Engineer Mechanical Engineering

Dawn Lynn NIDA

Food Protection Team Email: **********@*****.***

NSRDEC Home Address:

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Natick, MA 01760 Hopkinton, MA 01748

Work Phone: 508-***-**** Cell Phone: 512-***-****

Career Goals

To obtain a consulting position utilizing my diverse background

Education

Rice University, Houston, TX 2008

Doctor of Philosophy: Biomedical Engineering

Development of optical probes for in vivo imaging

Dissertation Topic:

Advisor: Dr. Rebecca Richards Kortum

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 2000

Master of Materials Science and Engineering: Materials Engineering

TEM/Mathematical characterization of twinning in III V

Thesis Topic:

semiconductors

Supervisor: Dr. Nadia El Masry

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 1998

Bachelor of Science: Materials Engineering

Research and Professional Experience

NSRDEC, Food Protection Team, Natick, MA Oct 2009 present

Materials Engineer

Developed methods to functionalize nanofibers with bio recognition elements

Developed methods to functionalize and characterize graphene with bio-recognition elements

Characterized degree of labeling using confocal microcopy, Fourier infrared spectroscopy, AFM and

SEM

Developed techniques and methods to determine the physical and genetic responses of pathogens to

stressors

Developed methodologies to extract pathogens from food samples

Developed biological and chemical assays to understand nanoparticle interactions with cells

Developed graphene based field effect transistors to detect pathogens

Developed methods to characterize and understand nanoparticle cytotoxicity due to digestion

Designed and built a bench top fluorescent reader

Developed field portable techniques to isolate and detect chemical toxins

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nanoscale Sensing Laboratory, Cambridge, MA Aug 2008 Oct

2009

Post Doctoral Researcher

Designed mass enhancement techniques to detect pathogens

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Designed and implemented sedimentation assays

Characterized mass based enhancement agents with: SEM, wide field microscopy, absorbance, and cell

culture

Optimization of gold antibody labeling techniques

The University of Texas/ Rice University, Optical Spectroscopy and Imaging Laboratory, Austin, TX

Graduate Research Assistant Sept 2002 May 2008

Synthesized CdTe quantum dots via high temperature organometallic synthesis

Designed synthesis techniques to functionalize quantum dot surfaces

Designed synthesis techniques to tether antibodies to quantum dots

Developed new contrast agents

Characterized contrast agents with: TEM, XRD, Absorption Spectroscopy, PL, DLS, Confocal

Microscopy

Utilized targeted quantum dots to label and image squamous cell carcinoma

Directed targeting of quantum dots and organic dyes to mouse tumors in vivo

Comparison of targeting proteins in vivo

Samsung Austin Semiconductor, Austin, TX July 2000 Sept 2001

Failure Analysis Engineer/Photolithography Engineer (40 50 hrs/wk)

Maintained all photolithography processes within statistical process control

Used analysis techniques to determine the physical cause of failure in DRAM

Determined the processing step(s) responsible for failure

Feedback to processing engineers to remedy problem

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC Aug 1998 May 2000

Graduate Research Assistant

Characterization of III V thin film semiconductor materials

Used transmission electron microscopy to characterize defects in III V semiconductors

Mathematically verified twinning of III V semiconductors from diffraction patterns obtained via TEM

National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD Summer 1998

Student Researcher

Correlated interfacial reactions in metal contacts (Ti, Al, Ni, Au) to GaN with phase equilibria in the

Metal/GaN systems

Aided in experimental and mathematical analysis to develop ternary phase diagrams of metals and

semiconductors

Assessed pressure temperature composition phase diagram of the GaN/Metal system

Publications

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1. Sokolov K, Aaron J, Hsu B, Nida D, Gillenwater A, Follen M., MacAulay C, Alder Storthz K,

Korgel B, Descour M., Pasqualini R, Arap W, Lam W, Richards Kortum R., “Optical Systems for In

Vivo Molecular Imaging of Cancer,” Opt. Express 11, 1436 1451 (2003).

2. Nida D, Rahman M, Carlson K, Richards Kortum R, Follen M, “Fluorescent Nanocrystals for Use

in Early Cervical Cancer Detection,” Gynecological Oncology 2005, 99 (3), S89 S94.

3. Sokolov K, Nida D, Descour M, Lacy A, Dharmawardhane S, Ellington A, Korgel B, Richards

Kortum R. (2006). Molecular Optical Imaging of Therapeutic Targets of Cancer. Adv. Cancer Research

2007, 96, 299 344.

4. Nida D, Nitin N, Yu W, Colvin V, Richards Kortum R, “Photostability of Quantum Dots with

Varied Surface Passivation Strategies,” Nanotechnology 2008, 19 (3), Art. 035701.

5. Muldoon T, Nida D, Gillenwater A, Richards Kortum R, “Subcellular resolution molecular imaging

within living tissue by fiber microendoscopy,” Optics Express 2007, 15(25), 164**-*****.

6. Marek P, Senecal K, Nida D, Magnone J, Senecal A, “Application of a biotin functionalized QD

assay for determining available binding sites on electrospun nanofiber membrane,” J. Nanotech 2011

9(48).

Presentations and Posters

Nida D, Hsu E, Shieh F, Korgel B, Follen M, Sokolov K Richards Kortum K, “Cellular labeling of SiHa and

oral biopsies with quantum dot bioconjugates” SPIE Photonics West Biomedical Optics, January 2005.

Nida D, Hsu E, Shieh F, Korgel B, Follen M, Sokolov K Richards Kortum K, “Cellular labeling of SiHa and

oral biopsies with quantum dot bioconjugates” poster presentation, Gordon Research Conference on

Lasers in Medicine and Biology, July 2004.

Nida D, Hsu E, Shieh F, Korgel B, Follen M, Sokolov K Richards Kortum K, “Cellular labeling of SiHa and

oral biopsies with quantum dot bioconjugates” SPIE Photonics West Biomedical Optics, January 2004.

Nida D, Nitin N, Yu W, Colvin V Richards Kortum K, “Quantum Dot Conjugates: An Evaluation of

Passivation Strategies” SPIE Photonics West Biomedical Optics, January 2007.

Knudsen S, Nida D, von Muhlen M, Delgado F, Marek P, Magnone J, Senecal A, Manalis S, “Suspended

Microchannel Resonators for Pathogen Detection” ICB, March 2009.

Benjamin Mailly, Allen Hsu, Francesco Pappalardo, Dawn Nida, Elio Guidetti, Luigi Occhipinti, Salvatore

Coffa, Jing Kong, Tomas Palacios, “Graphene Chemical Sensors on Flexible Substrates,” American

Physical Society, March 2012.

Teaching Experience

Lecturer, Department of Bioengineering, Rice University 2006

- Mechanical Testing Laboratory (BIOE 444)

Research Supervisor, The University of Texas at Austin

Mentored 1 electrical engineering undergraduate student 2004 2005

“Development of new optically active contrast agents”

Mentored 1 biomedical engineering undergraduate student 2005

“Conjugation of CdTe quantum dots to targeting ligands”

Research Supervisor, Rice University

Mentored 1 chemistry undergraduate student for project in conjunction with 2005

Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology Research Experience for

Undergraduates (CBEN REU)

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“Development of Nanoshells”

Lecturer, Materials/Mechanical Engineering Department, North Carolina State University 2000

- Mechanical Engineering Laboratory I (MAE 305)

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References

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