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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:
Phone:
Fax: 471-0985

Jason B. Shear


jshear@mail.utexas.edu
Associate Professor, Faculty


Research Group


Shear Labs

Education


BS, University of Texas - Austin, 1989
PhD, Howard Hughes Predoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, 1995

NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University (1994-1996)

Awards


ACS 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
Top 100 Young Innovator citation, MIT Technology Review, 1999
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 1999
Searle Scholars Award, Kinship Foundation, 1998
Beckman Foundation Young Investigator Award, 1997

Affiliations


Beckman Center for the Design and Fabrication of Sensor Arrays; Institute for Neuroscience; Center for Nano- and Molecular Science and Technology; Waggoner Center for Alcohol & Addiction Research; Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology; 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 "Mask-Directed Multiphoton Lithography" J. Am. Chem. Soc 129 (2007): 1904 - 1905.

R. Nielson and J. B. Shear "Parallel Chemical Dosing of Subcellular Targets" Anal. Chem. (Accelerated Article) 78 (2006): 5987 - 5993.

R. T. Hill, J. L. Lyon, R. Allen, K. J. Stevenson, J. B. Shear "Microfabrication of Three-Dimensional Bioelectronic Architectures" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127 (2005): 10707 - 10711.

R. Allen, R. Nielson, D. D. Wise, and J. Shear "Catalytic Three-Dimensional Protein Architectures" Anal. Chem. (Accelerated Article) 77 (2005): 5089 - 5095.

B. Kaehr, R. Allen, D. J. Javier, J. Currie, J. B. Shear "Guiding Neuronal Development with in situ Microfabrication" Proc. Natl. Acad Sci. USA. 101 (2004): 16104 - 16108.

M. L. Plenert and J. B. Shear "Microsecond Electrophoresis" Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 100 (2003): 3853 - 3857.