November 4-6, 2009

Bryan Kaehr currently holds the President Harry S. Truman Fellowship in National Security Science and Engineering (2008-2011) at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM—a 3 year appointment awarded to new Ph.D. scientists who have made significant breakthroughs in their thesis work. Bryan earned a PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Texas at Austin in 2007. Studying under Jason Shear, Professor of Analytical Chemistry, he developed a microfabrication approach compatible with living cells and invented a 3D microprinting process combining photomask-based lithography with three-dimensional photochemistry. This technology has been employed across a range of areas including the development of micro-scale, 3D smart materials and bacterial-driven microfluidics. His work published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society, and Lab on a Chip has been featured in Nature, Scientific American, and Materials Today. From 2007-2008, he worked as lead scientific consultant for a Bay Area venture firm specializing in microtechnologies applied to medicine and energy conversion.

This guest residency is in collaboration with the Burton D. Morgan Program in Liberal Arts and Entrepreneurship Education and the Chemistry & Biochemistry Departments.