Advances and Applications of Chemical Imaging
The faculty, students and staff of the Andrews University Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry are pleased to invite all to view Professor Rohit Bhargava's online Zoom lecture on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020, at 4:30 p.m. (EDT) on the topic Advances and Applications of Chemical Imaging. See the attached poster.
This is the third installment of the Dwain L Ford Lecture Series in the Andrews University Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry 2020 fall seminar program. Everyone is invited to view the lecture at https://andrews.zoom.us/j/92307867479. The meeting ID is 923 0786 7479.
Teachers are encouraged to announce this lecture in their classes and/or forward this email to their classes. Please share and encourage your colleagues, friends and others to tune in online. This lecture is open to all: students, high school through college, and everyone in the general public.
The Dwain L Ford Lecture Series is co-sponsored by the Andrews University Office of Research & Creative Scholarship, Berrien RESA Math Science Center and the Chemistry Honors Society.
Seminar Zoom Protocol:
- Mute your sound.
- Everyone can ask/write a question in the chat.
Rohit Bhargava is Founder Professor of Engineering and serves as the director of the Cancer Center at Illinois of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His primary appointment is in the Department of Bioengineering with joint appointments in several engineering departments and Chemistry as well as in the Carle-Illinois College of Medicine.
Rohit graduated with a dual-degree BTech (1996) from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, and received a doctoral degree from Case Western Reserve University (2000). After a stint at the National Institutes of Health, he has been at Illinois as assistant (2005–2011), associate (2011–2012) and full (2012–present) professor.
Rohit is widely recognized for his research on chemical imaging and advances in theory, instrumentation and applications in cancer pathology. Current work in chemical imaging in his laboratory focuses on theoretical modeling that can push the limits of speed and quality of infrared spectroscopic imaging as well as its application in several novel areas. In particular, Rohit’s group aims to recognize and subtype cancer by its underlying molecular characteristics, by advanced chemical imaging and application of modern machine learning, ultimately allowing for better treatment of patients.
His innovative teaching and mentoring have been consistently recognized by the success of his students. He conceived of and currently directs the Tissue Microenvironment training program supported by a T32 grant from the NIH. Rohit has also served to connect the research community in new and exciting ways to take on basic science and engineering questions that surround cancer. He was the first assistant professor hired into Illinois’ bioengineering department and played a key role in its development. He proposed and has served for 10 years to develop the Cancer Center at Illinois—a basic science center at the convergence of high quality technology and engineering and oncology.
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