Optical Trapping Lab - Grup de Biofotònica

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Welcome to the Optical Trapping Lab - Grup de Biofotònica website. The BiOPT lab belongs to the Applied Physics and Optics Department of the University of Barcelona, Spain.

The group, which has an increasingly interdisciplinary composition, develops photonic tools to address problems of biological interest. Specifically, we explore the capabilities of optical tweezers technology for the study of living matter at the molecular and cellular scales.

Our systems combine fluorescence microscopy, holographic optical manipulation, force measurement and high speed imaging, allowing us to reach inside cells and help study their inner processes.

News

May 2012

Our paper "Optimized back-focal-plane interferometry directly measures forces of optically trapped particles" has been published in Optics Express.

April 2012

Ferran Marsà is one of the winners of the award "Premi Jordi Porta i Jué" of the Catalan Physics Society (given to the best research works in Physics), for his Master thesis "Highly stable holographic dumbbell combined with accurate force measurements through back-focal-plane interferometry".

February 2012

Frederic Català joins the group as an undergraduate student and will be working on the use of holographic traps for precision experiments.

Ione Verdeny has moved on to start a PhD in the Advance Fluorescence Imaging and Biophysics group, led by Melike Lakadamyali at the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO). We wish you all the best, Ione!

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(last updated: 18 May 2012)

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