From January 17–22, one of the world’s largest annual gatherings of the laser and photonics community, SPIE Photonics West, was held in San Francisco, USA. During the conference, Prof. Amos Danielli, our principal investigator and joint chairman of the BIOS conference, and Ph.D. student, Shmuel Burg, presented several research projects from our lab completed in 2025. Their presentations in the "Other Innovative Sensors I" and "Fluorescence and Luminescence" sessions of the BIOS conference highlighted the lab’s ongoing contributions to cutting-edge optical imaging and biosensing technologies.
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On November 19th, the head of the Optical Imaging and Biosensing Laboratory, Prof. Amos Danielli, delivered a guest lecture at the weekly colloquium of the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel.
Prof. Danielli discussed the central challenges in achieving rapid detection of biomarkers across diverse fields—including infectious diseases, cardiovascular health, cultivated-meat bioprocessing, and more—and presented the innovative optical biosensing solutions developed in our laboratory to address these needs.
We extend our sincere appreciation to Prof. Ester Segal, Dean of the Faculty and head of the Functional Nanomaterials, Biosensors and Sensors Lab, for her kind invitation and hospitality. We also thank Dr. Michael Levy, head of the Biophysical Systems Toward Artificial Living Matter Lab, for his efforts in organizing and facilitating the event.
Congratulations to our Ph.D. student, Sophie Terenteva, and M.Sc. student, Tom Rotman, on receiving the prestigious BINA Scholarships—awarded to outstanding Ph.D. and M.Sc. students, respectively—who are conducting cutting-edge research in nanoscience and nanotechnology at BINA.
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Prof. Danielli specializes in Electro-optics and Bio-photonics. After completing his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in the field of optical communication at Tel Aviv University, he worked in industry for eight years and then return to the Academy. During his studies for P.hD, he developed a new technology to rapidly detect fluorescent-labeled probes at very low concentrations in homogenous solutions and continued developing it during his post-doctoral studies in Washington University, St. Louis.
In 2014, he has returned to Israel and joined the faculty of Engineering at Bar Ilan University.
During his stay in the US, he founded a company that commercializes this technology, and established connections with key figures in the fields of medical laboratory and diagnostics, and especially among troponin and heart attack specialists.
We are always happy to hear from postdocs and students at all levels (BSc., MSc. and PhD.) with various backgrounds (mathematics, engineering, physics, biology) who are interested by the kind of research we are doing. send an email to Amos.danielli2@gmail.com
