow Cytometry for Sensing Rare Circulating Cells In Vitro and In Vivo”.
May 2011
Prof. Niedre presents lab research at the European Conferences on Biomedical Optics in Munich and the Frontiers in Neurophotonics Summer School in Quebec City.
Feb 2011
Zhi Li’s paper “Hybrid use of early and quasi-continuous wave photons in time-domain tomographic imaging for improved resolution and quantitative accuracy” to be published in an upcoming issue of Biomedical Optics Express.
Jan 2011
Graduate students Eric Zettergren and Niksa Valim present their research at SPIE Photonics West 2011 (BiOS).
Jan 2011
Prof. Niedre presents an invited paper at SPIE Photonics West 2011 (BiOS) “Optimization of time-gated small animal fluorescence tomography”.
Dec 2010
Zhi Li successfully defends her Master’s Thesis “Joint use of early and quasi-continuous wave photons in time-gated tomographic imaging”
Nov 2010
Niksa Valim’s paper “Experimental Measurement of Time-Dependent Photon Scatter for Diffuse Optical Tomography” to be published in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Biomedical Optics.
July 2010
Prof. Niedre awarded four-year $1.2 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIH-NIBIB)
“High-Resolution Multiplexed Fluorescence Tomography”.
May 2010
Lab research profiled in the Northeastern University Voice newsletter.
Feb 2010
Prof. Niedre awarded two-year $418,000 R21 grant from the National Institutes of Health and the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NIH-NHLBI)
“Tomographic In Vivo Flow Cytometer for Counting Rare Circulating Cells”.
Dec 2009
Prof. Niedre’s recent research on time-resolved fluorescence tomography in mice lungs published in Optics Letters.
June 2009
Prof. Niedre awarded one of ten 2009 Massachusetts Life Sciences Center New Investigator grants with $375,000 of support over 2 years. The research will focus on development of instrumentation for sensing and imaging metastatic cancer in vivo.