Joe Baio, who completed his PhD studies at NESAC/BIO in December 2011, has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Science Foundation.
An AVS webinar on "Wants, Needs and Challenges in Biomedical Surface Analysis" by NESAC/BIO Director Dave Castner is available on the AVS
website.
NESAC/BIO graduate student Joe Baio won the 2011 Best Student Poster at the AVS PNW Chapter meeting for his research on characterizing the orientation of immobilized proteins.
NESAC/BIO Investigator has been selected as a Fellow of the American Chemical Society for his outstanding contributions to biomaterials, polymer chemistry and surface analysis.
NESAC/BIO graduate student Michael Robinson has been awarded a North American Student Grant to attend the SIMS XVIII conference in Italy to present his research on ToF-SIMS imaging of biological cells.
NESAC/BIO Director David Castner has been awarded a Major Reseach Instrumentation grant from the National Science Foundation to construct a new femtosecond sum frequency generation system. This instrumentation will add significant new non-linear optical capabilities to NESAC/BIO.
Joe Baio has been selected as a finalist for an AVS National Student Award. Final award selections will be made at the upcoming AVS International Symposium.
NESAC/BIO Graduate Student Elaine Hillenmeyer has been awarded a summer internship by the FDA. She will be working on the classification of medical devices.
NESAC/BIO is running a workshop at the upcoming Society For Biomaterials Annual Meeting entitled "Data Acquisition and Data Interpretation for Conventional to Contemporary Surface Analytical Techniques"
Tobias Weidner, former NESAC/BIO post-doctoral fellow, is now a NESAC/BIO Investigator and a Research Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Washington.
NESAC/BIO Investigator Buddy Ratner is the recipient of the 2011 Pierre Galletti Award from the American Institute of Medical and Biomedical Engineering. This award is in recognition of Buddy's contributions to the public awareness of medical and biological engineering, and the promotion of the national interest in science, engineering and education.
The NESAC/BIO website has added a new section on multivariate surface analysis. This section provides information, tutorials, test data sets and computer code for multivariate surface analysis. See http://mvsa.nb.uw.edu/ for more details.
A recent NESAC/BIO publication (Kinetics of Leucine-Lysine Peptide Adsorption and Desorption at –CH3 and –COOH Terminated Alkylthiolate Monolayers,” J.S. Apte, L.J. Gamble, D.G. Castner and C.T. Campbell, Biointerphases, 5, 2010, 97-104.) has been selected for inclusion in the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology. This journal is an edited compilation of links to articles from participating publishers that cover a focused area of frontier research.
NESAC/BIO graduate student Joe Baio has received the 2011 Student Award for Outstanding Research from the Society For Biomaterials for his research on characterizing the orientation of immobilized proteins.
NESAC/BIO graduate student Michael Robinson placed 3rd in the 2010 AVS Applied Surface Science Division student competition for his presentation on 3-D imaging of cells with ToF-SIMS.
NESAC/BIO graduate students Michael Robinson and Shin Muramoto have been awarded travel grants to attend the Nanobeams School in Luxembourg
The NESAC/BIO annual workshop on Surface Characterization of Biomaterials will be held on August 9-11, 2010 on the University of Washington campus. To see the schedule and more information about the workshop please visit our annual workshop webpages.
Artwork based on the results shown in the paper “Multi-technique Characterization of Adsorbed Peptide and Protein Orientation: LK310 and Protein G B1,” by Joe Baio, Tobias Weidner, Newton Samuel, Keith McCrea, Loren Baugh, Pat Stayton and Dave Castner, Journal Vacuum Science and Technology B, 28 (2010) C5D1-C5D8, 2010 has been selected for the August cover of the JVSTB. For more details see: http://dx.doi.org/10.1116/1.3456176.
A paper describing the latest studies done at NESAC/BIO using SFG and ssNMR to characterize the structure of adsorbed peptides has been published in PNAS. The full citation is: “A Sum Frequency Generation and Solid-State NMR Study of the Structure, Orientation and Dynamics of Polystyrene-Adsorbed Peptides,” Tobias Weidner, Nicholas Breen, Kun Li, Gary Drobny and Dave Castner, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107 (2010) 13288-13293. For more details see: http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1003832107.
