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CHRISTY HAYNES
Current Position. Ph.D. student, Department of Mechnical Engineering, University of Michigan (Advisor: Professor Katsuo Kurabayashi). Education. B.S., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea and M.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. Nonscientific Interests. Traveling, listening to music, and working out. The interest of my research is the application of advanced biosensing platforms for biological and clinical problems. My doctoral work focuses on developing label-free plasmonic biosensors for quantifying cytokine biomarkers to study immune responses under given immune conditions. To study the dynamic and complex nature of immune function, the detection platform should provide rapid, highly sensitive, and multiplexed detection capabilities. Our group recently developed a nanoparticle-based plasmonic biosensor integrated with microfluidics to provide such a platform. With this platform, we demonstrated fine-time course temporal profile measurement of secreted cytokines, which is discussed in our article in the current issue. We envision that the developed platform holds significant promise to open ways for point-of-care applications in clinical settings. (Read Author’s article; DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.6b00240).
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Current Position. Elmore H. Northey Professor of Chemistry, Associate Head of University of Minnesota Department of Chemistry. Education. B.A., Macalester College, Ph.D., Northwestern University and postdoctoral research fellowship, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. Nonscientific Interests. Mom to two young children, running, urban scavenger hunts, and travel. The Haynes group focuses on applications of analytical chemistry in the fields of immunology and toxicology, with much expertise in the area of single cell analysis. One major area of interest is nanotoxicologyan emerging field investigating the biological and ecological impacts of engineered nanomaterials. Another major focus in the group is on studying fundamental properties of cells involved in inflammation. In fact, the Haynes group has performed the first ever real-time single blood platelet measurements, examining the chemical messenger molecules that platelets secrete upon stimulation. A third major area of interest is the development and application of electrochemical and spectroscopic sensors particularly to answer pressing bioanalytical questions. (Read Haynes’ letter; DOI: 10.1021/ acssensors.6b00209).
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The editorial board serves to advise and support our editorial team with expert opinions regarding challenging editorial decisions and sometimes providing additional reviews or adjudicating conflicting reviewer reports. We also call upon our editorial board to suggest ways to help promote the high quality we are striving for at ACS Sensors. Several of our board members have already contributed primary research and review papers to ACS Sensors and we look forward to more contributions in the future. We now have 30 board members hailing from North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region. You can see all the members of our outstanding editorial board at http://pubs.acs.org/page/ ascefj/editors.html. Here we introduce our newest members who recently joined our Editorial Advisory Board:
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ACS SENSORS WELCOMES OUR NEWEST EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS!
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RUCHI ANAND
Antje J. Baeumner is Professor of Analytical Chemistry and Director of the Institute of Analytical Chemistry, Chemo- and Biosensors at the University of Regensburg, Germany. Before accepting the position in Regensburg in 2013, she was Professor of Biological Engineering and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, USA. She received her Ph.D. in Technical Biochemistry from the University of Stuttgart, Germany. She is on the Board of Directors of the Society of Electroanalytical Chemistry, a member of the Extended Executive Committee of the International Association of Environmental Analytical Chemistry, was the 2010 Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Bioanalytical Sensors, and has received numerous honors in recent years including being a finalist for the Blavatnik Award of the NY Academy of Sciences and the recipient of a Humboldt Research Fellowship and a German National Science Foundation Mercator Guest Professorship. Her research is focused on the development of micrototal analysis systems and smart lateral flow assays for detection of pathogens and toxins in food and the environment, and for medical diagnostics. Nanomaterials play an important role in her research including nanoparticles and nanovesicles for signal amplification, nanofibers for immobilization and detection, as well as mixing.
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Dr. Anand is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India. Her research interests lie in the field of structural biochemistry where she employs a combination of macromolecular crystallography, biochemical, and biophysical tools to develop deeper insights into biological reaction mechanisms. After completing her Masters in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology India, she obtained her Ph.D. in Chemistry from Cornell University in 2004, where she focused on understanding the structural basis of allosteric regulation in essential purine metabolism enzymes and solved multiple protein structures toward understanding these aspects. Thereafter, she pursued her postdoctoral work at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY and the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, USA. Here she explored aspects related to DNA damage repair and also worked with kinases and transcription factors involved in chromatin remodelling. Currently, at IIT Bombay, her laboratory has two major focus areas: first, on unravelling the origins of antibiotic resistance; and second, on developing sensitive biosensors for water quality monitoring. She employs Streptomyces as the model system to understand “self resistance mechanisms”, and the aim is to understand the evolution of antibiotic resistance and decipher strategies to combat it. Toward design of sensitive and accurate biosensors, Dr. Anand’s group has recently solved the X-ray structure of the signal sensing domain of the XylRDmpR class of transcription factors, found in soil bacteria like Pseudomonas. This structure has opened doors toward intelligent design of specific/broad based biosensors tunable for in situ sensing.
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XIA CHU
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Xia Chu obtained her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in analytical chemistry from Hunan University in 1996 and 1999, respectively. She began her academic career at the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering in Hunan Normal University, and has been a full professor at State Key Laboratory of Chemo/BioSensing and Chemometrics of Hunan University since 2006. Dr. Chu’s research interests include bioanalytical chemistry, biosensors, and biomedical imaging. Her group has made some significant innovative achievements in nanotechnological bioassay, living cell imaging assay, and signal amplification of bioassay. Recently, she developed a nanosensor tool that, for the first time, enables direct fluorescence activation imaging of cytochrome c release from mitochondria during cell apoptosis. By constructing a crown-like assembly of dye-encapsulated silica particles decorated with satellite AuNCs, her group also developed a novel nanocomplex displaying single-excitation and dual-emission fluorescent properties for live cell imaging of highly reactive oxygen species. She has accumulated over 80 peer-reviewed research publications with over 2000 citations. As a founding scientist, she has won honors such as Outstanding Young Scientists Funding of NSFC in 2015, New Century Excellent Talent Program from the Ministry of Education in 2011, and first grade Natural Science Award from the Ministry of Education in 2008.
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HYE JIN LEE
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Hye Jin Lee received her B.Sc. from Dankook University (Seoul) in 1991, followed by M.Sc. from Sogang University (Seoul) in 1994. She obtained her Ph.D. in 1999 from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, with Prof. H. H. Girault on creating novel microfabricated liquid−liquid interfaces for use as ion-selective sensors. Following postdoctoral research with Prof. R. M. Corn at the University of WisconsinMadison, she undertook an Associate Researcher position at the University of CaliforniaIrvine where she developed a series of novel surface enzymatic amplification methodologies that enable the direct detection of biomolecules down to femtomolar concentrations. Dr. Lee then joined Kyungpook National University (Daegu) as an Assistant Professor in 2008, and promoted to Associate Professor in 2012. Prof. Lee’s research covers a broad range of topics in analytical and electrochemistry, nanomaterials, and biotechnology. Her primary research focus is in the design and application of highly sensitive and selective biological and chemical sensors integrating emerging micro- and nanotechnologies. Prof. Lee has published more than 90 research papers in refereed journals (mostly ACS, Elsevier, and RSC) with an h-index of 37 and i10 index of 63, filed 4 U.S./International patents, written 5 book chapters, and given over 50 invited lectures worldwide.
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