 Fluorescence microscopy is a principal diagnostic tool in medicine and biomedical research, because it provides high fidelity images of the concentration and location of specific molecules. Yet few doctor’s offices and much of the developing world lack fluorescence microscopes, because of their high cost and complexity. The LumaScope™ is a radically unconventional and inexpensive inverted fluorescence microscope developed by Etaluma. By rethinking the human interface and incorporating an inexpensive CMOS imaging array and USB, we’ve created a simple, robust, easy-to-use microscope ideal for education, research, and point-of-care medicine. This talk will present our first products, and our goals for commercialization and development of novel markets for this technology. |
 Dr. Brian Rasnow, Chief Scientist, Etaluma Dr. Brian Rasnow received his PhD in physics in 1994 from Caltech studying electroreception in weakly electric fish. Following a postdoc in Neurobiology and Computation in Neural Systems (CNS) at Caltech, he joined the Research & Automation Technologies group at Amgen, where he scouted technologies and built robotic detectors for automated drug discovery, earning Amgen’s “Excellence in Science and Engineering” award in 2007. That same year he left Amgen to become a lecturer in physics at CSUCI, to teach Caltech students applications of science and technology for the rural poor in Guatemala, and co-founded Etaluma, Inc.where he is their Chief Scientist. |
| Location: | California Lutheran University 60 West Olson Road, Thousand Oaks |
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| Dinner: | In the Atrium of the Ahmanson Science Building, available at 6 p.m. for $10 payable at the door, no RSVP needed. | |
| Lecture: | Nearby, at 7 p.m. Come to Ahmanson beforehand for directions. Meetings are free, open to the public | |
| Parking: | In general, visitor Parking is no longer permitted before 7 p.m. on Memorial Parkway and adjacent streets. However, CLU Public Safety has provided us with parking passes to download and use. | |
| Contact: | Abigail Corrin, acorrin@clunet.edu |
