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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Neuroscience Program

Stephen Allen Boppart

Professor, Bioengineering
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research: Neurophotonics, Optogenetics, Biophotonics, and Optical Imaging

Additional Campus Affiliations

W. W. Grainger Chair, Bioengineering
Professor, Bioengineering
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor, Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering
Professor, Biomedical and Translational Sciences
Affiliate, Molecular and Integrative Physiology
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Professor, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Director, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute

Recent Publications

De La Cadena, A., Renteria, C. A., Aksamitiene, E., & Boppart, S. A. (2025). Label-free hyperspectral multiphoton microscopy. Optics Letters, 50(5), 1484-1487. https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.547032

Shi, J., Ho, A., Snyder, C. E., Chaney, E. J., Sorrells, J. E., Alex, A., Talaban, R., Spillman, D. R., Marjanovic, M., Doan, M., Finka, G., Hood, S. R., & Boppart, S. A. (2025). Accelerating biopharmaceutical cell line selection with label-free multimodal nonlinear optical microscopy and machine learning. Communications biology, 8(1), Article 157. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-07596-w

Wu, T., Thornburg, Z. R., Tan, K., Kenkel, S., Boppart, S. A., Bhargava, R., & Luthey-Schulten, Z. (2025). Visualizing Cell Structures with Minecraft. The Biophysicist, 6(1). Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.35459/tbp.2024.000275

Bera, K., Rojas-Gómez, R. A., Mukherjee, P., Snyder, C. E., Aksamitiene, E., Alex, A., Spillman, D. R., Marjanovic, M., Shabana, A., Johnson, R., Hood, S. R., & Boppart, S. A. (2024). Probing delivery of a lipid nanoparticle encapsulated self-amplifying mRNA vaccine using coherent Raman microscopy and multiphoton imaging. Scientific reports, 14(1), Article 4348. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-54697-3

Boppart, S. A., Tu, H., & You, S. (2024). Clipping-assisted Dual-fluorophore Sensing. (U.S. Patent No. 12092576).

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