News & Updates

• Paper: OTSLM Toolbox for Structured Light Methods

  Our spatial light modulator and light shaping Matlab toolbox is finally publicly available. You can find a pre-print of our paper in computer physics communications, or you can get the latest version of the toolbox either from the Mathworks File Exchange or from Isaac Lenton’s GitHub.

• New Website

  Isaac Lenton has put together a new Website for the group. The new website uses Jekyll to build a static site. If you have any suggestions, or things we should change/fix, please let us know.

• Springer Theses award

  Congratulation to Itia Favre-Bulle for winning the Springer theses award in recognition of her outstanding PhD Research. The book is available from the Springer website.

  

• Paper: Optical Trapping of Otoliths Drives Vestibular Behaviours in Larval Zebrafish

  

  Our team has found a way around one of sensory neuroscience’s big obstacles: the vestibular system. Dr Favre-Bulle targeted an infrared laser toward the ear stones, of larval zebrafish, thus placing forces on them like the forces that would result from actual movement. This resulted in behavioural responses like those that larvae display when undergoing real-world even though the animals were still. “Optical Trapping of Otoliths Drives Vestibular Behaviours in Larval Zebrafish.”.

• Officer of the Order of Australia

  Professor Halina RUBINSZTEIN-DUNLOP has been awarded for her distinguished service to laser physics and nano-optics, as a researcher, mentor and academic, to promotion of educational programs and to women in science. Congratulations Halina!

  

• Eureka Award winner

  We have been honoured to receive the Australian Museum Eureka prize for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research. Congratulation to Itia Favre-Bulle, Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop and Ethan Scott!

  

• Paper: Visual guide to optical tweezers

  Congrats to Isaac Lenton, for his first paper in our group on “Visual guide to optical tweezers”

  

• Paper: Ultrasensitive rotating photonic probes for complex biological systems

  

  Shu Zhang just published “Ultrasensitive rotating photonic probes for complex biological systems”.

• Paper: Active rotational and translational microrheology beyond the linear spring regime

  

  Congrats to Lachlan Gibson, for his first paper in our group on “Active rotational and translational microrheology beyond the linear spring regime”

• Follow us on twitter

  You can find the optical micro-manipulation group on twitter: @uqomg.