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

Current PY Group Personnel

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Part of the Yager Group, Summer picnic 2008

From left to right: Kristen Helton (w. child), Manda Williams, Sujatha Ramachandran, Rahber Thariani, Lisa Lafleur, Katherine McKenenzie, Peter Kauffman, Lauren Shepherd, Neil Geisler, Barry Lutz, Jennifer Osborn, Maris Lemba, Elain Fu, Paul Yager, Chelsea Musick, Paolo Spicar-Mihalic.

Missing: Melissa Hasenbank, Michael Nash, Kjell Nelson, Dean Stevens, Gayathri Subramanian, Jone Vrhel, et al.


Collaborators

The following are colleagues with whom the Yager group is now directly affiliated and collaborating.

Name
Title
Role
e-mail
Fred Battrell, Ph.D. Vice President, Micronics, Inc. Co-investigator on Grand Challenge project, collaborator on NIAID-funded Enteric Pathogens project fbattrell@micronics.net

Bruce Finlayson, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering

Collaborator on microfluidic computational f'luid dynamic modeling,

finlayson@cheme.washington.edu

Kenneth J. Longmuir, Ph.D. Associate Professor, U. C. Irvine Collaborator on development of microfluidic systems for creation of nanoparticulate systems for gene therapeutics longmuir@uci.edu
Walter Mahoney, Ph.D. Senior Vice President, Nanogen, Inc. Co-investigator on Grand Challenge project wmahoneyh@nanogen.com

Patrick Stayton, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Bioengineering

Co-investigator on Grand Challenge project

stayton@u.washington.edu

Bernhard H. Weigl, Ph.D. PATH, Seattle, WA PI of NIAID-funded Enteric Pathogens project, co-investigator on Grand Challenge project bweigl@path.org


Current Postdoctoral Fellows and Research Scientists

Name
Role
e-mail
Elain Fu, Ph.D. Research Engineer/Scientist Senior. Group management, salivary diagnosti immunoassay development efu@u.washington.edu
Barry Lutz, Ph.D. Research Engineer/Scientist Senior. Group management, technical lead on Grand Challenge project, mirofluidics research blutz@u.washington.edu

Kjell Nelson, Ph.D.

Salivary diagnostic immunoassay development

kjell@u.washington.edu


Current Graduate Students

The following are graduates students currently pursuing degrees with Yager as their primary advisor. See project listings for additional students affiliated with other professors on joint projects.

Name
Degree Program
Project
e-mail
Estimated (!) Graduation
Gayathri Balasubramanian Ph.D., Bioengineering DxBox Project gaya3@u.washington.edu
2010
Neil Geisler Ph.D., Bioengineering Salivary diagnostic immunoassays geislern@u.washington.edu
2008

Melissa Hasenbank

Ph.D., Bioengineering

Dry reagent printing & immunoassays

hasenm@u.washington.edu
2008
Lisa Lafleur Ph.D., EE Monitoring of bacterial load of ISS water supply llafleur@u.washington.edu
2009
Maris Lemba Ph.D., Bioengineering Modeling of processes in SPR bioassays lemba@u.washington.edu
2007
Katherine McKenzie Ph.D, Bioengineering DxBox Project kmckenz@u.washington.edu
2009
Lauren Shepherd Ph.D., Bioengineering Microeddies lbshelby@u.washington.edu
2009

Paolo Spicar-Mihalic

Ph.D., Chemistry

SUWA microfluidic bioassays

paolosm@u.washington.edu
2007
Dean Stevens Ph.D., Bioengineering DxBox Project yasuo@u.washington.edu
2009

Rahber Thariani

Ph.D., Bioengineering

SPR and fluorescence imaging

thariani@u.washington.edu
2007
Jone Vrhel M.M.E. Microfluidic modeling jsvrhel@comcast.net
2008
Manda Williams Ph.D., Bioengineering Formation of nanoparticles using microfluidics mandysw@u.washington.edu
2008


Current Staff

The following are scientific and administrative staff within the Yager group.

Name
Role
Project
Contact Information
Chelsea Musick PY Assistant and Program Manager Program Manager cmusick@u.washington.edu
Benedict Yuen-Fui Hui Technician Salivary Diagnostics benhui@u.washington.edu

Sujatha Ramachandran

Research Scientist

NIAID Enteric Pathogen Detection

sujathar@u.washington.edu


Current Undergraduates

Note that this group changes rapidly and is more likely that other sections to be out of date.
Name
Department
Project
e-mail
Karman Tandon Bioengineering Salivary Diagnostics ktandon@u.washington.edu


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