At Saint Mary's University:
45. Harvey, M., Cisek, R., Al-Turk, S., Ruda, H.E., Kreplak, L. and Tokarz, D. (2026) “Evaluating Computational Super-Resolution Techniques for Nonlinear Optical Nanoscopy,” Scientific Reports under review.
44. Zinck, K., Harvey, M., Cisek, R., Pillai, S., Christie, S.D. and Tokarz, D. (2026) “Characterization of Inner Ear Granular Bodies by Polarization-resolved Second Harmonic Generation Microscopy,” Biomedical Optics Express 17(2) 851-871.
43. Bennett, E., Alkas, A., Diaz-Rodriguez, R.M., Campbell, J.W., Ferguson, L.A., Cotnam, M.J., Cisek, R., Thompson, A. and Tokarz, D. (2025) “Third-order Nonlinear Optical Properties of a Series of Pyrroles and Dipyrroles Featuring π-Conjugated Substituents and Linkers,” Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2025, 27, 21956-21969.
This paper was selected to be included in the 2026 Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics themed collection, “Showcasing the Breadth of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics Research in Canada”.
42. MacDonald, C., Harvey, M., Cisek, R., Johnson, J., Gonzalez-Morales, N., Kreplak, L. and Tokarz, D. (2025) “Collagen Fibrils and Myofibrils Exhibit a Different Polarization-resolved Second Harmonic Generation ‘Gradient’ Effect,” Biomedical Optics Express 16(10) 4027-4039.
41. Maciulis, M., Mazeika, V., Kontenis, L., Tokarz, D., Cisek, R., Karabanova, V., Rotomskis, R. and Barzda, V. (2025) “Polar Organization of H&E Dyes in Histology Tissue Revealed by Polarimetric Nonlinear Microscopy,” Biomedical Optics Express 16(9) 3648-3664.
40. Harvey, M., Ghimire, A., Cisek, R., Kreplak, L., Rainey, J.K. and Tokarz, D. (2025) “Polarization-Resolved Second Harmonic Generation Microscopy of Silk Fibers is Sensitive to β Sheet Orientation and Molecular Structure,” ACS Applied Bio Materials 8(6) 5229-5238.
39. MacArthur, S., Harvey, M., Cisek, R., and Tokarz, D. (2025) “Polarization-Resolved Second Harmonic Generation Microscopy for Cancer Diagnosis” in “Advanced Biophysical Techniques in Biosciences” Eds. Mazumder, N., Biswas, R. and Zhuo, G.-Y. Springer Nature, 203-233.
38. Harvey, M., Lane, B., Cisek, R., Veres, S.P., Kreplak, L., and Tokarz, D. (2024) “Histological staining alters circular dichroism SHG measurements of collagen” Opt. Lett. 49 (13) 3705-3708.
37. Cisek, R., and Tokarz, D. (2024) “Second Harmonic Generation Microscopy of Polysaccharides” in “Advanced Biophysical Techniques for Polysaccharides Characterization” Eds. Mazumder, N. Elsevier, 81-12.0.
36. Harvey, M., Cisek, R., Tokarz, D., and Kreplak, L. (2023) “Effect of Out of Plane Orientation on Polarization Second Harmonic Generation of Single Collagen Fibrils” Biomed. Opt. Express 14 (12) 6271-6282.
35. Jeon, H., Harvey , M., Cisek, R., Bennett, E., and Tokarz, D. (2023) “Characterization of Pathological Stomach Tissue Using Polarization-sensitive Second Harmonic Generation Microscopy” Biomed. Opt. Express 14 (10) 5376-5391.
34. Harvey, M., Cisek, R., Alizadeh, M., Barzda, V., Kreplak, L., and Tokarz, D. (2023) “Measurement of Collagen Fibril Chirality via Modelling and Experiment Using Polarization-resolved Second Harmonic Generation of Single Fibrils” Nanophotonics 12(11) 2061-2071.
33. Bennett, E., Harvey , M., Cisek, R. and Tokarz, D. (2023) “Investigation into the Structure of Crystalline Maltodextrin Particles by Second Harmonic Generation Microscopy” Biomed. Opt. Express 14 (3) 1027-1040.
32. Cisek, R., Harvey, M., Bennett, E., Jeon, H., and Tokarz, D. (2023) “Polarization-resolved Second Harmonic Generation Microscopy for Biomedical Applications” in “Optical Polarimetric Modalities for Biomedical Research” Eds. Mazumder, N., Kistenev, Y., Borisova, E., Prasada K, S. Springer-Nature, 215-257.
31. Brittain, K., Harvey , M., Cisek, R., Pillai, S., Christie, S.D. and Tokarz, D. (2022) “Second Harmonic Generation Microscopy of Otoconia” Biomed. Opt. Express 13 (6) 3593-3600.
30. Wang, J.S., Kamath, T., Mirzamohammadi, F., Rotter, D., Hojo, H., Castro, C.D., Patel, R., Govea, N., Enishi, T., Martins, J.S., Bruce, M., Brooks, D.J., Bouxsein, M.L., Tokarz, D., Lin, C.P., Abdul, A., Macosko, E.Z., Fiscaletti, M., Munns, C.F., Fujiwara, M., Kronenberg, H.M. and Wein, M.N. (2021) “Control of osteocyte dendrite formation by Sp7 and its target gene osteocrin,” Nature Communications 12 (2021) 6271.
29. Cisek, R., Joseph, A., Harvey, M. and Tokarz, D. “Polarization-sensitive Second Harmonic Generation Microscopy for Investigations of Diseased Collagenous Tissues” Frontiers in Physics (2021) 9:726996.
28. Tokarz, D., Cisek, R. and Barzda, V.* (2021) Polarimetric Nonlinear Microscopy of Starch Granules: Visualization of the Ultrastructural Order of Alpha-glucan Chains within a Native Starch Particle. Enzymology of Complex Polyglucans: Glycogen and Starch. Nitschke, F. Science Publishers and CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group. 18-33.
27. Peacock, C., Lee, E., Beral, T., Cisek, R., Tokarz, D., and Kreplak, L. (2020) “Buckling and Torsional Instabilities of a Nanoscale Biological Rope Bound to an Elastic Substrate,” ACS Nano 14 (10) 12877-12884.
26. Tokarz, D., Cisek, R., Joseph, A., Asa, S.L., Wilson, B., and Barzda, V. (2020) “Characterization of Pathological Thyroid Tissue using Polarization-sensitive Harmonic Generation Microscopy,” Lab. Invest. 100 (2020) 1280–1287.
25. Zhao, H., Cisek, R., Karunendiran, A., Tokarz, D., Stewart, B., and Barzda, V. (2019) “Live Imaging of Contracting Muscles with Wide-field Second Harmonic Generation Microscopy Using a High Power Laser,” Biomed. Opt. Express 10 (10) 5130-5135.
24. Purvis, K., Brittain, K., Joseph, A., Cisek, R., and Tokarz, D. (2019) "Third-order Nonlinear Optical Properties of Phycobiliproteins from Cyanobacteria and Red Algae," Chem. Phys. Lett. 731 (2019) 136599.
23. Purvis, K., Cisek, R., and Tokarz, D. (2019) "A New Activity for Instrumental Analysis: Laser Beam Profiling," J. Chem. Educ. 95 (11) 2041-2045.
22. Tokarz, D., Cisek, R., Joseph, A., Golaraei, A., Mirsanaye, K., Krouglov, S., Asa, S.L., Wilson, B.C., and Barzda, V.(2019) "Characterization of Pancreatic Cancer Tissue using Polarization-Sensitive Harmonic Generation Microscopy," Front. Oncol. 9 (272) 1-10.
21. Joseph, A., Budden, K., Cisek, R., and Tokarz, D. (2018) "Laser Polarimeter Laboratory for Measuring Scattering in Undergraduate Analytical Chemistry," J. Chem. Educ. 95 (11) 2041-2045.
Before Saint Mary's University:
20. Tokarz, D., Martins, J.S., Petit, E.T., Lin, C.P., Demay, M.B., and Liu, E.S. (2017) “Hormonal Regulation of Osteoycte Perilacunar and Canalicular Remodeling in the Hyp Mouse Model of X-Linked Hypophosphatemia,” J. Bone Miner. Res. 33 (3) 499-509.
19. Tokarz, D., Cisek, R., Wein, M.N. Turcotte, R., Haase, C., Yeh, S-C. A., Bharadwaj, S., Raphael, A.P., Paudel, H., Alt, C., Liu, T-M., Kronenberg, H.M., and Lin, C.P. (2017) “Intravital Imaging of Osteocytes in Mouse Calvaria Using Third Harmonic Generation Microscopy,” PLoS ONE 12 (10) e0186846.
18. Karuendiran, A., Cisek, R., Tokarz, D., Barzda, V., and Stewart, B.A. (2017) “Examination of Drosophila Eye Development with Third Harmonic Generation Microscopy,” Biomed. Opt. Express 8 (10) 4504-4513.
17. Cisek, R., Tokarz, D., Kontenis, L., Barzda, V. and Steup, M., (2017) “Polarimetric Second Harmonic Generation Microscopy: An Analytical Tool for Starch Bioengineering”. Starch - Stärke 2018 (70) 1700031.
16. Raphael, A. P., Tokarz, D., Ardigò, M and Prow, T. W. (2016) Reflectance Confocal Microscopy and Skin Aging. Textbook of Aging Skin, Second Edition. Farage, M. A., Miller, K. W., Maibach, H. I. Springer Press. 1-17.
15. Golaraei, A., Kontenis, L., Cisek, R., Tokarz, D., Done, S. J., Wilson, B. C., and Barzda, V. (2016) “Changes of Collagen Ultrastructure in Breast Cancer Tissue Determined by Second-Harmonic Generation Double Stokes-Mueller Polarimetric Microscopy,” Biomed. Opt. Express 7 (10) 4054-4068.
14. Cui, L., Tokarz, D., Cisek, R., Ng, K.K., Wang, F., Chen, J., Barzda, V., and Zheng, G. (2015) “Organized Aggregation of Porphyrins in Lipid Bilayer for Third Harmonic Microscopy,” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 127 (47) 14134-14138.
13. Tokarz, D., Cisek, R., Golaraei, A., Asa, S.L., Barzda, V., and Wilson, B. C. (2015) “Ultrastructural Features of Collagen in Thyroid Carcinoma Tissue Observed by Polarization Second Harmonic Generation Microscopy,” Biomed. Opt. Express 6 (9) 3475-3481.
12. Cisek, R., Tokarz, D., Steup, M., Tetlow, I. J., Emes, M. J., Hebelstrup, K.H., Blennow, A., and Barzda, V. (2015) “Second Harmonic Generation Microscopy Investigation of the Crystalline Ultrastructure of Three Barley Starch Lines Affected by Hydration,” Biomed. Opt. Express 6 (10) 3694-3700.
11. Cisek, R., Tokarz, D., Krouglov, S., Steup, M., Emes, M. J., Tetlow, I. J., and Barzda, V. (2014) “Second Harmonic Generation Mediated by Aligned Water in Starch Granules,” J. Phys. Chem. B. 118 (51) 14785-14794.
10. Cisek, R., Tokarz, D., Hirmiz, N., Saxena, A., Shik, A., Ruda, H. E., and Barzda, V. (2014) “Crystal Lattice Determination of ZnSe Nanowires with Polarization-Dependent Second Harmonic Generation Microscopy,” Nanotechnology 25 (50) 5057031-5057039.
9. Tokarz, D., Cisek, R., El-Ansari, O., Espie, G., Fekl, U., and Barzda, V. (2014) “Localization of Astaxanthin Accumulation in Haematococcus pluvialis with Nonlinear Optical Microscopy,” PLOS ONE 9 (9) e107804.
8. Tokarz, D., Cisek, R., Krouglov, S., Kontenis, L., Fekl, U., and Barzda, V. (2014) “Molecular Organization of Crystalline β-Carotene in Carrots Determined with Polarization Dependent Second and Third Harmonic Generation Microscopy,” J. Phys. Chem. B. 118 (14) 3814-3822.
7. Tokarz, D., Cisek, R., Fekl, U., and Barzda, V. (2013) “The Molecular Second Hyperpolarizability of the Light-Harvesting Chlorophyll a/b Pigment-Protein Complex of Photosystem II,” J. Phys. Chem. B. 117 (38) 11069-11075.
6. Sandkuijl, D., Tuer, A., Tokarz, D., Sipe, J.E., and Barzda, V. (2013) “Numerical Second- and Third-Harmonic Generation Microscopy,” JOSA B, 30 (2) 382-395.
5. Tokarz, D., Cisek, R., Prent, N., Fekl, U., and Barzda, V. (2012) “Measuring the Molecular Second Hyperpolarizability in Absorptive Solutions by the Third Harmonic Generation Ratio Technique,” Anal. Chim. Acta, 755 (2012) 86-92.
4. Tokarz, D., Cisek, R., Garbaczewska, M., Sandkuijl, D., Qiu, X., Stewart, B., Levine, J.D., Fekl, U., and Barzda, V. (2012) “Carotenoid Based Bio-Compatible Labels for Third Harmonic Generation Microscopy,” Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 14 (30) 10653-10661.
3. Tuer, A., Krouglov, S., Cisek, R., Tokarz, D. and Barzda, V. (2011) “Three-Dimensional Visualization of the First Hyperpolarizability Tensor,” J. Comp. Chem., 32 (6) 1128-1134.
2. Tuer, A., Tokarz, D., Prent, N., Cisek, R., Alami, J., Dumont, D.J., Bakueva, L., Rowlands, J., and Barzda, V. (2010) “Nonlinear Multicontrast Microscopy of Hematoxylin-and-Eosin-Stained Histological Sections,” J. Biomed. Opt., 15 (2) 026018.
1. Tokarz, D., Tuer, A., Cisek, R., Krouglov, S., and Barzda, V. (2010) “Ab Initio Calculations of the Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Amino Acids,” J. Phys. Conf., 256 (1) 012015.
