This is a Partial Graduate Student Directory A-H  Name: Elenor Castillo Title: PhD Graduate Student in the Dept. of Plant Biology (2008-present) Location: 1048 Wickson Hall, University of California, Davis Email: elecastillo@ucdavis.edu Contact number: 510-798-4233 Advisor: Florence Negre-Zakharov Research Project: "Researching alternatives to pesticides" Techniques or instruments: Gas Chromotography and transgenic plants Keywords related to research project: sulfur volatiles, Huanglongbing (citrus greening disease) Publications: (1) Rockwell NC, Njuguna SL, Roberts L, Castillo E, Parson VL, Dwajak S, Lagarias JC, Spiller SC, Biochemistry, 2008 Jul 8;47(27):7304-16. Epub 2008 Jun 13 Awards and Honors: (1) Bill and Jane Fischer Vegetative Management Scholarship 2009; (2) “Above and Beyond” Award for Baccalaureate Research and Outstanding Achievement in Education, The Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology (NSF center), 2008; (3) Jill Barrett Research Scholar, 2008; (4) Kaiser Foundation Medical Scholarship, 2006 and 2007
Name: Xiaoyan Chen Title: Location: Email: Contact number: Advisor: Research Project: Techniques or instruments: Keywords related to research project: Publications: Awards and Honors:
Name: Hansang Cho  Location:University of California, Berkeley and BioPOETS Email:jeje58@gmail.com Contact number: (510) 295-7488 Advisor: Luke P. Lee Research Project: Exploration of novel biomedical imaging technologies based on bio-inspired engineering Techniques or instruments: Electron beam lithography, AFM, ION milling, DRIE/RIE, Electric/Thermal evaporation, Confocal microscope, Raman microscope, CNC machining center Keywords related to research project: biologically inspired engineering, integrated microfluidic platforms for quantitative biomedicine, and plasmonic nanobiosensor Publications: Journal articles (16 published, 4 submitted, 1 in preparation); Conference Proceedings and Presentations (24 published, 1 submitted, 3 oral presentations) Patents: Awarded (13) and Applied (3) – please see CV for more details Awards and Honors: (1) Lawrence Scholar Program fellowship (former SEGREF) from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (since 2007 up to for 4 years); (2) Scholarship supported by the Korea Research Foundation Grant funded by the Korea government (MOEHRD) (2005 – 2007); (3) Fellowship supported by Intel inc. (2005 – 2006); (4) Graduation with cum laude from Seoul National University; (5) Research proposals awarded “Modular Riboswitch Diagnostics,” Rick Henrikson, Hansang Cho, and Frankie Myers, the first place in the Bears Breaking Boundaries competition under the category of Neglected Diseases; (6) 2008 "Dynamic Control and Amplification of SERS by Piezo-Nanoplasmonic System," Jaeyoun Kim, Hansang Cho, Luke P. Lee (7) NSF Active Nanostructures and Nanosystems program proposal accepted in 2006 "SERS-CD Platform for Quantitative LPA (Lysophosphatidic Acid) Analysis," Hansang Cho et al.; (8) Intel proposal accepted in 2005 "Robust Surface-enhanced Raman scattering substrate via nanoimprint lithography," Hansang Cho et al.; (9) Molecular Foundary at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory proposal accepted in 2005
Name: James Darnton Title: Location: Email: Contact number: Advisor: Research Project: Techniques or instruments: Keywords related to research project: Publications: Awards and Honors:
Name: Bess-Carolina Dolmo Title: Location: Email: Contact number: Advisor: Research Project: Techniques or instruments: Keywords related to research project: Publications: Awards and Honors: *************************************************************************** I-P
Name: Eric Kendall Title: Location: Email: Contact number: Advisor: Research Project: Techniques or instruments: Keywords related to research project: Publications: Awards and Honors:
Name: Randie Kim Title: Location: Email: Contact number: Advisor: Research Project: Techniques or instruments: Keywords related to research project: Publications: Awards and Honors:
Name: Florian Knorr Title: Location: Email: Contact number: Advisor: Research Project: Techniques or instruments: Keywords related to research project: Publications: Awards and Honors:
Name: Latevi Lawson Title: PhD Graduate Student (2006 to present) Location: The University of California, Davis NSF Center for Biophotonics Science & Technology (CBST) / UC Davis Department of Chemistry Email: lslawson@ucdavis.edu Contact number: 504-232-3238 Advisor: Professor Thomas Huser Research Project: Monitoring cellular activation via the development of pH sensitive Raman active Nano probes. Techniques or instruments: Till microscope, AFM, NMR, Mass Spectrometer, UV-vis. Keywords related to research project: SERS, Raman, pH, Cellular Activation Publications: N/A Awards and Honors: (1) UC Davis Business Development Certificate
Name: Rui Liu  Location: The University of California, Davis NSF Center for Biophotonics Science & Technology (CBST) Email: raymd.liu@gmail.com Contact number: 916-734-0688 Advisors: Dr. Dennis L. Matthews and Dr. James W. Chan Research Project: Development of Raman Cytometer for Real-time Monitoring Drug Induced Cell Death Techniques or instruments: Laser Tweezers Raman Spectroscopy (Oak Park Research Building – Lab 3) Keywords related to research project: Raman spectroscopy, optical tweezers, apoptosis, necrosis, microfluidics Publications: (1) Julia W. Evans, Robert J. Zawadzki, Rui Liu, James W. Chan, Stephen M. Lane, John S. Werner. Optical coherence tomography and Raman spectroscopy of the ex-vivo retina. Journal of Biophotonics. 2009. 2(6-7), pp. 398-406; (2) Yinghua Sun, Rui Liu, Chris Hollars, Daniel S. Elson, Javier A. Jo, Jesung Park and Laura Marcu. Simultaneous time- and wavelength-resolved spectroscopy for potential application to real-time clinical disease diagnosis. Optics Letters. Vol. 33, Issue 6, pp. 630-632. Awards and Honors: (1) 2009 SPIE educational scholarship in optical science and engineering 08/2009; (2) NIH Molecular Imaging Training Grant Matching Fellowship 09/2006-06/2007
Name: Gregory McNerney Title: PhD candidate in the Dept. of Biophysics within the College of Engineering (2005-present) Location: University of California, Davis / Oak Park Research Building in Sacramento, CA Email: greg.mcnerney@cbst.ucdavis.edu Contact number: (916) 734-0789 Advisor: Professor Thomas Huser Research Project: Use of advanced fluorescence imaging technology to track viral-cell interactions (specifically HIV-1 and echovirus 1). Techniques or instruments: 3D time lapse fluorescence microscopy, optical tweezers, and structured illumination. Keywords related to research project: HIV-1, structured illumination, virological synapse, time-lapse fluorescence, echovirus 1 Publications: (1) Gregory P. McNerney, Wolfgang Hübner, Benjamin K. Chen, and Thomas Huser 'Manipulating virus-infected cells by optical tweezers for the initiation of cell-cell transfer of HIV-1' Journal of Biophotonics (submitted); (2) Deborah K. Lieu, Nipavan Chiamvimonvat, Hung-fat Tse, Gregory P. McNerney, Thomas Huser, Gordon Keller, Ronald A. Li, Ji-Dong Fu 'Non-genetic, mechanism-based facilitation of cardiomyogenesis and maturation from pluripotent human stem cells' Nature Biotechnology (submitted); (3) Deborah K. Lieu, Jing Liu, Chung-Wah Siu, Gregory P. McNerney, Hung-Fat Tse, Amir Abu-Khalil, Thomas Huser, Ronald A. Li. 'Absence of Transverse Tubules Contributes to Non-Uniform Ca2+Wavefronts in Mouse and Human Embryonic Stem Cell–Derived Cardiomyocytes' Stem Cells and Development. December 2009, 18(10): 1493-1500; (4) Wolfgang Hübner, Gregory P. McNerney, Ping Chen, Benjamin M. Dale, Ronald E. Gordon, Frank Y. S. Chuang, Xiao-Dong Li, David M. Asmuth, Thomas Huser, Benjamin K. Chen 'Quantitative 3D Video Microscopy of HIV Transfer Across T Cell Virological Synapses' Science 2009, 323: 1743-1747; (5) Randie H. Kim, Jodi M. Coates, Tawnya L. Bowles, Gregory P. McNerney, Julie Sutcliffe, Jae U. Jung, Regina Gandour-Edwards, Frank Y.S. Chuang, Richard J. Bold, and Hsing-Jien Kung 'Arginine Deiminase as a Novel Therapy for Prostate Cancer Induces Autophagy and Caspase-Independent Apoptosis' Cancer Research 2009, 69: 700-708; (6) Iwan W. Schie, Tyler Weeks, Gregory P. McNerney, Samantha Fore, Juliana K. Sampson, Sebastian Wachsmann-Hogiu, John C. Rutledge, and Thomas Huser, 'Simultaneous forward and epi-CARS microscopy with a single detector by time- correlated single photon counting' Optics Express 2008, 16: 2168-2175; (7) Sonny Ly, Gregory McNerney, Samantha Fore, James Chan, and Thomas Huser, 'Time-gated single photon counting enables separation of CARS microscopy data from multiphoton-excited tissue autofluorescence' Optics Express 2007, 15: 16839-16851 Awards and Honors: (1) Awarded an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Enhancement Grant (NSF 04-036) in July 2009 entitled 'International: Tracking Echovirus I early entry into host cells' for virological research training in Finland.
Name: Courtney Morehouse Title: Location: Email: Contact number: Advisor: Research Project: Techniques or instruments: Keywords related to research project: Publications: Awards and Honors:
Name: Tobias Moritz Title: Location: Email: Contact number: Advisor: Research Project: Techniques or instruments: Keywords related to research project: Publications: Awards and Honors:
Name: Tun Nyunt Title: PhD Graduate Student (Fall 2005 to present) Location: The University of California, Davis NSF Center for Biophotonics Science & Technology (CBST) / UC Davis Department of Biomedical Engineering Email: m_tunnyunt@yahoo.com Contact number: N/A Advisor: Professor Thomas R. Huser Research Project: Differentiation, and isolation of endothelial progenitor cells (EPC), characterization, and identifying functionality of endothelial progenitor cells using Non-invasive Raman spectroscopy and fluorescence microscopy. Techniques or instruments: Laser tweezers Raman spectroscopy (LTRS), DeltaVision Microscope and Super-Resolution Microscope (OMX). Publications: (1) Maung T. Nyunt, Christopher W. Dicus, Yi-Yao Cui, M. Cecilia Yappert, Thomas R. Huser, Michael H. Nantz and Jian Wu. Physico-Chemical Characterization of Polylipid Nanoparticles for Gene Delivery to the Liver. Bioconjugate Chemistry. Bioconjugate Chem., 20 (11), pp 2047-2054, October 27, 2009; (2) Scott I. Simon, Tun Nyunt, Kathryn Florine-Casteel, Ken Ritchie, H. P. Ting-Beall, Evan Evans and David Needham. Dynamics of Neutrophil Membrane Compliance and Microstructure probed with a Micropipet-based Piconewton Force Transducer. Journal Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Volume 35, Number 4 / April, 2007 Awards and Honors: (1) Received a travel award from the 11th Annual meeting of the American Society for Gene Therapy (ASGT), May 28-June 1, 2008, Boston, MA. for presentation.
Name: Jennifer Phipps Title: Location: Email: Contact number: Advisor: Research Project: Techniques or instruments: Keywords related to research project: Publications: Awards and Honors: *************************************************************************** Q-Z
Name: Rajesh Raman Title: Location: Email: Contact number: Advisor: Research Project: Techniques or instruments: Keywords related to research project: Publications: Awards and Honors:
Name: Iwan Schie  Location: The University of California, Davis NSF Center for Biophotonics Science & Technology (CBST) / UC Davis College of Engineering Email: iwschie@ucdavis.edu Contact number: 916-734-0688 Advisor: Professor Thomas R. Huser Research Project: Major research interests are nonlinear microscopy techniques like CARS and SHG and their possible application for medical diagnostic. Further, interested in using new microscopy schemes to study cell-cell interactions and general cell behavirors. Techniques or instruments: CARS microscope, Raman spectrometer Publications: (1) I.W. Schie, T. Weeks, G.P. McNerney, S. Fore, J.K. Sampson, S. Wachsmann-Hogiu, J.C. Rutledge, and T. Huser, “Simultaneous forward and epi-CARS microscopy with a single detector by time-correlated single photon counting”, Opt. Express 16(3), 2168-2175 (2008); (2) Weeks, T., I. W. Schie, S. Wachsmann-Hogiu, and T. Huser. 2009. Signal generation and Raman-resonant imaging by non-degenerate four-wave mixing under tight focusing conditions. Journal of Biophotonics 9999. Awards and Honors: (1) 2004 DAAD stipendium for a 6 month exchange to the University Federal do Rio de Janairo (UFRJ), Brazil Name: Deanna Thompson Title: PhD Graduate Student (2006 to present) Location: The University of California, Davis NSF Center for Biophotonics Science & Technology (CBST) / UC Davis Applied Science; 2008 UC Davis Biophysics Email: dlt@ucdavis.edu Contact number: 916-734-0688 Advisor: Prof. Thomas Huser Research Project: Study of HIV-1 infection pathways at the virological synapse using high speed and super resolution fluorescence microscopy. Techniques or instruments: Stimulated emission depletion (in development), structured illumination, and spinning disk confocal microscopies at the Oak Park Research Building Publications: (1) An Adaptable, Portable Microarray Reader for Biodetection, Sensors 2009 (1st author); (2) The effect of cell fixation on the discrimination of normal and leukemia cells with laser tweezers Raman spectroscopy, Biopolymers 2009 (co-author); (3) Laser Radar Imager Based on 3D Integration of Geiger-Mode Avalanche Photodiodes with Two SOI Timing Circuit Layers, Proceedings of ISSCC 2006 (co-author as D. Wolfson)
Name: Blythe Vaccaro Title: Location: Email: Contact number: Advisor: Research Project: Techniques or instruments: Keywords related to research project: Publications: Awards and Honors:
Name: Tyler Weeks  Location: The University of California, Davis NSF Center for Biophotonics Science & Technology (CBST) / Biosciences & Biotechnology Division at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Email: tjweeks@ucdavis.edu Contact number: 530-848-9009 Advisor: Professor Thomas R. Huser Research Project: My research focuses on implementing advanced optical techniques for improving the sensitivity of label free microscopy. Techniques or instruments: My work centers around the the coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscope located at CBST Keywords related to research project: CARS, Non-linear optics, Raman, spectroscopy, lipids Publications: (1) Signal generation and Raman-resonant imaging by non-degenerate four-wave mixing under tight focusing conditions (p NA) DOI: 10.1002/jbio.200900068; (2) Raman Microscopy based on Doubly-Resonant Four-Wave Mixing (DR-FWM). OPTICS EXPRESS (2009) vol. 17 (19) pp. 17044-17051 (3) Chemical analysis in vivo and in vitro by Raman spectroscopy--from single cells to humans. Curr Opin Biotechnol (2009) vol. 20 (1) pp. 63-73; (4) Simultaneous forward and epi-CARS microscopy with a single detector by time-correlated single photon counting. Optics Express (2008) vol. 16 (3) pp. 2168-2175 Awards and Honors: (1) Lawrence Scholar Fellowship, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; (2) “Grad into Med Fellow”, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Name: Tiffany Zink Title: Location: Email: Contact number: Advisor: Research Project: Techniques or instruments: Keywords related to research project: Publications: Awards and Honors:
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