Webpage:
http://biomed.tamu.edu/lomi
Biography
Dr. Brian E. Applegate received his B.S. in chemistry from Wright State University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in chemistry from Ohio State University. His graduate work focused on experimental and theoretical elucidation of the spectroscopy and molecular dynamics of transient molecular radicals. Dr. Applegate completed two postdoctoral fellowships before joining the faculty at Texas A&M. The first, in the Department of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, focused on the study of water cluster formation in super fluid helium nanodroplets. The second was in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University where he was awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award to support research in developing molecular imaging techniques for optical coherence tomography. Dr. Applegate is co-holder of a US patent for the molecular imaging techniques developed as part of this award.
Dr. Applegate’s current research interests include the development of new molecular imaging techniques which target important biomolecular species which cannot be imaged using current state of the art techniques. He is also interested in the continued development of optical coherence tomography and its phase microscopy derivatives. The ultimate goal of this work is to produce innovative imaging techniques and use them as research instruments to help elucidate the development, progression, and treatment of disease as well as for clinical diagnostic and monitoring tools.
Keywords
Molecular imaging
Optical imaging
Optical diagnostics
Biomedical optics
Tissue spectroscopy
Brian E Applegate
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Office: 335S Zachry
Phone: 979-862-6521
Email:
Education:
B.S., Chemistry, Wright State University
M.S., Chemistry, Ohio State University
Ph.D., Chemistry, Ohio State University
