Curriculum Vitae

Samuel Joseph Lord

Ph. D. Candidate, Department of Chemistry

Mailcode: 5080 Mailbox: 99

Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5080

Office Phone: (650) 724-4052

email

Webpage: EverydayScientist.com

Education:

2004–

 

Ph. D. Chemistry

(expected 2010)

Stanford University

Stanford, CA

2001–2004

 

B. S. Chemistry

(with honors and with distinction)

University of North Carolina

Chapel Hill, NC

1999–2001

 

Worked toward B. A. Human Ecology

 

College of the Atlantic

Bar Harbor, ME

Academic Honors:

2004 Undergraduate Award for Excellence in Physical Chemistry (UNC)
2004 Hypercube Scholar (UNC)
2003 Thompson Undergraduate Research Award (UNC)
2002 National Starch and Chemical Companies Award (UNC)
1999 Presidential Scholarship (COA)

Research Experience:

2004–

 

W. E. Moerner

Stanford

 

Developing single-molecule fluorophores for cellular imaging

  • Designing and analyzing novel fluorophores (in close collaboration with a synthetic lab)
  • Carefully quantifying single-molecule and bulk photophysics of fluorophores
  • Developing skills

2003

 

Eric Shaqfeh & Steven Chu

Stanford

 

Single-DNA dynamics and polymer physics

  • Summer REU through CPIMA (Stanford/IBM/Berkeley)
  • Studied concentrated/entangled DNA solutions
  • Developed skills
    • Fluorescence Microscopy
    • Flow cells
    • DNA prep and concentration techniques
    • Polymer dynamics

2002–2004

 

Sergei Sheiko

UNC

 

Atomic-force microscopy studies of polymers

2000

 

Tony Planchart

The Jackson Laboratory

Bar Harbor, ME

Genetics and molecular cell biology

  • Exposed to basic skills of genetics laboratory
    • PCR
    • Gel electrophoresis
    • etc.

Teaching Experience:

2004–

 

Stanford

TA and Advanced TA

  • TA for Intro Chemistry (CHEM31X)
    • Taught weekly seminar meetings and led review sessions
  • TA for P-Chem Lab (CHEM174)
    • Guided and supervised students through various labs
  • Advanced TA for Statistical Mechanics (CHEM175)
    • Taught rotating weekly problem sessions
  • Advanced TA for Statistical Mechanics (CHEM175)
    • TAed again at the request of the professor

2003–2004

 

UNC

TA and Head TA for Intro Chemistry Lab

  • TA for Intro Chemistry Lab (CHEM11L)
    • Taught weekly lab section
  • Head TA for Intro Chemistry Lab (CHEM11L)
    • Taught weekly lab intro and supervised all sections

Academic and Community Service:

2007– Member, Optical Society of America
2007– Member, American Physical Society
2006–2008 Elected member of the Chemistry Department Student Affairs Committee
2006– Founder, blog.everydayscientist.com
2006– Member, American Chemical Society
2005– Member, New York Academy of Sciences
2005– Coordinator for the Student Hosted Physical Chemistry Series
2005–2006 Student host for speakers James Gimzewski and Watt W. Webb
2005– Group representative for recruiting, lab safety coordinator, and lab laser safety officer
2005– Founder & President, Stanford Chemical Physics Journal Club
2005 Volunteer mentor for a local middle school science fair 

Papers:

see CiteULike list of papers here; SJL current h-index: 3; total times cited: 48

  1. Lord, S. J.; Sheiko, S. S.; LaRue, I.; Lee, H. I.; Matyjaszewski, K. Tadpole conformation of gradient polymer brushes. Macromolecules 2004, 37(11), 4235–4240. (DOI: 10.1021/ma035989z)
  2. Twieg, R.; Wang, H.; Lu, Z. Kim, S. Y.; Lord, S.; Nishimura, S.; Schuck, P. J.; Willets, K. A.; Moerner, W. E. Synthesis, Properties, and Applications of Dicyanomethylenedihydrofuran (DCDHF) Single Molecule Fluorophores. Nonlinear Optics, Quantum Optics 2005, 34, 241–246.
  3. Nishimura, S. Y.; Lord, S. J.; Klein, L. O.; Willets, K. A.; Lu, Z.; He, M.; Twieg, R. J.; Moerner, W. E. Diffusion of Lipid-like Single-Molecule Fluorophores in the Cell Membrane. J. Phys. Chem. B 2006, 110(15), 8151–8157. (DOI: 10.1021/jp0574145)
  4. Lu, Z.; Lord, S. J.; Wang, H.; Moerner, W. E.; Twieg, R. J. A Long-Wavelength Analogue of PRODAN: Synthesis and Properties of Anthradan, a Fluorophore with a 2,6-Donor–Acceptor Anthracene Structure. J. Org. Chem. 2006, 71(26), 9651–9657. (DOI: 10.1021/jo0616660)
  5. Wang, H; Lu, Z.; Lord, S. J.; Willets, K. A.; Bertke, J. A.; Bunge, S. D.; Moerner, W. E.; Twieg, R. J. The influence of tetrahydroquinoline rings in dicyanomethylenedihydrofuran (DCDHF) single-molecule fluorophores. Tetrahedron 2007, 63(1), 103–114. (DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2006.10.044)
  6. Wang, H.; Lu, Z.; Lord, S. J.; Moerner, W. E.; Twieg, R. J. Modifications of DCDHF Single Molecule Fluorophores to Impart Water Solubility. Tetrahedron Lett. 2007, 48(19), 3471–3474. (DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2007.03.026)
  7. Lord, S. J.; Lu, Z.; Wang, H.; Willets, K. A.; Schuck, P. J; Lee, H. D.; Nishimura, S. Y.; Twieg, R. J.; Moerner, W. E. Photophysical Properties of Acene DCDHF Fluorophores: Long-Wavelength Single-Molecule Emitters Designed for Cellular Imaging. J. Phys. Chem. A, 2007, 111(37), 8934–8941. (DOI: 10.1021/jp0712598)
  8. Moerner, W. E.; Schuck, P. J.; Fromm, D. P.; Kinkhabwala, A.; Lord, S. J.; Nishimura, S. N.; Willets, K. A.; Sundaramurthy, A.; Kino, G.; He, M.; Lu, Z.; Twieg, R. J. “Nanophotonics and Single Molecules” in Single Molecules and Nanotechnology; R. Rigler and H. Vogel, Eds.; Springer Series in Biophysics, Vol. 12; Springer-Verlag: Berlin, 2008; pp 1–23. (ISBN: 978-3-540-73923-4)
  9. Semyonov, A. N.; Willets, K. A.; Lord, S. J.; Moerner, W. E.; Twieg, R. J. Dihydropyrrolo[3,4-c]pyrrole-1,4-dione Single-Molecule Fluorophores. (in preparation)
  10. Lu, Z.; Liu, N.; Lord, S. J.; Willets, K. A.; Moerner, W. E.; Twieg, R. J. Bright, Red Single-Molecule Emitters: Synthesis and Properties of Environmentally Sensitive Dicyanomethylenedihydrofuran (DCDHF) Fluorophores with Bisaromatic Conjugation. (in preparation)

Talks and Posters:

  1. Lord, S. J.; Alyono, J.; Lu, Z.; Wang, H.; Twieg, R. J.; Moerner, W. E. DCDHF Photophysics: Designing New Single-Molecule Fluorophores for Cellular Imaging. Poster presented at Gordon Research Conference, Single Molecule Approaches to Biology, New London, NH, June 2006.
  2. Lord, S. J.; Alyono, J.; Lu, Z.; Wang, H.; Liu, N.; Weber, R.; Twieg, R. J.; Moerner, W. E. DCDHF photophysics: designing new single-molecule fluorophores for cellular imaging. Poster presented at the 232nd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 2006.
  3. Lord, S. J.; Alyono, J.; Lu, Z.; Wang, H.; Liu, N.; Weber, R.; Twieg, R. J.; Moerner, W. E. DCDHF photophysics: designing new single-molecule fluorophores for cellular imaging. Poster presented at the Center for Probing the Nanoscale's 3rd Annual Nanoprobes Workshop, Stanford, CA, March 2007.
  4. Lord, S. J.; Wang, H.; Liu, N.; Lu, Z.; Twieg, R. J.; Moerner, W. E. DCDHF Fluorophores Designed for Single-Molecule Cellular Imaging. Oral presentation at the 91st OSA Annual meeting (Frontiers in Optics), San Jose, CA, September 2007.

 

 

updated 3/21/2008