Meet the Team

We are always building our group.  Please contact Prof. Reuel if you are interested in joining as a post-doc, graduate student, or undergraduate researcher (use mail icon below).  Please send your resume along with short paragraph explaining your career aspirations.

Summer 2021 Group Picnic 

Spring 2017 Reuel Group Croquet Tournament

Spring 2018 Reuel Group Kubbb Tournament
​ (a.k.a. Viking Chess or ​Stickey Sticks) 

Principal Investigator

Nigel F. Reuel
Jack R. and Carol A. Johnson Faculty Fellow
Director of Graduate Education
COE Entrepreneurial Fellow
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering MIT 2014
@ReuelGroup

Lab interests: Proteins, sensors, 'simple,' and 'frugal' systems
Out of lab: father of 5, year round cyclist, start ups, reading, amateur water polo

Graduate Students

Alumni​

Dr. Sadaf Charkhabi - PhD July 2020, @3M
Dr. Jared Dopp - PhD July 2021, @Merck
​Dr. Nathaniel Kallmyer - PhD July 2021, @Zymosense 
Dr. Denis Tamiev - PhD October 2021, @Enveda Biosciences
Dr. Adam Carr - PhD September 2022, @BigHat Biosciences

Undergraduate Researchers

1. Matthew Kelly (2019) - Nanosensors for farm feed
2. Cullen Walsh (2018-2019) - Frugal science gantry system
3. Mohamed (Seddik) Abdennadher (2018-2019) - Soil and cancer nanosensors
4. Yash Patel (visiting from Institute of Technology, Nirma University Spring 2019) - Sweat sensing
5. YeongRan (Katherine) Jo (Spring 2019) - Cell free protein synthesis of hydrolases
6. Juhyung (Ju) Jung (Summer and Fall 18) – Cell Free Protein Synthesis
7. Sarah Ketcham (Fall 18) – Smart surface resonant sensors for food
8. Branden Moreau (Fall 18) – Resonant sensors for proteins
9. Chuck Neff (Fall 18) – Hydration sensor
10. Maktoom AlSeiari (Fall 18) – Ion detection with resonant sensors
11. Rachel Khor (Summer and Fall 18) – Lipase sensor
12. Mason Furnish (Spring and Fall 18) – Portable reader for Resonant Sensors
13. Nathan Munn (Spring and Fall 18) - Protein sensing with Resonant Sensors
14. Alex Kooistra (Spring and Fall 18) – Frugal science XY gantry system
15. Cameron Greenwalt (Spring 18 Honors Freshman) – CFPS Protocols
16. Abdul Azizz (Fall 17 and Spring 18) – Low cost detector for SWNT
17. Austin Allen (Spring 18) – Frugal science syringe pump
18. Sparsh Agarwal (Spring and Fall 18) – SWNT Fluorescence in EM Field
19. Erica Peterson (Spring 18) Honors Thesis – “Enzyme Activity Monitoring for Agricultural Applications via Nanotube Technology”
20. Mazen Abdullah (Spring and Fall 18) – Expression active proteins with CFPS
21. Ahmed Mansoor (Spring 18) – CFPS Lyophylization
22. Nate Rider (Griswold Spring and Fall 18) – SPPS on Nanotubes
23. Samuel Kramer (Spring and Fall 18) – SWNT Chiral separation
24. Nathan Roby (Spring 18) – Phospholipid solubilized SWNT
25. Kyle Jackson (Fall 17 and Spring, Fall 18) – Tissue Dielectric Spectroscopy
26. Lionel Dkhar (Fall 17 and Spring 18) – Electrophoretic chiral separation of SWNT
27. Jia Wu (Summer 2017 BioMAP REU student) – Ions with Resonant Sensors
28. Grant Silliman (Summer 2017) – Genetic protocols with Bacillus
29. Sam Miller (Griswold Fall 2017) – Portable reader for resonant sensors
30. Suzanna Bart (Fall 2017) – Cell free extract that is devoid of living cells
31. Joseph Musielewicz* (Fall 2016 to present) – nIR Reader for Nanotube Sensors
32. Viktoriia Kriuchkovskaia (Fall 2016 to present) – Low cost optics for nIR sensors / Resonant Sensors for Biofilms
33. Zhanyi Yao (Spring 2016) – AFM measurements of nanotubes
34. Brandon Evans (Spring 2016) – Wireless experiment monitors
35. Tyler Kirscht (Spring 2016) – Frugal Science QCM
36. Joel Sutter (Spring 2016 to present) – Microscope modifications
37. Yee Chan (Spring 2016 to present) – Evanescent Wave Illuminator for SWNT
38. Jacob Rudeen (Spring 2016) – CFPS optimization
39. Dustin Thomas (Spring 2016 to Aug 2016) – Membranes for Antenna Sensors
40. Alyssa Lantz (Spring 2016 to present) – Programmable proteases
41. Andee Beierle (Spring 2016 to present) – Antenna Hydration Sensors
42. J. Conner Graves (Spring 2016 to 2017) – Raman Spectroscopy of Nanotubes
43. Trinh Huynh (Summer 2016 to Dec 2017) – Nanotube sonication optimization
44. Megan Otto (Spring 2016) – A Beginner’s Guide to CFPS
45. Han Jong Shin (Fall 2016 to Dec 2017) – Mouse hibernation chamber / Online cell density measurements / In Field Measurement tools