Professor James E. Hutchison
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Email: hutch@oregon.uoregon.edu

Dr. Robert Gilbertson
Email: rgilbert@darkwing.uoregon.edu

 
Scott Reed is currently working on several projects, including peptide-assembly, nanoparticles, and collaborative projects with the Saks, Keana, and Matthews labs. Reed received a GAANN grant last year that helped fund his work on the new Green Chemistry Lab. He helped test experiments for the lab and co-wrote an article that was recently accepted for publication by the Journal of Chemical Education. He's been in the Hutch lab since the fall of 1996. He received his BA at Bard College in New York. He plans to look for a postdoc position when he leaves Oregon and eventually get a job in academics.
Email: sreed@oregon.uoregon.edu
 
Mary Schmidt works on characterizing functionalized gold nanoparticles. Schmidt transfered from the University of Florida in the spring of 1999 and has been in the Hutch Lab ever since. She received her BS from the University of Portland. Mary hasn't decided what she'll do once she receives her degree, but she is considering a career in industry.
Email: mary@oregon.uoregon.edu
 
Ben Straw is working on the polybithiophene project and has been in the Hutch lab since the fall of 1997. Presently, he's developing methods for formation of a new class of regioregular poly(4-substituted-2,2'bithiophene)s. He received his master's degree in '98 and plans to take a 9-month leave of absence beginning in January.
Email: bstraw@darkwing.uoregon.edu
 
Marvin Warner is researching the rational arrangement of gold nanoparticles. Through functional group assembly and polymeric templating, he hopes to help organize the building blocks (gold nanoparticles) or nanoelectronic assemblies into a form that will eventually be used to manufacture useful devices. Warner is from Ashland, Kentucky and received his bachelor's from the University of Kentucky. He has been in the Hutch Lab spring 1999. Warner plans to work for industry when he graduates.
Email: mgwarn00@darkwing.uoregon.edu

 

 
Anna Shope is a philosophy major from Seattle who plans to go to medical school when she graduates. Currently, she is working to synthesize tetra-ethylene glycol substituted bithiophene polymer as part of the polymer project. Anna joined the Hutch Lab in the spring of 1999.
Email: ashope@gladstone.uoregon.edu
 
Walter Weare joined the Hutch Lab in September, 1998. He is working on the development of new syntheses of phosphine-stabilized nanoparticles, as well as functionalizing nanoparticles with novel thiol ligands. A general science major from Santa Rita, Guam, Weare plans to return home after graduation and then attend graduate school.
Email: wwweare@gladstone.uoregon.edu

Dr. Robert Clegg (3/95-5/99) PhD.
Synthesized, assembled and characterized a family of peptide containing monolayers on gold electrode surfaces. Investigated the structure and stability of these two-dimensional peptide assemblies and studied electron transfer kinetics through these monolayers.
Current Position: Postdoctoral Associate, California Institute of Technology
Email: bclegg@its.caltech.edu
 
Dr. Leif Brown (6/94-5/99) PhD.
Discovered ligand exchange reactions of gold nanoparticles leading to new two families of well-defined, functionalized gold nanoparticles. Prepared and structurally characterized low-dimensional assemblies of these nanoparticles.
Current Position: Organic Lab Instructor, University of Oregon
Email: lbrown@darkwing.uoregon.edu
 
Athena Klock (6/98 – 8/99) Undergraduate
Synthesis of peptide-containing alkanethiols as precursors to peptide monolayers.
Current Position: Graduate Student, University of Washington
 
Rachel Smith (6/97-8/99) Undergraduate
Synthesis of peptide-containing alkanethiol compounds, their assembly on gold surfaces, and stability measurements of those assemblies
Current Position: Graduate Student, Penn State University
 
Dr. Laura I. Clarke (9/98-6/99)
Electrical characterization of functionalized gold nanoparticles.
Current Position: Postdoctoral Assoc., University of Colorado, Boulder.
Email: lclarke@stripe.colorado.edu
 
Jesse Dambacher (6/98-12/98) Undergraduate
Synthesis of mono-substituted bithiophenes.
 
Jana Mooster (6/97-9/98) Undergraduate
Synthesis and chemical assembly of functionalized gold nanoparticles
Current Position: Dahlquist Lab, University of Oregon
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~janalee
 
Brice Calkins (6/98-9/98) Summer REU student
Investigated biphasic ligand exchange reactions of gold nanoparticles.
 
Dr. Seth Rasmussen (3/95-9/97)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, North Dakota State University
http://www.chem.ndsu.nodak.edu/faculty/rasmussen.html
Email: seth_rasmussen@ndsu.nodak.edu

Kenichi Izawa (9/95-5/97) -Fuji-Silisiya, Japan. Visiting Scholar

Mary K. Oltman (6/95-6/97)
Synthesis of functionalized crown ether compounds and bioactive compounds to probe the structure/function of ion channels
Current Position: Lab Tech, Oregon Health Sciences University
 
Jamieson A. Rear (9/96-3/97)
Synthesis of peptide-containing alkanethiol compounds.
 
Bridgette Barron (4/96-8/97) Undergraduate
Synthesis of peptide-containing alkanethiol compounds.
 
Thomas J. Walsh (12/94-6/96)Undergraduate
Current Position: Northwestern University School of Medicine
 
Karolina A. Wilczynska (9/95-8/96) Undergraduate
Current Position: Medical Student in Poland
 
Jason C. Pickens (6/95-12/96) Undergraduate
Synthesis and polymerization of monosubstituted bithiophenes.
Current Position: Graduate student, University of Washington
 
Michael J. Williams (MS, 9/95) Master's Student
Synthetic investigations of conjugated polymers by template polymerization methods.
Current Position: works for Tomah3 Products, Inc.
E-mail: mjwilliams@tomah3.com
 
Tommy Thompson (9/94-6/95) Undergraduate
Synthetic investigations on crown ether building blocks for fabrication of supermolecular ion channels.
Current Position: graduate school
 
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hutch@oregon.uoregon.edu
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