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	The University of St Andrews Biophotonics collaboration is a a platform bringing together scientists from the School of Physics, the Bute Medical School and the Division of Biomedical Sciences to establish an ambitious programme of research at the physics/life sciences interface. It is funded by the EPSRC.

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	We are an active member of PHOTONICS4LIFE. As a Network of Excellence, PHOTONICS4LIFE aims at providing a coherent framework for the strongly fragmented field of Biophotonics in Europe. One of the challenging tasks of PHOTONICS4LIFE is therefore to structure and integrate the research and technological developments throughout the various subdisciplines of Biophotonics with their manifold interdependences.
	ARAKNES is focused on innovative robotic systems for endoluminal surgery. The idea is to develop robotic systems that feature a number of advanced bio-robotic and microsystem technologies that can monitor and operate inside the patient's stomach. The ultimate goal of ARAKNES is to integrate the advantages of traditional open surgery, laparoscopic surgery (MIS), and robotics surgery into a novel operative system for bi-manual, ambulatory, tethered, visible scarless surgery, based on an array of smart microrobotic instrumentation. The St.Andrews contribution focuses on developing novel photonic solutions for the monitoring of tissue health and the detection of malignant tumors. These will be based on either optical fibres or deploy our integrated semiconductor laser and detector technology.
	Wilson Sibbett is the Director of Research at the University of St. Andrews and is a world leader in the development and application of femtosecond laser sources. He is is involved in our work on optical tweezing and laser diode studies.
	Thomas Krauss is the head of the Photonic Crystal Research Group in the department. We work with his group on projects involving microfabricated structures, microfluidics and integrated optics

	David L Andrews works at the School of Chemistry in the University of East Anglia. His research broadly concerns the development of fundamental theory to elicit quantum, photonic and nanoscale features in light-matter interactions. This research is constructed on the basis of a consistent quantum electrodynamical representation that affords rigour in the formulation of photonic processes, and which facilitates the identification of new mechanisms and mechanistic connections.
	Ewan Wright works at the Optical Sciences centre at the University of Arizona. He has worked with us on studies of toroidal and Bessel beam dipole traps and waveguides for studies of cold atoms with a view to the examination of low dimensional gases, such as the Tonk's gas. He has recently worked with us on optically bounded matter and optical soliton formation.
	Karen Volke-Sepulveda & Sabino Chávez-Cerda both work at the Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica in Puebla, Mexico. They work on studies of optical tweezers and novel light beams, including Bessel beams. They provide some of the theoretical work on our optical manipulation papers.
	Tim Freegarde is taking up a new position at Southampton University, where he is starting a new group in quantum control. He previously worked a the University of Trento in Italy. He has collaborated with us on theoretical work relating to cavity enhanced dipole forces.

	Gabriel Spalding works at Illinois Wesleyan University, where he studies dynamic holographic optical tweezers and colloid physics. He spent academic year 02-03 working in St. Andrews on a variety of topics and in particular investigating evanescent wave optical tweezing and tweezing with optical arrays.
	We have recently started a project on sonoporation with researchers at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee and at the University of Dundee.
	Pavel Zemanek is the head of the Optical trapping group at the Institute of Scientific Instruments of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech republic (ISI) (www.isibrno.cz/omitec), deputy director of ISI and scientific director of ALISI (http://alisi.isibrno.cz/). His group is focused on new methods of optical micromanipulations especially using interfering laser beams and utilization of Raman microspectrosckopy and Raman tweezers in the diagnostics of living cells. We have been working together on the optical conveyor belt based on Bessel beams, optical sorting and optical binding since 2004
	Wei Huang is a lecturer of environmental microbiology at University of Sheffield. We work with his group on projects on cell sorting using Raman spectroscopy and passive optical sorting techniques.