Payne Lab:People
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 |
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. |
Kelsey Killion Kelsey is a 1st year Chemical Engineering major who is working on nanoparticle cytotoxicity in different cell lines. |
Patrick Chen Patrick is a 2nd year Biochemistry major who is working with Steve on the intracellular synthesis of conducting polymer nanowires. |
Lab Technician
Past Students
Syeda Anum (Summer 11, REU from Northeastern University) |