Research Interests

• Spinal Cord Injury - Pharmacological and nonpharmacological therapies
  
• Ethnobotany
  
• Diaspora and evolution of food ways
  
• Vietnamese culture and ethnobotany

 

 Educational Background

• Ph.D. 2005. Botany. University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
• Pacific Partnerships in Disability and Diversity Leadership Certificate. 2002. Center on Disability Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
• M.S. 1997. Curriculum and Secondary Science. University of Rochester, Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education and Human Development 
• B.A. 1992. Biology. State University of New York, College at Oswego
  

Affiliations 

• American Pharmacists Association
• Center on Disability Studies at the University of Hawai‘i
• East-West Center - Degree Fellow 2001-2005
• Ethnobiology Center
• Pharmacy Society of Rochester
  
• Society for Economic Botany

Selected Publications 

• Nguyen, M.T. 2008. Use and potential of Colocasia gigantea (Blume) Hook. f. Pgs. 381-392 in K.V. Peter, Ed. Underutilized and Underexploited Horticultural Crops, Vol. 3. New Delhi: New India Publishing Agency.
  
• Nguyen, M.T. 2008. Secretory anatomy of medicinal herbs and spices.  Pgs. 2-5 in G. Wagner, Ed. Teaching Tips (for ethnobotany). Compiled for the Society for Economic Botany.
  
•  Nguyen, M.T., J. Wieting, and K.L. Doherty. 2008. Vegetation analysis of urban ethnic markets shows mainstream market generalists and Chinatown ethnic-specialist vendors. Ethnobotany Research and Applications  6:63-85.
• Nguyen, M.T. 2007. Community dynamics and functional stability: A recipe for cultural adaptation and continuity. Economic Botany 61(4):337-346.
• Nguyen, M.T. 2006. Insertions and deletions: Evolution in the assemblage of Vietnamese food plants. Ethnobotany Research and Applications 4:176-201.
• Nguyen, M.T. 2006. Ethnobotany on a Roll: Access to Vietnam. The Review of Disability Studies 2(2):37-46.
• Nguyen, M.T. 2005. Community dynamics and functional stability: a recipe for cultural continuity in the Vietnamese diaspora. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
• Nguyen, M.T. 2005. Colocasia gigantea, Eryngium foetidum and Limnophila chinensis sbsp. aromatica in a cultural food context. Plants and People. Society for Economic Botany Newsletter 19(Fall):14-15.
• Nguyen, M.T. 2005. Bạc hà (Colocasia gigantea (Blume) Hook. f.), in the culinary history of Vietnamese-Americans. Economic Botany 59(2):185-190. 
• Nguyen, M.T. 2005. Cultivated plant collections from market places. Ethnobotany Research and Applications 3(1): 5-15. 
• Nguyen, M.T. 2004. Report on the experience of conducting research in Viet Nam as a person with a physical disability. Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
• Nguyen, M.T. 2003. Comparison of food plant knowledge between Vietnamese living in Vietnam and Hawai‘i. Economic Botany 57(4):472-480.
• Gibson, S.L., M.L. Nguyen, J.J. Havens, A. Barbarin, and R. Hilf. 1999. Relationship of δ-aminolaevulinic acid-induced protoporphyrin IX levels to mitochondrial content in neoplastic cells in vitro. Biochemistry and Biophysics Research Communications 265(2):315-21.
• Gibson, S.L., J.J. Havens, M.L. Nguyen, and R. Hilf. 1999. Delta-aminolaevulinic acid-induced photodynamic therapy inhibits Protoporphyrin IX biosynthesis and reduces subsequent treatment efficacy in vitro. British Journal of Cancer 80(7):998-1004.
• Gibson, S.L., D.J. Cupriks, J.J. Havens, M.L. Nguyen, and R. Hilf. 1998. A regulatory role for Porphobilinogen deaminase (PBGD) in δ-aminolaevulinic acid (δ-ALA)-induced photosensitization? British Journal of Cancer 77(2):235-43.
• Gibson, S.L., M.L. Nguyen, T.H. Foster, G. White, and R. Hilf. 1995. Efficacy of photodynamic therapy on original and recurrent rat mammary tumors. Photochemistry and Photobiology 61(2):196-9.
• Lawrence, D.S., S.L. Gibson, M.L. Nguyen, K.R. Whittemore, D.G. Whitten, and R. Hilf. 1995. Photosensitization and tissue distribution studies of the picket fence porphyrin, 3,1-TPro, a candidate for photodynamic therapy. Photochemistry and Photobiology 61(1):90-8.

Personal

  Interests

• Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body - Alpine skiing, English horseback riding, swimming, yoga, weight training

• White Crane Silat

    Family 

• Family (from left to right - brother Linh, Mom, My Lien, cousin Huong) Vietnam, 1973
• Born in Bien Hoa, Vietnam, 1970
• Resettled in United States, 1975
• Raised in Rochester, New York 

• Family in Bien Hoa, Viet Nam, 2000)