Dr. Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Charles Godfrey Binder Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, delivered an invited talk entitled "Bioinspiration, biomimetics, and bioreplication for harvesting solar energy," at the OSA Frontiers in Optics Conference, held in Rochester, NY, USA, October 14-18, 2012. His co-author was Raul Martin-Palma, adjunct professor in the department of materials science and engineering.