The O'Halloran Group in Silverman Hall, Winter 2010

Back row from left: Claudia Simm, Reiner Bleher, Denana Miodragovic, Ben Staehlin, Meera Raja, Becky Marvin, Emily Que, Elden Swindell, Steve Philips, Ben Gilston, Rich Ahn

Front row from left: Megan Hogdal, Cecelia Gondek, Ronadel Ronquillo, Tom O'Halloran, Monica Canalizo, Sang-Min Lee

Not Pictured: Abraham Bogachkov, Nicholas Zessis, Patrick Hankins, Jae-Hoon Chung, Tyler Birschbach, Eric Roth, Mazdak Bradberry, Helen Gomez

Current Group Members

                  Postdoctoral Fellows and Staff
Reiner Bleher, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor, NUANCE ( (Atomic - and Nanoscale Characterization Experimental Center) & Quantitative Bioelemental Imaging Center (QBIC), Chemistry of Life Processes Institute
Rebecca Marvin, Ph.D. Manager, Quantitative Bioelemental Imaging Center (QBIC), Chemistry of Life Processes Institute
Denana Miodragovic, Ph.D. Research Associate
Emily Que, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow
Benjamin Staehlin
Research Technician
Alison Kim Postdoctoral Fellow, Woodruff Laboratory
Abraham Bogachkov Research Technician
                                      Graduate StudentsGradGuate Students
Ben Gilston Chemistry
Meghan Hogdal Chemistry
Steven Philips IBIS
Elden Swindell Chemical and Biological Engineering
Patrick Hankins Chemistry
Adelita Mendoza IBiS Rotation Student
           Undergraduate Students
Jae-Hoon Chung Chemistry
Helen Gomez Chemistry
Tyler Birschbach Chemistry
Nick Zessis  
Mazdak Bradberry  

Former Group Members

Predoctoral Students
Name Degree Current Position
Shannon Johnson M.S. 1990 Lawyer, Welsh & Katz
Diana (Ralston) Horvath Ph.D. 1991 Science Director, Agricultural Technology Partners
Fred MacDonnell Ph.D. 1992 Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Arlington
Joan Broderick Ph.D. 1992 Professor, Montana State University
Steve Watton Ph.D. 1992 Professor, Central Connecticut State University
James Bryson Ph.D. 1993 Research Scientist, Bristol-Meyers Squibb
Mark Chael Ph.D. 1994 Patent Agent, McDonnell, Boehnen, Hulbert & Berghoff
Aseem Ansari Ph.D. 1994 Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ellen Wang Althaus Ph.D. 1995 Director of Women in Chemistry Programs, UIUC
Nathanael Fackler Ph.D. 1995 Professor, Nebraska Wesleyan University
Lisa Utschig-Johnson Ph.D. 1995 Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
David Suhy Ph.D. 1996 Director, R&D, Tacere Therapeutics
George Munson Ph.D. 1997
Mike Reigle Ph.D. 1998 Criminal Investigator, U.S. Government
Bo Yang M.S. 1997  
Caryn Outten Ph.D. 2001 Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina
F. Wayne Outten Ph.D. 2001 Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina
Andrew Torres Ph.D. 2002 Research Scientist, GE, Albany, NY
Lydia Finney Ph.D. 2004 Assistant Biochemist/Assistant Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory
Janet Wolford Ph.D. 2007  
Yi Xue Ph.D. 2008 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Yale University
Hamsell Alvarez Ph.D. 2008  
Erin Fleck M.S. 2008 Regulatory Affairs Associate, Baxter Healthcare
Haimei Chen Ph.D. 2009 Visiting Scholar, Chemistry of Life Processes Institute
Eric Kawamoto Ph.D 2009  
Ryan Murphy M.S. 2009

Analytical Chemist, UOP (subsidiary of Honeywell)

Ryosuke Yamazaki Ph.D. 2009  
Monica Canalizo Ph.D. 2010 Dow, Senior Microbiologist
Sang-Min Lee Ph.D 2010 Postdoctoral Associate, NIST/NIH/National Research Council
Rebecca Marvin Ph.D. 2010 Manager, Quantitative Bioelemental Imaging Center (QBIC), Chemistry of Life Processes Institute
Meera Raja Ph.D. 2010 ZS Associates
Richard Ahn Ph.D. 2011 MD/PhD Program Feinberg Medical School
Postdoctoral Fellows
Markus Weinken left in 1994  
Cinzia Cera left in 1993 Albany Medical College
Christoph Fahrni left in 1999 Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech
Arlene Gihron left in 1991  
Michael Natan left in 1991 Professor, Penn. State University
Robert Pufahl left in 1999 Scientist, Monsanto
M. Ram left in 1992  
M.S. Nasir left in 1997 Scientist, Diachemix Corporation
Katherine (Liu) Olson left in 1997 Assistant Professor, University of St. Thomas
Kathryn Simon left in 1997 Nalge Nunc International
Songsheng Zhang    
David Huffman left in 2001 Assistant Professor, Western Michigan University
Yutaka Hitomi left in 2001 Assistant Professor, Kyoto University
Tracey Rae left in 2000 Scientist, Abbott Labs
Masayasu Taki left in 2001 Scientist, Osaka City University
Victoria Petri left in 2003 Scientific Curator for Gene Ontology, Rat Genome Project, Medical College of Wisconsin
Kui Chen-Ho left in 2003 Scientist, Kodak
Anja Herrnreiter left in 2004  
Yoshiaki Furukawa left in 2005 Associate Professor, Keio University
Nina Brown left in 2006 Scientist, Abbott Laboratories
Anna Davis left in 2008 Researcher, Dow
Heather McGinley left in 2008 Researcher, Dow
Claudia Simm left in 2010 Boston
Abhijit A. Date left in 2011