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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 doing a joint post-doc with the Payne and Kemp labs. She is studying the intracellular transport of proteins necessary for redox signaling.		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 and developing biosensing devices. Currently, he is working on the 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.		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 the bioconjugation of thiophene monomers for intracellular delivery 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 imaging set-up.

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.		Joseph Kim Joseph is a graduate of Georgia Tech with a B.S. in Biochemistry. He is currently studying lysosomal transport.

	Patrick Chen

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.		Molly Flanagan Molly is a graduate of Georgia Tech with a B.S. in Biochemistry. In addition to working as a technician in the Payne Lab, Molly is also a nursing student.

Rotation Students

	Mena Aioub		Tyler McCaslin

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. 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 is a medical student at the Medical College of Georgia. Kelsey Killion (Spring 12, GT undergraduate) 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.