| Scientists ----Current (2009) | ||
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Christopher Babayco, Ph. D. Candidate, Chemistry (also with Land Group) |
vibrational probes of buried biomolecular assemblies: structure and phase behavior applications in molecular junctions and sandwiched lipid mesophases vibrational spectroscopy and imaging (FT-IR configurations) |
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Daniel Bricarello, Ph. D. Candidate, Applied Science | Engineered Protocells: reconstituted high-density lipoproteins in milk, as synthetic decoys, delivery vectors lipid-protein cooperative self-assembly ligand-receptor interactions atomic force microscopy |
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JoJo (Pauline) Chang, Ph. D. Candidate, Electrical Engineering ( also with Kiehl Group) |
vibrational probes of buried biomolecular assemblies:metal-molecule-metal junctions, FT-IR, molecular self-assembly, nanoporous surfaces, metal-molecule-metal junctions |
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Sean Gillmore, Graduate Student, Applied Science | Molecular Sorting in Lipid Multilayers Water-oil-lipid constructs functional consequences of domain reorganization in membranes l atomic force microscopy, confocal, PDMS technologies |
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Josh Hanson, Graduate Student, Chemistry | (also with Toby Allen Group) peptide interaction with membranes |
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Eric Kendall, Ph. D. Candidate, Chemical Engineering | engineered protocells:
membranes on porous scaffolds membrane-membrane interactions, adhesion, and protocell engulfment |
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Viviane Ngassam, Assistant Specialist | molecular models of cellular apoptosis reduced cells, cell - surface interactions and cell-patterning cell-culture facility |
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Emily Mills, Junior Specialist pre-doctoral scholar |
reconstituted lipoproteins as engineered protocells relations between ligand-receptor interactions and the membrane environment |
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Dr. Ann Oliver, Project Scientist (Team Leader) |
membrane biochemistry apotosis anhydrobiosis fluorescence spectroscopy DSC fluorescence microscopies |
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Chris Permalee, Graduate Student, Applied Science | membrane patterning |
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Shukun Shen, Joint China Scholarship Council Student, Shaanxi Normal University, China | Lipid-templated silica synthesis silica-vesicle based drug-encapsulation strategies |
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Lobat Tayebi, Ph. D. Candidate, Applied Science | myelin figures curvature-dependent phase separation in myelin phases ion-channel arrays |
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Tasheema Taylor, Undergraduate Researcher, Biomedical Engineering also with Kuhl Group |
membrane-polymer interfaces |
| Alumni-----Recent Graduates (2007-2009) | ||
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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 |
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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 |
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C. Shea Thompson, CBST Undergraduate Intern Rice University, Houston, TX |
Receptor patterning at plasma membrane during cellular apoptosis |
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Dr. Babak Sanii, Ph. D. (Applied Science) now 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) now 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) now 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 now 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 |
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Kathy Nguyen, B. S. (Optical Science & Engineering) now at AboveNet Communications, San Jose, CA |
bilayer collisions fusion dip-pen nanolithography of membrane spreading |