Paul Yager Research Group Bioengineering Department, Box 355061, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA

---

Current PY Group Personnel

Click for current listings Collaborators Postdoctoral fellows Graduate students Staff Undergraduates. P.S.: if you should be on one of the lists below and are not, or if your data can be updated, please send me e-mail

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.

Active Collaborators

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

Name	Title	Role	e-mail
David Baker, Ph.D.	Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Director, Institute of Protein Design, UW	Co-investigator on NIH Flu project	dabaker@u.washington.edu
Gaetano Borriello, Ph.D.	Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UW	Collaborator on development of quantitative chemical imaging and data processing using cellular phones and Co-investigator on DARPA MAD NAAT project	gaetano@cs.washington.edu
Gonzalo Domingo, Ph.D.	PATH, Seattle, WA	Co-investigator on NIH Flu project	gdomingo@path.org
Janet A. Englund, M.D.	Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Seattle Children's	Co-investigator on NIH Flu and DARPA MAD NAAT projects	janet.englund@seattlechildrens.org
Ferric Fang, Ph.D.	Professor, Laboratory Medicine, UW	Co-investigator on DARPA MAD NAAT project	fcfang@u.washington.edu
Elain Fu, Ph.D.	Research Assistant Professor in Bioengineering, UW	Close collaborator on all microfluidics research, Co-investigator on NIH Flu and DARPA MAD NAAT projects	efu@u.washington.edu
Barry Lutz, Ph.D.	Research Assistant Professor in Bioengineering, UW	Close collaborator on all microfluidics research, Co-investigator on NIH Flu and DARPA MAD NAAT projects	blutz@u.washington.edu
Walter Mahoney, Ph.D.	Senior Vice President, Epoch Biosciences, (Elitech Group), Bothell, WA	Co-investigator on DARPA MAD NAAT project	wmahoneyh@epochbio.com
David Moore, Ph.D.	Laboratory Manager, Membrane and Separation Science, GE Global Research Center, Niskayuna, NY	Co-investigator on NIH Flu and DARPA MAD NAAT projects	moored@research.ge.com
Patrick Stayton, Ph.D.	Professor, Department of Bioengineering, UW	PI on Smart Polymers NIH grant	stayton@u.washington.edu
Bernhard Weigl, Ph.D.	PATH, Seattle, WA	Co-investigator on DARPA MAD NAAT project	bweigl@path.org

Current Postdoctoral Fellows

Name	Role	e-mail
Farhan Ahmad, Ph.D.	Investigator on DARPA MAD NAAT project	farhan@u.washington.edu
Lisa Lafleur, Ph.D.	Investigator on DARPA MAD NAAT project	llafleur@u.washington.edu
Srinath Rangarajan, Ph.D.	Investigator on DARPA MAD NAAT project	rsrinath@u.washington.edu
Bhushan Toley, Ph.D.	Investigator on DARPA MAD NAAT project	btoley@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
Josh Buser	Ph.D., Bioengineering	DARPA MAD NAAT project	buserj@u.washington.edu	2016
Samantha Byrnes	Ph.D. Bioengineering	DARPA MAD NAAT project	sabyrnes@u.washington.edu	2016
Gina Fridley	Ph.D., Bioengineering	NIH Flu Project	gfridley@u.washington.edu	2014
Carly Holstein	Ph.D., Bioengineering	NIH Flu Project	cholst@u.washington.edu	2014
Maris Lemba	Ph.D., Bioengineering	Modeling of NA array binding and melting	lemba@u.washington.edu	2012
Manda Williams	Ph.D., Bioengineering	Formation of nanoparticles using microfluidics	mandysw@u.washington.edu	2012

Current Staff

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

Name	Role	Project	Contact Information
Peter Kauffman	Research Scientist	Several	peterck@u.washington.edu
Chelsea Musick	PY Assistant and Program Manager	Program Manager	cmusick@u.washington.edu
Jacqueline Peltier	Laboratory Technician	Several	jpeltier@uw.edu
Sujatha Ramachandran	Research Scientist	Several	sujathar@u.washington.edu

Current Undergraduate Capstone Students

Note that this group changes rapidly and is more likely than other sections to be out of date.

Name	Department	Project	e-mail
Lucas Allpress	Bioengineering	NIH Flu project	lallpres@u.washington.edu
George Kimpel	Bioengineering	DARPA MAD NAAT project	kimpelg@u.washington.edu