Multiphoton microscopy: a growing — and diversifying — area of critical science
The Women in Multiphoton Microscopy conference debuts this year at SPIE Photonics West, with keynote presentations from an international roster and organized by Ammasi Periasamy.
Periasamy, an internationally recognized expert in advanced microscopy techniques and founder and director of the W.M. Keck Center for Cellular Imaging, started the multiphoton conference at Photonics West in 2001 with the help of Professor Peter So of MIT and later Karsten Koenig of Saarland University joined as a cochair. Since then, they have organized many events to promote MPM, including initiating the JenLab Young Investigator Award with JenLab GmBH in 2012. The annual JenLab award is granted to scientists under the age of 32 who are doing research in MPM.