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N
icholas Adams received a B.S. in biology from Dixie State College of Utah in 2009. He is a Ph.D. candidate in the Chemical and Physical Biology Program at Vanderbilt University and has been awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Under the direction of David Wright and Frederick Haselton, his doctoral thesis involves studies on the development of methods for the sensitive and specific detection of pathogen biomarkers. His research interests include functional nucleic acids, nanotechnology, and the development of biosensors for diagnostic applications. Stephen Jackson obtained his B.A. in chemistry from Hendrix College in 2008. He is currently studying for a Ph.D. in chemistry under the guidance of Professor David W. Wright at Vanderbilt University. His research interests involve the use of gold nanoparticles for the imaging of mRNA in live cells. Frederick Haselton received a B.A. in mathematics from Haverford College in Haverford, PA and a Ph.D. in bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. He did postdoctoral studies at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN in pulmonary medicine before joining the faculty of the Department of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in 1983. In 1989, he moved to the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University, where he is currently a professor of biomedical engineering. He is a member of AIMBE. His research focuses on the creation of novel technologies for application to biomedical research and medicine. David Wright (b. 1965) attended Tulane University in New Orleans, LA, where he received a B.S. in chemistry and a B.A. in classical languages and ancient history. He pursued his graduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA under the supervision of Prof. William. H. OrmeJohnson, focused on understanding the structure and function of the FeMo-cofactor of the enzyme nitrogenase. He undertook postdoctoral studies in the laboratory of Prof. William. H. Armstrong. After beginning his academic career at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA, David joined the faculty of Vanderbilt University in 2001, where he is currently an associate professor of chemistry. He was named a Kavli fellow in 2011 by the Kavli Foundation and presented at the 2011 Frontiers of Science program. His research focus spans areas ranging from heme detoxification in hemophagous parasitic infectious diseases to understanding the biomineralization of novel materials in biological systems to developing unique tools and diagnostics for intracellular imaging.
Published: December 21, 2011 r 2011 American Chemical Society
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