Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering
Project: Raman-based sensing of human and plant health.
This project focuses on a non-invasive and non-destructive technique which has previously been used to sense the health of plants. The researchers propose expanding the application of this modern analytic technique to 1) detect and identify metabolism diseases and aging processes in humans; 2) assess the nutritional composition of seeds and fruits and changes in nutritional value based on fruit ripeness; 3) deploy these techniques to differentiate genotypes and phenotypes in plant breeding and selection.