News Archive
Big congratulations to (now Dr.) Vishal Varma for successfully defending his PhD defense (AKA viva to the Brits)!
Dr Walsh has two invited talks this month at SCIX (link) and the American Society for Nephrology 2018 (link)!
New invited Imaging in Focus review article from my lab in the International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology. "Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging: Label-Free Biochemical Analysis of Stroma and Tissue Fibrosis". Shaiju S Nazeer*, Hari Sreedhar*, Vishal K. Varma, David Martinez-Marin, Christine Massie, Michael J. Walsh. (2017). * Joint first. Link
Dr. Walsh has been invited to give a talk at the upcoming SCIX conference in Reno, NV (Link) and American Society for Nephrology (ASN) Annual Conference in New Orleans, LA (Link)!
New extended abstract published in the journal Amyloid! "Infrared spectroscopic imaging: a label free approach for the detection of amyloidosis in human tissue biopsies". Link.
New SPIE Proceedings paper published! Hari Sreedhar, Vishal Varma, Benjamin Bird, Grace Guzman, and Michael J Walsh. 'Applications of QCL Imaging to the Advancement of Pathology'. Proc. SPIE 10140, Medical Imaging 2017: Digital Pathology, 1014004. Link.
Welcome to Dr. Shaiju Nazeer as a new postdoctoral researcher in the lab!
Congratulations Hari Sreedhar on being selected as a James Scholar by the College of Medicine to continue his research in the Spectral Pathology Lab!
New publication from my lab as an invited submission to the Prominent Young Vibrational Spectroscopists edition of Vibrational Spectroscopy - "Accounting for tissue heterogeneity in infrared spectroscopic imaging for accurate diagnosis of thyroid carcinoma subtypes". Link.
Congratulations Vishal Varma on being awarded the 2016/2017 CCTS Pre-doctoral Education for Clinical and Translational Scientists Fellowship!
Awarded UIC College of Medicine Department of Pathology Rising Star Award!
Paper accepted in Biomedical Optics Express! "Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging Detects Chemical Modifications in Liver Fibrosis due to Diabetes and Disease." Hari Sreedhar, Vishal Varma, Francesca Gambacorta, Grace Guzman, and Michael J. Walsh. Now online! Link.
Varma V, Kajdacsy-Balla A, Akkina S, Setty S, Walsh MJ. Response to Letter to Editor: Infrared spectroscopic imaging for interrogating the carbohydrate biochemistry of diabetic nephropathy progression. 2016 Kidney International (In Press).
Postdoctoral position open - for full consideration submit by July 1st 2016 - Link.
Oral and Poster accepted at SPEC2016 in Montreal, Canada. June 2016.
Dr. Walsh will be giving an invited talk at the Midwest Fibrosis Symposium: Molecular Mechanisms to Emerging Therapies on Monday 11 April 2016 at MATTER Suite 1230 at the Merchandise Mart (Chicago, IL). Link.
New paper - "Using Raman spectroscopy to characterize biological materials" Holly J Butler et al. Nature Protocols 2016 (In Press). Link.
New paper from the lab is In Press - "A label-free approach by infrared spectroscopic imaging for interrogating the biochemistry of diabetic nephropathy progression". Vishal K. Varma, Andre Kajdacsy-Balla, Sanjeev K. Akkina, Suman Setty and Michael J. Walsh. Kidney International 2016 (In Press). Link.
Three abstracts accepted for two posters and an oral presentation at USCAP 2016 in Seattle, WA.
The University of Illinois at Chicago Inaugural Transplant Day was a big success. We thank all the attendees and speakers for such a stimulating day!
Abstract submission for the University of Illinois at Chicago Inaugural Transplant Day is now live. UIC Transplant Day
Congratulations to Vishal Varma for winning a poster award at the SCIX 2015 conference. Great job!
New article from the lab published in the Sept '15 issue of Biophotonics! "Using QCLs for MIR-Based Spectral Imaging — Applications in Tissue Pathology". Link.
I (along with Dr. Suman Setty and Dr. Grace Guzman) am organizing a Transplant Symposium at UIC on November 19th. Please save the date! Final list of speakers and abstract submission for posters will be available on this website in the next week.
The lab has received funding from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) for the project "Early detection of diabetic nephropathy in kidney transplants by chemical imaging approaches".
The lab will be attending the SCIX conference in September (Providence, Rhode Island) to present to invited oral presentations and two posters. More details to follow.
Congratulations to Hari Sreedhar and Amruta Bhatt who are heading to medical school and Peter Nguyen who is heading to Johns Hopkins!
Hari Sreedhar has had a paper accepted in the peer-reviewed the UIC Bioengineering Student Journal entitled, "High-Definition Infrared Spectroscopic Tissue Imaging: Potential applications in Pathology". Link.
'Stain-less staining for computed histopathology'. Mayerich D, Walsh MJ, Kajdacsy-Balla A, Ray PS, Hewitt SM, Bhargava R. Technology 03 27(2015). Link.
Dr. Walsh will be an invited speaker at the Society for Applied Spectroscopy Cleveland section on 22nd April 2015 and at the Beckman Institute in Champaign IL for the Illinois iOptics seminar series on the 24th April 2015. Details can be found at the respective websites.
Awarded Chicago Biomedical Consortium Catalyst award (Co-PI with Aliya Husain, University of Chicago, Department of Pathology). More details.
Congratulations to Vishal Varma for being awarded a Association for Pathology Informatics (API) travel grant to attend the Pathology Informatics 2015 conference in Pittsburgh!
'Improving Prediction of Prostate Cancer Recurrence using Chemical Imaging' Kwak J, Kajdacsy-Balla A, Macias V, Walsh MJ, Sinha S, Bhargava R. Scientific Reports 5 (2015). Link.
Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) article - "High-definition Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) Spectroscopic Imaging of Human Tissue Sections towards Improving Pathology" is now online and Open Access - Link.
Two posters from the group will be presented at the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) meeting in the Monday PM Techniques session - "IR Spectroscopic Imaging of Heart Transplant Biopsies Towards Improving Detection of Antibody Mediated Rejection" (#294) and "Investigating the Progression of Liver Disease To Hepatocellular Carcinoma Using Label-Free Chemical Imaging" (#283).
Invited talk at Pittcon - "Improving Prediction of Organ Transplant Outcome Using FT-IR Spectroscopic Imaging" at 8.35am 9th March in room 274, in the Advances in Clincal Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy session (New Orleans Morial Convention Center.
Coverage and photos of the Megger's award certificate presentation at SCIX 2014 in the December edition of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy - Link
Photos of two undergraduates from the lab (Hari and Ben) receiving awards at SCIX 2014 highlighted in the November edition of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy - Link
Vishal Varma's MSc thesis (Novel Label-Free Chemical Imaging for the Identification of Biomarkers of Diabetic Nephropathy Recurrence) is now published and online - Link
Sagar Nadimpalli's MSc thesis (Wound Care Diagnosis: A Multidisciplinary Pilot Study using FT-IR Imaging and Non-Invasive Testing) is now published and online - Link
Dr. Walsh is the organizer for the 2015 Society for Applied Spectroscopy Speaker tour - details of the visits will be online soon!
Dr. Walsh will be running the Honors College undergraduate course, "Advances in interdisciplinary research: Bridging the gap between engineering and medicine", again in the Spring 2015 semester. For more details click here.
Dr. Walsh is taking part in Movember with the UIC Prostate Cancer Group! The Movember Foundation is to raise awareness and money for prostate cancer, testicular cancer and mental health issues. To donate and to learn more about Movember, click here. New video uploaded by the UIC Cancer Center - UPDATE
Two abstracts (heart transplant and liver cancer) accepted for the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology (USCAP) conference. More details to follow...
Congratulations to Hari Sreedhar for being awarded a University of Illinois at Chicago Honors College travel award.
Congratulations to Hari Sreedhar and Bennett Davidson for being awarded Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) travel grants.
Congratulations to Vishal Varma for winning 1st place in the Tuesday poster session at the SCIX conference. Good job!
Dr. Walsh will be presenting a webinar for Photonics.com on Wed August 13th at 1pm EST. More details can be found at the following link (Video of webinar now online!) - Link.
Article "High-Definition Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) Spectroscopic Imaging of Human Tissue Sections Towards Improving Pathology" has been accepted for publication in the Journal Of Visualized Experiments (JoVE). Video to follow soon...
Two posters will be presented at College of American Pathologists (CAP) '14 conference by Vishal Varma and Hari Sreedhar - September 7th to September 10th in Chicago
Congratulations to Vishal Varma for successfully defending his MSc thesis! Next stop PhD!
Image from Spectral Pathology Lab selected for front cover of Nature protocols. Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy can allow for the derivation of rich biochemical images in a label-free manner, which can be used in disease detection. This FTIR image is from a kidney biopsy, highlighting a glomerulus by CH2 asymmetric absorbance. Image by Vishal K Varma, Holly J Butler, Suman Setty, Francis L Martin, Michael J Walsh. Link about cover.
Paper accepted for Nature Protocols!
Matthew J Baker, Júlio Trevisan, Paul Bassan, Rohit Bhargava, Holly J Butler, Konrad M Dorling, Peter R Fielden, Simon W Fogarty, Nigel J Fullwood, Kelly A Heys, Caryn Hughes,Peter Lasch, Pierre L Martin-Hirsch, Blessing Obinaju, Ganesh D Sockalingum, Josep Sulé-Suso, Rebecca J Strong, Michael J Walsh, Bayden R Wood, Peter Gardner & Francis L Martin. Using Fourier transform IR spectroscopy to analyze biological materials. Nature Protocols 9, 1771–1791 (2014). Link.
Paper accepted and now online - Mayerich D, Van Dijk T, Walsh MJ, Schulmerich M, and Bhargava R. On the importance of image formation optics in the design of infrared spectroscopic imaging systems. Analyst (In Press). Link.
Book chapter accepted and now online - Biswas S, Walsh MJ, Bhargava R. Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) Spectroscopic Imaging for Solid Tumor Histopathology. Optical Spectroscopy and Computational Methods in Biology and Medicine. Challenges and Advances in Computational Chemistry and Physics Volume 14, 2014, pp 475-504
Joint winner of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy's Meggars award! From SAS May '14 Newsletter - "Rohit Bhargava, Rohith Reddy, Michael Walsh, Matthew Schulmerich, and P. Scott Carney for the Meggars Award in recognition of the paper, “High-Definition Spectroscopic Imaging,” published in Applied Spectroscopy, 2013 67(1): 93-105."
Big congratulations to Hari Sreedhar for winning an Outstanding poster award at the University of Illinois Cancer Center!
Congrats to Vishal, Hari, Amruta and Bennett for multiple poster abstract acceptances, including, UIC Student Research Forum, University of Illinois Cancer Center Research Forum, and Chicago Area Undergraduate Research Symposium in the month of April.
SPIE Proceedings paper accepted and now online; "Breast histopathology using random decision forests-based classification of infrared spectroscopic imaging data." David M. Mayerich ; Michael Walsh ; Andre Kadjacsy-Balla ; Shachi Mittal ; Rohit Bhargava. Proc. SPIE 9041, Medical Imaging 2014. Link
Two SPIE Proceedings papers now available online;
"Investigating the biochemical progression of liver disease through fibrosis, cirrhosis, dysplasia, and hepatocellular carcinoma using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopic imaging Hari Sreedhar ; Mamta Pant ; Nemencio R. Ronquillo ; Bennett Davidson ; Peter Nguyen ; Rohini Chennuri ; Jacqueline Choi ; Joaquin A. Herrera ; Ana C. Hinojosa ; Ming Jin ; Andre Kajdacsy-Balla ; Grace Guzman ; Michael J. Walsh" LINK
"Fourier transform infrared spectroscopic imaging identifies early biochemical markers of tissue damage" Vishal K. Varma ; Samuel Ohlander ; Peter Nguyen ; Christopher Vendryes ; Sujeeth Parthiban ; Blake Hamilton ; M. Chad Wallis ; Andre Kajdacsy-Balla ; Blake Hannaford ; Thomas Lendvay ; James M. Hotaling ; Michael J. Walsh
Happy 1yr Anniversary SPL!
Dr. Walsh will be chairing two sessions at SCIX/FACSS in Reno, NV in October 2014 - 'Spectral Pathology' session. Details of invited speakers to follow soon...
Dr. Walsh is running an Honor's college class this Spring 2014 Semester - entitled "Advances in Interdisciplinary Research: Bridging the Gap Between Engineering and Medicine". Classes are Monday @ 9am in the Honors college - Link
Congratulations to Peter Nguyen on successfully defending his MSc thesis!
Congratulations to Sagar Nadimpalli on successfully defending his MSc thesis!
New undergraduate lab member - Bennett Davidson joined the group
More new lab members - Peter Nguyen and Amruta Bhatt.
Paper accepted from Dr. Walsh's Postdoc - Mayerich D, Walsh MJ, Schulmerich MV, Bhargava R, “Real-Time Interactive Data Mining for Chemical Imaging Information: Application to Automated Histopathology.” BMC Bioinformatics, (accepted) 2013. Series on Cancer Bioinformatics: Bioinformatic Methods, Network Biomarkers and Precision Medicine. Link.
New lab members Sagar Nadimpalli, Vishal Varma and Hari Sreedhar added to SPL.
Spectral Pathology Lab launched! January 2013