Chemistry
& Biochemistry
Garrell Research Group
Robyn Hodgkins
Organic Chemistry
Contact Information
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
UCLA
4085 C Young Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569
tel. 310- 206-9434
fax. 310-206-2061
Robyn received her B.S. in Chemistry, Minor in Art and Art History from Trinity University May 2005 after which she was accepted into the UCLA graduate program for Organic Chemistry and Materials Conservation. In June 2008, Robyn received her M.S. in Chemistry from UCLA and is continuing her studies for a doctoral degree. Robyn is the recipient of the UCLA NSF-IGERT Materials Creation Training Program Traineeship (2009-2011), UCLA Chemistry and Biochemistry Excellence in Teaching Award (Fall 2008), TU Chemistry Department Senior Service Award (Spring 2005), Dean's List (Fall 2002), and Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo School Art Scholarship 2001. Robyn is a member of the American Chemical Society, the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, and is an International Council of Museums- Committee for Conservation (ICOM-CC) Student Friend. Her research interests include Chemistry and Art Conservation, Polyaniline and sol-gels as anticorrosive coatings on iron, bronze, brass, and copper, Deterioration of Natural History Museum fossil collection, Identification of salts on museum collections, Detection and quantification of acetic and formic acids in museum environments, and experimental determination of acetic and formic acid diffusion coefficients.
Alex Tucker-Schwartz
Organic Chemistry
Contact Information
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
UCLA
4085 C Young Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569
tel. 310- 206-9434
fax. 310-206-2061
Graduated Magna Cum Laude from Dickinson College, in 2005, with a B.S. in Chemistry and Mathematics and began graduate school in 2005 at the University of California, Los Angeles in the Organic Chemistry Ph.D. program. At Dickinson Alex was the recipient of the CRC Freshman Chemistry Achievement Award, William W. Landis Memorial Prize in Mathematics, Polymer Award for Excellence in Organic Chemistry, The Richard M. Sheeley Scholarship in Chemistry, Horace Elton Rogers Chemistry Scholarship, American Chemical Society Outstanding Senior Award, and was inducted into Alpha Lambda Delta, National Honor Society, Pi Mu Epsilon, National Mathematics Honors Society, and Gamma Sigma Epsilon, National Chemistry Honors Society. Alex’s research interests include merging the world of droplet-based microfluidics with solid supported organocatalysis to build molecular libraries.
Debalina Chatterjee
Biomedical Engineering
Contact Information
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
UCLA
4085 C Young Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569
tel. 310- 206-9434
fax. 310-206-2061
Biographical Sketch
Debalina Chatterjee received her B.S. degree in Instrumentation Engineering from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India in 1999, and M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of California Los Angeles, UCLA in 2003. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Biomedical Engineering at UCLA. Debalina’s research involves design and fabrication of microfludic lab on a chip platform for sample preparation and array based analyses. Her dissertation focuses on the following areas: (1) Digital Microfluidics with Nonaqueous Solvents and Solution, and (2) Proteomics with digital microfluidics.
