Current Members:

Hoi-Ying N. Holman
Principal Investigator

510-486-5943
Director, Berkeley Synchrotron Infrared Structural Biology (BSISB) Program
Member of Exemplar - Zero Initiative Advisory Council

Ph.D., Environmental Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley. Explore and answer fundamental questions in bioenergy, biomedicine, and environmental health through the development of physical, chemical, and computational strategies in chemical imaging of living cells.

Extraordinary Support Staff:

Theresa Pollard Division & BSISB Support Coordinator	Sherry Seybold Web Developer and Technical Illustrator
Bryan Taylor IT Support	Carol Valladao Budget Manager

Staff Researchers

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Hans Bechtel (ALS)
Advanced Optical Design and Application Specialist
Vibrational Spectromicroscopy Specialist

Tel: 510-486-7519
Ph.D. Stanford University
Web site:  http://infrared.als.lbl.gov/content/contacts/12-contacts/2-hab

Rafael Gómez-Siöberg (EGEE)
Scientist
Assistant Adjunct Professor, UCSF

Tel: 510-486-2658
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Purdue University
Web site:  microfluidics.lbl.gov

Zhao Hao (ESD)
Hyperspectral Imaging Specialist
Computational and Quantitative Analyst

Tel: 510-486-7094
Ph.D. Condensed Matter Physics
Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Christer Jansson (ESD)
Senior Staff Scientist
Deputy Program Lead - Bioenergy

Tel: 510-486-7541
Ph.D. Lund University, Sweden
Web site:  http://esd.lbl.gov/about/staff/christerjansson/

Ping Hu (ESD)
System Biology Specialist

Tel: 510-486-5908
Ph.D., Biochemistry, Rutgers University

 

 

Michael Martin (ALS)
Staff Scientist
Deputy Director, Berkeley Synchrotron Infrared Structural Biology Program

Tel: 510-495-2231
Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook
Web site: www.lbl.gov/mmartin/

Andrew Nathan Tauscher (LS)
Electron Microscopy Speicalist

B.S. San Francisco State University

 

Post-Doctoral Researchers

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Giovanni Birarda (ESD)

Tel: 510-486-2658
Ph.D. Nanotechnology/Physics, University of Trieste, 2011

 

 

Liang Chen (ESD)

Tel: 510-486-5738
Ph.D. Biophysics, Stanford University, 2009

 

 

 

Sun Choi (ESD)

Tel: 510-486-2658
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 2012

 

 

Nina Kamennaya (ESD)

Tel: 510-717-3179
Ph.D. Marine Microbiology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2012

 

 

Kevin Loutherback (ESD)

Tel: 510-486-2658
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, 2011

 

 

Jeremy O'Brien (ESD)

Tel: 510-486-5738
Ph.D. Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, 2012

 

 

 

Kenji Sasaki (EGEE)

Tel: 510-486-5726
Ph.D. Materials Science, California Institute of Technology, 2010

 

 

Interns

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Luis Ardila-Perez (EGEE)
Postbacclaureate Student Assistant

Tel: 510-859-7540
B.S. Electrical Engineering, Univerfsidad Nacional de Colombia, 2011

 

 

 

 ALS = Advanced Light Source; EGEE = Engineering Division; ESD = Earth Science Division; LS = Life Science Division

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Collaborators:

Francis Blankenberg Professor, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University	Christine Moissl-Eichinger Professor, Microbiology,
Jamie Cate Professor, University of California, Berkeley	Albert Pisano Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Greg Enns Professor, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University	Richard Saykally Professor,  College of Chemistry, UCB
Christer Jansson Sr. Staff Scientist, Earth Sciences Division, LBNL	Allen Taylor Prof. Friedman School of Nutrition and Policy, Tufts Univ.
Michael Martin Staff Scientist, Advanced Light Source, LBNL	John Vogel Research Molecular Biologist, USDA
Robin Miles Engineer and Group Leader of Microtechnology Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Evan Williams Faculty Scientist, ESD, LBNL Professor,  College of Chemistry, UCB

Former Members:

Dr. Rafael Gómez-Sjöberg Principal Engineer, Quanticel Pharmaceuticals San Francisco, CA	Dr. Kristina Woods Professor, Physics Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
Dr. Zhang Lin Professor, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fujian, China.	Dr. Eleanor Wozei Professor, The Public Health and Environmental Engineering Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.

Undergraduates

Camilo Diaz-Botia, PhD. Student, Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics, UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley Carlos Duarte-Guevara, Ph.D. Student, Dept. of Electrical Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Schuyler Kain, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin Darcie Long, Ph.D. Student, Department of Chemistry, John Hopkins University Allison Nielsen, M.D., Department of Internal Medicine, UC Davis Qiyao Yang, M.D. Student, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Ingrid Zubieta, M.S., Industrial Hygienist, UCLA-LOSH.