Vibrational Spectroscopy in Protein Research

Dr. Ozaki received his B.Sc. in Chemistry in 1973 and PhD in Physical and Inorganic Chemistry in 1978, both from Osaka University. After over two years at the National Research Council of Canada as a research associate, he joined Jikei University School of Medicine in Tokyo. In 1989, he became associate professor and later full professor in the Chemistry Department at Kwansei Gakuin University until March 2018. He was a Vice President of Kwansei Gakuin University from April 2013 to March 2018. Currently Professor Ozaki is a professor emeritus of Kwansei Gakuin University. Ozaki has received many awards, including the 1998 Tomas Hirschfeld Award, 2001 EAS Award for Achievements in Near Infrared Spectroscopy, 2002 Spectroscopical Society of Japan Award, 2005 Science and Technology Award of Japanese Government, 2008 Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry Award, 2014 Bomem-Michelson Award, 2017 Chemical Society of Japan Award, and the 2018 Medal with Purple Ribbon. Dr. Malgorzata Baranska leads the Raman Imaging Group at The Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. In her research, Dr. Baranska focuses on analyzing bioactive compounds using spectroscopic methods, particularly modern Raman techniques. The main direction of her research is related to development treatments for life style diseases, including new drugs of endothelium bioactivity. Dr. Igor Lednev received his PhD degree from The Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russian Federation before joining the University of Albany as faculty. As an academic visitor, he worked in several leading laboratories around the world including the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, and Germany. Dr. Lednev’s current research is focused on the development and application of novel laser spectroscopy for biomedical and forensic applications. Dr. Bayden R. Wood is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow working at the Centre for Biospectroscopy located in the School of Chemistry, Monash University, Malborne, Australia. His research is concerned primarily with vibrational spectroscopy of tissues, cells, and biomolecules, and monitoring home aggregation in single living red blood cells associated with erythrocyte disorders, including malaria and sickle cell disease, using resonance Raman spectroscopy.

• 1. ATR-FTIR Spectroscopy and Spectroscopic Imaging of Proteins2. Light-Induced Difference FTIR Spectroscopy of Photoreceptive Proteins3. Quantum Cascade Laser-based IR Transmission Spectroscopy of Proteins in Solution4. Theoretical Simulation of Protein Two-Dimentional Infrared Spectroscopy5. Infrared Spectroscopy and Imaging for Understanding Neurodegenerative Protein-Folding Diseases6. Near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy in protein research7. Vibrational imaging of proteins: changes in the tissues and cells in the lifestyle disease studies8. Interpretation of Vibrational Optical Activity Spectra of Proteins9. Nano-scale analysis of protein self-assemblies10. Vibrational Spectroscopic Analysis and Quantification of Proteins in Human Blood Plasma and Serum11. Vibrational spectroscopy in protein research towards virus identification: challenges, new research and future perspectives12. Two-Dimensional Correlation Spectroscopy of Proteins13. Resonance Raman spectroscopy of hemoglobin in red blood cells14. Ultraviolet Raman spectroscopy for understanding structure and formation mechanism of amyloid fibrils15. Recent advances in Raman spectroscopy of proteins for disease diagnosis16. Dynamics and allostery of human hemoglobin as elucidated by time-resolved resonance Raman spectroscopy17. Immuno-SERS: from nanotag design to assays and microscopy18. Highly localized characterization of protein structure and interaction by surface-enhanced Raman scattering19. Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) chemosensing of proteins