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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 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.
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. Currently he is 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. Currently, she is starting a project focused on the interaction of biomedically relevant nanoparticles with cells.
Josh Morris Josh earned his Ph.D. in
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.
Patrick Chen Patrick is a 3rd year Biochemistry major studying the biological synthesis of conducting polymers with a focus on polymer solubility.
Chelsea Thompson Chelsea is a 4th year Biochemistry major studying the
Kaitlyn Willingham Kaitlyn is a 3rd year Chemical Engineering major studying the
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.
Emilie Warren Emilie is a graduate of Georgia Tech with a B.S. in Biochemistry and a Spanish minor. She is currently studying the effect that cellular binding of nanoparticles has on the transmembrane potential.
Past Students
Syeda Anum(Summer 11, REU from Northeastern University)
Syeda is currently a research assistant at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
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.
Molly Flanagan(Summer 12 - January 13, Lab Technician)
Molly is a nursing student at Georgia State University.
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.
Son Tran(Summer 12, GT undergraduate)
Jairo Zapata(Fall 09 - Summer 12)
Jairo is off to Austin, TX.