Classes

Molecular Photobiology

Goals and Objectives:

The aim of this course is to provide students with a broad inter-disciplinary approach to the effects of light on living organisms and biological processes. By the end of this course, the students will be able to identify and analyze the photobiological responses resulting from photoinduced chemical and/or physical changes in some biological systems.

Fluorescence Spectroscopy: Introduction to Biomedical Applications

Goals and Objectives:

The aim of this course is to provide the students with the basic principles of fluorescence and to learn how to obtain biomolecular information from fluorescence data.

Course Contents:

Introduction to fluorescence, instrumentation, fluorophores, solvent and microenvironment effects, fluorescence lifetime and quantum yield,  fluorescence quenching, resonance energy transfer, fluorescence anisotropy, biological applications

Laser in Photobiology

Goals and Objectives:

The aim of this course is to provide the students with a general approach of how lasers and light interact with biological tissues and materials and to demonstrate the various uses of lasers and light in medicine and biology. By the end of this course, the students will be able to analyze the different optical parameters of the tissue and report different applications of lasers in the field of biomedicine.