Nanobiophotonics: Touching Our Daily Life

By Prof. Basudev Lahiri | IIT Kharagpur

Learners enrolled: 399 | Exam registration: 67

ABOUT THE COURSE:

Nanobiophotonics is a multidisciplinary field where light-based technologies are utilized to reveal biological mechanisms, and diagnose several diseases along with finding their treatments. An essential aspect of nanobiophotonics is the study of light activated processes at the cellular and tissue level . This course introduces the fundamentals of biology, photonics and nanotechnology, and provides the most relevant and significant applications from chemistry, biology, and medicine. For example, it includes how to detect and identify novel viruses (such as the Coronavirus) ,and how to measure neuronal activity of live animals by photostimulation. This course aims to give an overview of the emerging research in the field of Nanobiophotonics and its impact on our daily life

INTENDED AUDIENCE: Final Year UG/PG/PhD Scholar

PREREQUISITES: Basic knowledge of optical physics will be useful.

INDUSTRY SUPPORT: Bruker , F.Hoffmann-La Roche AG,GE Healthcare , Horiba Ltd. , IDEX Corporation , IPG Photonics Corporation , Koninklijke Philips NV , Procter & Gamble Company, The Qiagen Inc. , Applied Materials, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Summary

Course Status :	Ongoing
Course Type :	Elective
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering Photonics
Credit Points :	3
Level :	Postgraduate
Start Date :	22 Jul 2024
End Date :	11 Oct 2024
Enrollment Ends :	05 Aug 2024
Exam Registration Ends :	16 Aug 2024
Exam Date :	26 Oct 2024 IST

Note: This exam date is subjected to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1: Preliminaries: Introduction of Nanobiophotonics

Week 2: Preliminaries: Basics of biology & Photonics

Week 3: Preliminaries: Nanotechnology in Photonics

Week 4: Fundamentals of Biospectroscopy and Bioimaging

Week 5: Biophotonics Technology for Disease detection & diagnosis

Week 6: Biophotonics Technology to detect Genetic Disorders

Week 7: Lasers for Biophotonics

Week 8: Quantum Biophotonics

Week 9: Principles of Optogenetic Technology

Week 10: Introduction to Neurophotonics

Week 11: Applications and Emerging Research areas in Neurophotonics

Week 12: Research in nanobiophotonics: Overview and Future Directions

Books and references

1.Introduction to Biophotonics, Paras N. Prasad (2003)

2.Biophotonics: Concepts to Applications, Gerd Keiser (2016)

3.Physical Biology of the Cell, Rob Phillips (2012)

4.Fundamentals of Biomedical Optics, Caroline Boudoux (2017)

5.Handbook of Neurophotonics ,Francesco S.Pavone and Shy Shoham (2020)

Instructor bio

Prof. Basudev Lahiri

IIT Kharagpur

I am an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India. I have over fifteen years of experience in various nanofabrication techniques as applied to nanophotonics. I combine my expertise both as a designer of nanophotonics devices, and as a developer of new optical characterization techniques to produce novel Bio Nano Photonic technologies. Presently, I am developing new instrumentation methods that provide ultra-high resolution biochemical images, for the accurate diagnosis of viral and bacterial diseases.

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: 26 October 2024 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Kharagpur .It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

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