Paul Yager Research Group Bioengineering Department, Box 352255, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA

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PY Group Alumni

Below are listed former graduate student, former postdoctoral fellows, and former undergraduate trainees

P.S.: if you should be on this list and are not, or if your data can be updated, please send me e-mail

Former Graduate Students

The following is an incomplete listing of former students who have received degrees while working in the laboratory at UW since 1987.

Name	Degree, Year	Thesis Title	Current Address
Susan B. Abrams	Ph.D., 1994, Bioengineering	Development of an optical fiber fluorescence sensor for general anesthetics based on lipid phase transitions	Williamstown, MA susan.abrams@williams.edu
Douglas D. Archibald	Ph.D., 1990, Chemistry	Structural studies of high-aspect-ratio self-assembled lipid microstructures with the use of microscopy and FT-NIR-Raman spectroscopy	Department of Crop & Soil Science Department Penn State University University Park, PA dda10@psu.edu http://www.agronomy.psu.edu/people/faculty/archibaldd.html
David A. Basiji	M.S.E., 1992, Bioengineering	Vowel extraction from electroencephalograms using neural networks	Chief Technology Officer, Amnis Corporation, Seattle, WA basiji@amnis.com
Catherine R. Cabrera	Ph.D., 2002, Bioengineering	Microfluidic electrochemical flow cells: design, fabrication, and characterization	MIT Lincoln Laboratory, cabrera@ll.mit.edu
Kimberly A. Carlson (neé Trabbic)	Ph.D., 1999, Bioengineering	The structure and spinning of fibroin proteins.	Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago ktiggercarlson@yahoo.com
Paul Carlson	Ph.D., 1999, Bioengineering	Study of self-assembling complex high ratio lipid microstructures (CHARMs) for delivery of therapeutic agents	Deceased, 2001; contact Kimberly Carlson
Hugh Chang	M.S.E., 2005, Bioengineering	Development of a confocal detector for spatially distributed fluorescence in microchannels	President, Axon Consulting, LLC hughchang@msn.com
Jennifer O. Foley	Ph.D., 2007, Bioengineering	Design and development of surface plasmon resonance imaging microfluidic assays	Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania jennofoley@gmail.com
Elena Garcia	Ph.D., 2006, Bioengineering	Reagent storage and transport in microfluidic systems for clinical diagnostic and drug discovery purposes	Centocor, San Diego, CA garciaelena1@gmail.com
Anson V. Hatch	Ph.D., 2004. Bioengineering	Diffusion based analysis of molecular binding reactions in microfluidic devices	Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA (ahatch@sandia.gov)
Kenneth Hawkins	Ph.D., 2007, Bioengineering	Designing the diffusion immunoassay (DIA) -- how properties of the analyte affect DIA performance	NanoString, Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA khawkins@nanostring.com
Kristen M. Lloyd Helton	Ph.D., 2008, Bioengineering	Sample preconditioning of saliva for the measurement of small analytes in a microfluidic biosensor	klloyd33@u.washington.edu
Andrew Kamholz	Ph.D., 2001, Bioengineering	Quantitative analysis of diffusion and chemical reaction in pressure-driven microfluidic channels	President, Edge Embossing LLC, Boston, MA andrew.kamholz@edge-embossing.com
Jason Li	M.S.E., 2006, Bioengineering	Assembly of gene delivery nanoparticles using rapid microfluidic mixing	jayli33@gmail.com
Hillary L. MacDonald	M.S.E.E., 1993, Electrical Engineering	The design and investigation of long pathlength sample cells for use in remote Raman spectroscopic chemical sensing	Chair, Women in Optics, SPIE, 2002-2004
Sabina Merlo	M.S.E, 1989, Bioengineering	Development of a fluorescence-based fiber optic sensor for detection of general anesthetics	Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy merlo@ele.unipv.it
Matthew Munson	Ph.D., 2004, Bioengineering	Controlling mass transport in microfluidic channels	Postdoctoral Fellow, NIST, Rockville, MD munson1027@yahoo.com
Catherine Morgan	Ph.D., 1999, Bioengineering	A microfabricated CO2 sensor	ISSYS, Ypsilanti, MI (new e-mail address soon) nmmorgans@uswestmail
Thor D. Osborn	Ph.D., 1994, Bioengineering	Development of a mass producible lipid bilayer support device	Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM tdosbor@sandia.gov
Julie Parnell	Ph.D., 1997, Bioengineering	Development of a Raman spectroscopy-based polymeric sensor for general anesthetics	Product Development Specialist, Olympic Medical, Seattle, WA juliep@olymed.com
Jennifer J. Person	M.S.E., 1990, Bioengineering	Toward the development of an ion channel-based biosensor: addressing the reproducibility of "tip dip" bilayer studies	Beaverton, OR
Eric Schilling	M.S.E.,2001, Bioengineering	Mixing and modeling	Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN eric.a.schilling@medtronic.com
Xue Shen (David) Wu	Ph.D., 1992, Bioengineering (co-advisor, Allan Hoffman)	Synthesis of hydrogel-liposome composites and their application to controlled release of active agents	Long Island, NY

Former Postdoctoral Fellows

The following is an incomplete listing of postdoctoral fellows who have been trained in the Yager lab at UW.

Name	Project	Current Contact
Sigma R. Alpha, M.D.	polymerizable surfactant systems	?
Eric Altendorf, Ph.D.	microfluidic flow cytometry	Microencoder, Inc. erica@microen.com
Mark Blaylock, Ph.D.	NIDCR salivary diagnostic project	markblaylock@hotmail.com
James P. Brody, Ph.D.	microfluidic device development and theory	UC Irvine, Dept. of Bioengineering jpbrody@uci.edu
John S. Chappell, Ph.D.	lipid tubule theory and practice	?
Lai-Kwan Chau, Ph.D.	microfluidic analytical chemical devices	National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan chelkc@ccunix.ccu.edu.tw
Shelli Dennis, Ph.D.	DARPA MicroFlumes project, collaboration with A. Folch	js3dennis@aol.com
Thayne Edwards, Ph.D	Salivary diagnostic immunoassay development	Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM tledwar@sandia.gov
Alex Goldstein, Ph.D.	Development of lipid based CHARM drug delivery systems	Syntrix Biosystems, agoldstein@syntrixbio.com
Mark Holl, Ph.D.	microfluidic device development	Department of Electrical Engineering, UW, holl@u.washington.edu
Turgut Fettah Kosar, Ph.D.	DxBox Project (Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)	Harvard University Center for Nanoscale Systems fkosar@u.washington.edu
Hyun Ho Lee, Ph.D.	NASA Development of a DNA-Based Detector Array for Microbial Monitoring of the ISS Water System	Department of Chemical Engineering,: Myongji University, Korea hyunho@mju.ac.kr
Anatolyi Lukyanov, Ph.D.	development of CHARMs for drug delivery	Microplumbers Microsciences LLC alukyanov@neu.edu
Katerina Macounova, Ph.D.	microfluidic device development	Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Prague, Czech Republic macounova@h-inst.cas.cz
Thor D. Osborn, Ph.D.	microfluidic device development	Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM tdosbor@sandia.gov
Dong Qin, Ph.D.	microfluidic device development	Center for Nanotechnology, UW, Seattle, WA dqin@u.washington.edu
Bernhard H. Weigl, Ph.D.	microfluidic device development	Program for Appropriate Technologies in Health, Seattle, WA bweigl@path.org
CaiCai Wu, Ph.D.	microfluidic device development	Pacific Biometrics, Inc., Seattle, WA caicaiwu@hotmail.com

Former Undergraduate Trainees

This is a new category based on the recent development of a full Bioengineering undergraduate program in our department. The following students worked on their Senior Capstone Projects in the Yager Lab.

Name	Project	Current Contact
Steven Asplund	Microfluidic valve and pump design	asplund@gmail.com
Richard Baldwin	Microfluidic device design and fabrication	UW School of Dentistry rrb77@u.washington.edu
Michael Look	Gates DxBox Project	Yale University Department of Biomedical Engineering lookmichael@hotmail.com
Afshin Mashadi-Hossein	Gates DxBox Project	Yager group staff afshinh@u.washington.edu
Amanda Patterson	Salivary Diagnostics	Philips Medical patterson.ab@gmail.com
Mark Steedman	Diffusion Immunoassay	UC Berkeley Department of Bioengineering steedman@u.washington.edu
Karman Tandon	Gates DxBox Project	UW School of Medicine ktandon@u.washington.edu
Kristen Trett	Gates DxBox Project	University of Wisconsin Department of Bioengineering kjt4@u.washington.edu

Archival Photos

Yager Group, Spring, 2002. From left to right: Jennifer Foley, Kenneth Hawkins, Hugh Chang, Catherine Cabrera, Anson Hatch, Paul Yager, Jennifer Glasco, Matt Munson, Elena Garcia, Elain Fu, Jason Li, Ellen Rowland, Rahber Thariani (OK, so it's not quite current...we'll get another photo up there shortly!)