Research Interests

Professional Background

• 2001 –Present

Staff Scientist

• NIST Polymers Division
• 1999 – 2001
• Visiting Assistant Professor
• Department of Chemistry
• Brigham Young University
• Provo, UT
• 1996 –1999
• Senior Scientist
• Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics
• Rochester, NY
• 1995
• Ph.D.
• Department of Chemistry
• University of Wisconsin
• Madison, WI
• Research Advisor: Mark D. Ediger




Selected Publications

IMAGING
• Marcus T. Cicerone and Tak W. Kee, One-Laser Broadband Microscopic CARS. (in preparation).
• Tak W. Kee and Marcus T. Cicerone, A Simple Device for Broadband Compensation of Axial Chromatic Aberration. (in preparation).
• D.J. Dunkers, M.T. Cicerone, and N.R. Washburn, Collinear Optical Coherence and Confocal Fluorescence Microscopies for Tissue Engineering, Optics Express 11: 3074-3079 (2003).

COMPELX DYNAMICS / PROTEIN STABILIZATION

• G. Caliskan, D. Mechtani, S. Azzam, J.H. Roh, A. Kisliuk, M.T. Cicerone, I. Peral and A.P. Sokolov, Protein and Solvent Dynamics: How Strongly Are They Coupled? (in preparation).
• Cicerone, M.T. and Soles, C.L., Fast Dynamics and Stabilization of Proteins: Binary Glasses of Trehalose and Glycerol. Journal of Biological Physics (in press).
• Cicerone, M.T., Tellington, A., Trost, L., Sokolov, A.P., Substantially Improved Stability of Biological Agents in Dried Form, BioProcess International 1:36-47 (2003).