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Brooke Maupin Holcombe
Graduate Student

Hometown:

• Muscle Shoals, Alabama

Education:

• University of North Alabama BS in Chemistry, BBA in Economics, minor in Mathematics

Joined IRIS:

• November 2020

Bio:

• Hi everyone! My name is Brooke and my husband, Chase, and I moved to Tuscaloosa in August of 2020. While I am working on my PhD in Chemistry, Chase is also a PhD student studying Statistics here at UA. In our free time, we enjoy spending time with friends, talking walks/hiking, and traveling. Roll Tide!​

Selected Publications

• Holcombe, B.; Foes, A.; Banerjee, S.; Yeh, K.; Wang, S.; Bhargava, R.; Ghosh, A.  Intermediate Antiparallel β Structure in Amyloid β Plaques Revealed by Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging. ACS Chemical Neuroscience, 2023, 14(20), 3794.  https://doi.org/10.1021/acschemneuro.3c00400​

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Ana Pacheco de Oliveira
Graduate Student

Hometown:

• Uberlandia, Brazil

Education:

• University of North Alabama BS in Professional Chemistry

Joined IRIS:

• November 2020

Bio:

• Hello everyone! I am Ana Pacheco and I am from Brazil. I enjoy all things Marvel, strawberry ice cream, and singing Christmas songs all year long.​

Selected Publications

• Pacheco de Oliveira, A.; Chase, W.; Confer, M.; Walker, S.; Baghel, D.; Ghosh, A. Colocalization of β-Sheets and Carotenoids in Aβ Plaques Revealed with Multimodal Spatially Resolved Vibrational Spectroscopy. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2023, 128(1), 33.  ​https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c04782

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Divya Lnu
Graduate Student

Hometown:

• Agra, India

Education:

• Aligarh Muslim University, India, Chemistry (Major), Zoology and Botany (Minors)

Joined IRIS:

• November 2021

Bio:

• Hello everyone! I go by "To Leave no stone unturned" Jogging, reading, watching movies and spending time with my loved ones makes me happy. "Work hard, Party harder".​

​Selected Publications

• Banerjee, S.; Baghel, D.; Pacheco de Oliveira, A.; Ghosh, A. β-Carotene, a Potent Amyloid Aggregation Inhibitor, Promotes Disordered Aβ Fibrillar Structure. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023, 24(6), 5175.  https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms24065175​
• LNU, D.; Banerjee, S.; Ghosh, A. Nanoscale infrared spectroscopy identifies structural evolution of Ab 16-22 fibrils from parallel to antiparallel beta sheets. Biophysical Journal, 2023, 354a.
  
  

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Harrison Edmonds
Graduate Student

Hometown:

• Weaverville, NC

Education:

• Western Carolina University, Chemistry

Joined IRIS:

• November 2021

Bio:

• Hello, My name is Harrison, during my undergraduate/graduate career at Western Carolina University I worked under Dr. Scott Huffman on mosquito species identification of mosquitoes using infrared spectroscopy. During this project, I adapted and employed a variety of machine learning (ML) techniques and began to learn the power of ML as a research tool. I look forward to having the opportunity to expand on this skill set as I develop (haha) as a member of the IRIS group.

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Tanmayee Naik
Graduate Student

Hometown:

• Pune, India

Education:

• Pune University, India, Chemistry

Joined IRIS:

• November 2021

Bio:

• Hello, I'm Tanmayee Naik Graduate Student in Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in UA Joined in Fall 2021 Completed my Undergrad and Master's in Chemistry From Pune University , India My Research Interest is in IR spectroscopy Contact me by email - [email protected]​

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Saumya Satyarthy
Graduate Student

Hometown:

• Uttar Pradesh, India

Education:

• Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneshwar, India

Joined IRIS:

• November 2021

​Bio:

• Hello everyone! I am Saumya Satyarthy from INDIA, My mantra in life is to live in a moment and enjoy every moment of life. I believe  "Journey is Often More Beautiful Than Destination."​

​Selected Publications

• Satyarthy, S.; Hasan Ul Iqbal, M.; Abida, F.; Nahar, R.; Hauser, A.; Ming-Cheng Cheng, M.; Ghosh, A. Stearic Acid as an Atomic Layer Deposition Inhibitor: Spectroscopic Insights from AFM-IR.  Nanomaterials, 2023, 13(19), 2713. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13192713

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