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Details: Benjamin Parys, Post-doc
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Phone: (418) 663-5747 - Ext. 4712
Location: CRULRG
2601 Chemin de la Canardière
Beauport - QC - G1J 2G3
Research : Two-photon imaging of CaMKII regulation of dendritic spine remodeling
(Co-advisors: Paul De Koninck - Yves De Koninck)
Benjamin Parys graduated with his Ph. D. in Physics from the Applied Optics department at the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) in June 2005. He worked there on the propagation of femtosecond laser pulses in diffused media. This research project defined the conditions of use of coherence in femtosecond imaging methods and the possibility of characterising a diffused medium through its spectral response. His research allowed him to work with the teams of Daniel Houde and Denis Morris from the nuclear medical department and physics department of Université de Sherbrooke respectively.
Benjamin got also introduced at this time to the interactions between lasers and biological material hence stimulating his curiosity on biophotonics. Thus, he joined in July 2005, the Centre de Recherche Université Laval Robert-Giffard (CRULRG) and the Neurophotonics grant.
His work at the CRULRG consists in using two-photon microscopy to study the synaptic plasticity, the neuronal development and the improvement of light penetration in tissue to depths up to 1mm.
PUBLICATIONS
B. Parys, M.V. Papalexandris & A. Cornet (2006) Assessment of femtosecond gating for imaging in biological medium by Monte Carlo simulations, IEEE Proc. Vis. Image Signal Process. Vol. 153 (2), 181-84.
B. Parys, J-F. Allard, D. Morris, C. Pépin, D. Houde and A. Cornet (2005) Assessment of the spectral interference method applied to the stretching measurement of diffused laser pulses, J. Opt. A : Pure Appl. Opt. 7, 249 - 254.
B. Parys, J-F. Allard, F. Desmullier, D. Houde and A. Cornet (2004) Coherence analysis of diffused femtosecond laser pulses, J. Opt. A : Pure Appl. Opt. 6, L23 - L27.