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The Payne Lab

	February, 2012. From left to right, Front Row: Christine, Saheli, Candace. Back Row: Steve, Umesh, Jairo, Eddy, Joseph, Kelsey.

Principal Investigator

	Christine K. Payne, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Bioengineering Graduate Program, Program Faculty Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences Christine received an S.B. in Chemistry with Honors from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.

Post Docs

	Saheli Sarkar Saheli earned her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and her M.S. from Drexel University. While at Case Western, Saheli worked in the group of Prof. Harihara Baskaran on cellular migration. Saheli is working with the Payne and Kemp labs to understand redox activity inside cells.		Debjyoti Bandyopadhyay Debjyoti earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Syracuse University with Prof. Yan-Yeung Luk. Debjyoti has worked on the fabrication of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of chiral polyol-terminated alkanethiols on gold. In the Payne Lab, Debjyoti is working on bioconjugation and lysosomal transport.

	Austin Cyphersmith Austin earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from University of Massachusetts Amherst with Prof. Mike Barnes. studying the orientation edependence of chiroptical properties of single molecules. Currently he is building a two-photon TIRF microscope.

Graduate Students

	Candace Fleischer Candace earned her M.S. and B.S. in Chemistry from Western Washington University. In the Payne Lab, she is studying nanoparticle-protein interactions.

Undergraduate Students

	Hursh Sureka Hursh is a 3rd year Chemical Engineering major who is studying the biological synthesis of conducting polymers.		Patrick Chen Patrick is a 3rd year Biochemistry major studying the biological synthesis of conducting polymers with a focus on polymer solubility.

Lab Technicians

	Eddy Shin Eddy is a graduate of the University of Georgia with a B.S. in Biochemistry. He is currently studying the importance of membrane potential on the cellular binding of nanoparticles.		Emilie Warren Emilie is a graduate of Georgia Tech with a B.S. in Biochemistry and a Spanish minor. She is currently studying the effect that cellular binding of nanoparticles has on changes to the membrane potential.

Past Students

Syeda Anum (Summer 11, REU from Northeastern University) Syeda is currently a research assistant at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Gerard Dooley (Spring 10 - Spring 12, Postdoc) Ger has taken a position as a pharmaceutical consultant. Nicole Fay (Spring 07 - Spring 08, GT undergraduate) Nicole is a NSF Graduate Fellow in the Chemical Biology Graduate Program at the University of California, Berkeley in the lab of Prof. Jay Groves. Solaire Finkenstaedt-Quinn (Summer 09, REU from Macalester University) Solaire is a Ph.D. student in Chemistry at the University of Minnesota in the lab of Prof. Christy Haynes. Molly Flanagan (Summer 12 - January 13, Lab Technician) Molly is a nursing student at Georgia State University. Kevin Hardin (Fall 08 - Spring 09, GT undergraduate) Jesse Haulk (Spring 08 - Summer 08, GT undergraduate) Steven Hira (Fall 11 - Spring 13, Postdoc) Steven is currently working as a postdoc in the El-Sayed lab at Georgia Tech. Chip Humprhies (Fall 06 - Summer 11, Graduate Student) Chip is currently a Microscopy and Imaging Specialist for B&B Microscopes. Ashlee St. John Iyer (Summer 08 - Fall 09, Postdoc) H. Cori Jekot (Spring 10 - Fall 10, GT undergraduate) Cori is a medical student at the Medical College of Georgia. Kelsey Killion (Spring 12, GT undergraduate) Joseph Kim (August 11 - November 12, GT undergraduate) Joseph is currently working at Medical Neurogenetics. Umesh Kumar (December 11 - November 12, Postdoc) Rachel Candace Law (Summer 12, LINCR Fellow, GT undergraduate) Joshua Liu (Spring 10 - Spring 12, GT undergraduate) Don-Ricardo Miller (Spring 09 - Summer 10, Postdoc) Jessica Obermiller (Spring 11, GT undergraduate) Melinda Ogden (Fall 07 - Spring 09, M.S.) Paul Park (Spring 10, GT undergraduate) Katelyn Snider (Summer 10, High School Student) Craig Szymanski (Fall 09 - Summer 11, Postdoc) Currently a postdoc at PNNL. Jenna Tomlinson (Summer 08, REU from Grand Valley State University) Jenna is a Ph.D. student in the Program in Biomedical Science at the University of Michigan Medical School in the lab of Prof. Pat O'Brien. Son Tran (Summer 12, GT undergraduate) Jairo Zapata (Fall 09 - Summer 12) Jairo is off to Austin, TX.