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Michelle joined the lab as a visiting scholar from Spinnaker Biosciences in August, 2011.

Nobuhiro is an expert in liposomal systems and medicinal chemistry from the Medicinal Chemistry Research Laboratories of Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd in Japan. He is visiting the labs from July 2011 until February 2013, working with Luo Gu on diagnostic and therapeutic systems that use nanostructured porous silicon nanoparticles.

Dario is a PhD student at the Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca Metrologica in Turin, Italy who is visiting the lab from Sept 2011 until June 2012. He is working with Vinh Diep and Chia-Chen Wu on electrically addressable optical biosensors.

Hailong is a graduate student in the School of Chemical Engineering & Technology at the Harbin Institute of Technology in Harbin, China. He is visiting our lab from September, 2011 to September, 2013. His studies are focused on biomedical applications of upconverting phosphors in nanophase silicon-based materials.

James joined the lab as a visiting scholar from Vesta Nanotechnologies, LLC in March, 2012.

Matt joined the Sailor group in 2008. He received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Albena Ivanisevic at Purdue University in 2007. His thesis title was "Development and properties of DNA Templated one-dimensional magnetic nanoparticle chains." His research interests include medical applications of nanotechnology, nanoscale material synthesis, and surface chemistry. His project at UCSD involves the design and synthesis of multifunctional magnetic nanoparticles for diagnostic and therapeutic medical applications.

Alejandra received her PhD in Chemistry (Summa cum laude) with Prof. María Vallet-Regí at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain and joined the lab in October, 2011. She is working on porous Si-based photonic materials for drug delivery, in a collaborative project with Drs Lingyun Cheng and William R. Freeman in the UCSD Jacobs Retina Center.

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 nanoparticles. His thesis work emphasizes in-vitro and in-vivo imaging, and nano-enabled biological assays.

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.

Chia-chen joined the Sailor group in Fall 2007 as a Ph.D. student in the Materials Science and Engineering program. Her research project involves the development of spatially resolved methods to modify porous Si photonic crystals for biosensing applications.

Joel joined the Sailor Group in the Summer 2008, as a Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.  His thesis project involves synthesizing targeted magnetic nanoparticles to diagnose and treat myocardial infarction in collaboration with co-advisor Karen Christman in the Department of Bioengineering. These particles are designed to utilize a targeting peptide to accumulate inthe region of damaged tissue for diagnostic T1 or T2 enhanced MR imaging and drug delivery.  Joel is supported by the UCSD Interfaces graduate training program through the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Bioengineering Research Partnership through the National Institute of Health.

Vinh M. Diep
Phone: (858) 534-8945
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Office: 4225 Pacific Hall

Vinh is a UCSD nanoengineering major (class of 2013) who joined the Sailor group in Spring 2010. His project involves constructing and characterizing porous Si optical films that contain defined reservoirs for trapping, storing, and detecting proteins such as insulin.

Jason Chen
Phone: (858) 534-8945
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Office: 4225 Pacific Hall

Jason is a fourth year biochemistry major (class of 2012). He joined the Sailor group in Fall 2011, and his graduate student mentor is Joel Grondek. His research project involves synthesizing iron oxide nanoparticles and screening them for chemical and physical characteristics that could assist in the treatment of myocardial infarction

Pule Wang
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Office: 4225 Pacific Hall

Pule is a Thurgood Marshall College chemical engineering major (class of 2015). He joined the lab in Winterr 2011. He is working on drug delivery with porous SiO2 microparticles. His post-doctoral mentor is Alejandra Nieto Pena.

Ruoshi "Serena" Yan
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Office: 4225 Pacific Hall

Serena is a biochemistry major (class of 2013). She joined the lab in Fall 2011, and her graduate student mentor is Chia-Chen Wu. Her research project is "Nano-Vials for Delivery of anthelmintic drugs," a collaboration with Professor Raffi Aroian in the UCSD Department of Biology.

Rhiannon Kennard
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Office: 4225 Pacific Hall

Rhiannon is a Revelle College chemistry major (class of 2015). She joined the lab in Spring 2012. She is making porous Si-based photonic crystals, developing the chemistry to deposit high surface area carbon within the porous nanostructure, and testing her materials as chemical microsensors. Her graduate student mentor is Chia-Chen Wu.

Winnie Huang
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Office: 4225 Pacific Hall

Winnie is a Warren College pharmacological chemistry major (class of 2015). She joined the lab in Spring 2012. She is chacacterizing the optical properties of photonic crystals made from porous Si, on a collaborative project with Giuseppe Barillaro at the University of Pisa. Her post-doctoral mentor is Alejandra Nieto Pena.

Alyssa is a La Costa Canyon High School student from Carlsbad, CA who joined the group in Summer, 2010. Her graduate student mentor is Chia-chen Wu, and she is working on a collaborative project with Prof Seth Cohen, using porous Si photonic crystals as hosts for metal organic frameworks (MOFs).