Advanced nonlinear microscopy imaging tools and microbeam technologies are used to visualize and study tissue composition, architecture, mechanobiology and pathology.  These tools provide better chemical contrast and expand imaging over wider and deeper scales, reducing the time needed to image and study cell interactions.

Optical microscopy and laser microbeams are essential in molecular, cellular, developmental biology, neuroscience, biophysics, and biotechnology. UC Irvine has an internationally recognized tradition of excellence in these fields with faculty pioneering many optical techniques that are now standard in biological sciences research.

These research efforts cross departmental lines, uniting strengths from Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Developmental and Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Behavior, and Physiology and Biophysics. Cutting-edge advances include state-of-the-art fluorescence correlation methods, nonlinear optical imaging and laser microbeam technologies. These are applied to investigate biological processes and to probe and manipulate cells and tissues on extremely small scales. Visit the Nonlinear Optical Microscopy Lab website at: http://sites.uci.edu/nlom/.