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The Lab of Payne

	February, 2009. From Left to Right: Don, Kevin, Emily, Aaron, Ashlee, CKP, Chip, Amy and Mindi

Principal Investigator

	[Christine K. Payne, Ph.D.] Assistant Professor of Chemistry Christine received an S.B. in Chemistry from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California Berkeley.

Post Docs

	Ashlee St. John Iyer Ashlee earned her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Georgia Tech in Dr. Andrew Lyon's group where she studied colloidal assembly. She received a B.A. in Chemistry from the New College of Florida. In the Payne Lab, she will be tracking single particles in live cells.		Don-Ricardo Miller Don earned his Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from Morehouse School of Medicine where he studied proteins related to circadian rhythm and received a B.S. in Chemistry from Morgan State University. In the Payne Lab, Don works to target optical probes in live cells.

Graduate Students

	William H. Humphries IV Chip received a B.S. in Chemistry and a B.M. in Music Performance from Ohio Northern University. Chip is interested in developing new methods for live cell imaging and determing the rate of lysosomal degradation.		Amy Jablonski Amy attended the University of Alabama-Birmingham and recieved a B.S. in Chemistry. Amy's research focus is using quantum dots for imaging intracellular transport.

	Emily Herman Emily graduated from Saint Mary's College with a B.S. in Chemistry.

Undergraduates

	Solaire Finkenstaedt-Quinn Solarie is a summer REU student from Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She will be assisting on a number of diverse projects in the lab.

Past Students

Nicole Fay (Spring 07 to Spring 08, GT undergraduate)
Nicole is currently enrolled in the Chemical Biology Graduate Program at the University of California, Berkeley and working in the [lab of Prof. Jay Groves].

Kevin Hardin (Fall 08 - Spring 09, GT undergraduate)

Jesse Haulk (Spring 08 - Summer 08, GT undergraduate)

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 will begin graduate studies in the [Program in Biomedical Science at the University of Michigan Medical School] this coming fall.