Contributors to the Emerging Investigators Special Issue

	Craig A. Aspinwall received a BS degree in Chemistry from Berry College in Mt. Berry, GA in 1994 and a PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Florida under the direction of Professor Robert T. Kennedy. As a Swedish Institute Cultural Exchange Scholar, he investigated cellular signaling and ion channel function in the pancreatic beta-cell at the Department of Molecular Medicine at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden under the direction of Professors Olof Larsson and Per-Olof Berggren (1999–2000). As an Alexander Hollaender Distinguished Postdoctoral fellow at the Ames Laboratory in Ames, IA he worked to develop analytical technologies for monitoring cellular function using chemiluminescence imaging under the direction of Professor Edward S. Yeung (2000–2001). In January 2002, he joined the faculty at the University of Arizona as an Assistant Professsor of Chemistry. His research interests focus on developing and utilizing analytical methodologies to directly correlate intracellular signaling with cellular function at the single cell level and the application of biological transducers in novel analytical detection schemes. Among these pursuits is the development of novel capillary electrophoresis instrumentation for high speed, high sensitivity separations, development of protein-based reagents for investigating intracellular signaling and the development of biomimetic chemical sensors for intracellular detection of analytically challenging targets utilizing biological signal transduction elements.
	David E. Benson was born in the United States, in 1968. He received his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1997. He continued his training through a NIH postdoctoral fellowship at Duke University Medical Center in the Department of Biochemistry. In 2001 he joined the Department of Chemistry at Wayne State University as an Assistant Professor. His current research interests are developing protein–nanoparticle assemblies for biosensing and biocatalysis along with designing metal binding sites and crosslinked protein-derived cofactors into proteins.
	David E. Cliffel was born in Cleveland, OH in 1970. He received his PhD in analytical chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin in 1998 under the direction of Professor Allen J. Bard. From 1998 to 2000, he was a postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of Professor Royce W. Murray at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Since 2000, he has been an assistant professor of chemistry at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. His current research interests are: bioanalytical electrochemistry, scanning electrochemical microscopy, multianalyte microphysiometry, and monolayer protected clusters.
	Chris Culbertson was born in The United States of America in 1965. He received a Bachelors degree in Biology from Harvard College in 1988 and a Bachelors degree in Chemistry from The University of West Florida in 1991. This was followed by a PhD in Analytical Chemistry from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1996. In 1996 he joined J. Michael Ramsey's group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a Post-doctoral Fellow and after 20 months was promoted to a permanent staff position. Since 2002 he has been an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Kansas State University. His current research interests are: microfluidics, cell culturing and single cell analysis on microfluidic devices, insect hormone and neuropeptide separations, plant protein separations, novel detection methods, sol-gel chemistry and capillary HPLC.
	Heather Desaire was born in the USA in 1974. She received her Bachelor's degree in Chemistry in 1997 from Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA and her PhD in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2001. She joined Quintiles Inc., a contract research laboratory, in Kansas City, MO (USA), as an associate scientist. Since August of 2002 she has been an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Kansas. Her current research interests are developing methods for pharmaceutical analysis and structural characterization of glycoproteins, using mass spectrometry.
	Carlos D. Garcia was born in 1972. He received his BS in Biochemistry and PhD in Chemistry from the National University of Cordoba (Argentina) in 1996 and 2001 respectively. From 2002 to 2004, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Mississippi State University and Colorado State University under the supervision of Chuck Henry. In September of 2004 he joined the faculty at The University of Texas at San Antonio as an Assistant Professor of Analytical Chemistry. Currently, his group is pursuing research into novel methods to study surface modifications and their use in new sensors with applications in food safety, biology and environmental chemistry.
	Jayne Garno was born in Saginaw, MI (USA), in 1959. She received her PhD in Chemistry from Wayne State University, Detroit in 2002, and her BS degrees in Biology at the University of Michigan in 1981 and in Chemistry at Saginaw Valley State University in 1992. In 2003 she joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology as an NRC Postdoctoral Associate. Since 2004 she has been an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA. Her current research interests are bioanalytical chemistry, molecular self-assembly, development of scanning probe instrumentation and methods, and surface science. Dr Garno's research group applies scanning probe microscopy for in situ protein assays, including surface characterization, nanoscale lithography and fundamental measurements. Nanoscale studies facilitate the development of optimized immobilization and bioconjugation chemistries, which are key technologies in manufacturing biochip and biosensing surfaces.
	Kristina (Kicki) Håkansson was born in Sweden in 1972. She received an MSc in “molecular biotechnology”, a major combining math, physics, biochemistry and biology, from Uppsala University in 1996 and a PhD in biological mass spectrometry, also from Uppsala University, under the mentorship of Prof. Per Håkansson (no relation) in 2000. The same year, she received a postdoctoral fellowship from the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT) and pursued postdoctoral research with Prof. Alan G. Marshall at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, FL from 2000–2003. Currently, she is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Michigan. Dr Håkansson received a 2004 Searle Scholar Award. In 2005, she was named Dow Corning Assistant Professor of Chemistry and received an American Society for Mass Spectrometry Research Award, an Eli Lilly Analytical Chemistry Award, and a National Science Foundation Career Award. Her research interests include the application of ion–electron reaction techniques for biomolecular structural characterization in Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry.
	Emily Hilder was born in Australia in 1975. She received her BSc (Hons) in Chemistry in 1997 and PhD in Chemistry from the University of Tasmania, Australia in 2000 under the supervision of Prof. Paul Haddad. In 2000 she was awarded an Ernst Mach Stipendium to undertake postdoctoral work at Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria. From 2001 to 2004 she worked with Prof. Jean Fréchet and Prof. Frantisek Svec at the E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA as a postdoctoral fellow developing novel polymeric monolithic materials as stationary phases for miniaturised separation systems. In February 2004 she joined the Australian Centre for Research on Separation Science (ACROSS) at the University of Tasmania as an ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellow and part-time Lecturer in Chemistry. Her research interests lie in the general area of separation science, in particular in the combination of electrophoretic and chromatographic separation mechanisms to solve complex separation problems and the development of novel separation media to facilitate this.
	Jamie Hobbs was born in England, in 1970. He received his PhD in Physics from the University of Bristol, UK in 1997. In 2001 he took up an Engineering and Physical Sciences Advanced Research Fellowship at the University of Bristol, UK. Since 2004 he has been a lecturer in nanoanalytical science in the Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield, UK. His current research interests are: the development of scanning probe microscopy (SPM) techniques for the rapid analysis of surfaces; the application of atomic force microscopy to following processes in real-time; polymer crystal growth.
	Lingjun Li was born in Beijing, China, in 1969. She received her BE degree in Environmental Analytical Chemistry from Beijing Polytechnic University, China in 1992. She received her PhD in Analytical Chemistry/Biomolecular Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA in 2000 with Prof. Jonathan Sweedler. She then pursued three-way postdoctoral research in mass spectrometry and neuroscience at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (with Dr Richard Smith), Brandeis University (with Prof. Eve Marder), and University of Illinois (with Prof. Jonathan Sweedler) from 2000 to 2002. Since December 2002, Dr Li has been an Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She was a recipient of the 2004 American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Research Award and an NSF CAREER Award. Her current research interests include analytical neurochemistry with special emphasis on neuropeptide analysis and discovery, neuroproteomics, and biological mass spectrometry.
	R. Scott Martin is currently an assistant professor of chemistry at Saint Louis University. Professor Martin was born in the USA in 1971. He received his PhD in analytical chemistry from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1999 under the direction of Professor Stanley Manahan. From 1999–2002 he was a NIH post-doctoral fellow with Professor Susan Lunte in the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Kansas. His research interests involve the use of microchip devices for monitoring biological systems. This includes development of methods for immobilizing and analyzing cells on-chip as well as the implementation of new detection schemes for microchip capillary electrophoresis.
	Shelley D. Minteer was born in the United States, in 1975. She received her PhD in analytical chemistry from the University of Iowa (US) in 2000. In 2000, she joined Saint Louis University as an assistant professor of chemistry. Her current research interests are: amperometric and voltammetric sensors, biofuel cells, and enzyme immobilization materials.
	Alison Nordon obtained her BSc (Hons) in Chemistry and her PhD in solid-state NMR spectroscopy from the University of Durham, UK in 1994 and 1998, respectively. She then moved to the Centre for Process Analytics and Control Technology (CPACT) at the University of Strathclyde, UK to work on the development of low-field NMR spectrometry for process analysis. During her time as a Research Fellow and subsequently as a Senior Research Fellow with CPACT, Alison developed her interests in optical spectroscopy, chemometrics, signal processing and acoustic techniques. In 2004, Alison was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship to work on the development of non-invasive active acoustic techniques for process monitoring and control. Her current research interests are the development of active and passive acoustic techniques, and methodologies for combination of optical and acoustic data for process analysis and high-throughput characterisation.
	Gavin Reid was born in Australia, in 1969. He received his PhD in Chemistry under the supervision of Associate Professor Richard O'Hair at The University of Melbourne, Australia in 2000, and post doctoral training with Professor Scott McLuckey at Purdue University from 2000–2002. From 2002–2004, he was an Assistant Member of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research in Melbourne Australia. In 2004, he joined Michigan State University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. His current research interests include fundamental studies on the gas-phase ion chemistry of amino acids, peptides, proteins and phospholipids, and the development and application of novel chemical methods and mass spectrometry instrumentation for quantitative proteomics.
	Scott Shippy was born in the USA, in 1970. He received his PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA in 1998, and completed postdoctoral training in the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Ottawa, Canada in 1999. In 1999, he joined the University of Illinois at Chicago as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry. Currently he is an Associate Professor. His current research interests are: in vivo sampling methodologies to study chemical signaling in the brain and the retina, chemical separations of biological fluids, and detection methods for capillary and channel electrophoresis.
	Keith J. Stevenson was born in Wala Wala, Washington in 1966. He received his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Utah in 1997 under the direction of Prof. Henry S. White. In 1998, he began his postdoctoral work with Prof. Joseph T. Hupp at Northwestern University. In 2000, he started his tenure track position in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin. His interests include the development of novel spectroelectrochemical imaging techniques for characterizing interfacial reactivity of nanostructured electrode materials; the synthesis/evaluation of new electrocatalysts; and the preparation of improved electrode materials for advanced electroanalytical applications. He is a recipient of a NSF CAREER award (2002), the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools New Scholar Award (2004), and is presently the Jack S. Josey Fellow in Energy Studies. He is a member of the Center for Nano- and Molecular Science and Technology and the Texas Materials Institute at the University of Texas at Austin.
	Sabine Szunerits was born in Austria, in 1971. She received her MSc in Chemistry from the University of Vienna, Austria, in 1994, and her PhD in Organic Electrochemistry from Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London, UK, in 1998. She furthermore obtained a MA in Social Science from the Open University of London in 2001. She was awarded a “Schrödinger Stipendium” from the Austrian Academy of Science for a two year post-doctoral position with Prof. C. Amatore at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, for the spatio-temporal description of diffusion layers of macroelectrodes using ultramicroelectrodes. In 2000 she obtained a research associate position at Tufts University, Boston, where she joined the group of Prof. D. Walt to work on the fabrication of high density fiber-optic based microring electrode arrays. This work was continued for a year at the ENSCPB, Bordeaux, before joining the CEA Grenoble as a CNRS post-doctoral fellow. There her research was focused on the coupling of Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy (SECM) with Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging (SPRi) for the study of surface processes. In 2004 she was appointed Professor in nano-electrochemistry at the Institute National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG). Her current research interests include: nano-patterning of metallic and semiconductor surfaces using SECM and scanning near field optical microscopy (SNOM) for biosensing applications; interfacial studies on gold/SiO2 interfaces using surface plasmon resonance (SPR); characterization of surface leakage with AFM.
	Kenneth Weston was born in North Carolina, USA in 1972. He received his PhD in Chemistry from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1998. In 2002 he joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Florida State University as an Assistant Professor. His current research interests are in the development of new methods and applications of optical spectroscopy and microscopy, fluctuation correlation spectroscopy, and microfluidics.
	Hua-Zhong (Hogan) Yu was born in China in 1971. He received his PhD in Chemistry from Peking University (Beijing) in 1997 under the supervision of Zhong-Fan Liu. He then went to Caltech (Pasadena) working with Fred Anson and Ahmed Zewail (1999 Nobel Laureate) as a postdoctoral fellow. Upon arriving in Canada (1999), he joined the Steacie Institute of Molecular Sciences in Ottawa as a NSERC fellow (with Dan Wayner, FRSC). He accepted an Assistant Professor position in Chemistry at Acadia University (Wolfville), Nova Scotia in 2000, and moved to Simon Fraser University (Burnaby), British Columbia the year after. In 2004, he won the Fred Beamish Award of the Canadian Society for Chemistry for his demonstrated innovations in analytical chemistry. His current research is focused on DNA surface chemistry, CD-R biosensing technology, and molecular modification of semiconductors, which are seminal for the development of novel electronic and diagnostic devices.

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