Biosystems Research & Development Department

Anup Singh	aksingh@sandia.gov	Manager, Biosystems Research & Development Department Biotoxin recognition; Enzyme-based sensor development; Proteoliposomes
Technical Staff
Rajiv Bharadwaj	rbharad@sandia.gov	Bioanalytical instrument development for bioenergy applications; Point-of-care diagnostics; Micro- and nano-scale electrokinetic transport phenomena
Catherine Branda	cbranda@sandia.gov	Host-pathogen interactions; Innate immune response
Steve Branda	sbranda@sandia.gov	Development of microbial cells and communities; Host-pathogen interactions
Gabriela Chirica	gschiri@sandia.gov
Kai Deng	kdeng@sandia.gov
Masood Hadi	mzhadi@sandia.gov	Membrane protein expression; protein-protein interactions
Anson Hatch	ahatch@sandia.gov	Fluid dynamics/transport in microfluidic systems; bioanalytical system development (multi-dimensional separations, immunodiagnostics)
Todd Lane	twlane@sandia.gov	Detection of genetically-engineered organisms; Microbial biology of diatoms
Ken Patel	kdpatel@sandia.gov
Thomas Perroud	thomas.perroud@sandia.gov	Microfluidic-based fluorescence activated cell sorting; micro flow cytometry; single-cell imaging; single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy; confocal microscopy.
David Reichmuth	dreichm@sandia.gov
Diana Roe	dcroe@sandia.gov	Molecular recognition; Computational chemistry; Development of affinity-based sensors of biotoxins
Ken Sale	klsale@sandia.gov	Constraint-based molecular modeling of proteins; Mass spectrometry data analysis
Rajat Sapra	rsapra@sandia.gov	Proteomics; Enzyme and metabolic engineering
Joe Schoeniger	jsschoe@sandia.gov	Microseparations of proteins and peptides; Sensor development; Membrane protein structure determination using chemical cross-linking and FTICR mass spectrometry
Victoria VanderNoot	vavande@sandia.gov	Capillary and chip separation techniques for proteins; Protein biotoxin analysis and characterization; Immune response and cellular signaling
Postdoctoral Researchers
Vinay Abhyankar	vabhyan@sandia.gov	Cell-based microfluidic systems (2D and 3D); microscale transport phenomena.
Aarthi Chandrasekaran	achandr@sandia.gov	Cell-free protein expression; High throughput enzyme assays; Development of carbohydrate microarrays for biofuels research.
Suk Tai Chang	schang@sandia.gov	Microfluidic manipulation via electrohydrodynamic forces; Bioanalytical system development for bioenergy applications
Robert Meagher	rmeaghe@sandia.gov	Fluid dynamics/transport in microfluidic systems; Bioanalytical system development
Oscar Negrete	onegret@sandia.gov	Viral detection and host-pathogen interaction technologies
Ashtamurthy S Pawate	apawat@sandia.gov	I work on genomic annotation and metabolic pathway reconstruction of microorganisms for biofuels production.
Greg Sommer	gsommer@sandia.gov	Bioanalytical diagnostic development; Microscale protein separations; Microfluidic transport
Ying-Chih Wang	ycwang@sandia.gov	Physicochemical hydrodynamics in micro/nano-fluidic systems; Biotoxin diagnostic system development.
Eizadora Yu	etyu@sandia.gov	Mass spectrometry, structural proteomics, RNA structure determination using crosslinking and high resolution mass spectrometry.
Technologists
James Brennan	jsbrenn@sandia.gov
David Heredia	dmhered@sandia.gov
Jerry Inman	jpinman@sandia.gov	Development and testing of Microfluidic components and separations hardware used for Biotoxin and Protein Analysis.
Julia Kaiser	jkaiser@sandia.gov	Rapid detection and identification of unknown pathogens for prevention of pandemics; Rapid detection of residual biological agents following contamination and remediation.
Pamela Lane	plane@sandia.gov
Yooli Light	yklight@sandia.gov
Marci Markel	mlmarke@sandia.gov	Bioanalytical diagnostic development; Microscale protein separations; Microfluidic transport.
Daniel Throckmorton	djthroc@sandia.gov
Meiye Wu	meiwu@sandia.gov

Biosystems Research & Development Department

Technical Staff

Postdoctoral Researchers

Technologists