Bezryadina Lab

News

5/17/2024 - Joseph Stanley graduated with Master degree and Jesus Poblano graduted with Bachelor degree. They will both continue their physics studies in Ph.D. programs. Jesus also recieved NSF GRFP fellowship. Congradulations!
Jesus Poblano completed thesis "Nanoplastics Interactions with Human Red Blood Cells".
Joseph Stanley defended Master's thesis "Antibiotic Effectiveness on Early Stages of Biofilm Formation".

4/15/2026 - Jesus Poblano presented at National Conference for Undergraduate Research (NCUR).

3/10/2026 - Nathalie Tuazon got 1st place at CSUNposiun with her presentation "Optical Acoustic Raman Spectroscopy for Microparticles and Nanoparticles Analysis" and Jesus Poblano got 1st place CSUNposiun with his poster "Effects of Nanoplastics on Human Red Blood Cells".
2/22/2026 - Joseph Stanley presented at Biophysical Society 70th Annual Meeting (BPS 2026).

1/17/2026 - Nathalie Tuazon and Jesus Poblano presented at CSU Biotechnology Symposium.
1/7/2026 - Group celebration of New Year of 2026.

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.

8/4/2024 - Arturo Ramirez and Mimi Truong presented at SPIE conference in San Diego.
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.