Group Members:
Links:
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Department of Chemistry
Roy Black - Visiting Scientist.
Joan Bleecker - Graduate Student in Chemistry.
Awards: Molecular Biophysics Fellowship
Matt Blosser - Graduate Student in Physics.
Awards: UW Graduate School Top Scholar Award, Molecular Biophysics Fellowship (twice),
finalist 2010 Biophysical Society Student Research Achievement Award,
2012 Biophysical Society Travel Award
Ben Horst - Undergraduate Researcher.
Awards: Mary Gates Research Endowment Award, Washington Research Foundation Fellowship,
2011-12 UW Undergraduate Research Conference Travel Award
Sarah L. Keller - Professor of Chemistry.
UW Chem. Dept. page, CV (pdf file),
Associate Dean links,
Personal links
Morgan McGuinness - Summer 2011 REU Undergraduate.
Awards: NNIN REU Intern
Thomas Portet - Postdoctoral Fellow.
Awards: La Fondation Bettencourt Prix pour les Jeunes Chercheurs, UW Sackler Fellow,
Travel Award to 2011 Soft Condensed Matter Gordon Conference,
Prix Novela (Awarded by the City of Toulouse),
Prix de l'Académie des Sciences - Inscriptions et Belles Lettres de Toulouse
Cynthia Stanich - Graduate Student in Chemistry.
Awards: Honen Fellowship, Travel Award to Chemistry Education Research Graduate Student Conference,
Travel Award to 2010 Biophysical Society Conference,
2nd Place 2011 Biophysical Society Student Research Achievement Award,
Department of Chemistry 2010-2011 Outstanding Teaching Award
Keller Lab Publications and Press
Sarah Keller Teaching Page
Links to Helpful Science, Laboratory, Outreach, and Job/Negotiation Sites
Links to UW Seminars, UW User Facilities, and
UW Biophysics
Description
of how to apply to work in a lab (from Alex Merz's webpage).
Photos and Movies:
25-min summary of some of our work as of 2010 (to an audience of biochemists).
Andrea -
Clicks.
Alumni: Post-Docs, Ph.D.s, and Masters:
Aurelia -
Sculpts.
Vanquishes a wall.
Grows taller.
Bangs a drum.
Wears hats.
Marches.
Watches the clock.
Competes.
Tours Jerusalem.
Presides.
Ben H. -
Peers.
Presents.
Ben S. -
Earns Ph.D.
Finds fame in bottles by Sarah V.
Plays guitar with Mike.
Cynthia -
Presents.
Cracks up.
Wins 2nd, and
Grins at her
Prize.
Is dwarfed by vesicles and a pony.
Daniel -
Loves Langmuir troughs.
Dream Team (Cam and Jordan) -
Give thumbs up.
Feed our humor.
Jake -
Plays with dry ice.
Meets another Jacob.
Joan -
Refuses to age.
Electroforms with Thomas.
Lines up and
takes flight.
Plays third.
Runs.
Summits.
Reaches out (to Renton High).
Marcus -
Toasts.
Pokes.
Margaret -
Applies vacuum.
Mark -
Squints.
Wears hats.
Graduates.
Gets happy.
Plays it again.
Has another.
Is a cog in our machine.
Goes mad.
Upgrades to Mark II.
Commissions art.
Matt -
Ponders injera.
Wrangles samples.
Attracts a crowd.
Wears shoes.
Advances.
Lights up the lab.
Dons chemist disguise.
Avoids the eye.
Learns a new lab technique.
Reaches out (to Renton High).
Mebbie -
Stars in a TV commercial. (0.5MB Quicktime)
Morgan -
Measures.
Presents.
Rayna -
Pipettes.
Sarah K. -
Examines samples.
Confers degrees.
Attacks a wall.
Makes water.
Flames out.
Introduces a PhD.
Drops balls.
Says "kampai"!
Sarah V. -
Smiles.
Takes data.
Celebrates Ph.D. (note "Veatch World Tour" shirts
by Ben).
Thien-An -
Says "mmm".
Thomas -
Cuts a fine figure.
Ages.
Explains.
Makes it look easy.
Renews.
Shows
and Explains (to Renton High students).
Lab -
Evolves from empty ('01) to full in
2004 and
2011.
Dances with joy (.mov) for a new shutter.
Functions as a well-oiled machine (.mov).
Eats wat.
Suits up.
Honk Fest West ('11).
Achieves Neutral Buoyancy.
Stares down computers.
Undergrad research symposium ('11).
Conferences -
Asilomar Int'l Ping-Pong Championship.
Adrian,
and with Helmut.
Long day at Biophys.
Greg, mild-mannered superman,
takes flight.
Membrane Structure and Assembly Subgroup '09 Membrane Biophysics Huzzah! (.mov)
and low res version.
2010 Biophysical Society work
and play.
2011 Biophysical Society.
Jake Ashcraft -
M.S. in Chemistry, 2009.
Alumni: Undergraduate Researchers:
Current Faculty at South Seattle Community College. Awards at UW: Natt-Lingafelter Graduate Award, UW-Chemistry Travel Award, Puget Sound Society for Technical Communication Scholarship.
Adrienne Battle -
Ph.D. in Physics, 2007.
Current Faculty at Green River Community College. Awards at UW: ARCS Fellowship, Dept. of Physics Fellowship,
IGERT Award from the UW Center for Nanotechnology.
Mebbie Beattie -
M.S. in Chemistry, 2004.
Current Chemistry teacher. Awards at UW: Outstanding TA Award 2003, UW GK-12 Fellowship.
Marcus Collins -
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2006-2008.
Current Postdoctoral Fellow with Sharona Gordon.
Awards at UW: Ruth Kirschstein NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Marci DeLeon -
M.S. in Chemistry, 2002.
Current Chemist with the USDA.
Michael Halter -
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2004-2005.
Current NIST Research Scientist. Awards at UW: UW-MDITR STC Postdoctoral Travel Grant.
Aurelia Honerkamp-Smith - Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2010.
Current Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge.
Awards at UW: Natt-Lingafelter Graduate Award, Molecular Biophysics Fellowship, Nanotechnology Fellowship (twice),
2007 Biophysical Society Travel Award, Travel Award to 2007 Gordon Conference on Mechanisms of Cell Signaling (Oxford, UK),
Fellowship to the Boulder Summer School for Complex Fluids and Biological Materials,
UW Rabinovitch Fellowship, UW-Chemistry Travel Award, Best Poster at Geilo (Norway)
Advanced Study Institute Winter School on Order, Robustness and Instabilities in Complex Systems,
Travel Award to 2009 Gordon Conference on Soft Condensed Matter,
UW 2009 CNT Student Symposium Best Presentation and Travel Award, UW Research Merit Award from the Rowland Endowed Fellowship in Chemistry,
2010 Anna Louise Hoffman Award for Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Research (Iota Sigma Pi),
Poster Award at National 2010 IGERT Project Meeting,
2011 College of Arts and Sciences
Dean's Medal for Outstanding Graduate Student in Natural Sciences, 2011 UW Graduate School
Distinguished Dissertation Award.
Heena Lakhani -
M.S. in Chemistry, 2007.
Current Research Assistant at Harvard. Awards at UW: UW GK-12 Fellowship.
Ben Stottrup -
Ph.D. in Physics, 2005.
Current Assistant Professor and
Distinguished Mentor in Physics at
Augsburg College. Awards at UW: Nanotechnology Fellowship Award,
ASCB Travel Award
Sarah Veatch -
Ph.D. in Physics, 2004; Postdoctoral Fellow, 2004-2005.
Current Assistant Professor in Biophysics at the University of Michigan.
Awards at UW: Henderson Prize in Physics, Karrer Prize in
Physics, Nanotechnology Fellowship Award, BMSD Fellowship Award,
Biophysical Society SRAA Award, Travel Award NATO Biophysics Summer
School, Poster Competition NATO Biophysics Summer School, ASCB Travel
Award, Biophysical Society Travel Award.
Laniesha Cobb -
UW NSF REU Participant; Became managing director at Teach for America.
Thien-An Hua -
2010 NSF REU Researcher, pre-medical student at UW.
Kim Klonoff -
UW Chemical Sciences Research Fellow.
Andrea Lamprecht -
Undergraduate Researcher.
Jialing Li -
UW NSF REU Participant; Became graduate student at MIT.
Matthew Loo -
UW Undergrad Research Symposium Participant, Became professional engineer.
Rayna Matsuno -
Became PhD in cancer epidemiology from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
Nathan Pennock -
UW Mary Gates Undergrad Research Fellow; Became scientist at Univ Colo Denver Health Sci Center.
Jordan Starr -
"Undergraduate Dream Team" Researcher; Became medical student at Univ of Michigan.
Daniel Stevens -
Became graduate student at UCSB, then staff scientist at PATH.
Mark Stevens -
2007 & 2008 Mary Gates Scholar, UW Arts & Sciences Research Award,
Chem Dept Merck Index Award; Became graduate student at MIT.
Emily Terrell -
UW Space Grant Summer Research Program student; Became graduate student in enology at UBC.
Kathy Toreson -
Became graduate student in neuroscience at Albany Medical College.
Cameron Turtle -
NSF REU "Undergraduate Dream Team" Researcher, 2009-10 Mary Gates Scholar, 2012 Rhodes Scholar.
2011 UW Goldwater Scholar.
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Seattle, WA 98195-1700 USA
e-mail: slkeller -at- chem.washington.edu
