Payne Lab:People
The Lab of Payne
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| January, 2010. From left to right: Gerard, CKP, Jairo, Chip, Heather, Craig, Don, Joshua and Paul. |
Principal Investigator
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| Christine K. Payne, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Chemistry |
Post Docs
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| Craig Szymanski Craig earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Clemson University where he studied conjugated polymer nanoparticle photophysics in the lab of Prof. Jason McNeill. Craig earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Chemistry from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. In the Payne lab, Craig will be working on multiphoton imaging and particle tracking. |
Don-Ricardo Miller Don earned his Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from Morehouse School of Medicine where he studied proteins related to circadian rhythm. Don earned a B.S. in Chemistry from Morgan State University. In the Payne Lab, Don works to target optical probes in live cells. |
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| Gerard Doorley Ger earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland under the supervision of Prof. John M. Kelly. During his Ph.D., Ger studied ultrafast relaxation dynamics in DNA systems using ps-TRIR spectroscopy and worked on the development of bimodal nanoparticles. Ger earned a B.A. (Mod.) in Chemistry from Trinity College Dublin. |
Graduate Students
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| William H. Humphries IV Chip received a B.S. in Chemistry and a B.M. in Music Performance from Ohio Northern University. Chip is using multi-color single particle tracking to determine how extracellular cargo is degraded by intracellular enzymes. |
Undergraduate Students
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| Jairo Zapata Jairo is a 3rd year Chemistry major. He is developing automated methods for image analysis. |
Paul Park Paul is a 2nd year Biochemistry major. Paul is functionalizing fluorescent nanoparticles for cellular labeling. |
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| Joshua Liu Joshua is a 2nd year Biomedical Engineering major. He is studying the photophysical properties of quantum dots. |
Heather Jekot Heather is a 4th year Chemistry major. She is determining the binding mechanism of polyarginine to the surface of live cells. |
Past Students
Nicole Fay (Spring 07 - Spring 08, GT undergraduate)
Nicole is a Ph.D. student 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 will begin a Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Minnesota in Fall, 2010.
Kevin Hardin (Fall 08 - Spring 09, GT undergraduate)
Kevin is currently a laboratory research assistant at Tulane University in Prof. Samuel J. Landry's lab.
Jesse Haulk (Spring 08 - Summer 08, GT undergraduate)
Ashlee St. John Iyer (Summer 08 - Fall 09, Postdoc)
Melinda Ogden (Fall 07 - Spring 09, M.S.)
Mindi is pursuing a career as a high school teacher.
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.
