MUSTAFA H. CHOWDHURY, Ph.D.
Center for
Fluorescence Spectroscopy
University of
Maryland, School of Medicine
Department of
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
725 West Lombard
Street
Baltimore, MD
21201
Phone: (410)-706-7500
Fax: (410)-706-8408
Email:
CFS e-mail; nanomustafa@gmail.com
Current Research Interests
Radiative Decay Engineering, Metal Enhanced
Fluorescence, Surface Plasmon Coupled Emission, Plasmonics, Nanotechnology.
Education and Professional Training
2005 – Present:
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Fluorescence Spectroscopy, UMBI
2000 – 2005:
Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
1998 – 2000:
M.Sc. Electrical Engineering, California State University, Long Beach, CA
1994 – 1998: B.
Sc. Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Selected
Publications
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M. H. Chowdhury, A. M. Julian, C. J.
Coates and G. L. Coté, “Detection of differences in oligonucleotide-influenced
aggregation of colloidal gold nanoparticles using absorption spectroscopy”,
Journal of Biomedical Optics, vol. 9(6), pp. 1347-1357 (2004).
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M. H. Chowdhury, V. A. Gant, A.
Trache, A. Baldwin, G. A. Meininger and G.L. Coté, “The use of Surface
Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) for the detection of human integrins”,
Manuscript in submission to the Journal of Biomedical Optics, 2005.
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J. Henry, A. Anand, M. Chowdhury, G. Coté, R. Moreira
and T. Good, “Development of a nanoparticle based surface-modified
fluorescence assay for the detection of prion proteins”, Analytical
Biochemistry, vol. 334, pp. 1-8 (2004).
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M. H. Chowdhury, B. Atkinson, T. Good
and G. L. Coté, “Surface Enhanced Raman Spectoscopy for the detection of
pathogenic protein and DNA in foods”, Proceedings of SPIE on Optical
Diagnostics and Sensing in Biomedicine III, San Jose, CA, vol. 4965, pp.
111-115, 2003.
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M. H. Chowdhury, A. Anand, J. E.
Henry, R. Moreira, T. A. Good, and G. L. Coté, “The use of Surface Enhanced
Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) in a Competitive Affinity Binding Assay for the
Detection of Prions”, Proceedings of the 25th Annual International
Conference of the IEEE EMBS, pp. 3049-3051, Cancun, Mexico, September
17-21, 2003.