Alumni

Research Associate

Devin Edwards



Current Affiliation: Staff Scientist, HHMI/ Fred Hutchinson; PhD: Dept. of Physics, University of California Santa Barbara

David Jacobson


Affiliation After Leaving Group: Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Clemson University

Gavin King



Current Affiliation: Professor of Physics, Univ. of Missouri; PhD: Dept. of Physics, Harvard University

Marc-Andre LeBlanc


Affiliation After Leaving Group: Staff scientist, SomaLogic

Rebecca Montange



Current Affiliation: Scientist, Sartorius Stedim North America; PhD: Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Colorado

Lora Nugent-Glandorf



Current Affiliation: R&D manager –Lasers & Electro Optics, Honeywell Quantum Solutions; PhD: Dept. of Chemistry, University of Colorado

D. Hern Paik



Current Affiliation: Sr. Lead Digital Innovation Engineer, Buckman; PhD: Dept. of Chemistry, Caltech

Yeonee Seol



Current Affiliation: Staff scientist, NIH; PhD: Dept. of Physics, University of Arizona

Ruby May Sullan



Current Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Univ of Toronto & of Physical and Environmental Sciences, Univ. of Toronto Scarborough; PhD: Dept. of Chemistry, University of Toronto

Robert Walder



Current Affiliation: Director of R&D, OptiEnz Sensors, LLC; PhD: Dept. of Physics, University of California Irvine

Hao Yu



Current Affiliation: Professor of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology; PhD: Dept. of Physics, University of Alberta

Graduate Student

Amanda Carpenter



Current Affiliation: Senior Staff Scientist, ZEISS Medical Technology; PhD thesis: Human TATA-binding protein interactions with DNA characterized by stabilized, axial optical trapping

Ashley Carter



Current Affiliation: Associate Professor of Physics, Amherst College; PhD thesis: A precision optical trapping assay: measuring the conformational dynamics of single RecBCD helicases

Allison Churnside



Current Affiliation: Research scientist, Lab 79; PhD thesis: Ultrastate atomic force microscopy for biophysics

Patrick Heenan



Current Affiliation: Scientist II, Ribometrix; PhD thesis: Improved energy landscape reconstruction and imaging of nucleic and amino acids via atomic force microscopy

Stephen Okoniewski



Current Affiliation: Senior Professional Staff, John Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab; PhD thesis: A single-molecule optical-trapping assay: Measuring E. Coli RecQ helicase motion using force-activated DNA substrates

Maasa H. Seaberg (née Martha Hosatani)



Current Affiliation: Medical Physicist, Valley Cancer Medical Center; PhD thesis: Single-molecule investigations of enzyme dynamics: RecBCD helicase and glmS ribozyme cleavage

Matthew G. W. Siewny



Current Affiliation: Process engineer, Intel; PhD thesis: Hidden dynamics in the unfolding of a membrane protein revealed by ultrafast cantilevers

Undergraduate Student

Ayush Adhikari




Toby Bollig



Current Affiliation: Toby is majoring in Engineering Phyics.

Matthew Bull



Current Affiliation: Graduate student at Stanford

Nick Dawson




George Emanuel



Current Affiliation: Graduate student at Harvard in Xiaowei Zhuang's lab

Jaevyn Faulk




Peter Lawson




Guy Margalit




Ty Miller




Elise Morgan




Duc Nguyen



Current Affiliation: Engineer, Seattle, WA

Meredith Taggart




William "John" Van Patten