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| Nada N. Boustany |
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599 Taylor Road |
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Piscataway, NJ 08854 |
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BME-320 |
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848-445-6598 |
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nboustan AT rci.rutgers.edu
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| Our research is focused on developing novel, minimally invasive optical imaging technology to track signaling pathways and analyze the function of genes within living cells.
Our work lies at the interface of optics and cell biology and combines instrumentation design, microscopy, tissue culture, genetic manipulation, and numerical simulation of optical phenomena, such as light scattering by cells and organelles. We are currently engaged in defining optical parameters that characterize mitochondrial morphological alterations during cell death. One of our long-term goals is to understand the relationship between gene expression and subcellular structure and dynamics during cell death and early cancer development. |
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Recent Papers:
1. R.M. Pasternack, Z. Qian, J-Y. Zheng, D.N. Metaxas, N.N. Boustany, "Highly sensitive size discrimination of submicron objects using optical Fourier filtering based on two-dimensional Gabor filters", Optics Express, 17(14), 12001-12012 (2009).
2. R.M. Pasternack, Z. Qian, J-Y. Zheng, D.N. Metaxas, E. White, N.N. Boustany, "Measurement of Subcellular Texture by Optical Gabor-Like Filtering with a Digitial Micromirror Device", Optics Letters, 33(19), 2209-2211 (2008).
3. J. Zheng, Y.C. Tsai, P. Kadimcherla, R. Zhang, J. Shi, G.A. Oyler, N.N. Boustany, "The C-terminal transmembrane domain of BCL-xL mediates changes in mitochondrial morphology", Biophysical J., 94 (1): 286-297 (2008).
Boustany Lab Website
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BME Graduate Alumni PhD Student Wins SoE Award
May 14, 2013
PhD alumni Dr. Shirley Masand is one of 3 who has been awarded the SoE Outstanding Student Award. The award will be given to outstanding Ph.D. students in engineering graduate programs at Rutgers....
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BME-UMDNJ Researchers Test Potentially Lifesaving Tool for Detecting Schizophrenia
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BME Student wins 2013 Aresty Best Poster Award
May 06, 2013
BME junior Srivathsan Babu Prabu won the best poster award for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields for his poster entitled, "A Novel Method to Quantify Levels of Macrosteatosis...
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BME Faculty wins grant from NJCBIR
May 02, 2013
Professor William Craelius has been awarded a $539K, 3 year grant from the New Jersey Commission on Brain Injury Research (NJCBIR) to study , "Continuous monitoring of hemodynamic autoregulatory...
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