Bezryadina Lab

News

6/1/2025 - Paper Linear and nonlinear optical properties of DNA in suspensions is published in Optical Materials.

5/22/2025 - Paper Optical trapping stability of different irregularly shaped microplastic particles. is published in Scientific Reports.

5/16/2025 - Mimi Truong, Nathalie Tuazon, Cindy Quintanilla graduated with Bachelor Degree.
Cindy Quintanilla completed thesis "The Effects of Different Wavelengths of Light Illumination on Bacillus subtilis Biofilm Growth".
5/14/2025 - End of year group meeting and celebration.

4/25/2025 - Prof. Bezryadina recieved 2025-2026 Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities (RSCA) Award at CSUN.
4/21/2025 - Mim Truong presented at Biophotonics Congress conference in San Diego.
3/14/2025 - Prof. Bezryadina recieved the Exceptional Service to Students Awards for the 2025-26 Academic Year from CSUN.
1/11/2025 - Cindy Quintanilla, Nadia Evans-Lambert, and Mimi Truong presented at CSU Biotechnology Symposium.

5/17/2024 - Arturo Ramirez, Brooke Walter Lakes, and Noorulhoda Kazemi graduated with Master degree.
4/22/2024 - Arthuro Ramirez defended Master's thesis "Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties of DNA Suspensions".
4/19/2024 - Brooke Walter-Lakes defended Master's thesis "Biofilm Formation under Different Light Illumination".
2/12/2024 - Our paper on Biofilm formation and manipulation with optical tweezers was highlited in multiple news articles. Here some of them:
Optica: Researchers control biofilm formation using optical traps,
Photonics Spectra: Optical Control of Biofilm Growth Supports Biomaterials Advances,
AZO Optics: Optical Tweezers Control Bacterial Biofilm Formation,
Wiley Analytica Science: Optical traps to control biofilm formation.

1/31/2024 - Mimi Truong and Brooke Walter-Lakes presented at SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco.

1/29/2024 - Paper Biofilm formation and manipulation with optical tweezers is published in Biomedical Optics Express and selected for Editor's Pick.

1/13/2024 - Brooke Walter-Lakes and Cindy Quintanilla presented at CSUPERB conference.

11/17/2023 - Noorulhoda Kazemi defended Master's thesis "Investigation of Optical Properties of Microplastics".
8/24/2023 - Noorulhoda Kazemi and Arturo Ramirez presented at SPIE conference in San Diego.

6/30/2023 - Prof. Bezryadina recieved CSUPERB Faculty-Graduate Student Research Collaboration Program grant "Optical studies of microplastics with optical tweezers and Raman spectroscopy".
5/19/2023 - Czarlyn Camba graduated with her Bachelor Degreee and completed thesis "Understanding Biofilm Formation with Optical Trapping Effects".
5/11/2023 - Mimi Truong presented at CLEO conference in San Jose.

4/25/2023 - Czarlyn Camba presented poster at Biophotonics Congress conference in Vancouver, Canada.

4/21/2023 - Brooke Walter-Lakes, Arturo Ramirez, Noorulhoda Kazemi, and Mimi Truong presented CSUNPOSIUM.

3/17/2023 - Prof. Bezryadina recieved Exceptional Levels of Service to Students Award from CSUN.
1/11/2023 - Group celebration of New Year of 2023.

8/19/2022 - Paper Conservation of orbital angular momentum and polarization through biological waveguides is published in Scientific Reports

8/19/2022 - Mimi Truong, Build PODER student, joined the group.
8/01/2022 - Arturo Ramirez was accepted to Bridges to Ph.D. program at CSUN.
5/20/2022 - Brooke Walter-Lakes, Vikor Nascak, and Rebecca Sipen graduated with their Bachelor Degreee.

5/16/2022 - Rebecca Sipen defended her undegradute thesis "Light Propagation Effects in Strawberry DNA Suspensions".
8/02/2021 - Viktor Nascak and Phil Digal presented at SPIE virtual conference.
7/25/2021 - Czarlyn Camba, U-RISE student, joined the group.
4/06/2021 - Viktor Nascak got 1st place for his poster at virtual CSUNPOSIUM.

1/06/2021 - Viktor Nascak and Phil Digal presented posters at virtual CSUPERB conference.
1/04/2021 - Paper Nonlinear self-trapping and guiding of light at different wavelengths with sheep blood is published in Optics Letters

8/27/2020 - Nick Perez presented at SPIE virtual conference.
8/15/2020 - Laboratory partially open with Covid-19 regualtions. We happy to have our old students (Phil Digal,Cristian Leyva, and Viktor Nascak) and a new student (Ariel Rayas) back to the lab.
7/29/2020 - Nic Perez defend Master thesis "Red Blood Cells Form Waveguides of Light at Tunable Wavelengths."
5/15/2020 - Nick Perez presented at CLEO virtual conference.
3/12/2020 - Laboratory and CSUN campus are closed due to Covid-19.
1/15/2020 - Nick Perez presented at CSUPERB conference.