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 systems, awarded Dr. Ibrahim Cissé, the Class of 1922 Assistant Professor of Physics at 

, its annual Young Fluorescence Investigator Award. HORIBA Scientific has been the sole sponsor of this award since 1997. Along with the recognition, HORIBA presents a $1000 check to the awardee, who is invited to present a 20-minute talk on their research at the Biological Fluorescence Subgroup Meeting during the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting. This year’s presentation by Dr. Cissé was, “Capturing Genome Regulation with Single Molecule Resolution in Live Mammalian Cells." 

	Prof. Cissé joined the Department of Physics at MIT in January, 2014. He received his B.S. in Physics in 2004 from North Carolina Central University, and then went to the Physics Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in December, 2009 to complete his PhD. His graduate research in single-molecule biophysics focused on weak and transient interactions in vitro, and was done in the lab of Taekjip Ha, currently Bloomberg Professor of Biophysics, Biophysical Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering at the 

 (HHMI). From January 2010 to December 2012, he studied at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, in the Physics and Biology departments, as both a Pierre Gilles de Gennes fellow, and a European Molecular Biology Organization long-term fellow. He then went to HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus where he was in the Transcription Imaging Consortium until January 2013. 

	The Young Fluorescence Investigator Award is given to a researcher who has been nominated by their peers, for significant advancements and/or contributions in, or using, fluorescence methodologies. The candidate must be a Ph.D., and pre-tenured faculty or a junior level investigator working in the field of fluorescence.   

	“HORIBA is very proud to sponsor this prestigious award every year, and Professor Cissé is an excellent choice as this year’s recipient,” said Cary Davies, Director of the Fluorescence group at HORIBA Scientific. Ibrahim is the 22

 researcher to win the Young Investigator Award, since 1997.” 

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HORIBA Scientific, world leader in fluorescence spectroscopy systems, awarded Dr. Ibrahim Cissé, the Class of 1922 Assistant Professor of Physics at MIT, its annual Young Fluorescence Investigator Award.

Dr. Ibrahim I. Cissé Wins 2017 Honor

Holographix LLC has been chosen by BAE Systems (UK) as the 2016 Product Innovation Award winner at their recent Electronics Systems Supplier Conference. This award was presented to Holographix in light of the numerous innovative solutions that Holographix has provided over the last 10 years while supporting the development and manufacture of BAE Systems’ custom see-through optical waveguides for their LiteHUD

 Head-Up Display (HUD) product, as well as their Q-Sight

/Q-Warrior® Helmet-Mounted Display (HMD) products. 

	Holographix's management was particularly pleased to win the award, given that the company normally cannot disclose its customers' projects. "Therefore, it is with great honor and appreciation that we accept this award from BAE Systems, to recognize the innovative ideas and solutions that Holographix is able to offer our customers," said Holographix President and CEO David Rowe.

	Holographix’ surface relief replication technology, along with its proprietary replication materials and processes, have proven to be an excellent match for demanding aerospace applications. The waveguides produced for BAE Systems demonstrate examples of the state-of-the-art optical systems made possible through the incorporation of replicated surface relief diffraction gratings. These diffraction gratings enable the efficient management of light, allowing customers to design advanced waveguide-based display products capable of a combination of performance, cost, and weight advantages that were previously not attainable with conventional optical systems.

	For more information on Holographix’ custom diffractive waveguide capabilities, please visit:

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Holographix LLC has been chosen by BAE Systems (UK) as the 2016 Product Innovation Award winner at their recent Electronics Systems Supplier Conference.

Holographix LLC Wins BAE Systems’ Prestigious Innovation Award

	Cobolt AB, Swedish manufacturer of high performance lasers, is proud to announce that they will integrate their sales activities into the HÜBNER Group and its Photonics division as of July 1st, 2016.

	In December 2015, the HÜBNER Group, headquartered in Kassel Germany, acquired Cobolt AB. Cobolt’s long-standing partner for sales in Germany, Dag von Gegerfelt, will head the sales activities for the Cobolt lasers and for the tunable laser light source C-WAVE in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. This move will strengthen HÜBNER’s current sales force within their Photonics division, focusing on servicing both Cobolt’s customers and HÜBNER’s customers.

	Through the integration of Cobolt’s and HÜBNER’s sales activities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, customers will continue to benefit from excellent service from knowledgeable experts, now enjoying expanded resources and a larger product portfolio.

Cobolt AB, Swedish manufacturer of high performance lasers, is proud to announce that they will integrate their sales activities into the HÜBNER Group and its Photonics division as of July 1st, 2016.

Cobolt Strengthens its German Market Approach as a Member of the HÜBNER Group

	The Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of British Columbia, Canada, is leading the way in the use of Raman spectroscopy as a tool for monitoring biochemical changes and inter-donor variability in stored red blood cell (RBC) units (1,2). The research group of Professors Michael Blades and Robin Turner recently published this work in the Analyst. â¨â¨

	For this work, the group collaborated with the Canadian Blood Services, using Raman microspectroscopy (RMS) to investigate the chemical changes that occur in red blood cells (RBC's), during storage in bags, which could eventually be used as a quality check prior to transfusion. The group illustrated how the inVia could be used to analyze bulk properties of a sample, both in a conventional microscopy mode, and with a laser offset by using the inVia's software controlled beam steering capabilities. The laser and collection optics were purposely aligned to implement a spatially-offset Raman spectroscopy (SORS) measurement at a set position, enabling analysis of the blood with minimal interference from the bag material. â¨â¨

	In addition, the group studied bio-analytical applications with RMS, in particular spatially resolved analyses using the Renishaw inVia. To date, it has used RMS to characterize single cells and populations of cells in vitro as they respond to a variety of chemical and environmental stimuli, including those triggering differentiation, autophagy, necrosis, and apoptosis. It also uses RMS for the sub-cellular analyses of glycogen and nucleoli.

	â¨â¨The group has worked with Renishaw since the late 1990s when it used an RM-1000 system which “performed flawlessly and served as a workhorse for many years.” Describing the more recent instrumental developments, Professor Turner said, “In 2009 we traded that system for a refurbished inVia platform in order to take advantage of the StreamLine™ mapping technology and, in 2015, purchased a new inVia system. We now have two inVia systems operating in our lab and both are heavily used –mainly by us– but also by a growing number of external users on a fee-for-use basis. The robustness and ease of use of the inVia make it feasible to quickly train some of the more frequent external users so they can do their measurements without our personnel standing by.” â¨â¨

	“Our dealings with Renishaw have been a very positive experience. The StreamLine feature is very useful to us and the WiRE software is powerful and easy to use. We have also been very happy with the service and support that we have received from Renishaw and ProSpect Scientific (Renishaw's Canadian representative). The platform is flexible and we have exploited that to, for example, implement a fluorescence imaging microscopy system that uses the same microscope and hence can be used to image the same sample by fluorescence and Raman, and to implement SORS.” â¨â¨Please visit 

 for further details on how Renishaw's inVia confocal Raman microscope is being used in the life sciences.

		K. Buckley, C.G. Atkins, D. Chen, H.G. Schulze, D.V. Devine, M.W. Blades, and R.F.B. Turner "Non-invasive Spectroscopy of Transfusable Red Blood Cells Stored Inside Sealed Plastic Blood-Bags," 

		C.G. Atkins, K. Buckley, D. Chen, H.G. Schulze, D.V. Devine, M.W. Blades, and R.F.B. Turner, "Raman spectroscopy as a novel tool for monitoring biochemical changes and inter-donor variability in stored red blood cell units" 

The Michael Smith Laboratories at the University of British Columbia, Canada, is leading the way in the use of Raman spectroscopy as a tool for monitoring biochemical changes and inter-donor variability in stored red blood cell (RBC) units.

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Dr. Ibrahim I. Cissé Wins 2017 Honor

Holographix LLC Wins BAE Systems’ Prestigious Innovation Award

Cobolt Strengthens its German Market Approach as a Member of the HÜBNER Group

Renishaw’s inVia Confocal Raman Microscope Used to Study Blood Stored in Plastic Blood Bags