Dr. Bayden R. Wood is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow working at the Centre for Biospectroscopy located in the School of Chemistry, Monash University, Malborne, Australia. His research is concerned primarily with vibrational spectroscopy of tissues, cells, and biomolecules, and monitoring home aggregation in single living red blood cells associated with erythrocyte disorders, including malaria and sickle cell disease, using resonance Raman spectroscopy.