Over the years, many Undergraduate students have worked in our lab as summer interns, research assistants
or in programs sponsored by e.g. the NSF, all with the goal of gaining valuable hands-on research experience.
Our goal is to integrate undergraduate students and interns into our multidisciplinary teams comprised of physics, chemistry,
biology, and materials science students and postdocs and thus educate them in methods which enable discovering nature's
building blocks and rules for assembling these blocks in distinct shapes and sizes for particular functions. The learned concepts
can be applied in the development of advanced nanoscale materials for applications in electronic, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries.
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Daniel Orosco Undergraduate senior in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Research: Nucleic acid delivery: Studying the complexation of DNA, siRNA and short DNA with a library of novel cationic lipids. |
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Sophia Rudorf Undergraduate exchange student Research: Studied the interactions between DNA molecules adsorbed on supported lipid bilayers with tunable membrane charge density using fluorescence microscopy and other techniques. |
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Katelyn Cahill Thompson Undergraduate sophomore in Biomedical Engineering Research: Self-assembly of neurofilament (NF) subunits in vitro under various solution conditions. More (Poster Presentation PDF, 726 K) |
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Holger Hesse Physics exchange Diploma (Masters) graduate student Research: Studying the structure and phase behavior of Neurofilaments, which stabilize axon and dendrite neuronal processes. |
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Tuo (Thomas) Huang Undergraduate in Physics Research: Computer Simulation of X-ray propagation in SAXS facilities. More |
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Humphrey Kariuki High school teacher in Oxnard, California Research: Studied the binding properties of the protein tau to its substrate microtubule. |
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Heike Schirmer Physics exchange Diploma (Masters) graduate student |
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Lisa Boyer Science Department Head at Cuyama Valley High School (New Cuyama, CA) Research: Lipid-DNA complexes and their applications in gene delivery |
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Nataly Belman Exchange graduate student |
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Kelsey Gorter From: Allan Hancock Community College / UCSB |
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J. Abby Oehler Allan Hancock Community College / UCSB |
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Danielle Aranda Santa Barbara High School teacher (San Marcos High School) Research: Studied how actin filaments which make up the skeleton of cells arrange themselves for cell functions such as sticking, crawling, and growing (cell division) |
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Tracy MacDonough From: Hancock Community College |
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Claire Carey AP Biology Teacher, Santa Barbara High School |
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Amanda Jamieson From: Carlton College Research/ Training: Use of state-of-the-art video-enhanced optical microscopy |
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Tammy Luoh Undergraduate in Biochemistry Research: Effect of serum on gene delivery via cationic lipid. More |
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Helen Chang Undergraduate in Cell Biology and Biochemistry Research: Using fluorescence microscopy to understand behavior of cationic lipid/DNA complexes for gene delivery. More |
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Daisuke Chihara Undergraduate in Molecular Biology Research: Using GFP to Determine the Transfection Effeciency and Mechanism of DNA Uptake into HeLa Cells. More |
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Roshni George Undergraduate in Biochemistry Research: Investigating the Time Dependence of Transfection for use in Gene Therapy; Effect of various concentrations of helper lipids in DNA transfection efficiency. More |
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Bahman Rostama Undergraduate in Biology Research: Microinjection Techniques for Gene Therapy |
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David Samuel Undergraduate in Biology Research: Direct Imaging of Gene Carrier Complexes in Animal Cells; GFP and Microinjection for Characterization of Cationic Liposome Complexes |
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Kimberly Cunningham Undergraduate in Biology Research: Investigating the Effects of Lipid Composition and Lipid/DNA Ratios on Transfection Rate for Use in Gene Therapy |
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Genevieve Anderson Faculty Member, Natural Sciences Research: Transfection of cells with cationic liposomes. More |
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Ian Spradlin Now at Micro Photonics, Pennsylvenia. |
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