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From left to right: Kevin D. Altria, Shigeru Amemiya, Marcella Chiari, Chris Culbertson, David L. Duewer, Julie V. Macpherson, Scott Saavedra, Jason Shear.

New members of the News and Features Advisory Panel Analytical Chemistry has chosen eight new members to serve on its News and Features Advisory Panel. The panel provides feedback on the news stories and feature articles published and proposes appropriate topics and authors for future coverage. Kevin D. Altria, an associate director in the pharmaceutical development department of GlaxoSmithKline (U.K.), received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the University of London. His main research interest is CE with a focus on industrial applications, primarily for pharmaceutical and chiral analysis. His other research focus is on the use of microemulsions in both HPLC and CE. He is the developer and maintainer of the website www. ceandcec.com. Shigeru Amemiya, an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh, received his B.S. and Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Tokyo. His research interests include

the study of chemical processes at nanostructured interfaces, biological membranes, and liquid/liquid interfaces as well as the development and application of amperometric/voltammetric ion-selective electrodes, nanofabricated chemical sensors, and scanning electrochemical microscopy. Marcella Chiari, a senior research scientist at the Italian National Research Council, earned her Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Milan (Italy). She is the director of the Analytical Microsystem Laboratory at the Institute of Molecular Recognition in Milan, and her research group focuses on electrophoretic methodologies. She has synthesized acrylamido derivatives for isoelectric focusing in immobilized pH gradients in slab-gel electrophoresis. She also developed new acrylic monomers and polymers for CE and microarray technology. Chris Culbertson, an assistant professor of chemistry at Kansas State Uni-

versity since 2002, received a B.A. in biology from Harvard University, a B.S. in chemistry from the University of West Florida, and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of North Carolina. His research interests include the development of microfabricated chemical instrumentation, single-cell assays, capillary LC, and novel materials and coatings for microfluidic devices. David L. Duewer, a research chemometrician at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, received his Ph.D. at the University of Washington, Seattle, and real-world education at Monsanto Agricultural Products. His current responsibilities include the design and interpretation of measurement quality assessment programs for nutrients in serum and food, forensic human identification, genomics, and proteomics as well as developing improved tools for the evaluation and presentation of chemical measurement performance characteristics. Julie V. Macpherson, an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Warwick (U.K.), received her Ph.D. in chemistry there in 1996. Her interests lie in the development of high-resolution electrical and electrochemical imaging techniques; investigation of the electrochemical properties of carbonbased materials, including diamond and single-walled carbon nanotubes; and microelectrodes for flow analysis. Scott Saavedra, a professor of chemistry at the University of Arizona since 1991, received his Ph.D. from Duke University. His research interests include the science of biosurfaces and interfaces, the development of chemical and biochemical sensors, artificial forms of photosynthesis, and spectroscopic techniques for the characterization of surfaces and interfaces. Jason Shear, a professor of chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin, received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. His research focuses on the design of biomaterials for cellular environments, chemical microanalysis with CE and sensor arrays, and microscopy.

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