Biophysics

Alumni

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Peter Bandettini

• Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Human Brain Activation Using Endogenous Susceptibility Contrast (1994)
• Advisor: James S. Hyde, PhD
• Current Location: Chief, Section on Functional Imaging Methods, and Director, Functional MRI Core Facility, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH/NIH)

Barry Belanger

• The Measurement of Scattered Radiation in Clinical Diagnostic X-Ray Procedures Employing Area Beam Detectors: A Practical Method for Scatter Correction in Digital Fluoroscopy (1987)
• Advisor: Charles R. Wilson, PhD
• Current Location: Manager, X-Ray Imaging & Advanced Technology, GE Medical Systems

Kevin Bennett

• The Continuous Distribution of Restricted Water Diffusion Rates in Brain Tumors (2003)
• Advisor: James S. Hyde, PhD
• Current Location: Assistant Professor, School of Biological and Health Science Engineering, Arizona State University

Raoqiong (Tong) Bennett

• Power Spectral Density Imaging to Expand the Nyquist Limit (2001)
• Advisor: Robert W. Cox, PhD

Michael Bigelow

• Mechanisms of Stone Crystal Attachment to Inner Medullary Collecting Duct Cells (1996)
• Current Location: Anesthesiologist, Daly City, CA

Rasmus Birn

• Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Presence of Task-Induced Motion (1999)
• Advisor: Robert W. Cox, PhD
• Current Location: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Bharat Biswal

• Physiological Fluctuations in Functional MRI (1996)
• Advisor: James S. Hyde, PhD
• Current Location: Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, UMDNJ, New Jersey Medical School

Katarzyna Broniowska

• Transport-Dependent Effects of S-Nitrosothiols at the Protein, Cellular and Organ Levels (2008)
• Advisor: Neil Hogg, PhD
• Current Location: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, Medical College of Wisconsin

Adam Buchaklian

• Structure and Dynamics of the MsbA Homodimer Using Site-Directed Spin Labeling Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (2007)
• Advisor: Candice S. Klug, PhD
• Current Location: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Pediatrics, Genetics Division, Medical College of Wisconsin

James Christensen

• Position and Velocity Measurement in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Using the Spatially Inhomogeneous Reception Fields of Local RF Coil Arrays (1991)
• Advisor: James S. Hyde, PhD

 Moses Darpolor

• An Assessment of Vascular Normalization in 9L Gliosarcoma Brain Tumor Using Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast (DSC) Imaging and Dynamic Contrast Enhancement (DCE) Imaging (2006)
• Advisor: Kathleen M. Schmainda, PhD
• Current Location: Postdoctoral Fellow, Advanced Techniques for Cancer Imaging and Detection Program (NCI), Department of Radiology, Stanford University

Ritobrato Datta

• Distributed Topography of Human Visual Attention (2000)
• Advisor: Edgar A. Deyoe, PhD
• Current Location: Staff Scientist, Kyron Clinical Imaging, Inc., Milwaukee, WI

Eric Ferguson

• The Homocysteine Thiolactone Adduct of Low-Density Lipoprotein (1998)
• Advisor: Balaraman Kalyanaraman, PhD
• Current Location: Physician, Toledo, OH

Derek Francis

• Structural Dynamics of Visual Arrestin (2008)
• Advisor: Candice S. Klug, PhD
• Current Location: Associate Director of Medical and Scientific Affairs, Synapse Medical Communications, New York, NY

Steven Goss

• Antioxidant Effect of Nitric Oxide on Human Low-Density Lipoprotein (1998)
• Advisor: Balaraman Kalyanaraman, PhD
• Current Location: Biochemist, Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics

William Gross

• Using fMRI to Improve Outcome in the Surgical Treatment of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (2011)
• Advisor: Jeffrey R. Binder, MD
• Current Location: Medical Student, Medical College of Wisconsin

Andrew Hahn

• Mathematical Models to Improve Complex-Valued fMRI in the Presence of Motion, Confounding Physiologic Phenomena, and Temporal Variations in Bulk B₀ Magnetic Field Inhomogeneity
• Advisor: Daniel B. Rowe, PhD
• Current Location: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Mariam Hartley

• Roles of Metals and Metal Ligands in the Active Site of Vibrio proteolyticus Aminopeptidase (2010)
• Advisor: Brian Bennett, PhD
• Current Location: Lecturer, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Natural Science, Milwaukee Area Technical College

Amy Herlihy

• Application of Non-Linear Gradient Fields to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (1997)
• Advisor: Andrzej Jesmanowicz, PhD
• Current Location: MRI Marketing/Applications at Agilent Technologies in United Kingdom

Michael Ibrahim

• Mathematical and Pharmacokinetics Modeling of MRI Contrast Agents' Transport into the Intervertebral Discs (1994)
• Advisor: Victor M. Haughton, MD
• Current Location:  Research Fellow, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

Donald Jacobson

• Measurement of Compact and Cancellous Bone Density in the Proximal Femur with Quantitative Computed Tomography (1989)
• Advisor: Charles R. Wilson, PhD
• Current Location: Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, Medical Physics and Imaging Science, Medical College of Wisconsin

Todd Jensen

• Detection of Brain Tumor Invasion Within Edema Using Multiparametric Imaging and Computational Intelligence (2008)
• Advisor: Kathleen M. Schmainda, PhD
• Current Location: Chief Technology Officer, Imaging Biometrics

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Heather Kaminski

• CM15 Modification: Further Development of AMPs as Novel Antibiotics
• Advisor: Jimmy B. Feix, PhD
• Current Location: Adjunct Professor, Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee, WI

Nick Kettenhofen

• Development and Application of a Novel Fluorescent Labeling Strategy for the Assessment of Protein S-Nitrosation (2009) 
• Advisor: Neil Hogg, PhD
• Current Location: Postdoctoral Fellow, National Cancer Institute

Changseon Kim

• Dual-Energy Computed Radiography for the Quantitative Bone Mineral Densitometry (1995)
• Advisor: Charles R. Wilson, PhD

Young Ro Kim

• Evaluation of Fractional Blood Volume Measurement Methods Using Intravascular T1 Contrast Agent and a Rat Tumor Model (2001)
• Advisor: Kathleen M. Schmainda, PhD
• Current Location: Assistant Professor in Radiology at Harvard Medical School; Assistant in Neuroimaging at Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Radiology, MGH

Candice Klug

• Structural and Stability Studies on the Ferric Enterobactin Receptor FepA Using Advanced EPR Spectroscopy Techniques (1998)
• Advisor: Jimmy B. Feix, PhD
• Current Location:  Professor, Department of Biophysics, Medical College of Wisconsin

Jack Knight-Scott

• Simultaneous Measurement of the Longitudinal and Transverse Relaxation Times for In Vivo Single-Voxel Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (1996)
• Advisor: Shi-Jiang Li, PhD
• Current Location: Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Radiology, University of Virginia Health System

Hanane Koteiche

• Probing the Active Site of Phosphoribulokinase Using Spin Labeling Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (1997)
• Advisor: James S. Hyde, PhD
• Current Location: Research Assistant Professor, Molecular Physiology & Biophysics Department, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Jason Kowalski

• Structural Insights into Biological Copper from the Perpendicular Region of the CuII Electron Paramagnetic (Spin) Resonance Spectrum at 1–2 GHz (2010)
• Advisor: Brian Bennett, PhD
• Current Location: Lecturer, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha, WI

Peter Kufahl

• Expansion of the Acute Cocaine fMRI Study in Human Brain: Expectation Control and Multivariate Statistical Processing (2006)
• Advisor: Shi-Jiang Li, PhD
• Current Location: Postdoctoral Fellow, Behavioral Neural Science, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University

Amit Kumar

• Characterization of Substrate Binding in Leucine Aminopeptidase from Vibrio proteolyticus (2006)
• Advisor: Brian Bennett, DPhil
• Current Location: Licensing Associate, Office of Economic Innovation and Partnerships, University of Delaware

Peter LaViolette

• Advanced Brain Tumor Characterization Using MRI
• Advisor: Kathleen M. Schmainda, PhD
• Current Location: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Radiology, Medical College of Wisconsin

Rupeng Li

• High Resolution Functional MRI Investigation of Cortical Plasticity Following Peripheral Nerve Injury and Repair (2012)
• Advisor: James S Hyde, PhD
• Current Location: Research Scientist, Medical College of Wisconsin

Zhu Li

• Reducing Susceptibility Artifacts with 8-Shimmed Background Gradient Compensation Method and Its Application in fMRI Study of Human Cocaine Abuse (2002)
• Advisor: Shi-Jiang Li, PhD
• Current Location: Senior Engineering Manager, GE Medical Systems, Wisconsin

Jun Liu

• Structure-Function Relationship of the Escherichia coli Ferric Enterobactin Receptor, FepA: Molecular Genetic and Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spin Label Studies (1994)
• Advisor: Jimmy B. Feix, PhD
• Current Location: Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto

Xiping Liu

• Pharmacological MRI Investigation of Levo-Tetrahydropalmatine Treatment Mechanisms on Drug Addiction (2009)
• Advisor: Shi-Jiang Li, PhD
• Current Location: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anesthesiology, Medical College of Wisconsin

Hanbing Lu

• fMRI at Subcortical Resolution in Rat Whisker Barrel Cortex (2003)
• Advisor: James S. Hyde, PhD
• Current Location: Research Scientist, Neuroimaging Research Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA/NIH)

Wen-Ming Luh

• Comparison of Simultaneously Measured Cerebral Blood Flow and Blood Oxygenation Using Pulsed Arterial Spin Labeling in High Resolution MRI (1998)
• Advisor: James S. Hyde, PhD
• Current Location: Staff Scientist, fMRI Core Facility, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH/NIH)

Feng Luo

• Investigation of the Pharmacological MRI Signal Induced by Cocaine or Heroin in Rat Brain (2004)
• Advisor: Shi-Jiang Li, PhD
• Current Location: Abbott Laboratories, Chicago, IL

Mahadevappa Mahesh

• Study of the Accuracy of Bone Mineral Measurements Using Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry (1993)
• Advisor: Charles R. Wilson, PhD
• Current Location: Associate Professor and Chief Clinical Radiology Physicist, Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins Medical Center

Hassane Mchaourab

• Methodology and Theory of Multiquantum EPR, ELDOR, and ENDOR with Application to a Spin-Labeled Analog of the ION-Channel Peptide Cecropin AD (1993)
• Advisor: James S. Hyde, PhD
• Current Location: Professor, Center for Structural Biology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Mary Elizabeth Meyerand

• Single-Shot Magnetic Resonance Imaging Using Time Encoding (1996)
• Advisor: Andrzej Jesmanowicz, PhD
• Current Location: Professor, Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Paul Nagy

• Quantitative Pinhole Focal Spot Measurements: Projection and Dynamic Characteristics (1999)
• Advisor: Charles R. Wilson, PhD
• Current Location: Associate Professor, Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Maryland Medical School 

Jana Narasimhan

• Effect of Copper and Gallium Compounds on Ribonucleotide Reductase (1992)
• Advisor: William E. Antholine, PhD

Andrew Nencka 

• Improving the fcMRI BOLD Signal Through the Characterization of Processing Effects (2009)
• Advisor: Daniel B. Rowe, PhD
• Current Location: Assistant Professor, Department of Biophysics, Medical College of Wisconsin

Kent Ogden

• Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Dual-Energy Digital Chest Radiography: Simultaneous Correction of Scatter Radiation and Resolution Degradation Via the Expectation Maximization Algorithm (1999)
• Advisor: Charles R. Wilson, PhD
• Current Location: Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY

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Arvind Pathak

• The Assessment of Brain Tumor Angiogenesis Using Susceptibility Contrast Agent Based Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (2001)
• Advisor: Kathleen M. Schmainda, PhD
• Current Location: Assistant Professor, Radiology, Magnetic Resonance Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Eric Paulson

• Development and Application of Perfusion and Susceptibility-Weighted MRI Methods for the Assessment of Gliomas (2008)
• Advisor: Kathleen M. Schmainda, PhD
• Current Location: Postdoctoral Medical Physics Fellow, Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin

Christopher Pawela

• Functional MRI of Sensorimotor and Visual Networks in Rat Brain Before and After Deafferentation Induced Neuroplasticity (2008)
• Advisor: James S. Hyde, PhD
• Current Location: Assistant Professor, Department of Plastic Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin

Carol Popp Weingarten

• Electron-Electron Double Resonance and Saturation-Recovery Studies of Nitroxide Electron and Nuclear Spin-Lattice Relaxation Times and Heisenberg Exchange Rates: Lateral Diffusion in Model Membranes (1982)
• Advisor: James S. Hyde, PhD

Douglas Prah

• The Development of Diffusion and Contrast Agent MRI Biomarkers for the Evaluation of Neoplasms (2008)
• Advisor: Kathleen M. Schmainda, PhD
• Current Location: Postdoctoral Medical Physics Fellow, Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin

Robert Prost

• Two Dimensional Chemical Shift Imaging of Glutamate and Glutamine at 0.5 T with Application to Neurodegenerative Disease (1999)
• Advisor: Shi-Jiang Li, PhD
• Current Location: Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, Medical College of Wisconsin

Chad Quarles

• The Morphological and Functional Assessment of Brain Tumor Vasculature Using Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging (2004)
• Advisor: Kathleen M. Schmainda, PhD
• Current Location:Assistant Professor of Radiology, Biomedical Engineering and Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science

Marija Raguz

• Function of Cholesterol in the Eye Lens (2010)
• Advisor: W. Karol Subczynski, PhD
• Current Location: Department of Medical Physics and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia

Richard Riese

• Adherence of Kidney Stone Microcrystallites to Renal Papillary Collecting Tubule Cells in Primary Culture (1990)
• Advisor: Neil S. Mandel, PhD
• Current Location: Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellow, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

Vinai Roopchansingh

• Compensation of Static and Dynamic Magnetic Field Perturbations in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (2004)
• Advisor: Andrzej Jesmanowicz, PhD
• Current Location: Staff Scientist, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH/NIH)

Kathryn (Westfahl) Schultz

• Biochemical and Biophysical Characterization of Five Key Mutations in the ABC Transporter MsbA (2011)
• Advisor: Candice Klug, PhD
• Current Location: Postdoctoral Fellow, Medical College of Wisconsin

Tiesong Shang

• Mitochondria Signaling in Chemically-Induced Parkinsonism: Free Radical Dependent and Independent Pathway (2005)
• Advisor: Balaraman Kalyanaraman, PhD

Melvin Siedband

• Commutated Ion Chambers for Measurement of Field Uniformity (1995)
• Advisor: Charles R. Wilson, PhD
• Current Location: Consultant; Professor Emeritus, Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Allen Song

• Diffusion Weighted fMRI: A Study of Signal Origin (1995)
• Advisor: James S. Hyde, PhD
• Current Location: Professor and Director, Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Professor of Radiology, Psychiatry, Neurobiology & Biomedical Engineering, Duke University Medical Center

Netanya Spencer

• S-Nitrosothiols, Nitric Oxide, and Heme Proteins (2003)
• Advisor: Neil Hogg, PhD
• Current Location: Research Scientist, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Iowa

Benjamin Stengel

• Organization of Conceptual Knowledge within the Cerebral Cortex (2012)
• Advisor:  Jeffrey R. Binder, PhD
• Current Location:

Melissa Wagner Schuman

• The Relative Activity of the L and M Cone Photoreceptors and the Cause and Prevention of Myopia (2010)
• Advisor: Jay Neitz, PhD
• Current Location: Medical Student, Medical College of Wisconsin

Eric Wong

• The Design and Applications of Local Gradient Coils for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (1991)
• Advisor: James S. Hyde, PhD
• Current Location: Professor, Psychiatry & Radiology, University of California-San Diego

James Wu

• Pharmacokinetic Study of In Vivo Fluid Dynamics Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrast Agents (1992)
• Advisor: James S. Hyde, PhD
• Current Location: Private Practice, Radiology, Glendale, CA

Jun Xie

• fMRI and Functional Connectivity Study of Human Heroin Addiction (2008)
• Advisor: Shi-Jiang Li, PhD
• Current Location: Product Engineer, GE Medical Systems, Wisconsin

Guofan Xu

• Arterial Spin Labeling Magnetic Resonance Imaging & Functional Synchrony of Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent Signal Analysis in Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease Onset (2006)
• Advisor: Shi-Jiang Li, PhD
• Current Location: Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Medicine and Public Health, Center for Neuroscience, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Jun-Jie Yin

• Mathematical Models of Spin Dynamics in Spin-Labeled Membranous Systems with Experimental Verifications Using CW ELDOR and Pulse Saturation Recovery Electron Spin Resonance (1987)
• Advisor: James S. Hyde, PhD
• Current Location: Research Scientist, FDA, Washington, DC

Hua Yuan

• Structural Investigation of Copper Binding Sites in Proteins: Particulate Methane Monooxygenase (1998)
• Advisor: William E. Antholine, PhD
• Current Location: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA  

Rongyan Zhang

• Functional MRI Using Magnetization Transfer (1998)
• Advisor: Robert W. Cox, PhD
• Current Location: Research Scientist, Department of Biophysics, Medical College of Wisconsin

Yanhong Zhang

• The Transport and Metabolism of S-Nitrosothiols (2004)
• Advisor: Neil Hogg, PhD
• Current Location: Scientist, Biomarin Pharmaceuticals Inc., Novato, CA

Hongtao Zhao

• Detection of Superoxide by ESR Spin Trapping and Hydroethidine Fluorescence (2005)
• Advisor: Balaraman Kalyanaraman, PhD
• Current Location: Research Associate, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI/NIH)

Xiaoli Zhao

• Applying Sensitivity Encoding to Spectroscopic Imaging (2002)
• Advisor: Shi-Jiang Li, PhD
• Current Location: Senior Engineer, GE Medical Systems

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