Why do yellow pigments look redder when there's more pigment or a longer pathlength? To explain why, we discuss the carotenoid redshift & beautiful tanager birds in Ecology and Evolution! New paper with Allison Shultz *ajshultz622.bsky.social*, Jackie Dall, Dionne Group, & Sonke Johnsen onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

An optical sensor smaller than a postage stamp could help coastal communities monitor some of the world's largest marine protected areas. Discover how collaborators Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions Palau International Coral Reef Center (PICRC) Dionne Group are bringing new possibilities to light 🌊✨➡️ bit.ly/eDNAsensor

“Democratizing science is one of the most urgent needs of our time. This project has the potential to scale environmental monitoring and analytical capacity across coastal regions around the world.” - Co-director Fiorenza Micheli Halleh B. Balch Collin Closek 🏳️‍🌈 Dionne Group Palau International Coral Reef Center (PICRC)

We're collaborating with Palau International Coral Reef Center (PICRC) & Dionne Group to optimize innovative environmental DNA methods that can enable detection of marine life spanning microbes to mammals.🦠➡️🐬 Meet the team & explore #eDNA research 🔗stanford.io/48tu4vx 📷: Collin Closek 🏳️‍🌈 Palau International Coral Reef Center (PICRC)

Pumpkins were carved, and fun was had. Wishing you a Happy Halloween from the D-lab.

Dear colleagues attending #F23MRS Materials Research Society (MRS)! Please join us for an exciting joint keynote session featuring fantastic speakers Albert Polman, Alexandra Boltasseva, Harry Atwater and Jennifer Dionne today from 1.30pm - 5pm to at Hynes, Level 3, Room 312!

🚨🚨Check out the posters and talks by D-lab members at #MRSFall2023🚨🚨

Combining fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and ultrafast spectroscopy, the sample-averaged dynamics of defects are studied with single-particle sensitivity in two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride heterogeneous emitters. Lindenberg Ultrafast Group go.nature.com/3UbXBEN

Decode single cells with nanophotonics-enabled Raman scattering & machine learning! Check out our perspective article envisioning how the combination unlocks possibilities in the biological world. Nice collaboration with Loza F. Tadesse, Ph.D. and Amanda Kirane, MD! pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.102…

Decode single cells with nanophotonics-enabled Raman scattering & machine learning! Check out the new perspective by Dionne Group, which envisions how surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy unlock possibilities in the biological world! Read it here 🔗 pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Last month, (Dr.) Briley Bourgeois successfully defended his thesis and graduated from Stanford. Congratulations! He will be soon joining National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) as a Director's Fellow!

Check out this new review article by Feng and co-authors titled "Spectroscopy in Nanoscopic Cavities: Models and Recent Experiments" Link: annualreviews.org/content/journa…

Congratulations to Baba and Loza for this amazing work! Check out this thread to learn how they harness the power of ML and Raman spectroscopy for rapid, culture-free, and antibiotic incubation-free drug susceptibility test for tuberculosis.

Congratulations to Hamish and Pari! Check out this perspective!