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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 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 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.
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 4th year Biochemistry major who is studying lysosomal transport.
Son Tran Son is a 2nd year ISyE major studying protein-nanoparticle interactions.
Rachel Candace law Rachel is a 3rd year BME major and LINCR Fellow studying nanoparticle-neuron interactions.
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.
Jairo Zapata Jairo is a graduate of Georgia Tech with a B.S. in Biochemistry. He has developed automated methods for image analysis and is now studying lysosomal transport.
REU Students
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Ryan Lannan
Quachel
Past Students
Syeda Anum(Summer 11, REU from Northeastern University)
Syeda is currently a researcher assistant at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Patrick Chen(Spring 12, GT undergraduate)
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)
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.