Professor Gao’s current research interests include Nano Science & Engineering, Multiplexed Biomolecule Screening & Drug Discovery, Molecular Diagnostics, in vivo Molecular Imaging, Targeted & Traceable Drug Delivery and Imaging Instrumentation.

Dr. Viola Vogel is currently a Professor in the Department of Materials heading the Laboratory for Biologically Oriented Materials at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich. After completing her graduate research at the Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, she received her Ph. D. in Physics at Frankfurt University, followed by two years as postdoctoral fellow at the University of California Berkeley. She joined the Department of Bioengineering faculty at the University of Washington in 1990 with an adjunct appointment in the Physics. She served as an Investigator at NESAC/BIO She was the Founding Director of the Center for Nanotechnology at the University of Washington ('97-'03) prior to her move to Switzerland in 2004. As a NESAC/BIO investigator from 1992-2002, she consulted and collaborated on research involving the structure of proteins at lipid interfaces and those involving optical spectroscopy, lipid assembly,and Langmuir-Blodgett methods.

Megan Grobman worked as a SARC Laboratory Assistant from 2003 - 2007 and as SARC Research Scientist from 2007 - 2008. She currently is studying veterinary medicine at Washington State University in Pullman, WA.

Andrew was NESAC/BIO's Senior Computer Specialist. He currently is an Independent Contractor and Consultant at dummydata in Seattle, WA.

David worked for SARC as an Instrument Specialist. Currently he is retired in Lyndon, WA.

Felix was a Research Scientist for NESAC/BIO. Currently, he is a Research Scientist at UWEB working for Dr. Ratner.

Steve was NESAC/BIO's Research Coordinator. He is now the Director of the CAMCOR Surface Analytical Facility at the University of Oregon.

Deborah worked for NESAC/BIO and SARC as ESCA Laboratory Coordinator and Research Scientist from 1988 - 2004. Currently she is an Education and Outreach Administrator for Scripps Florida (The Scripps Research Institute), in Jupiter, Florida, writing grants and implementing community outreach.

Dorothy was an Administrative Assistant for NESAC/BIO.

Mady was program manager for NESAC/BIO since its inception in 1983. Mady is enjoying her retirement!

Julia was a postdoc at NESAC/BIO optimizing the sample preparation and storage of mammalian cells for ToF-SIMS analysis. Currently she is working with MALDI-imaging at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.

Li-Jung Chen was a Postdoc at NESAC/BIO studying depth profiling of polymer materials. Currently she lives in Portland, OR and is seeking employment in the analytical chemistry field.

Sanghun Song was a Postdoc at NESAC/BIO studying molecules at interfaces using SFG. Currently, he is a Senior Researcher at LG Household & Health care products in Daejeon, South Korea.

Liney was a Postdoc at NESAC/BIO studying the structure of proteins and DNA molecules at surfaces. Currently, she is an Assistant Research Professor of Chemical Engineering at Oregon State University in Corvallis, OR.

Gilad was a Postdoc at NESAC/BIO studying the functionalization and characterization of semiconductors quantum dots for tumor imaging and detection. Currently, he is a Surface Scientist at GE Global Research, in Niskayuna, NY.

Manish worked at NESAC/BIO as a postdoc from 2007-2009 on imaging XPS and ToF-SIMS analysis of biological systems. Manish is currently a Failure Analysis Engineer at Intel Corporation in Chandler, AZ.

Guilin is currently a postdoc in Matt Linford's lab in the Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT.

Heather is now an Associate Professor at the in the Dept. of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering at the University of New Mexico.

Peter is a Professer at Swinburne University of Technology in Hawthorne, Australia.

Jean-Benoit is a Research & Development Coordinator for Glaverbel S.A. in Jumet, Belgium.

Morgan is a Professor in Biomedical Surface Analysis at the University of Nottingham in Nottingham, U.K.

Kajsa is a Professor in the Sensor Science & Molecular Physics Group at Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden.

Graham is a Professor of Nanoscale Analytical Science at the University of Sheffield in Sheffield, UK.

Dave is Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, Cubist Pharmaceuticals in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Sung Chul is a Professor in the Biomaterials Science Laboratory at Gyeongsang National University, Chinju, South Korea.

Rami is now working at Intel as a Process Engineer.

Patrik Johansson, from Linkoping University in Sweden, is visiting NESAC/BIO from January to May, 2013 to work on a research project studying the interactions of the proteins collagen and osteocalcin with surfaces. He will be using SFG, ToF-SIMS and XPS in these studies.

Sirne graduated in May 2011 with a Ph.D in Chemical Engineering. Her thesis was entitled "Functionalization and Characterization of Gold Nanoparticles". She is currently a Yield Engineer at Intel in Chandler, AZ.

Julia graduated in July 2009 with a Ph.D in Chemical Engineering. Her thesis was entitled "Investigating Peptide Adsorption and Orientation using Surface Analysis Techniques". She is currently a Principal Engineer at Western Digital in Irvine, CA.

Elaine is now a regulatory consultant for biotechnology and medical devices and lives in the Portland Oregon area.

Jim was a graduate student at NESAC/BIO from 2002 - 2007 and earned a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering. From 2007 - 2011, Jim was a Research Scientist at SARC. Currently, Jim is a Research Scientist in Fluids and Lubricants at Boeing, in Seattle, WA.

Gaurav's thesis was entitled, "Multivariate Statistical Analysis and Enhancement of ToF-SIMS Images of Biomolecular Patterns at the Micron and Nanometer Scale" and he graduated with a M.S. in Chemical Engineering in June, 2006. He is currently a Scientist at Shell Technology India in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Shannon's thesis was entitled, "Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Characterization of the Conformation and Orientation of Adsorbed Protein Films" and she graduated with a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in June 2003. She is currently a Scientist at Evans Analytical Group in Sunnyvale, California.

Dan first came to NESAC/BIO as a visiting undergraduate summer intern in 1995. He did his graduate work and a postdoc at NESAC/BIO from 1997 - 2003. Dan worked as a Research Scientist at NESAC/BIO & SARC from 2003 - 2006 and Principal Scientist at Asemblon in Redmond, WA from 2006 - 2009. Dan currently is a Research Scientist at NESAC/BIO.

Mike Garrison is a Scientist at Edwards LifeSciences in Irvine, CA

Sheng is an Acting Instructor in the Department of Pathology at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA.

Caren is currently a Research Scientist at UWEB21 in the Ratner Group in the Dept. of Bioengineering at the Univ. of Washington in Seattle.

Niraj is Vice President Global Sales, Cardiac Surgery at MAQUET Cardiovascular in San Jose.

Galen is Group Leader / Principal Research Scientist at Eli Lilly in West Point, PA.

Ann Schmierer is currently Director of Biosciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA.

Thomas is a Professor in the Dept. of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, University of Texas at El Paso and Director of the Biomedical Engineering program there.

Bonnie is a research scientist at National Physcial Laboratory (NPL) in the U.K.

Ashutosh is a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University in Durham, NC.

Megan did a summer National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) REU research project at NESAC/BIO on Surface Analysis of DNA Microarrays in 2010. She is currently an undergraduate student at the University of Arkansas.

Heidi was NESAC/BIO's Office Assistant and assisted the program manager with budgets, travel, office errands, word processing and invoicing. She got her B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 2009 and is working at Neah Power Systems in Bothell, WA designing and testing fuel cell systems.

Erik Newman participated in the Clinical Research Experience for Engineers (CREE) program in 2007. He was in Professor Castner’s research group from 2007-2008 researching the characterization and operation of an RF glow discharge (RFGD) reactor, as well as the characterization and optimization of antibody immobilization onto surfaces modified by RFGD deposition. He got his B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 2008.

Kevin, a Chemical Engineering undergraduate at the UW, did a research project at NESAC/BIO on "Cationization of Polymers with SIMS" in 2005 and 2006. He received is B.S. in Chemical Engineering in June, 2007.

Ryan was a Bioengineering undergraduate working on his senior capstone research project. His project dealt with characterizing specific functional groups in potential polymer biomaterials. He is currently a graduate student at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX.

Tim was NESAC/BIO's Computer Assistant. He assisted the senior computer specialist with user technical support, system and hardware upgrades and website maintenance.

Joseluis was a UWEB REU researcher working on a joint project between the Castner and Ratner groups, which involved elucidating the properties of the smart polymer n-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAM) in self-assembled monolayers (SAMs).

Janet was NESAC/BIO's Office Assistant and assisted the program manager with budgets, travel, office errands, word processing and invoicing.

Marie was a UWEB/REU in the Castner Lab (under postdoc Sally L. McArthur) from 2000-2002. Her research focused on elucidating effects of underlying matrices in detecting proteins by Tof-SIMS. She received her BS in Biochemistry in 2003. Currently, she is a graduate student in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at Iowa State University.

Felicia Green, from the National Physical Laboratory in the United Kingdom, visited NESAC/BIO in August of 2008 to work on a project studying the emission of immobilized biomolecules from model surfaces with ToF-SIMS and DESI.

Claudia is now a researcher in the Dept. of Physics at CINVESTAV in Mexico City, Mexico. While at NESAC/BIO Claudia used ESCA and ToF-SIMS to characterize the adsorption of proteins to calcium phosphate surfaces.

Federica is a researcher in the Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche e dei Biosistemi (Department of Science and Technologies, Chemistry of Biomaterials) of the Universita degli Studi di Siena in Siena, Italy. Federica came to NESAC/BIO for ToF-SIMS training, working on a joint project with Buddy Ratner.

Take is a Researcher for the Asahi Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. in Kanagawa, Japan.

Agnese is an Associate Professor at CRISMA in the University of Siena in Siena, Italy.