Kristen Carlson, a PhD candidate in BME and a distinguished NSF/IGERT Fellow, just completed an internship in Europe under the auspices of the International Internships Program of the UT IGERT Program.
Kristen Carlson, a PhD candidate in BME and a distinguished NSF/IGERT Fellow, just completed an internship in Europe under the auspices of the International Internships Program of the UT IGERT Program. She visited research laboratories in Paris, France and Luebeck, Germany, presented her research at the European Conference on Biomedical Optics, and attended the Biophotonics Graduate School in Ven, Sweden.
Kristen, who works under the direction of Professors Rebecca Richards-Kortum and Olav Solgaard, visited the research laboratories of Dr. Claude Boccara in the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles in Paris, where she had the opportunity to study new techniques such as photothermal experimentation, near field optics, interference astronomy, full field optical coherence tomography (OCT), and flash OCT. In Germany, she visited the Institute of Biomedical Optics of Prof. Ralf Brinkmann of the University of Luebeck. She presented a talk on "Fiber optic reflectance confocal imaging: in vivo detection of dysplasia." Also, Carlson attended the European Conferences on Biomedical Optics in Munich, Germany and presented a talk on "Fiber optic reflectance confocal imaging: in vivo detection of cervical dysplasia."
Kristen Carlson is one of 15 distinguished NSF Fellows supported by the National Science Foundation Program on Cellular and Molecular Imaging for Diagnostics and Therapeutics, under the direction of Professor Nicholas A Peppas. This is a Program on Integrated Graduate Education Research and Training (IGERT) that was established at UT in 1998 and is presently in its eighth year of operation. IGERT Fellows have the option to obtain a "portfolio" diploma in this field after taking six required courses and completing an internship related to biomedical problems.
