Alumni    
a Qijuan Li, M. S. (Applied Science)

Currently at Sutter Health, Sacramento
Vibrational Spectroscopy characterization of lipid oxidation
a Dr. Sanhita Dixit, Ph. D. (Edinburgh), Post-Doc., UC Davis

Currently at SRI, Palo Alto,, CA
membrane-bead interactions
a Dr. Chanel Yee, Ph. D. Brooklyn, Post-Doc, UC Davis

Currently at Amgen
UV-patterning of lipid bilayers, silica mesophases, and zeolites
Dr. Annapoorna Butti, Ph. D. Osmania Univ (India), Project Scientist,, UC Davis

Currently at Hyderabad, India
micro-contact printing

phase separation in supported bilayers
Ravi Butti, Specialist,, UC Davis

Currently at Hyderabad, India
micro-contact printing

PDMS Wrinkling
Cristina Tcheyan, M. S. (Applied Science)
PDMS Wrinkling (with Ravi Butti)
a Dr. Babak Sanii, Ph. D. (Applied Science)

Currently at The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
lipid spreading
curvature generation in bilayers
phase transitions

FRAP | TIRF
Dr. Michelle Smith, Ph. D. (Biophysics)

Currently at Joint BioEnergy Institute, Berkeley, CA
femtosecond laser patterning of lipid bilayers
curvature-dependent membrane reorganizations
membrane defects and edges

FRAP | TIRF
S Dr. Alan Szmodis, Ph. D. (Biophysics)

Currently at an undisclosed location, somewhere, CA
lateral phase separations in multicomponent lipid bilayers
membrane-bead interactions


imaging ellipsometry
S Dr. Madhuri Vinchurkar, Asst. Project Scientist

currently at Mumbai, India
high-density lipoprotein assembly


FT-IR Vibrational Spectroscopy
S Sennur Turgut, M. S. (Applied Science)

A comparison of thermal phase behavior of lipid mono- and bilayers

S Kathy Nguyen, B. S. (Optical Science & Engineering)

Currently at AboveNet Communications, San Jose, CA
bilayer collisions
fusion
dip-pen nanolithography of membrane spreading

Dr. Adrian Brozell, Ph. D., Biophysics


Colloidal crystal templates for membrane organization
curvature effects on membrane fluidity, phase behavior, and permeability
ion-channel mediated proton transport

patch-clamp on a chip
Dr. Michael Howland, Ph. D. , Chemical Engineering



currently with Accurion gmbH, Goettingen, Germany,
membrane electrostatics: templated lipid phases on chemically and topographically structured surfaces
membrane poration

imaging ellipsometry
Dr. Rita El-Khouri, Ph. D. , Chemistry

(also with Patten Group)
PEG-amphiphiles in lipid monolayers
pH responsive polymer supported bilayers

dynamic self-assemblies and pattern formation within and at membrane interfaces
Phuong Dang, Junior Specialist


Now at Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Sphingomyelinase induced membrane remodeling
cell-patterning

reaction-diffusion processes and dynamic reorganizations in membrane environment
S Ammar Rizvi, Undergraduate Summer Intern


UC Berkeley, CA
Langmuir phases of molecular assemblies designed for directional electron transport
C. Shea Thompson, CBST Undergraduate Intern


Rice University, Houston, TX
Receptor patterning at plasma membrane during cellular apoptosis
Emily Mills, Junior Specialist


now Graduate Student, Immunology, UC Davis
designer lipoproteins as toxin decoys