Bayden Wood

Professor

Professor, School of Chemistry

EmailBayden.Wood@monash.edu

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

1. New infrared based diagnostic tools for anti-microbial resistance 2. Application of spectroscopy and chemometrics for the detection of diabetes and kidney disease 3. New insights into DNA conformation in response to anti-cancer drugs 4. Infrared application of spectroscopy as a point-of-care device for sepsis detection 5. Application of focal plane array imaging technology for the analysis of tissue sections 6. Field trials of infrared based malaria diagnostics in remote tropical environments

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Personal profile

Biography

Bayden is the Director for the Centre of Biospectosocpy and works in the School of Chemistry at Monash University.

Bayden's research areas of interest are: A chemical change must precede or accompany any morphological or symptomatic manifestation associated with disease progression, environmental perturbation or therapeutic treatment.

Vibrational spectroscopy is sensitive to detecting chemical changes and in combination with artificial intelligent systems represents a fundamental new approach to analysing single molecules, subcellular structures, cells, tissues, entire organisms and ultimately ecological systems.

My research is aimed at transforming state-of-the-art infrared-based technology to a new point-of-care diagnostic capability for real world medical devices that can instantaneously diagnose several major debilitating diseases, at a fraction of current costs and with unprecedented levels of sensitivity and speed. The objective is to empower both minimally trained community workers from remote villages in developing counties to first world general medical practitioners, with the ability to immediately diagnose and treat a range of infectious diseases. Delivery of this new disruptive technology will transform diagnosis enabling improved treatment and better patient management and has applications in blood storage, biosecurity, pharmaceutical monitoring and defense. My other areas of interest include FT-IR microspectroscopy and FT-IR imaging of cells and tissues and developing applications for cancer diagnosis, histocompatibility testing, oocyte development, stem cell research and algae research. I also have a strong interest in applying multivariate statistics and neural network architectures to the analysis of FT-IR and Raman spectra of bio-samples with the aim of developing new diagnostic algorithms.

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Projects

4 Active
30 Finished

Advancing Women’s Urogynecological Health using Micro/Nanotechnologies

Mukherjee, S., Werkmeister, J. A., Wood, B. & Rosamilia, A.

1/01/20 → 31/12/23

Project: Research

New approaches to detect drug resistant superbugs

Wood, B., Heraud, P. & Peleg, A.

3/05/19 → 2/11/20

Project: Research

A spectral and in vitro study of intestinal fibrogenesis and biomarkers in Crohn's disease to inform 3D-human tissue-based models of intestinal fibrosis and identify therapeutic targets

Keung, C., Moore, G., Lim, R., Sievert, W., Heraud, P. & Wood, B.

The Gutsy Group Inc

1/01/19 → 31/12/21

Project: Research

Probing antimicrobial drug resistance by multimodal molecular analysis

Wood, B., Heraud, P., McNaughton, D., Peleg, A., Doerig, C., Goodacre, R. & Creek, D.

1/01/18 → 31/12/20

Project: Research

BTR: Research Services Agreement (RSA) June 2019

Wood, B. & Kochan, K.

1/07/19 → 31/12/19

Project: Research