SSRLUO 2009 Executive Committee Members | Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource

	Beth Wurzberg Stanford University, Structural Biology, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
	Beth Wurzburg is a Research Associate in the laboratory of Prof. Ted Jardetzky. She trained as a protein biochemist (Don Wiley's laboratory) and as a crystallographer (Ted Jardetzky's laboratory), and she has been collecting data at synchrotrons since 1995. Her research interests include biophysical studies of proteins of the immune system and of human pathogens.
	email:	ph: 650-723-4576

	Yuji Arai Clemson University, Department of Entomology, Soils and Plant Science, Clemson, S. Carolina, 29634-0315
	Assistant Professor of Environmental Soil Chemistry at Clemson University in Clemson, SC. Since 1997, he has been conducting molecular environmental soil chemistry research using bulk- and microfocused(µ)-XAS, µ-XRF and µ-XRD techniques at ALS, APS, NSLS, and SSRL. His major research interest is to understand the molecular scale chemical reactions of nutrients, metal(loid)s, and radionuclides at the soil mineral-water interface that is responsible for the field-scale transport processes. He is interested in developing an interdisciplinary molecular environmental soil chemical research program through academia. He would like to represent the voice of users to further improve the BL capabilities and the accommodation of SSRL user facilities.
	email: yarai@clemson.edu	ph: 864-656-2607

	Rebecca Fenn Stanford University, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 279 Campus Dr., Stanford, CA 94305
	Doctoral student in Dr. Pehr Harbury's Research Group in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Stanford University. Rebecca's research involves the development of an x-ray scattering method that is capable of characterizing the conformational ensembles of biological macromolecules in solution. She has frequently used the SSRL SAXS beam lines for her research during te past three years, and looks forward to continued involvement in the synchrotron community.
	email: becks@stanford.edu	ph: 650-723-6719

	Ben Gilbert LBNL, Earth Sciences Division, Berkelty, CA 94720 USA
	Benjamin Gilbert is a scientist in Lawrence Berkeley National Lab's Earth Science Division with a research program studying the materials properties and reactivity of naturally occurring nanoparticles. Following pH work at the UW-Madison SRC on soft x-ray spectromicroscopy, his experimental program includes high energy x-ray scattering at the APS, soft x-ray emission and absorption spectroscopy at the ALS, and small-angle x-ray scattering and EXAFS spectroscopy at the SSRL. He is excited by the development of fast x-ray techniques to study chemical processes with time resolution.
	email: bgilbert@lbl.gov	ph: 510-495-2748

	Katherine A. Kantardjieff (Vice Chair) CSU Fullerton/Keck Center for Molecular Structure
	Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at California State University Fullerton, is Director of the W.M. Keck Foundation Center for Molecular Structure. She completed Ph.D and postdoctoral work in physical chemistry and structural biology at UCLA with David Eisenberg. Kantardjieff's laboratory is the only member of the Tuberculosis Structural Genomics Consortium from a non-PhD granting institution. CMolS is comprised of comprehensive X-ray diffraction and computational laboratories supporting research and education as a core facility in the 23-campus CSU, as well as the STaRBURSTT-CyberDiffraction Consortium, a nationwide virtual organization of predominantly undergraduate institutions. CMolS pioneered the use of remote instrumentation access at PUIs and, since 2006, CMolS is a research partner with SSRL. Kantardjieff's own research investigates protein structure and function, employing combined experimental and in silico approaches of crystallography, biophysical methods, computation and informatics. The knowledge gained is applied to the engineering of molecules with specific properties, and to structure-guided drug design. Systems of current interest include bacterial cytochromes c', carbonyl reductases, cholinesterases and several tuberculosis proteins. Kantardjieff and collaborators at Fullerton have established a research computing cluster for computational biochemistry and crystallography, which is part of a larger CSU system-wide, distributed computing resource. Kantardjieff has developed and deployed crystallography and computational courses and workshops, including some delivered entirely online, at both the undergraduate and post-graduate levels. She has led national and international efforts in crystallography education and training. Kantardjieff's activities led to her election to the United States National Committee for Crystallography, of which she is currently Vice Chair.
	email: kkantardjieff@fullerton.edu	ph: 714-278-3752 fax: 714-449-5316

	Christopher S. Kim (Ex-Officio) Chapman University, Physical Sciences, One University Ave., Orange, CA 92866
	Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Sciences at Chapman University in Southern California. He conducted his graduate work at Stanford University under Gordon Brown and continued his research as a post-doc at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with Glenn Waychunas. He has been a user at SSRL since 1996 and has also conducted research at the ALS and APS. Currently, he is studying trends in the speciation, concentration, and distribution of heavy metals in mine wastes as well as the mechanisms and extent of metal uptake and (co-)precipitation with iron oxyhydroxide nanoparticles. Chris is also involved in increasing opportunities for undergraduate students to conduct research at national synchrotron facilities.
	email: cskim@chapman.edu	ph: 714-628-7363 fax: 723-532-6048

	Cathy Knotts (SSRL Liaison) SSRL, User Research Administration, 2575 Sand Hill Rd., Menlo Park, CA 94025
	Manager of User Research Administration since November 2000. Prior to that time, Cathy managed administrative operations and corporate communications in the biotechnology industry. She was a management analyst for National Institute on Aging/National Institutes of Health before moving to North ern California in 1994. Cathy received a B.S. from the University of Maryland majoring in Health Science and Policy.
	email: knotts@slac.stanford.edu	ph: 650-926-3191 fax: 926-926-3600

	Richard Lee Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Ave., Li vermore, CA 94550
	Senior Scientist in the Physics and Advanced Technologies Directorate at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory responsible for developing scientific efforts in high and moderate energy density science. Dick has been a member of the LCLS Science Advisory Committee since its inception and was the team leader for the Plasma and Warm Dense Matter experiment that was one of the five 'First Experiments for LCLS'. He is currently actively involved in both experiment and theory related to ultra fast x-ray scattering studies of laser-excited solids.
	email: dicklee@llnl.gov	ph: 92-422-7209 fax: 925-423-2463

	Wayne Lukens (Chair) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Chemical Sciences, 1 Cyclotron Rd., Berkeley, CA 94720
	Staff scientist in the Actinide Chemistry Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research focuses mainly on the behavior of technetium in nuclear waste and nuclear wasteforms. In addition, his research examines electronic structure and bonding in actinide complexes. He has carried out EXAFS experiments at SSRL since 1992. Currently, he is using EXAFS and XANES to characterize the speciation of technetium in different nuclear wasteforms.
	email: wwlukens@lbl.gov	ph: 510-486-4305 fax: 510-486-5596

	Karen McFarlane Holman Willamette University, Chemistry Department, 900 State St, Salem, OR 97301
	Associate Professor of Chemistry at Willamette University in Salem, OR. She has been a user at SSRL and the ALS since 1998. As a postdoc at LBNL (1998-2000), she worked with Mel Klein and VIttal Yachandra on SSRL Beam Lines 6-2, 7-3 and 9-3 in projects related to chloride in Photosystem II and sulfur in proteins. Another postdoctoral project in the Klein group involved designing and building the EXAFS endstation on Beam Line 9.3.1 at the ALS. Her current research projects use XANES to investigate fundamental mechanisms related to in vivo reactions of ruthenium-based anti-cancer drugs. Coming from Willamette University which is a liberal arts college, another goal of hers is to give undergraduate students the opportunity to travel to a national laboratory and collect their own data at a synchrotron source.
	email: kholman@willamette.edu	ph: 503-370-6417

	Art Nelson Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 7000 East Ave, Livermore, CA 94550
	Scientific Capability Leader in the Materials Science and Technology Division, Chemistry and Materials Science Directorate at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He is responsible for research activities on novel materials and the reaction chemistry of materials in high-temperature and high-pressure environments. Art began performing experiments at SSRL in 1979 as a researcher at the Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, CA. He continued experiments at SSRL on manganese speciation in exhaust particulates, energetic materials, and non-linear optical materials. Art represented LLNL in the SPPS collaboration and continues to be involved in experimental planning for the LCLS.
	email: nelson63@llnl.gov	ph: 925-422-6488 fax: 925-422-6892

	Brittany B. Nelson-Cheeseman University of California-Berkeley, Materials Sciences, Berkeley, CA 94720
	Brittany is in her final year of her doctorate in Materials Science and Engineering at UC-Berkeley. She has worked with various synchrotron radiation techniques (XAS, XMCD, EXAFS, XANES, DAFS, PEEM) for three years now. She has completed the Berkeley-Stanford Summer School on Synchrotron Radiation and its Applications, as well as the semester-long course "Synchrotron Radiation for Materials Science Applications" at UC-Berkeley. In addition to conducting experiments at the SSRL, she also conducts experiments the Advanced Light Source (ALS) and the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS).
	email: bbnelsonchee@berkeley.edu	ph: 510-643-4705

	Monika Sommerhalter California State University East Bay, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Hayward, CA 94542
	Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at California State University, East Bay. She has been a user at SSRL since 2002 and was trained as a protein crystallographer in the laboratory of Dr. Amy C. Rosenzweig at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. Her research interest is located at the interface of bioinorganic chemistry and structural biology.
	email: monika.sommerhalter@csueastbay.edu	ph: 510-885-3427 fax: 510-885-4675

	Robert Szilagyi (Past Chair) Montana State University, Chemistry and Biochemistry, 223 Gaines Hall, Bozeman, MT 59715
	Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Montana State University-Bozeman. His research interest focuses on bioinorganic, organometallic, and computational application of synchrotron radiation. He has five years of experience in XAS at various beamlines of SSRL and ALS. He uses NEXAS and EXAFS techniques in close correlation with theoretical calculations to investigate the relationships between chemical reactivity and electronic and geometric structures of bioinorganic active sites and biomimetic compounds, such as iron-sulfur clusters, S-nitrosated thiolates, as well as, tungsten, molybdenum, and palladium containing homogeneous catalysts. His motivation to be part of the SSRLUOEC is to provide a representation for junior faculty, to increase graduate and undergraduate student training, and to develop a spectral database for the community of synchrotron radiation users.
	email: szilagyi@montana.edu	ph: 406-994-4263 fax: 406-994-5407