Meet the researcher

Dr. Laura Marcu by Andrew Lague — last modified 10/12/2009 15:17

Dr. Laura Marcu is a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California, Davis. In addition, she holds a joint appointment in UC Davis School of Medicine as a Professor of Neurological Surgery and serves as co-Leader of the Biotechnology Program within the UC Davis Cancer Center. Her area of study concerns research into the development of fluorescence lifetime spectroscopy and imaging techniques for in-vivo tissue diagnosis.

Dr. Susan Spiller by Andrew Lague — last modified 09/17/2009 15:37

Dr. Susan Spiller is an Associate Professor of Biology at Mills College, a small undergraduate Women's College in Oakland, California. Her area of study includes Biophotonics Research into phytochromes which are classified as photosensitive proteins that were first discovered in plants, but exist in a myriad of organisms from fungi to cyanobacteria.

Dr. John Spence by Andrew Lague — last modified 09/17/2009 15:38

Dr. John Spence is a Professor in the Department of Physics at Arizona State University. His areas of study include "condensed matter physics and biophysics, based around the use of electron and X-ray beams for imaging, spectroscopy and diffraction - broadly diffraction physics".

Dr. Clark Lagarias by Andrew Lague — last modified 09/17/2009 15:39

Dr. Clark Lagarias is a Professor of Biochemistry in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology in the College of Biological Sciences at the University of California, Davis. His laboratory studies phytochromes, which are biliprotein switchable photosensors.

Dr. Thomas Huser by Andrew Lague — last modified 09/17/2009 15:36

Dr. Thomas Huser is an Associate Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of California, Davis. He also serves as Chief Scientist for CBST and Co-Director for the Translational Core of the Clinical Translational Science Center at UC Davis