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| Qijuan Li, M. S. (Applied Science) Currently at Sutter Health, Sacramento |
Vibrational Spectroscopy characterization of lipid oxidation | |
| Dr. Sanhita Dixit, Ph. D. (Edinburgh), Post-Doc., UC Davis Currently at SRI, Palo Alto,, CA |
membrane-bead interactions | |
| Dr. Chanel Yee, Ph. D. Brooklyn, Post-Doc, UC Davis
Currently at Amgen |
UV-patterning of lipid bilayers, silica mesophases, and zeolites |
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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 |
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| Cristina Tcheyan, M. S. (Applied Science) |
PDMS Wrinkling (with Ravi Butti) |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Dr. Madhuri Vinchurkar, Asst. Project Scientist currently at Mumbai, India |
high-density lipoprotein assembly FT-IR Vibrational Spectroscopy |
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Sennur Turgut, M. S. (Applied Science) |
A comparison of thermal phase behavior of lipid mono- and bilayers |
| Kathy Nguyen, B. S. (Optical Science & Engineering) Currently at AboveNet Communications, San Jose, CA |
bilayer collisions fusion dip-pen nanolithography of membrane spreading |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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| Emily Mills, Junior Specialist now Graduate Student, Immunology, UC Davis |
designer lipoproteins as toxin decoys |