CFS Course return to Baltimore March 16-22, 2012, 8 a.m. 12 noon

The Center for Fluorescence Spectroscopy is supported by the National Center for Research Resources in the National Institutes of Health, with additional support from the University of Maryland Medical School, Medical Biotechnology Center and Graduate School.
For the past 15 years the CFS by the P41 mechanism, has advanced the technology for fluorescence and its applications to the biosciences. Considerable progress has been made in the CFS and elsewhere in areas such as probe chemistry, multi-photon excitation, steady state imaging, time-resolved imaging, genetically engineered probes, and single molecule detection. The role of the CFS has typically been to develop the fundamental chemistry, instruments or analysis methods which are then applied to areas such as fluorescence sensing, genetic analysis and cellular imaging. At present the CFS is focusing on the use of fluorescence with metallic plasmonic nanostructures. These interactions provide unprecedented control of excitation, emission and directionality.

Photo Archive:

• Multicultural Christmas Party, December, Friday 19, 2003.

• 48-th Annual Meeting of The Biophysical Society, Reception in the CFS, February 15, 2004

• NCRR-NIBIB PI Meeting organized by CFS, Bethesda June, 2005