Meg completed her B.S (Hons) in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at The University of Western Australia, Perth, advised by Dr Yu Suk Choi and Dr Robert White before moving to Melbourne to complete her PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Monash University. Advised by Prof. Sharon Ricardo, Prof Mibel Aguilar and Dr Mark Del Borgo, she developed and characterized self-assembling beta-peptide hydrogels for the delivery of cell-based therapeutics for treatment of chronic kidney disease. Her current research as a Fulbright Scholar is focused on stem cell mechanosensation at a distance, where she will utilize optical coherence microscopy to track cellular responses to mechanical stimulation across large hydrogel volumes over time.
Author: Steven Graham Adie
Jan 2022: Our light-sheet PF-OCE work presented at SPIE Photonics West
Jan 2022: Congratulations Dr. Meiqi Wu!
Dec 2021: Meiqi’s paper on framework for analysis of multiple scattering published
Nov 2021: Meiqi passes her B-exam (PhD defense)
Oct 2021: Nikki’s paper on Resolution-enhanced OCT published in Scientific Reports
Aug 2021: Siyang’s paper on hybrid adaptive optics for closed-loop wavefront sensing published!
June 2021: Nikki passes her B-exam (PhD defense)!
May 2021: New R01 grant for multimodal hybrid adaptive optics
This new grant will support our collaborative research with the Xu Group on the development of multimodal hybrid adaptive optics. We seek to utilize computational adaptive optics (CAO)-OCT as a deep-tissue aberration sensor, together with the close connection between hardware AO and CAO, to enable AO three-photon microscopy (AO-3PM) image faster and deeper in the mouse and adult zebrafish brain (collaboration with the Fetcho Lab). Additional details about the grant can be found on NIH eReporter: Real-time Aberration Sensor for Large-Scale Microscopy Deep in the Mouse and Adult Zebrafish Brain.
May 2021: New R21 grant for ultrahigh-resolution ARF-OCE
The new grant will develop an acoustic radiation force (ARF)-OCE system based on tightly focused ultrasound ‘palpation’, and apply this system for longitudinal in vivo imaging of the mechanical properties of the tumor microenvironment during tumor development. Further details about the grant can be found at NIH eReporter: Ultrahigh-Resolution Quantitative Optical Coherence Elastography of the Tumor Microenvironment In Vivo