We’d like to welcome three new undergraduate students into our lab. Melina Maleknia (left) is a rising 2nd year Biomedical Engineering major at Georgia Tech. Chris Gadomski (center) is a rising 1st year at Emory University. Christy Daniel (right) is a rising 2nd year Neuroscience major at Georgia Tech.

We also had a farewell lunch for Amanda Liew and Peter Lee.
Peter was our oldest member in the lab and is starting his internship at Ford in Dearborn, Michigan. Amanda has been in our lab for 2 years as a research specialist/lab manager and will be leaving to continue pursuing her public health degree.
We will miss you both and wish you the best!

Earlier this month (2/2-2/9), the Buckley Lab attended the 2019 SPIE Photonics West Conference in San Francisco. The conference helped us stay up to date with all of the current optics research that our colleagues are involved in, and we were grateful for the opportunities to present our work.

Dr. Buckley gave a talk summarizing our most recent work published in the Neurobiology of Disease journal on possible mechanistic links between cerebral blood flow and neuroinflammation after repetitive mild traumatic brain injury.

Dr. Paul Lee talked about how we have demonstrated the feasibility of a low-cost, noninvasive diffuse correlation spectroscopy to quantify microvascular cerebral blood flow in children with sickle cell disease.

Our grad student, Eashani, talked about the accuracy, validity, and repeatability of using small separation DCS to measure cerebral blood flow in mouse models, which was also the subject of her recently published paper.

We learned a lot alongside our colleagues, and we can’t wait for next year’s conference!

Congratulations to our postdoc, Dr. Paul Lee, for receiving a 2019 American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship! His project, entitled “Optical Measurements of Microvascular Cerebral Blood Flow in Children with Sickle Cell Disease” will validate Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopy (DCS) measurements of microvascular cerebral blood flow in patients with sickle cell disease, and it will use DCS to characterize cerebrovascular hemodynamics in this unique patient population. Here is a picture of Paul after finding out that his hard work has paid off!