Payne Lab:People
The Payne Lab
July, 2013. From left to right, Front Row: Emilie, Sathvik, Saheli, Candace, Kaitlyn, Sabiha, Chelsea. Back Row: Austin, Deb, Alex, Josh, Christine, Kerry, Srikant. |
Principal Investigator
Christine K. Payne, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry |
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.
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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. He is now building a two-photon TIRF microscope. |
Alexandra Hill Alexandra earned her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Technology from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany with Prof. Karsten Mäder. studying the controlled release of nanosuspensions from osmotic devices. In the Payne Lab, she is starting a project focused on the interaction of biomedically relevant nanoparticles with cells.
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Josh Morris Josh earned his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin with Prof. Xiaoyang Zhu investigating organic photovoltaics with non-linear optical microscopy. In the Payne lab, he is working on the biological synthesis of PEDOT:PSS. |
Srikant Iyer Srikant earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry and Chemical Biology from Cornell University with Prof Ulrich Wiesner synthesizing multicolor fluorescent dye-based silica nanoparticles. In the Payne group, he is working on characterizing nanoparticle-protein interactions and the effect of cellular membrane potential.
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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.
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Rotation Graduate Students
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.
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Lab Technicians
High School Students
Sathvik Namburar Sathvik is a rising senior at Woodward Academy. He is working with Austin on the two-photon TIRF microscope and with Deb on the lysosome transport and mobility project. |
Past Students
Syeda Anum (Summer 11, REU from Northeastern University) |