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Plenary Session: Bio-Medical Imaging
Chair: S. Misture, NYS College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY
Dr. Olga AntipovaArgonne National Laboratory, USA
“X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy Brightens up Biological and Medical Research”
Dr. Olga Antipova brings nearly two decades of expertise in the characterization of materials using synchrotron x-ray techniques to this year’s conference. She earned her PhD in Molecular Biochemistry and Biophysics from Illinois Institute of Technology in 2008. She has been working on resolving structures of collagen fibers in cartilage and ligaments using X-ray fiber diffraction and small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), as well as electron microscopy. She continued her studies of fibrous tissues and materials using SAXS, micro-SAXS and X-ray fluorescence microscopy, merging real-space and reciprocal space imaging.
In 2016, Dr. Antipova joined Microscopy group as a beamline scientist at the Advanced Photon Source. During her career at Argonne, Olga has made a notable impact to the X-ray fluorescence microscopy. She has led several strategic efforts including the upgrade of the 2-ID-E microprobe, which is a hard X-ray scanning nanoprobe with multimodal capabilities, including XRF laminography.
Dr. Antipova’s research is pivotal in the areas of X-ray microscopy, instrumentation, and fluorescence data analysis. Her collaborative efforts with colleagues at Argonne and other institutions have yielded crucial insights into biological, biomedical, environmental, and materials science research. Her ongoing work not only deepens our understanding of material properties but also paves the way for new discoveries in multiple scientific domains.
Andrew NelsonUniversity of Western Ontario, Canada
“Paleobiomedical Imaging: The Use of X-ray and CT to Study Egyptian
and Peruvian Mummies”
Andrew Nelson is the Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Western University, in London, Ontario. He is a bioarchaeologist, which means he does research on human remains (mummies and skeletons) from archaeological sites. His main interests lie in the areas of the bioarchaeology of Ancient Peru and Egypt, and the use of non-destructive imaging techniques (x-ray, CT and micro-CT) in the fields of bioarchaeology and cultural heritage. He has published extensively in the area of paleoimaging (paleobiomedical imaging) including co-editing the 2021 volume “Case Studies for Advances in Paleoimaging and Other Non-Clinical Applications and contributing to the companion 2020 volume “Advances in Paleoimaging: Applications for Paleoanthropology, Bioarcheology, and Cultural Artifacts” (both Taylor and Francis, CRC Press).
Dr. Stuart StockNorthwestern University, USA
“Beyond Jaws: The Mineralized Cartilage of Shark Vertebral Centra”
Dr. Stock has used microComputed Tomography since 1986, synchrotron x-radiation since 1982 and x-ray diffraction even longer than that. He was on the materials faculty of Georgia Tech from 1984-2001 and on the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine faculty since 2001. He wrote MicroComputed Tomography: Methodology and Applications which is in its second edition, and coauthored Elements of X-ray Diffraction, 3rd Ed., with B.D. Cullity. He is a Fellow of SPIE (Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers).