Optical Manipulation and Its Applications (OMA)

1. Optical Manipulation in Biophysics and Biomedicine
   • Single molecule biophysics
   • Cellular mechanics and mechanotransduction
   • Cellular adhesion
   • Laser cellular surgery and photoporation
   • Light activated drugs and probes
   • Cell stretching
   • Optogenetics
   • Optical biomodulation
2. Optical Manipulation Fundamentals
   • Holographic optical tweezers and beam shaping, adaptive optics techniques
   • Particle dynamics
   • Opto-mechanical cooling
   • Microrheology
   • High force optical tweezers
   • Photophoresis
   • Optical trap modelling and theoretical underpinnings
   • Nanoparticle manipulation
   • Plasmonic manipulation
   • Integrated and near-field optical trapping
3. Optical Manipulation Applications
   • Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics
   • Nanoscale & quantum sensing
   • Environmental sensing and aerosol analysis
   • Optofluidics/microfluidics
   • Integration with spectroscopic techniques
   • Photo activated molecules and materials
4. Alternative Manipulation Techniques
   • Magnetic tweezers
   • Electrical manipulation: electrodynamic balance, dielectrophoresis, etc.
   • Acoustic manipulation and trapping
   • Microfluidic manipulation
   • Optoelectronic tweezers
   • Optothermal tweezers
   • Optical fiber tweezers
   • AFM applied to techniques studied by optical manipulation