About Multiphoton Montana
Montana State University Resource
Multiphoton Montana started in 2006 when Montana State University Professors Mikhail Drobizhev and Thomas Hughes began collaborating on characterizing the multiphoton absorption properties on a wide variety of fluorescent proteins. Since its inception, Multiphoton Montana characterized hundreds of fluorescent samples resulting in a series of publications. The scope has recently widened by the emerging technology of biocompatible chemical dyes which in addition to fluorescent proteins have tremendous potential to further a broad range research and diagnostics. Multiphoton Montana is currently funded under the BRAIN initiative at NIH and receives samples from international collaborators as well as across the country for characterization.
Meet The Team
Mikhail (Misha) earned a PhD. from the Lebedev Physics Institute in Moscow, Russia in 1998. Misha immigrated to the US in the early 2000s. Misha founded the Multiphoton Montana resource with Thomas Hughes in 2006. He has focused on the multiphoton absorption of organic systems and their applications in therapy and diagnostics.
Mikhail Drobizhev
Director
Research Professor
His other research interests include using laser spectroscopy and nonlinear optics to study photophysical and photochemical processes of organic and biological molecules, molecular aggregates, dendrimers, polymers, and proteins.
Adam is a retired U.S. Army Major and earned a PhD. in Neuroscience studying attention and value encoding in the visual and parietal cortices. As a Molecular Bioscience Program Fellow at Montana State University, Adam obtained a diverse background in molecular techniques to complement his neurophysiology skillset.
Adam Thuen
Assistant Director
Research Professional
Adam joined the Multiphoton Montana resource in 2024 and is interested in helping to improve optical microscopy techniques for neural activity across a local area network capable of detecting action and local field potentials using biocompatible dyes and flourscent proteins.