Laboratory for Advanced Microscopy & Bioengineering.
We develop optical and engineering tools to address open problems in biology, medicine, and the bioeconomy — from single cells imaged with ultrafast lasers to bioreactors running on open-source hardware.
What we study and why lives on the research page. This page is the lab itself: the tools, the people, and how to join.
See the research ↗The tools we build and run.
Raman & SRS spectroscopy
Label-free vibrational chemical imaging and spectral fingerprinting, from single spectra to hyperspectral maps of living samples.
Nonlinear optical microscopy
Second-harmonic generation, stimulated Raman scattering, and third-order sum-frequency generation with vibrational contrast, built on custom variable-gain PMT detection.
Open-hardware & instrument control
1–2 liter open-source bioreactors, LabVIEW and Arduino-based automation, and photonic sensor design — documented so other labs can build them too.
Laboratory members.
Richard C. Prince, PhD
Assistant Professor and Biomedical Engineering Technology Coordinator at ETSU. Research in vibrational microscopy, nonlinear optical imaging, and open-hardware bioengineering. PhD in Biophotonics from UC Irvine; NSF IGERT fellow.
Lab alumni.
Alumni will be listed here as students move on to their next steps.
Join the lab.
Curious, motivated students
We are always looking for students at the undergraduate and graduate level. If any of these projects interest you, get in touch — tell us what you want to build.