Contributors to the Emerging Investigators Issue

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Cham- paign and is afﬁliated with the University’s Institute for Genomic Biology and Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory. Ryan received his BS in Chemistry from Eastern Illinois University in 1999 and his PhD in Chemistry from Northwestern University in 2004, after which he was a joint postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology and Institute for Systems Biology. His research interests lie in the development of new multiparameter biological analysis technologies for applica- Jeffrey Anker is an Assistant Professor of tions in informative disease diagnostics, Christa Brosseau is from Halifax, Nova Chemistry at Clemson with a BS in applied homeland security, and fundamental bio- Scotia. She attended Dalhousie University physics (Yale University, 1998), and PhD logical studies. (BSc) and Acadia University (MSc) before from the University of Michigan (2005). As goingontocompleteaPhDininterfacial a graduate student with Raoul Kopelman he electrochemistry and vibrational spectros- developed magnetically modulated optical copy under the supervision of Jacek Lip- nanoprobes (MagMOONs) for chemical kowski at the University of Guelph in and mechanical measurements. For this Ontario, Canada. She was a postdoctoral work, he received a Grand Prize at the 2003 fellow in the laboratory of Richard Van Published on 28 July 2011. Downloaded 30/10/2014 08:00:28. National Inventor’s Hall of Fame Collegiate Duyne, and worked towards the application Inventor’s Competition. Dr Anker was an of SERS analysis of paintings and textiles. NIH Ruth Kirschstein NSRA postdoctoral Christa is currently an assistant professor of research fellow under Richard Van Duyne chemistry at Saint Mary’s University in (Northwestern University), where he devel- Halifax, Nova Scotia, where her research oped real-time high-resolution plasmonic group focuses on the application of elec- nanosensors. Current research focuses on trochemical surface-enhanced vibrational developing novel nanosensors and imaging spectroscopy to varied systems ranging techniques for cell and tissue sensing. from biomembranes to ionic liquids.

Perdita Barran is currently a Senior Lecturer in Biophysical Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh. She graduated from Manchester University with a degree in Chemistry with Industrial Experience (1994), and from Sussex University with a PhD in Chemical Physics (1998). She met Dek Woolfson at Sussex in 2000 and he suggested zinc ﬁngers as a good target for IM-MS. After a postdoctoral appointment at UCSB, Perdita was awarded an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship which Ryan C. Bailey is an Assistant Professor allowed her to commence independent Christopher J. Easley earned his B.S. in in the Department of Chemistry at the research at Edinburgh University (2003). Chemistry (2002) at Mississippi State

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University and his Ph.D. in Analytical Christy Haynes was an undergraduate at Chemistry (2006) from the University of Macalester College, a graduate student at Virginia. Dr. Easley’s postdoctoral work Northwestern University, and a post- (2006–2008) was conducted in the Molec- doctoral fellow at University of North ular Physiology and Biophysics Depart- Carolina, Chapel Hill – all in the field of ment at the Vanderbilt University Medical Chemistry. She currently mentors a group Center, after which he moved to Auburn of nine doctoral students and as many University as an Assistant Professor in the undergraduate researchers at the Univer- Chemistry and Biochemistry Department. sity of Minnesota where her group The Easley laboratory at Auburn is develops analytical techniques to explore focused on the development of microfluidic questions in immunology, toxicology, techniques for fundamental studies on and hematology while also keeping an murine islets and adipocytes, as well as the active materials chemistry effort. When development of aptamer- or antibody- not working, Christy does urban scav- based small-volume assays to complement enger hunts with her group members, these microfluidic systems. bakes, and plays with her 3 year old son. Department of Mechanical Engineering at University College London. His group has made several discoveries having signifi- cance to advanced bio-analysis and diagnostics to tissue engineering and regenerative/therapeutic biology and medicine. These pioneering investigations are currently undergoing intense explora- tion for their possible exploitation in the clinic.

Amanda J. Haes is currently an Assistant Professor in the Chemistry Department at Andrew Hudson received his training in the University of Iowa. She completed her molecular spectroscopy and dynamics in Ph.D. in Chemistry at Northwestern the group headed by John Polanyi at the Published on 28 July 2011. Downloaded 30/10/2014 08:00:28. University with Richard P. Van Duyne. University of Toronto, where he obtained Before beginning her independent career, his Ph.D. in 1998. This was followed by she was a National Research Council postdoctoral appointments in applied Research Associate with Greg E. Collins at science in chemistry and engineering the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. Haes departments. He then took a role as group research activities include designing a senior scientist in a start-up company in and purifying novel nanomaterials for stable North America developing optical tech- spectroscopic studies, improving detection nologies for telecommunications and Andreu Llobera obtained his PhD in limits of biological and environmental medical diagnostics. He obtained an Physics from the Universitat Autonoma pathogens, and investigating how surface EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship de Barcelona in 2002. Since 2009 he holds chemistry impacts nanomaterial function in in 2005, returning to academia at the a permanent position as researcher at the separations and spectroscopy. University of Bristol, before moving to IMB-CNM-CSIC. He has participated in a permanent position in the Department several research projects ﬁnanced by the of Chemistry at the University Spanish Government and by the Euro- of Leicester. pean Community, has co-authored 65 Suwan N. Jayasinghe started his published articles, with a total of 384 academic career in the UK at Brunel citations and an h factor of twelve. He has University, where he received his ﬁrst and contributed with 75 works to interna- second degrees in Mechanical Engineering. tional conferences. His research activities Subsequently he joined Queen Mary, include integrated optics devices, micro- University of London, where he studied opto-electro-mechanical systems Materials Sciences and earned his PhD. In (MOEMS) and lab-on-a-chip platforms. January 2005 he became an independent Finally, Dr Llobera was awarded with researcher at which time he instigated the a Starting Grant of the European BioPhysics Group, now based in the Research Council in 2008.

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Director’s New Innovator Award, ONR Tech in 2007. Prof. Payne has received Young Investigator Award, IEEE Photonics many honors including an NIH Direc- Society Young Investigator Award, MIT’s tor’s New Innovator Award in 2009. TR35 Award, National Geographic Emerging Explorer Award, etc.

Hajime Miyaguchi was born in Japan, in 1971. He received his BSc from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1994 under the Brandon T. Ruotolo is currently an Assis- direction of Professor Yoshio Okahata, tant Professor in the Department of andhereceivedhisMScfromtheUniver- Dimitri Pappas is an Assistant Professor Chemistry, University of Michigan. He sity of Tokyo in 1996 under the direction of at Texas Tech University. He received his earned his PhD from Texas A&M Professor Shigeyuki Yokoyama. In 1997 he Ph.D. from the University of Florida in University in 2004 under the direction of joined the Saitama Prefectural Police 2002 and was a senior scientist at Johnson David H. Russell. He did his post- Headquarters. Since 2003 he joined the Space Center before assuming his faculty doctoral work at the University of Cam- National Research Institute of Police position. His students focus their atten- bridge with Carol V. Robinson, and was Science. He received his PhD in analytical tions on microfluidic and single-molecule awarded the first ever Waters Research chemistry from the University of Tokyo in spectroscopic assays for cell analysis. His Fellowship in 2008. He is the recipient of 2009 under the direction of Professor group works extensively in the areas of many other awards and honors, including Takehiko Kitamori. His research interests integrated cell analysis devices for the the 2011 ASMS Research Award. His are developing advanced and user-friendly study of cancer and heart disease. research is focused on both developing ion sample-preparation techniques for biolog- mobility- mass spectrometry as a tool for ical specimens. structural biology and understanding the influence of solvent on protein structure. Published on 28 July 2011. Downloaded 30/10/2014 08:00:28.

Christine Payne earned an S.B. in Chem- istry from the University of Chicago Aydogan Ozcan received his Ph.D. degree at (1998) and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Stanford University Electrical Engineering University of California, Berkeley (2003). Emily Smith received a Bachelor’s degree (EE) Department. He joined UCLA in 2007 Her Ph.D. research, studying the re- from Northwestern University and grad- as an Assistant Professor of EE, where he is arrangement of ligands in organometallic uate degrees in chemistry from Pennsyl- currently leading the Bio-Photonics Labo- complexes using femtosecond spectros- vania State University (M.S.) and ratory. He holds 17 issued patents and copy, was carried out under the mentor- University of Wisconsin-Madison (Ph. another 8 pending patent applications and is ship of Prof. Charles Harris. Prof. Payne D.). Her postdoctoral appointment was at also the author of one book and the co- spent 2003–2006 as an NIH NRSA Post- University of Delaware and she was author of more than 150 peer-reviewed doctoral Fellow at Harvard University in a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research articles in major journals and conferences. the lab of Prof. Xiaowei Zhuang. She Service Award Postdoctoral Fellow at Prof. Ozcan received various awards joined the faculty of the School of University of Arizona. She is currently an including NSF CAREER Award, NIH Chemistry and Biochemistry at Georgia Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Iowa

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State University and an Associate Scien- application of new biosensing platforms. tist at U.S. Department of Energy, Ames She is pioneering the use of fast-scan Laboratory. Her research interests are cyclic voltammetry for the detection of instrument development for analysis of hydrogen peroxide, and has worked to nanomaterials, plant and animal tissue; improve the electrochemical detection and understanding the molecular events and analysis of neurotransmitter release that lead to organization of the cell events in biological preparations ranging membrane. from individual cells through awake, freely-moving animals. Professor Sombers has won an NIH Early Career Award in the Chemistry of Drug Abuse and Addiction, and a Kirschstein National Research Service Award. She holds a Ph.D. from Penn State University and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of North Carolina-Chapel microelectrodes and extends their use for Hill. new analytical applications. In addition, Jill Venton is an Assistant Professor of her lab develops rapid capillary electro- Chemistry at University of Virginia where phoresis separations for understanding she also has a joint appointment in the neurochemical changes. The Venton lab Neuroscience Graduate Program. Her applies analytical chemistry to real research interests lie at the intersection measurements of neurotransmitters and Leslie Sombers is an electroanalytical between analytical chemistry and neuro- neuromodulators in model systems from chemist interested in the development and science. Her lab develops better the fruit ﬂy to rats. Published on 28 July 2011. Downloaded 30/10/2014 08:00:28.

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