Recent News
October 4, 2017
Wei Liu's paper was published in Journal of Biophotonics
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jbio.201700196/full
September 27, 2017
Small But High-Speed Steps Closer To Understanding Brain Strokes
Junjie's co-first authored paper in Journal of Biophotonics, entited 'High-speed photoacoustic microscopy of mouse cortical microhemodynamics', was highlighted on Advanced Science News. http [...]
September 11, 2017
First lab outing in 2017 fall semester
Hiking, BBQ, fishing, and poker at Eno River State Park!!! A relaxed day for PI-LAB.
September 8, 2017
Wei Liu's paper was published in Journal of Biomedical Optics
Wei's first paper, entitled 'Photoacoustic thermal flowmetry with a single light source', was now published online in JBO. Congrats, Wei and all authors.
September 4, 2017
Junjie is now serving on the editorial board of Scientific Reports
A natureresearch journal https://www.nature.com/srep/
September 1, 2017
Welcome our new lab member Yuqi, joining us since August 2017
June 4, 2017
View and news on Light: Science and Applications
Junjie's commentary article was published on LSA, in response to a novel non-contact photoacoustic technology developed by Dr. Zemp at Alberta University. Take a look here
May 16, 2017
Junjie's interview about NeuraLink
Junjie was featured by an Inverse Innovation news article about Elon Musk's big idea about brain-computer-interface. Compared with Facebook's quasi-ballistic photons, is Neuralink better? Check it out.
May 12, 2017
Our opinion about Facebook's big idea of reading your mind
In this interveiw by Dyani Sabin at Inverse Innovation, Junjie talks about "quasi-ballistic" photon technology that Facebook hopes will allow technology to read your mind in the near future. [...]
May 10, 2017
Junjie's co-author paper with Dr. Lihong Wang was published on Nature Biomedical Engineering online!
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-017-0071
Here is the new article from Caltech
April 24, 2017
Junjie visited Dr. Hao F. Zhang at Northwestern Univeristy
Junjie paid a visit to Dr. Hao F. Zhang at Northwetern University, Chicago. Dr. Zhang is the pioneer in biophonics, especially visible-light OCT. Thanks for the hospitality, Dr. Zhang.
April 9, 2017
Junjie received MEDx Basic Research Grant
Drs. Junjie Yao and Adela Rambi Cardones (Duke Dermotology) recently received a MEDx grant to develop a handheld photoacoustic probe that can provide high-resolution (5 µm to 50 µm) vasculature imaging in the skin at depths up to 5 mm.
April 9, 2017
Congratulations to Ravi and Bangxin for receiving research fellowships!
Big congrats to Ravi and Bangxin for receiving the prestigious department fellowships for master research! Good job!
February 2, 2017
Junjie just attended SPIE Photonic West 2017 at San Francisco
So many exciting things are happening in the Photoacoustic community! Cheers!
And the Dr. Lihong Wang's lab reunion was a lot of fun! We are very proud of being a member of this growing family. See if you can find Junjie in this pic.
January 17, 2017
Junjie received the MEDx Colloquium grant
Drs. Junjie Yao, Pei Zhong and Glenn Preminger received a MEDx grant in support of the colloqium 'Translate Photoacoustic Imaging to Guide Shockwave Lithotripsy of Kidney Stones”.
January 17, 2017
Welcome new lab members!
Warm welcome to new lab members! Our first PhD student: Mucong Li, and three talented undergratuate students: Emelina Vienneau, Erick Tang, Anthony Xu.
December 29, 2016
First semester over for PI-Lab
We have been busy building our lab and submiting grants for the first semember at Duke PI-Lab. The lab is now fully functioning with our first OR-PAM system running as a charm! Excellent job done by our first batch of master students: Yasha, Huan-Chi, Bangxin and Ravi!
September 2, 2016
PI-Lab has opened for business since Sep 1st, 2016
Photoacousitc Imaging Lab officially opened for business. We are excited to start working with the talented students, researchers, and staff at Duke! Please contact Junjie if you are intersted with joining us or collaborating with us. Cheers!
June 22, 2016
Review article published in Nature Methods
Junjie's Review ariticle on Photoacoustic Imaging, co-authored with Dr. Lihong Wang, was published in Nature Methods, on July 28, 2016.
May 24, 2016
Junjie Yao: Listening into the Body through Light
Dr. Yao's profile is featured by Pratt School of Engineering! Cheers!
May 9, 2016
Yao Moving to Duke
Junjie Yao will join the BME Department at the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering this fall. Until August, you can email him at junjie.yao@go.wustl.edu