Aquaphotomics for Bio-diagnostics in Dairy

for Measurement of Both Somatic Cell Count and Absolute Electrical Conductivity and for Diagnosis of Mastitis.- 21. Real-time Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of Udder Tissue for Mastitis Diagnosis.- 22. Estrus Detection in Dairy Cows Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Aquaphotomics.- Part VI: Near Infrared Spectroscopy and Artificial Intelligence for Functional Studies of Dairy Cows.- 23. Two-dimensional Correlation Analysis of the Near-Infrared Spectra of Milk and Milk Constituents: Temporal Study of Post-partum Adaptation in Dairy Cows.- 24. Two-Dimensional Near-Infrared Correlation Spectroscopy of an Individual Cow's Milk for Functional Study of Somatic-Cell-Count Changes in Milk.- 25. Wavelet Transform of Near-Infrared Individual Cow's Milk for Single-Spectrum Mastitis Diagnosis.- 26. Artificial Neural Network Applied to Near-Infrared Spectra of Raw Milk for Dairy Cow Feeding Management.- 27. Artificial Intelligence in Dairy Farming: The Near-Infrared Approach.- Part VII: Conclusion and Future Perspectives.- 28. Conclusion and Future Perspectives. 

Prof. Tsenkova's primary area of interest is the use of NIRS and multivariate analyses for biodiagnostics and biomonitoring related to functional studies in life science, biotechnology, and agriculture. She was the first ever to apply NIRS for disease diagnostics. In 2005, at the International Conference of NIRS, she proposed and gave a name to the new discipline called aquaphotomics as a new scientific field to study the collective characterization and quantification of pools of water molecules that have the same molecular vibration and translate into structure, function, and dynamics of organisms or aqueous systems. Her work is recognized throughout the world as attested by numerous invited talks, collaborative studies, and fifteen international and Japanese patents.Dr. Tsenkova has written more than 100 peer reviewed papers and book chapters, and received many international awards, among them the Tomas Hirschfeld Award for her work on NIRS for Disease Diagnosis and Pathogen Identification. 

 

Dr. Jelena Muncan obtained her Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering (2014) at the University of Belgrade, Serbia, in the field of non-invasive glucose sensing. In 2017, she received Japanese Society for Promotion of Science post-doctoral research fellowship at Kobe University, Bio measurement Technology Laboratory of Graduate School of Agriculture where, under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Roumiana Tsenkova, she was researching applications of aquaphotomics for non-invasive mastitis diagnosis in dairy cows.  She is currently a specially appointed assistant professor at the Aquaphotomics Research Department, Kobe University, Japan. 

Dr. Muncan's  research area is very wide and highly multidisciplinary, encompassing characterization of nanomaterials/materials/biomaterials and their interaction with water, food preservation, water quality, biomedical diagnostics, monitoring, and therapy. In all these research projects, aquaphotomics plays key role. Her research efforts are directed at better understanding the role water plays in aqueous and biological systems and harvesting the new knowledge for technological applications. 

Jelena Muncan is the author or co-author of more than 100 publications published in international journals and monographs as well as presented at various international conferences worldwide.