The Barron lab is designing, creating and applying novel families of synthetic and biological polymers for applications in medicine and biotechnology. Our integrated approach to creating new and useful biomimetics and bioconjugates involves molecular design, chemical and/or biological synthesis, physical characterization, and finally, rigorous in vitro and in vivo testing of the new oligomers or polymers for their intended medical or biotechnological use.
The work is highly interdisciplinary and collaborative, and variously intersects the domains of synthetic bioorganic chemistry, biophysics, protein mimicry or modification, polymer, biopolymer and hydrogel engineering, and finally the invention of new microscale bioseparations technologies. Common threads are polymer science and biological applications.
05/09 Michelle Dohm and Brian Root successfully defend their Ph.D.'s at Northwestern University, Brian in Materials Science and Michelle in Physical Chemistry. Brian is working at a startup company in Virginia recently co-founded by Dr. Barron, Microlab Diagnostics, while Michelle is finishing up papers and will be coming out to Stanford to help out for a while with lung surfactant research, and to decide where she will postdoc. Brian still has three papers to submit--almost all work is done--while Michelle has at least four more papers to publish.
02/09 Dr. Annelise Barron presents a talk while graduate students Jennifer Coyne, Brian Root, Dan Hert, and Ryan Forster present posters at the MicroScale Bioseparations conference held in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Barron will chair the organization committee for the 2011 MicroScale Bioseparations conference, which will be held at Stanford.
10/08 Graduate student Rinki Kapoor presented a poster entitled "Peptoid Therapeutics for Treating Biofilm Infections" at the Annual Chemical and Systems Biology Department's Retreat.
02/09 Dr. Annelise Barron presents a talk while graduate students Jennifer Coyne, Brian Root, Dan Hert, and Ryan Forster present posters at the MicroScale Bioseparations conference held in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Barron will chair the organization committee for the 2011 MicroScale Bioseparations conference, which will be held at Stanford.
10/08 Graduate student Rinki Kapoor presented a poster entitled "Peptoid Therapeutics for Treating Biofilm Infections" at the Annual Chemical and Systems Biology Department's Retreat.
