DAVID MAYERICH
Postdoctoral Fellow
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Office: 5211 Beckman
Phone: (217) 244-0918
Email: mayerich at illinois edu

Current CV (PDF)

Research Interests:

Visualization
High-Performance Computing
Microscopy
Spectroscopy
Neuroanatomy
Physically-Based Modeling

Recent News

I am organizing the Beckman Institute Graduate Seminar for the 2011-2012 academic year. The seminar will be held on February 8th, March 14th, April 11th, and May 9th. Please see the schedule below for speakers and abstracts as they become available!

[3/2] Our paper on network validation was accepted to appear in BMC Bioinformatics. The software is available here

[1/23] I was recently interviewed by Synergy regarding my research and time as a Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow

[1/16] Our paper on Optimizing FT-IR was accepted to the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging

[12/9] Our paper on KESM protocols is available online at the Journal of Visualized Experiments

[12/2] Our paper on Modeling FT-IR for tissue imaging has been accepted to the International Conference on Optics, Lasers, and Spectroscopy

[11/1] Our paper on large-scale vascular imaging in Biomedical Optics Express has received some media attention

[11/1] Our paper on the KESM-Brain Atlas has been published in a special issue of Frontiers in Neuroscience

Schedule

Recent (2011+)

May 9th
Beckman Institute Graduate Seminar
Abstracts
Amy Maduram (Beckman Graduate Fellow)
Molly Jhong (3D Micro- and Nanosystems)
Yue Zhuo (Beckman Graduate Fellow)

May 3th
Beckman Director's Seminar
Processing and Visualization Methods for High-Throughput Microscopy Imaging

May 2nd - 5th
IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging

Optimizing the Design of FT-IR Spectroscopic Imaging Instruments to Obtain Increased Spatial Resolution of Chemical Species
R. Reddy, D. Mayerich, M. Walsh, M. Schulmerich, P.S. Carney, R. Bhargava

April 11th
Beckman Institute Graduate Seminar
Sumit Ashtekar (Beckman Graduate Fellow)
Jeremy Kemmerer (Bioacoustics Research Laboratory)
Jin Tae Kwak (Bioimaging Science and Technology)

March 28th - 30th
International Conference on Optics, Lasers and Spectroscopy (ICOLS)

Rigorous Electromagnetic Model of FT-IR Spectroscopic Imaging Applied to Automated Histology of Prostate Tissue
R. Reddy, D. Mayerich, M. Walsh, P.S. Carney, R. Bhargava

March 14th
Beckman Institute Graduate Seminar
Abstracts
Heather Huntsman (Bioimaging Science and Technology)
Jessie Chin (Beckman Graduate Fellow)
March 1st - 2nd
IEEE EMBS Forum on Grand Challenges: Biomedical Imaging

February 8th
Beckman Institute Graduate Seminar
Abstracts
Brett Beiermann (Autonomous Materials Systems)
Feng Xiong (Beckman Graduate Fellow)
Aravind Alwan (Computational Multiscale Nanosystems)

January 21th - 26th
SPIE Photonics West, BiOS

High-Resolution Mid-Infrared Imaging for Disease Diagnosis
M. Walsh, D. Mayerich, A. Kajdacsy-Balla, R. Bhargava

Prof. Rohit Bhargava will be the chair for Session 4: Cancer Applications

November 30th
Beckman Institute Graduate Seminar
Abstracts
Johan Strumpfer (Theoretical and Computational Biophysics)
Tan Nguyen (Image Formation and Processing)
Amanda Jones (Autonomous Materials Systems)

November 12th - 16th
Society for Neuroscience 2011

Knife-Edge Scanning Microscope Brain Atlas: A Submicrometer-Resolution Web-Based Mouse Brain Atlas
C. Sung, J. Chung, D. Mayerich, J. Kwon, D. Miller, T. Huffman, J. Keyser, L. Abbott, Y. Choe

November 16th
Beckman Institute Graduate Seminar
Abstracts
Curtis Johnson (Bioimaging Science and Technology)
Andrew Carlson (3D Micro and Nanosystems)
Daniel King (Bioacoustics Research Laboratory)

October 23th - 28th
IEEE VisWeek 2011

BioVis: Metrics for Comparing Explicit Representations of Interconnected Biological Networks
D. Mayerich, C. Bjornsson, J. Taylor, B. Roysam
Vis Posters: Designing Transfer Functions for Exploring Hyperspectral Images
D. Mayerich, M. Walsh, R. Bhargava

October 5th
Beckman Institute Graduate Seminar
Abstracts
Brennan Payne (Human Perception and Performance)
Harry Fischer (Social Dimensions of Environmental Policy)
Logan Niehaus (Artificial Intelligence)

October 2nd - 7th
Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies (FACSS 2011)

Mid-Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging for Breast Tissue Diagnosis
M. Walsh, D. Mayerich, R. Bhargava
Developing Chemical Imaging for Single Molecule to Massively Multiplexed Molecular Sensing in Pathology
R. Bhargava, M. Walsh, A. Kodali, D. Mayerich, Kajdacsy-Balla

September 7th
Beckman Institute Graduate Seminar
Abstracts
Emre Akbas (Artificial Intelligence)
Anthony Christodoulou (Bioimaging Science and Technology)
Martina Mustroph (Neurotechnology)

September 4th - 6th
INCF NeuroInformatics 2011
Yoonsuck Choe will be demonstrating the prototype online KESM-Brain Atlas (kesm.cs.tamu.edu):

Knife-Edge Scanning Microscope Brain Atlas: A Web-Based, Light-Weight 3D Mouse Brain Atlas
J.R. Chung, C. Sung, D. Mayerich, J. Kwon, D. Miller, T. Huffman, J. Keyser, L.C. Abbott, Y. Choe

July 31th - August 5th
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
Yoonsuck Choe will be presenting our review on large-scale KESM:

Knife-Edge Scanning Microscopy for Connectomics Research
Y. Choe, D. Mayerich, J. Kwon, D. Miller, J. Chung, C. Sung, J. Keyser, L. Abbott

June 12th - June 17th
Sixth International Conference on Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy

Mid-Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging for Tissue Histopathology
M. Walsh, D. Mayerich, A. Kajdacsy-Balla, R. Bhargava

March 30th - April 2nd
International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging

Fast Cell Detection in High-Throughput Imagery Using GPU-Accelerated Machine Learning
D. Mayerich, J. Kwon, A. Panchal, J. Keyser, Y. Choe
Automated Cropping and Artifact Removal for Knife-Edge Scanning Microscopy
J. Kwon, D. Mayerich, Y. Choe

February 26th - March 4th
United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology
Michael Walsh will present our work on Mid-IR Spectroscopy classification:

Mid-Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging for Breast Tissue Histopathology: Towards 'Stainless Staining'
M. Walsh, D. Mayerich, E. Wiley, A. Kajdacsy-Balla, R. Bhargava