Bioelectrics Seminar Series - Gas plasma-based modulation of intracellular reactive oxygen species

Frank Reidy Research Center for Bioelectrics Seminar

Speaker: Michael Kong, Center for Bioelectrics, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Old Dominion University

Title: Gas plasma-based modulation of intracellular reactive oxygen species

When: 9:00 AM, Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Where: 1st floor conference room, IRP II

Abstract: Low-temperature ambient-pressure gas plasmas, commonly known as cold atmospheric plasma (CAP), have found many biomedical applications including cancer treatment and wound healing, some of which are already in clinical use. For most such applications, the mode of action of CAP is through their reactive oxygen species (ROS) to modulate cellular metabolism. A key challenge is to establish a quantitative relationship between ROS generated in CAP and CAP-induced ROS inside a cell. This seminar reviews the progress made by our group and others in pursuit of a quantitative description of how gas plasmas interact with cells.  

Biographical Sketch: Trained as an electrical engineer (PhD, University of Liverpool, 1992) with experience in free electron lasers, optical sensors, and switchgear arc plasmas, plasmas, Dr Kong’s main scientific contributions are in the area of cold atmospheric pressure plasmas and their interaction with cells and tissues.  He received the inaugural International Society for Plasma Medicine Prize in 2010 and the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Science Merit Award in 2015. He has published over 170 peer-reviewed journal papers with an h-index of 42 (Web of Science), and he organized the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science with some 580 participants.

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Posted By: Barbara Carroll
Date: Mon Mar 21 08:50:51 EDT 2016