publications

Project: Automated Blood Pathology System (EBI-1) & Prototype and Commercialization of an Automated Blood Pathology System (EBI-2)
Faculty project PI: Sebastian Wachsmann-Hogiu, PhD 

Tahoe Institute for Rural Health Research partners: Tom Hobday, Jim Hood, PhD, Larry Heifetz, MD

Tingjuan Gao received her BS degree in Chemistry from Peking University in Beijing, China. At UC Davis, she conducted research with Dr. Huser and Dr. Coleman at the CBST for three years, first as a postdoctoral fellow and then as an Assistant Project Scientist. She has been involved in characterizing nanolipoprotein particles (nanodiscs) using single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy, and characterizing N. Punctiforme photosensory signal transduction using optical super resolution microscopy in combination with single molecule spectroscopy. Dr. Gao is now working with Dr. Sebastian Wachsmann-Hogiu as an eFellow, as well as with Dr. Steve Lane and Dr. Kit Lam. She was an intern with Vertex Pharmaceuticals of Cambridge, MA and with Diffinity Genomics of Rochester, NY, and has strong interests in entrepreneurship, technology development and commercialization. Dr. Gao received her PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of Rochester, NY in 2008.

Ruby Gill received her BS and MS in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University and UC Davis, respectively. During her undergraduate studies at Boston University, she successfully developed a localized ultrasound drug delivery system with the potential to treat cardiovascular disease more effectively and with fewer side-effects compared to currently approved treatment methods. For her master's thesis at UC Davis, she worked on developing an emerging optical imaging method with the potential to serve as a low cost alternative to PET imaging and allow for low cost validation of radioimmunotherapy drugs. She is currently working on her PhD in Biomedical Engineering in Dr. Sebastian Wachsmann-Hogiu’s lab developing a real-time feedback control system for high precision ultra-short pulsed laser surgery of the spine. Ruby is a CBST eFellow as well as a Business Development Fellow through the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

  Lingbo Kong received his Ph.D. in Physics from Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Applied Physics, University of Bonn, Germany, and at the Biomedical Optics Lab, East Carolina University, NC. His current research focuses on the development of novel spectroscopic and analytical techniques for biomedical applications at the single-cell and single-molecule level, such as laser trapping and manipulation of single cells, identification and characterization of single cells/particles with laser tweezers Raman spectroscopy (LTRS), dynamics monitoring of single living cells with rapid confocal Raman imaging, and single molecule detection. Dr. Kong is currently an Assistant Project Scientist and an eFellow at the Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology (CBST), UC Davis under the supervision of Prof. James Chan.

 

Maria Navas-Moreno, PhD

Project: Development of Novel Labels for Flow Cytomtry and Cellular Imaging (EBI-2)
Faculty project PI: James Chan, PhD

Dr. Maria Navas-Moreno is a physicist by training and a biologist at heart. Through technology, Maria aims to better understand and diagnose disease in order to improve people's quality of life. Maria holds a BS in Physics, a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a MS in Biomedical Sciences from Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia), and a PhD in Physics from the University of Utah. Although Maria's interests are diverse, her main research interests are in the development of novel imaging and spectroscopy techniques for the study of biological processes, diagnostics and therapeutics, technology translation and entrepreneurship.