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Professor Choi is spending a 2 year sabbatical in the labs beginning January 2008. He is an associate Professor in the Department of Metal and Materials Engineering at the Kangnung National University, in South Korea. Prof. Choi is performing research in electronic, environmental, and medical applications of nanotube and nanoporous materials.

Sam is visiting the lab on loan from the Japan Patent Office from July 2008-June 2009. His project involves the thermal response of porous Si-based vapor sensors.

Eddie is a graduate student with Professor Won-Youl Choi at the Department of Metal and Materials Engineering at the Kangnung National University, in South Korea. He is visiting the lab from August, 2008 until January, 2010. He is performing research on biosensors using TiO2 nanotubes.

Joe joined the Sailor group in 2008. He received a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Purdue in 2007. His research interests include medical applications of nanotechnology, nanoscale material synthesis, and surface chemistry. His current project involves engineering multifunctional nanoparticles for the delivery of chemotherapeutic agents.

Jenny joined the Sailor group in 2008. She received a PhD in Materials Science from UC Santa Barbara. Her research interests include medical applications of porous Si, Her project involves loading and release studies on proteins from porous Si nanostructures.

Sara joined the Sailor group in Fall 2003, and started as a post-doc in Winter, 2009. Her research project involves construction of a "Smart Petri Dish" --integrating live cells with porous Si photonic crystals for biosensing applications. She is developing the chemistry and materials science to place microscopic sensor pads under live cells and cell colonies in order to create a real-time tissue-based biosensor.

Luo joined the Sailor research group in January 2006. He received his B.S. degree from Peking University. His project involves the study of luminescent porous silicon photonic crystals, and applications of particles containing spectral bar-codes to various biological assays.

Anne joined the Sailor group in 2004. She graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry from Ithaca College in 2003 where her research used kinetic studies to examine the effects of mixed solvents on the elimination and exchange reactions of halogenated phenethyl compounds. She spent the summers of 2001 and 2002 at the Universiteit Leiden, the Netherlands working on this kinetics study. Her project involves using porous silicon "smart dust" photonic crystals for detection of pollutants in air and methane in seawater. Her problem focuses on minimizing analyte interference and improving specificity in her photonic materials.

Brian joined the Sailor group in 2005. His project involves improving the specificity of porous silicon photonic crystal sensors by incorporating specific non-biological recognition elements and concentrators into the materials.

Jennifer joined the Sailor group as a rotation student from Bioengineering in Sept, 2005. Her Ph.D. project involves the preparation and use of nanostructured microparticles for cancer therapeutics and diagnostics. She is currently focusing on the treatment of ovarian cancer, in collaboration with Prof. Stephen Howell in the UCSD Cancer Center.

Michelle joined the Sailor group as a rotation student from Bioengineering in June, 2006. Her project involves the design, construction, and use of encoded nanostructured microparticles. Her graduate student mentor is Shawn Meade, and her project represents a collaboration with Cellular Bioengineering, inc.

Elizabeth joined the Sailor group as a rotation student from the Bioengineering department in the summer of 2006. Her Ph.D. project involves the use of nanostructured microparticles in high-throughput bioassays.

Adrian is a Ph.D. student in the department of Chemistry and Biochemistry who began his studies in the Sailor group in Jan 2007. He holds a BS degree in Chemistry from the University of Arizona. His project involves the preparation and characterization of gas vapor sensors based on graded porous photonic crystals, in collaboration with our industrial partners at AVAAK, inc. His graduate student mentors are Anne Ruminski and Brian King.

Chiachen joined the Sailor group in Fall 2007 as a Ph.D. student in the Materials Science and Engineering program. Her research project involves construction of a "Smart Petri Dish" --integrating live cells with porous Si photonic crystals for biosensing applications. She is currently working with graduate student mentor Sara Alvarez.

Travis joined the Sailor Group in the Summer 2008, as a Ph.D. student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He holds a BA degree in Physics from UC Berkeley. His project involves creating specific and selective sensors for volatile organic compounds using porous silicon photonic crystals. These sensors will be used as portable environmental sensors in collaboration with our industrial partners at Elintrix, Inc. His graduate student mentors are Adrian Garcia Sega and Brian King.

Joel joined the Sailor Group in the Summer 2008, as a Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.  His research interests involve applications for the molecular size exclusion properties of porous Si crystals.  His current project is the adaptation of a Si pore gradient as a MALDI mass spectrometry matrix for isolation and identification of small peptides from a complex protein mixture.  This work is in colaboration with the proteomics division of the Burnham Insititue.  His graduate student mentors are Manuel Orosco and Michelle Chen.

Maggie joined the lab in Summer 2008. She is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Her research project involves sensing of airborne pollutants using porous Si photonic crystals. Her graduate student mentor is Adrian Garcia Sega.

Alex is a UCSD Chemistry major who joined the Sailor group in Summer 2008. His graduate student mentor is Elizabeth Wu. His project involves the study of controlled loading, trapping, and release of drugs from porous Si.

Matthew is a UCSD Chemistry major who joined the Sailor group in the summer of 2007. His mentor is Adrian Garcia Sega. He works on low power sensors for chemical toxins and pollutants using porous Si-based photonic crystals.

Sung-Jun "June" Min joined the Sailor research group in spring of 2008. He is currently working on developing new strategy to increase the efficacy of tumor targeting with nanoparticles and targeting ligands. His graduate student mentor is Joe Park.

Sarah is an undergraduate student at Stanford University. Sarah has worked in the Sailor group during the summers of 2006, 2007, and 2008, while a Westview High School student. She is currently working on a project for the San Diego Science Festival, constructing an instructional kit involving nanosensors for environmental pollutants. The sensor elements consist of porous Si photonic crystals.

Anna is a high school student who worked in the Sailor group in the summer of 2007. She is shown with the robot she built for the LEGO robotics challenge. With her fellow team members, Anna successfully integrated a chemical-sensing chip into the robot. The robot sounded an alarm when it encountered vapors from a toxic chemical known as a volatile organic compound (VOC). She is making improvements in response and sensitivity to her robot this summer. Her graduate mentor is Anne Ruminski.