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Facilitated certification and training of students, faculty, and external customers at the
University of Kentucky Confocal Microscopy Center for imaging biological species
Teaching Assistantship
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
2012-2014
Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO
2011-2012
Stockroom Employee: Prepped supplies for general, analytical, and organic chemistry
laboratory sections. Organization and material upkeep for all supplies.
General Chemistry Teaching Assistant (3 sections/semester): Pre-lab lectures followed by
laboratory activities (~24 students). Regular office hours were held for Q/A’s regarding
homework assignments, lab reports, exam preparation, and future lab work.
SKILLS
Expert in the assembly, alignment, and use of custom wide-field and confocal
microscopy setups including free-space beam alignment, fiber coupling, total internal
reflection fluorescence (TIRF), fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS), ALEX,
resonant scanning based systems, and super-resolution techniques
Expert user of nanofabrication techniques including: E-beam lithography (EBL), focused
ion beam (FIB), photolithography, dual chamber E-beam evaporation, sputter deposition,
reactive ion etcher (RIE), atomic layer deposition (ALD), optical profilometry, and
scanning electron microscopes (SEM)
Thorough knowledge of substrate construction and sample preparation methods including
polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) based microfluidic systems, various linker chemistries for
fluorescent labeling of substrates, as well as, molecular adsorption onto surfaces using
polyvinyl alcohol films
Strong technical background with acquisition/analysis softwares including: Micro-
Manager (NIH), ImageJ (NIH) , OriginPro, Symphotime64 (Picoquant), Metamorph
(Olympus), IQ (Andor), Solis (Andor), and the Microsoft Office Suite
PUBLICATIONS
1.
W. Elliott Martin;
Ning Ge; Bernadeta R. Srijanto; Emily Furnish; C. Patrick Collier;
Christine Trinkle; Christopher I. Richards. “Real Time Sensing of Single Receptor-
Ligand Interactions with Nanoaperture Integrated Microfluidic Devices” ACS Nano.
Submitted for Review
2.
W. Elliott Martin;
Bernadeta R. Srijanto; C. Patrick Collier; Tom Vosch; Christopher I.
Richards, A Comparison of Single-Molecule Emission in Aluminum and Gold Zero-
Mode Waveguides. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 2016, ASAP
3.
Das, S. K.; Luk, C. M.;
Martin, W. E.
; Tang, L.; Kim, D. Y.; Lau, S. P.; Richards, C. I.,
Size and Dopant Dependent Single Particle Fluorescence Properties of Graphene
Quantum Dots. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2015, 119, 17988-17994.
4.
Moonschi, F. H.; Effinger, A. K.; Zhang, X.;
Martin, W. E.
; Fox, A. M.; Heidary, D. K.;
DeRouchey, J. E.; Richards, C. I., Cell-derived vesicles for single-molecule imaging of
membrane proteins. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015, 54 (2), 481-4.
PRESENTATIONS
1.
(Oral Presentation) Fluorescence Characterization Studies for Single Molecules Isolated
in Hybrid Zero-mode Waveguides.
W. Elliott Martin
; Christopher I. Richards, 16
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Annual Tech Connect World Innovation Conference and Expo, Washington, DC, May