Payne Lab:People
The Lab of Payne
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| September, 2009. From left to right: Emily, Don, CKP, Craig, Amy, Jairo and Chip. |
Principal Investigator
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| Christine K. Payne, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Chemistry |
Post Docs
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| Ashlee St. John Iyer Ashlee earned her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Georgia Tech in Prof. 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. Don received 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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| 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. |
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 two-color single particle tracking to determine how extracellular cargo is degraded by intracellular enzymes. |
Amy Jablonski Amy received a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Alabama-Birmingham. Amy's research focus is the intracellular delivery and targeting of nanoparticles. |
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| Emily Herman Emily graduated from Saint Mary's College with a B.S. in Chemistry. Emily is studying the mechanism of nanoparticle transport across the plasma membrane. |
Undergraduate Students
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| Jairo Zapata Jairo is a 3rd year Chemistry major at Georgia Tech. He is developing automated methods for image analysis. |
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 has returned to Minnesota to complete her undergraduate degree in Chemistry.
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)
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 her Ph.D. studies in the
Program in Biomedical Science at the University of Michigan Medical School in Fall 09.
