Susie Boydston-white

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Professor
Science

EMAIL: sboydstonwhite@bmcc.cuny.edu

Office: N-682

Office Hours:

Phone: +1 (212) 776-6878

Expertise

Raman Spectroscopy, Optical Diagnosis, Molecular and cell biology., FTIR Microspectroscopy, Chemometric Analysis

Degrees

  • B.S. University of South Florida, Tampa, Biology,1991
  • M.A. Hunter College of CUNY, Biochemistry,1996
  • Ph.D. City University of New York, Biochemistry,1999

Courses Taught

BIO 110
BIO 110 (General Biology)
CHE 121
CHE 121 (Fundamentals of General, Organic & Biological Chemistry I)
CHE 122
CHE 122 (Fundamentals of General, Organic & Biological Chemistry II)
CHE 201
CHE 201 (College Chemistry I)
CHE 202
CHE 202 (College Chemistry II)

Research and Projects

Publications

  • Susie Boydston-White, Max Diem and Luis Chiriboga. “Infrared spectroscopic studies of myeloid leukemia (ML-1) cells at different phases of the cell cycle.” In: Farkas DL, Leif RC, Tromberg BJ, editors. Proceedings of SPIE 3604: Optical Diagnostics of Living Cells II. SPIE Photonics West 1999; San Jose, California, USA. Optical Society of America; c1999. doi:10.1117/12.349213 (January 1999)
  • Max Diem, Susie Boydston-White and Luis Chiriboga. “Distinction Between Normal and Neoplastic Human Cells and Tissues by Infrared Microspectroscopy.” Spectroscopy of Biological Molecules: New Directions Greve, G. J. Puppels and C. Otto, Eds., Kluwer Academic Press, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp. 479-482 doi:10.1007/978-94-011-4479-7_214 (January 1999)
  • Max Diem, Susie Boydston-White, Luis Chiriboga. “Infrared Spectroscopy of Cells and Tissues: Shining Light onto a Novel Subject.” Applied Spectroscopy. 1999;53(4):148A-161A. doi:10.1366/0003702991946712 (April 1999)
  • Susie Boydston-White, Tamara Gopen, Sandra Houser, Jill Bargonetti and Max Diem. “Infrared spectroscopy of human tissue. V. Infrared spectroscopic studies of myeloid leukemia (ML-1) cells at different phases of the cell cycle.” Biospectroscopy, 5: 219–227. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1520-6343 (January 1999)
  • Max Diem, Luis Chiriboga, Anthony Pacifico, Susie Boydston-White, Herman T. Yee. “Infrared microspectroscopy of cells and tissue: Infrared spectral maps of liver tissue.” Proceedings of SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engineering. doi:10.1117/12.384931.SPIE Photonics West 2000; San Jose, California, USA. Optical Society of America; (January 2000).
  • Susie Boydston-White, Luis Chiriboga, Herman Yee, Max Diem. “Fourier Transform Infrared Microspectroscopy of Human Cells and Tissue: Correlation of Tissue Architectural Features and Infrared Spectral Maps.” Biophysical Journal, 78: (January 2000).
  • Melissa Romeo, Christian Matthäus, Miloš Miljković, Susie Boydston-White and Max Diem. “Analysis of microscopic infrared spectra of individual dried and live human cells.” In: Gryczynski Z, Vo-Dinh T, Lakowicz JR, Mahadevan-Jansen A, Sowa MG, editors. Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 5321: Biomedical Vibrational Spectroscopy and Biohazard Detection Technologies. SPIE Photonics West 2004; San Jose, California, USA. Optical Society of America; doi:10.1117/12.552874 (January 2004)
  • Max Diem, Melissa Romeo, Susie Boydston-White, Miloš Miljković and Christian Matthäus, “Infrared spectral imaging of human cells and tissue: an approach to objective, machine-based histopathology,” Infrared and Millimeter Waves, Conference Digest of the 2004 Joint 29th International Conference on 2004 and 12th International Conference on Terahertz Electronics, 2004, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2004, pp. 75-76, doi:10.1109/ICIMW.2004.1421960 (January 2004)
  • Max Diem, Melissa Romeo, Susie Boydston-White, Miloš Miljković and Christian Matthäus. “A decade of vibrational micro-spectroscopy of human cells and tissue (1994-2004).” Analyst 129: 880-885. doi:10.1039/b408952a. (August 27, 2004)
  • Susie Boydston-White, Max Diem, Melissa Romeo, Richard Mendelsohn and Yukihiro Ozaki. A Collection of Papers Presented at “SHEDDING NEW LIGHT ON DISEASE: Optical Diagnostics for the New Millennium” Dedicated to Professor Henry Mantsch, the Founder of this Series of Conferences, and a Pioneer in the Field of Optical Diagnosis-Newark, NJ, USA-19-23 June 2004-Preface. VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY, 38(1-2), 1-2. doi:10.1016/j.vipspec.2005.02.001 (July 2005)
  • Susie Boydston-White, Tatyana Chernenko, Angela Regina, Miloš Miljković, Christian Matthäus and Max Diem, “Microspectroscopy of single proliferating HeLa cells.” Vibrational Spectroscopy. 38(1–2):169-177. doi:10.1016/j.vibspec.2005.02.028 (July 2005)
  • Max Diem, Melissa Romeo, Susie Boydston-White and Christian Matthäus “Spectrochemical Analysis Using Infrared Multichannel Detectors.” 1 ed. Bhargava R, Levin IW, editors. UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd; Chapter 9, IR Spectroscopic Imaging from Cells to Tissue; p.189-203. 328p. doi:10.1080/05704928.2016.1250214 (July 2005)
  • US Patent # 6,887,711 “A System and Method to Determine Absence or Presence of Cancerous Disease by IR Spectroscopy.” 1/99; issue date 05/2005, Susie Boydston-White, Jill Bargonetti, Max Diem and Tamara Gopen, inventors. (May 2005)
  • Christian Matthäus, Susie Boydston-White, Miloš Miljković, Melissa Romeo, and Max Diem. “Raman and Infrared Microspectral Imaging of Mitotic Cells.” Applied Spectroscopy. 60. 1-8. doi:10.1366/000370206775382758. (February 2006).
  • Susie Boydston-White, Melissa Romeo, Tatyana Chernenko and Max Diem. “Cell-cycle-dependent variations in FTIR micro-spectra of single proliferating HeLa cells: Principal component and artificial neural network analysis.” Biochimica et biophysica acta. 1758. 908-14. doi:10.1016/j.bbamem.2006.04.018. (July 2006)
  • Melissa Romeo, Susie Boydston-White, Christian Matthäus, Miloš Miljković, Benjamin Bird, Tatyana Chernenko, Peter Lasch and Max Diem, “Infrared and Raman Microspectroscopic Studies of Individual Human Cells”, Vibrational Spectroscopy for Medical Diagnosis (Diem, M., Griffiths, P., & Chalmers, J., Eds.), pp 27-70, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ. doi:10.1002/0470027320.s8924 (June 2008)
  • Melissa Romeo, Susie Boydston-White, Christian Matthäus, Miloš Miljković, Benjamin Bird, Tatyana Chernenko & Max Diem “Vibrational Microspectroscopy of Cells and Tissues”, in Biomedical Vibrational Spectroscopy (eds P. Lasch and J. Kneipp), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, USA. doi:10.1002/9780470283172.ch6 (October 2007)
  • Yan Zhou, Cheng-Hui Liu, Yi Sun, Yang Pu, Susie Boydston-White, Yulong Liu and Robert R. Alfano, “Human Brain Cancer Studied by Resonance Raman Spectroscopy”, Journal of Biomedical Optics, 17 (11), 116021. doi:10.1117/1.JBO.17.11.116021 (November 15, 2012)
  • Igor Zaitsev, Ling Chen, Susie Boydston-White, Manita Pavel, Svetlana Shugaeva, A. G. Petrova and Oksana Williams. “The Prion Dilemma Confounding Science Educators”, F1000Research 2:4, doi:10.3410/f1000research.2-4.v1 (January 9, 2013)
  • Susie Boydston-White. “Using Fourier transform infrared Micro-Spectroscopy (FTIR-MSP) to Distinguish Activation States of Immune Cells.” Molecular Biology of the Cell 2013 Jan 1 (Vol. 24). 8120 WOODMONT AVE, STE 750, BETHESDA, MD 20814-2755 USA: AMER SOC CELL BIOLOGY. (January 2013)
  • Cheng-Hui Liu, Yan Zhou, Yi Sun, J. Y. Li, L. X. Zhou, Susie Boydston-White, V. Masilamani, K. Zhu, Yang Pu and Robert R. Alfano, Resonance “Raman and Raman Spectroscopy for Breast Cancer Detection” Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment. 2013;12(4):371-382. doi:10.7785/tcrt.2012.500325 (February 22, 2013)
  • Susie Boydston-White, Cheng-Hui Liu, Robert R. Alfano, “The Cell-Cycle Dependence of the Spectra of Proliferating Normal and Neoplastic Single Cells Using Confocal Resonance Raman Microspectroscopy”, Proceedings of SPIE 8577, Optical Biopsy XI, 85770C; doi:10.1117/12.2008738. (March 19, 2013).
  • Denis Nam, Marci Elpers, Susie Boydston-White, Michael Ast, Douglas E Padgett and Timothy Wright, “Metal Transfer and Raman Spectroscopic Analysis of Retrieved Alumina-Zirconia Composite Ceramic Femoral Heads”, Bone & Joint Journal Orthopaedic Procs. 2013;95-B(SUPP_34):302-302. doi:10.1302/1358-992X.95BSUPP_34.ISTA2013-302. (December 1, 2013)
  • Marcella Elpers, Denis Nam, Susie Boydston-White, Michael P. Ast, Timothy M. Wright, Douglas E. Padgett, “Zirconia Phase Transformation, Metal Transfer, and Surface Roughness in Retrieved Ceramic Composite Femoral Heads in Total Hip Arthroplasty”, Journal of Arthroplasty, doi:10.1016/j.arth.2014.08.011 (August 14, 2014)
  • Yan Zhou, Cheng-hui Liu, Lixin Zhou, Ke Zhu, Yulong Liu, Lin Zhang, Susie Boydston-White, Gangge Cheng, Das Bidyut, Yang Pu and Robert R Alfano, “Resonant Raman Spectra of grades of human brain glioma tumors reveal the content of tryptophan by the 1588 cm-1 mode”, Proceedings of SPIE 9318, Optical Biopsy XI, 85770C; doi:10.1117/12.2079458 (March 11, 2015)
  • Cheng-hui Liu, Susie Boydston-White, Wubao Wang, Laura A. Sordillo, Lingyan Shi, Arel Weisberg, Vincent P. Tomaselli, Peter P. Sordillo, Robert R. Alfano; “Optical pathology study of human abdominal aorta tissues using confocal micro resonance Raman spectroscopy”, Proceedings of SPIE 9703, Optical Biopsy XIV, doi:10.1117/12.221336). 97031S (March 7, 2016)
  • Cheng-Hui Liu, Susie Boydston-White, Arel Weisberg, Wubao Wang, Laura A. Sordillo, Yury Budansky, Adler Perotte, Vincent P. Tomaselli, Stephanie S. Lubicz M.D., Peter P. Sordillo M.D., Robert R. Alfano, “Resonance Raman spectroscopy detection of vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque”, Proceedings of SPIE 9703-65, (March 7, 2016)
  • Cheng-hui Liu, Susie Boydston-White, Arel Weisberg, Wubao Wang, Laura A. Sordillo, Adler Perotte, Vincent P. Tomaselli, Peter P. Sordillo, Zhe Pei, Lingyan Shi, Robert R. Alfano, “Vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque detection by resonance Raman spectroscopy”, Journal of Biomedical Optics, 21(12), 127006. doi:10.1117/1.JBO.21.12.127006 (December 21, 2016)
  • Cheng-hui Liu, Vidyasagar Sriramoju, Susie Boydston-White, Binlin Wu, Chunyuan Zhang, Zhe Pei, Laura Sordillo, Hugh Beckman, Robert R. Alfano. “Resonance Raman of BCC and Normal Skin”, Proceedings of SPIE 10060, Optical Biopsy XV: Toward Real-Time Spectroscopic Imaging and Diagnosis, 100601B doi:10.1117/12.2254628 (February 17, 2017)
  • Cheng-hui Liu, Binlin Wu, Susie Boydston-White, Hugh Beckman, Vidyasagar Sriramoju, Laura Sordillo, Chunyuan Zhang, Jason Smith, Lin Zhang, Lingyan Shi, and Robert R Alfano, “Characterization and discrimination of basal cell carcinoma and normal human skin tissues using resonance Raman spectroscopy,” in Frontiers in Optics 2017, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2017), paper 10.1364/FIO.2017.JTu2A.72.
  • Cheng-hui Liu, Binlin Wu, Laura Sordillo, Susie Boydston-White, Vidyasagar Sriramoju, Chunyuan Zhang, Hugh Beckman, Lin Zhang, Zheng Pei, Lingyan Shi, and Robert R. Alfano, “Assessment of basal cell carcinoma from normal human skin tissues using Resonance Raman spectroscopy,” in Frontiers in Optics / Laser Science, OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2018), doi:10.1364/FIO.2018.JTu3A.118. (September 16, 2018)
  • Binlin Wu, Cheng-hui Liu, Susie Boydston-White, Hugh Beckman, Vidyasagar Sriramoju, Laura Sordillo, Chunyuan Zhang, Lin Zhang, Lingyan Shi, Jason Smith, Jacob Bailin, and Robert R. Alfano “Statistical analysis and machine learning algorithms for optical biopsy” Proc. SPIE 10489, Optical Biopsy XVI: Toward Real-Time Spectroscopic Imaging and Diagnosis, doi:10.1117/12.2288089 104890T (February 2018)
  • Cheng-hui Liu, Binlin Wu, Laura A. Sordillo, Susie Boydston-White, Vidyasagar Sriramoju, Chunyuan Zhang, Hugh Beckman, Lin Zhang, Zhe Pei, Lingyan Shi, Robert R. Alfano.” A pilot study for distinguishing basal cell carcinoma from normal human skin tissues using visible resonance Raman spectroscopy.” J Cancer Metastasis Treat 2019;5:4. doi:10.20517/2394-4722.2018.55. (January 23, 2019)
  • Lin Zhang, Binlin Wu, Susie Boydston-White, Kenneth Jimenez, Cheng-hui Liu, Robert R. Alfano, “Evaluating human breast cancer cell metastasis potential using resonance Raman spectroscopy and machine learning.” Proc. SPIE 11234, Optical Biopsy XVIII: Toward Real-Time Spectroscopic Imaging and Diagnosis, 112340N doi:10.1117/12.2546936 (9 March 2020)
  • Binlin Wu, Lin Zhang, Kenneth Jimenez, Susie Boydston-White, Eric Wang, Cheng-Hui Liu, Robert R. Alfano. “Classifying Breast Cancer Cell Lines of Different Metastasis Potentials using Visible Resonance Raman Spectroscopy and Machine Learning.” AW2T.5. doi:10.1364/CLEO_AT.2021.AW2T.5 (January 2021)
  • Zhe Pei, Binlin Wu, Lingyan Shi, Lin Zhang, Susie Boydston-White, Cheng-Hui Liu, Robert R. Alfano, “Visible resonance Raman spectroscopic ex vivo studies of mouse brain and organs,” Proc. SPIE 11954, Optical Biopsy XX: Toward Real-Time Spectroscopic Imaging and Diagnosis, 1195402 doi:10.1117/12.2609810 (2 March 2022)
  • Lingyan Shi, Yan Zhou, Binlin Wu, Ke Zhu, Shengjia Zhang, Susie Boydston-White, Lin Zhang, Zhe Pei, Thien An Nguyen, Cheng-Hui Liu, Robert R. Alfano, “Amyloid beta and tau protein metabolic changes detected by visible resonance Raman scattering microscopy in Alzheimer’s disease mouse model.” Proc. SPIE 12373, Optical Biopsy XXI: Toward Real-Time Spectroscopic Imaging and Diagnosis, 123730B doi:10.1117/12.2652913 (6 March 2023)

Honors, Awards and Affiliations

  • Presidential Scholar: Borough of Manhattan Community College of CUNY January 2013-present
  • Leadership Fellow: Borough of Manhattan Community College of CUNY, June 2012 – present

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