National and International Links and Projects

Dr. B. Lendl

Vienna University of Technology. Papers from this collaboration are in preparation or submitted. Further collaboration is the the subject of an Austrian science grant to be submitted early 2003.

Prof. M. Diem

North Eastern University, Boston and Dr. Luis Chiriboga, Bellevue Hospital , NY ,. Dr. B Wood (RF) spent 5 months in New York in 2001/2002 studying the IR spectra of cell nuclei. This work was the subject of a successful 2003-2005 NHMRC grant application and was followed up by a visit in 2007.

Dr. S. Baurecker

GKSS-Forschungszentrum Geesthacht GmbH, Geesacht. Dr. Baurecker is a principal investigator on an ARC Discovery project application. DMcN has spent time in Geesacht and 2 German graduate students have made 3 visits to Monash between 2003-2007.

Dr. Mark Tobin

Australian synchrotron collaborates on a number of our projects that require diffraction limited IR microspectroscopy.

Dr. Mario Giordano

Ancona , Italy spent 3 months at Monash in the laboratory of JB as part of a collaboration on the use of IR to monitor cellular chemistry of algae and will visit again in 2010. See Provasoloni award above

Prof. Ken Haller

Suranaree University is collaborating on X-Ray Structures of porphyrins. A post graduate student spent 9 months at Monash in 2007/8.

Dr. Brian Cook

Microbiology is involved in our Raman/malaria work and is providing samples.

Prof Leann Tilley

of Latrobe university, Biochemistry is involved in our Raman/malaria work and is providing samples of malarial infested red blood cells..

Prof. Claude Bernard

of the Monash Immunological and Stem Cell Centre (MISCL) together with Dr. Phil Heraud collaborates in the area of Multiple sclerosis through a jointly supervised graduate student..

Dr Andrew Elefanty

of the Monash Immunological and Stem Cell Centre (MISCL) together with Dr. Phil Heraud collaborates in the area of stem cell differentiation through a jointly supervised graduate student..

Dr. Merrill Rowley

of biochemistry at Monash collaborates in the area of Rheumatoid arthritis through a jointly supervised graduate student.

Prof. Jurgen Popp and Dr. Volker Deckert

of Jena University collaborate on Raman microscopy and Tip Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy through graduate student exchanges and a Humboldt fellowship awarded to Bayden Wood for 2008.

Prof. Dieter Naumann

of the Robert Koch Institute Berlin, collaborates on bacterial projects and Raman imaging through exchanges a Humboldt fellowship awarded to Bayden Wood for 2008.