Lab Members

Graduate Students

	Joseph Afreh	Email	Exploring rapid and efficient diagnostics methods for mycobacterium tuberculosis infections
	Seth Crawford	Email	Mechanical and hardware design of portable fNIRS headband for the study of neurological disorders
	Kauryn Datcher	Email	Using conjugated aptamers to develop a fluorescent based biosensor for cytokine detection
	Nathaniel (Trey) Dobson	Email	Differentiate microglial cells into M1 and M2 types though infrared nerve stimulation
	Han Dong	Email	Intraoperative assessment of parathyroid viability using handheld laser speckle contrast imaging In vivo assessment of hydration status with a wearable Raman device
	Viannely Francisco	Email	Analysis of bacteria found in the vaginal microbiome using surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy
	George Grow	Email	Computational modeling of neurons during infrared neural stimulation
	Jacob Hardenburger	Email	Effects of directed energies on neural tissue Advanced microscopy techniques for biomedical research
	Ezekiel Haugen	Email	Clinical translation of Raman spectroscopy for point-of-care assessment of eosinophilic esophagitis Nonlinear optical imaging for identification of unlabeled biomarkers associated with eosinophilic esophagitis
	Rachel Hecht	Email	Optical hardware design and translation for image-guided ophthalmic surgery
	Darby Heffer	Email	Development of an aptamer-based biosensor to detect lactate for women’s health applications
	Vivian Krause	Email	Real-time quantitative optical properties in vivo Spatial frequency domain imaging
	Anupam Kumar	Email	Functional, Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Neuromonitoring
	Richard Liao	Email	Prototyping of a wearable Raman detector for hydration quantification
	Meagan McKee	Email	Detecting biochemical and structural changes in the middle ear associated with pathogenic infections Developing optical methods for noninvasive diagnosis of infectious diseases
	Mayaank Pillai	Email	Automated virtual 3D bladder reconstruction for post-cystoscopy analysis
	Anna Rourke-Funderburg	Email	Development of culture free platform for bacteria detection using surface enhanced raman spectroscopy Clinical translation of Raman spectroscopy
	Trevor Voss	Email	Raman spectroscopy Quantum mechanical molecular modeling Understanding systemic physiological hydration at the molecular level Higher-order light-matter interactions with complex chiral bio-molecules Quantum biology
	Madison Walker	Email	Use Raman spectroscopy as a non-invasive analytical technique to detect eosinophilic esophogitus, a disease that affects 1 in 2000 people
	Jake Watson	Email	Multimodal Optical Imaging Point-of-Care Ophthalmic Diagnostic Imaging
	Luke Whitehead	Email	Low-resource bacteria separation Raman spectroscopy Modeling for disease detection Translating optical techniques for point-of-care diagnostics
	Parker Willmon	Email	Fluorescence guided endocrine surgery Mathematical modeling
	Yunqin Zhao	Email	Optical Coherence Tomography  In Vitro Fertilization