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Then, from 5–7 pm on Sunday, aca- demic researchers and those working in small business will have an opportunity to learn about U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) policies and procedures relevant to their work. Chaired by Warren Grundfest of UCLA and Ramesh Raghavachari of the FDA, the session will feature Roger Bagwell of Actuated Medical offering insights on regulatory approval and commercialization of medical devices, and Martin Culjat of Farus LLC and UCLA on FDA submissions for startups. At 7 pm, Nobel Laureates Betzig and Moerner talk about their work on fluorescence microscopy as described in the introduction to this preview.

On Monday, February 9, three priz-
es will be awarded to early career scien-
tists with the Jen Lab Young Investigator
Award (9: 35 am) and the Student Poster
Session Competition (2: 50 pm), both
of which are part of the Multiphoton
Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences
conference, and the Ocean Optics Young
Investigator Award (6: 10 pm), in con-
junction with the Colloidal Nanocrystals
for Biomedical Applications confer-
ence. (Two other awards programs, the
PicoQuant Young Investigator Award,
part of the Single Molecule Spectroscopy
and Superresolution Imaging conference,
and the Seno Medical Best Paper Awards,
part of the Photons Plus Ultrasound con-
ference, run on Sunday at 3: 25 pm and
Tuesday at 5: 40 pm, respectively).

Three more plenary sessions will take
place on Tuesday, February 10. In the
Nano/Biophotonics plenary (10: 30 am),
Gabriel Popescu of the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will dis-
cuss the use of optics to bridge molecu-
lar and cellular biology and present some
recent advances in phase-sensitive mea-
surements. The Neurophotonics plenary
( 2 pm), delivered by 2013 Nobel Laureate
Thomas C. Südhof of the Stanford
University School of Medicine, will
describe recent studies showing how dys-
function of neurexins and their ligands
might predispose to neuropsychiatric dis-
orders. And the evening plenary, hosted
by the International Biomedical Optics
Society group—which aims to facilitate
communications between clinicians and
engineers—will feature a talk by Stephen
Boppart of the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign: Transforming
Medicine and Surgery with Biophotonics.

BiOS interactive poster sessions will run through Tuesday (hours are Saturday and Sunday, 3–4 pm, Sunday and Monday, 5: 30 – 7: 30 pm, and Tuesday, 6–8 pm), and the BiOS conferences will run through Thursday. While it is difficult to select highlights from the thousands of fascinating offerings, here are a few that captured our attention. The first three are part of the Translational Research virtual symposium: