{"id":774,"date":"2015-05-12T19:58:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T02:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/?p=774"},"modified":"2015-05-12T19:58:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T02:58:10","slug":"lecture-series-with-prof-aydogan-ozcan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/orange-county\/2015\/05\/12\/lecture-series-with-prof-aydogan-ozcan\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture Series with Prof. Aydogan Ozcan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lecture Series with Prof. Aydogan Ozcan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professor Ozcan spoke on the topic of &#8220;Telemedicine Microscopy towards Smart Global Health Systems&#8221;. He began his lecture with a thought-provoking statement that asked the audience to imagine bulky microscopes being replaced by cell phones.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to explain that these cell phones would make use of a technology called LUCAS. This is a lens-free technology where imaging is achieved through cell shadows. LUCAS makes use of digital holography which provides a lot more compact and cost-effective platform. Prof. Ozcan noted that this development gives health-care providers in rural and remote areas easier access to much needed testing equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Ozcan gave several examples including detection of bacteria in water samples or lymphocyte imaging in whole blood.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture came to an end with questions and answers session.<\/p>\n<p>Further information on Prof. Ozcan&#8217;s research at UCLA is available at: <a href=\"http:\/\/innovate.ee.ucla.edu\/welcome.html\">http:\/\/innovate.ee.ucla.edu\/welcome.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacificainstitute.org\/index.php\/component\/datsogallery\/?Itemid=147&amp;func=viewcategory&amp;catid=191\">Click here to see all the pictures of this event&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lecture Series with Prof. Aydogan Ozcan Professor Ozcan spoke on the topic of &#8220;Telemedicine Microscopy towards Smart Global Health Systems&#8221;. He began his lecture with a thought-provoking statement that asked the audience to imagine bulky microscopes being replaced by cell phones. He went on to explain that these cell phones would make use of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/orange-county\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/orange-county\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/orange-county\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/orange-county\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/orange-county\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/orange-county\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/orange-county\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/orange-county\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacificainstitute.org\/orange-county\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}