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Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station A5300
Austin, TX 78712-0165
Contact Information
Office: WEL: 3.426
Phone: 232-1454
Lab
Office: WEL 3.246
Phone: 232-1994
Fax: 471-0985
Jason B. Shear
jshear@mail.utexas.edu
Professor, Faculty
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Research GroupShear Labs |
EducationBS, University of Texas - Austin, 1989 PhD, Howard Hughes Predoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, 1995 NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University (1994-1996) |
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AwardsACS Arthur F. Findeis Award in Analytical Chemistry, 2005 Beckman Scholars Advisory Panel, 2004 Research noted as a Chemical Development of the Year by C&E News, 2003 Eli Lilly Grantee in Analytical Chemistry, 2000 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 1999 Top 100 Young Innovator citation, MIT Technology Review, 1999 Searle Scholars Award, Kinship Foundation, 1998 Beckman Foundation Young Investigator Award, 1997 |
Affiliations
Center for Nano- and Molecular Science and Technology; Beckman Center for the Design and Fabrication of Sensor Arrays; Institute for Neuroscience; Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology; Waggoner Center for Alcohol & Addiction Research; IGERT: Optical Biomedical Engineering; Texas Materials Institute;
Research
Our research focuses on bioanalytical, biomaterial, and biophysical studies at molecular and cellular levels, with emphases on high-speed and high-sensitivity chemical separations, laser-based studies of neuronal development and communication, and design of sensor arrays. The group is comprised of scientists of diverse backgrounds, including analytical/physical chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology, and biomedical engineering, with technological expertise in capillary electrophoresis, materials science, microscopy, and other optical methods, including laser tweezers and multiphoton-promoted photofabrication. A detailed description of our current interests can be found at our web site, [url]http://research.cm.utexas.edu/jshear/[/url].
Representative Publications
B. Kaehr and J. B. Shear "High-Throughput Design of Microfluidics Based on Directed Bacterial Motility" Lab Chip 9 (2009): 2632-2637.
R. Nielson, B. Kaehr, and J. B. Shear "Microreplication and Design of Biological Architectures using Dynamic-Mask Multiphoton Lithograpy" Small 5 (2009): 120-125.
S. Seidlits, C. Schmidt, and J. B. Shear "High-Resolution Patterning and Guidance of Cells in Three Dimensions using Direct-Write Photofabrication" Adv. Funct. Mat. (2009): in press.
E. Ritschdorff, M. L. Plenert, and J. B. Shear "Bi-Directional Microsecond Electrophoresis" Anal. Chem. (2009): DOI: 10.1021/ac901283y.
B. Kaehr and J. B. Shear "Multiphoton fabrication of chemically responsive protein hydrogels for microactuation" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105 (2008): 8850-8854.
B. Kaehr and J. B. Shear "Mask-Directed Multiphoton Lithography" J. Am. Chem. Soc 129 (2007): 1904-1905.