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The Lab of Payne

	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 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 the migration of cancer and stromal cells in microfabricated platforms. At Georgia Tech, Saheli is doing a joint post-doc with the Payne and Kemp labs, and will be studying Thioredoxin-ASK1 dynamics in redox signaling.		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.

	Steven Hira Steve earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Florida State University. During his Ph.D., Steve worked under Prof. Geoffrey F. Strouse on imaging biomaterials for cellular delivery applications and developing biosensing devices. Currently, he is working on intracellular synthesis of conducting polymer nanowires.		Umesh Kumar Umesh earned his Ph.D in Biotechnology from National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), affiliated with Pune University, India, under the supervision of Dr. Archana Pundle. Umesh has worked on the biological synthesis of metal/metal oxide nanoparticles and the measurement of their physical and biophysical properties. Currently he is studying the interaction of nanoparticles with cells in the presence of serum proteins.

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

	Jairo Zapata Jairo is a 5th year Biochemistry major. He has developed automated methods for image analysis and is now studying the enzymatic degradation of intracellular proteins.		Joshua Liu Joshua is a 4th year Mathematics major. He is analyzing the degradation of extracellular cargo.

	Hursh Sureka Hursh is a 2nd year Chemical Engineering major who is working on new methods to label proteins in live cells.		Joseph Kim Joseph is a 4th year Biochemistry major who is studying the intracellular degradation of proteins. Hursh Sureka Hursh is a 2nd year Chemical Engineering major who is working on new methods to label proteins in live cells. Joseph Kim Joseph is a 4th year Biochemistry major who is studying the intracellular degradation of proteins. Lab Technician Eddy Shin Eddy is a graduate of the University of Georgia with a Bachelor's of Science in Biochemistry. He is currently studying the effect of membrane potential on functionalized nanoparticle binding to cell membranes. Past Students Syeda Anum (Summer 11, REU from Northeastern University) Syeda is completing her final year at Northeastern. 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. Kevin Hardin (Fall 08 - Spring 09, GT undergraduate) Jesse Haulk (Spring 08 - Summer 08, GT undergraduate) 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 will be a first year medical student at the Medical College of Georgia beginning in Fall, 2011. 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.