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AIP Publishing Horizons COVID-19 and Photonics Virtual Symposium

Optical biosensors for analyzing the human response to COVID-19 and other upper respiratory infections - Benjamin L. Miller

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ACL-IJCNLP 2021

The great event is jointly organized by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP).

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Photonics plays an important role in coronavirus detection as well as clinical diagnosis and therapy of COVID-19 and its complications via optical sensing, spectroscopy, and imaging. For example, infrared thermography can produce a thermal map of the human skin in real time and find potentially infected persons at airports and on the street, while nanophotonic biosensors based on surface-enhanced Raman scattering can sensitively identify viruses in airborne aerosols. Moreover, photonics is an essential part of PCR testing (for diagnosis of the coronavirus) and flow cytometry (for evaluating treatment effectiveness) via fluorescence detection. This virtual symposium provides a valuable forum for researchers to share their novel findings and discuss challenges and potential solutions. Speakers and participants are encouraged to submit to the APL Photonics special topic on [Coronavirus and Photonics](https://publishing.aip.org/publications/journals/special-topics/app/coronavirus-and-photonics/) to continue the conversation.


**Organizing Committee:**

[Benjamin Eggleton](https://sydney.edu.au/science/about/our-people/academic-staff/benjamin-eggleton.html)

Editor-in-Chief, APL Photonics

Director – The University of Sydney Nano Institute

Institute of Photonics and Optical Science (IPOS)

School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia



[Keisuke Goda](http://www.goda.chem.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/)

Deputy Editor, APL Photonics

Professor, University of Tokyo, Japan

Adjunct Professor, Institute of Technological Sciences, Wuhan University, China

Adjunct Professor, Department of Bioengineering,

University of California Los Angeles, USA



[Jana Kainerstorfer](https://www.cmu.edu/bme/People/Faculty/profile/jkainerstorfer.html)

Associate Professor,

Carnegie Mellon University, USA



[Erinn C. Brigham](https://www.linkedin.com/in/erinncbrigham/)

Journal Manager,

AIP Publishing, USA


**Session Chairs:**

[Chulhong Kim](https://eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/144226.php)

Professor, Pohang University of Science and Technology,

South Korea



[Wei Min](http://www.columbia.edu/cu/chemistry/groups/min/)

Professor, Department of Chemistry, Kavli Institute for Brain Science,

Columbia University, USA



**Confirmed Speakers:**

[Andrea Armani](https://armani.usc.edu/)

Irani Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,

University of Southern California, USA



[Wei Gao](http://www.gao.caltech.edu/)

Assistant Professor of Medical Engineering,

California Institute of Technology, USA



[Benjamin L. Miller](http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/labs/Miller-Lab/)

Dean’s Professor of Dermatology, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering, and Optics, University of Rochester, USA



[Cameron Myhrvold](https://scholar.princeton.edu/myhrvoldlab)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, USA

Transitioning to Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology,

Princeton University in January 2021



[M. Selim Ünlü](https://www.bu.edu/eng/profile/selim-unlu/)

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,

Boston University, USA



[Peter J. Unrau](https://www.sfu.ca/mbb/people/research-faculty/unrau/)

Professor, Department of Molecular Biology and Molecular Biology,

Simon Fraser University, Canada

Coronavirus and Photonics

Academic researchers typically focus efforts on grand challenges that are five to ten years from having an impact on society. However, in the face of a global pandemic, members of academia and industry came together to quickly solve shortages in personal protective equipment (PPE) and in life-saving medical instrumentation. One example is in the area of disinfection methods. Previous research had shown the effectiveness of UV-C as a disinfection method for a range of bacteria and viruses, including coronaviruses. As such, due to its universal-nature, the use of UV-C in a healthcare setting began to increase in 2018 due to the rise of antibiotic resistant bacteria, but the approach became more well-known during the current COVID-19 pandemic. This presentation will discuss a recently developed, constructed, and validated portable UV-C disinfection system built from readily accessible components. In addition, recent results from a semi-autonomous UV-C system may be discussed.

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