Nadine PERNODET
    Assistant Professor
Physical Chemist, Ph.D., (Polymers)

Chemical and Molecular Engineering Program
Materials Sciences and Engineering
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, New York
11794-2275

Old Engineering Building
Tel: 631-632-8491 (work)
FAX: 631-632-8052
npernodet@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

     


Education
1990-1992   Chemistry degree. Franche-comte University, Besancon, France.
1992   Chemistry degree. Franche-comte University, Besancon, France. BS Physical Chemistry. Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France.
1993   MS Physical Chemistry. Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France.
1996   Ph.D. Physical Chemistry, Polymers, Institut Charles Sadron,
Strasbourg, France. Passed with distinction.


Experience

2006-present: Assistant Professor.
SUNY at Stony Brook.
Department of Materials Science.
Program of Chemical Engineering.

2002- August 2006:
Adjunct Professor/Research Scientist.
SUNY at Stony Brook.
Department of Materials Science.

  • Control of protein organization on synthetic surfaces and subsequent control of cell behavior.
  • Cell mechanical properties related to surface mechanical properties.
  • Cell response to chemistry.
  • Cell response to nano- and micro-scale patterns, as well as nano- and microparticles.
  • Extracellular matrix on surfaces: lab on a chip ? comparison between normal extracellular matrix formation to pathological extracellular matrix, such as diabetes.

1998- 2002:
Research Scientist.
SUNY at Stony Brook.
Department of Orthopaedics-Biomedical Engineering with Prof. Kenneth McLeod.

  • Protein adsorption and cell adhesion on surfaces. Extracellular matrix organization.
  • Engineered novel surfaces to mimic cell membrane: Influence of surface charge density protein adsorption.
  • Influence from external agents (chemicals or electrical)
  • Effect on cell adhesion.
  • Analysis of protein structure and organization by Atomic Force Microscopy in situ.

1998- present:
Brookhaven National Laboratory Guest

1997- 1998:
Postdoctorate.
SUNY at Stony Brook
Department of Chemistry in Prof. Ben Chu's laboratory.

  • Design of novel surfaces useful for DNA separation during electrophoresis
  • Surface DNA Electrophoresis
  • Nanopatterning with copolymers.
  • Surface Interactions with DNA.
  • Surfaces characterization by AFM, DNA adsorption (Quartz Crystal Microbalance).
  • DNA dynamics by confocal microscopy using laser induced Fluorescence.


Techniques

  • AFM (Atomic Force Microscopy). LFM (Lateral Force Modulation).
  • Confocal microscopy.
  • Cell cultures.
  • Surface preparation.
  • FRAP (Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching), light scattering, electric birefringence.
  • Electrophoresis, capillary electrophoresis.
  • HPLC (chromatography), ellipsometry, UV- spectroscopy.
  • Langmuir/Blodgett films.
  • Experience in neutron scattering, FTIR, scientific and graphic softwares.


Patents

  • Adsorption of Polyampholytes to Charged Surfaces and Assays.

  • Patent filed on Jan.13th, 2006. Single cancer cell detection.


Grants

National Science Foundation/NER:
"Nano-Fabricated Photosensitive Polymers for Controlled Cell Manipulation in 2D & 3D".
Award number: 30302
Award Period: 9/1/03- 8/31/05.
Nan-Loh Yang, CUNY and Nadine Pernodet, SUNY. $100,000.

National Institute of Health/NIBIB.
"Physics and Biology - A Material Sciences Approach".
Miriam Rafailovich and Nadine Pernodet. $10,000. 1R13 EB004243-01.

Award number: 32828.
Support for Conference held in Paris from June 28 to July 1st, 2004.

2004 USB-BNL Seed Grant
"Which Comes Frist, the Eggshell or Its Genes?
Mimicking Biomineralization with Artificial Protein Networks".
Miriam Rafailovich, Elaine DiMasi and Nadine Pernodet. $20,000.
Award number: 000079.

Conference Organization

"Physics and Biology: A Materials Approach".
Organizer Committee: Nadine Pernodet, Miriam Rafailovich, Pascal Silberzan.
Sponsored by NSF and NIH.


Honors

  • Doctorate Fellowship from the French Research and Technology Agency.
  • Mentor Recognition. Siemens Westinghouse Competition. Siemens Foundation.


Membership

  • 2003- present: American Physical Society, APS.
  • 2003- present: Materials Research Society, MRS.

Judge for LISEF (Long Island Science and Engineering Fair) fair 2005 for High School students.


Publications

  1. B.Tinland, N.Pernodet, G.Weill (1996). "Field and pore size dependence of the electrophoretic mobility of DNA: a combination of FRAP and Electric Birefringence measurements", Electrophoresis, 17, 1046-1051.

  2. N.Pernodet, M.Maaloum, B.Tinland, (1997). "Pore size of agarose gels by Atomic Force Microscopy", Electrophoresis, 18, 55-58.

  3. N. Pernodet, B. Tinland, (1997). "Influence of *-DNA concentration on mobilities and dispersion coefficients during agarose gel electrophoresis", Biopolymers, 471-478.

  4. M. Maaloum, N. Pernodet, B. Tinland (1998). "Agarose Gel Structure using Atomic Force Microscopy. Gel concentration and ionic strength effects", Electrophoresis, 19, 1606-1610.

  5. B. Tinland, N. Pernodet, A. Pluen (1998). "Band broadening in gel electrophoresis: Scaling laws for the dispersion coefficient measured by FRAP", Biopolymers, 46, 201-214.

  6. N. Pernodet, B. Tinland, J. Sturm, G. Weill (1999). "Brownian diffusion and electrophoretic transport of double-stranded DNA in agarose gels", Biopolymers, 50: (1), 45-59.

  7. N. Pernodet, K. Shin, H. White, A. Rahman, C.J. Durning, J. Sokolov, M. Rafailovich, B. Chu (2006) "The Effect of Surface Interactions on DNA Adsorption", Langmuir, (to be submitted).

  8. N. Pernodet, K. Shin, D. Gersappe, J. Sokolov, M. Rafailovich, B. Chu (2000). "DNA Electrophoresis on a Surface", Physical Review Letters, 85(26), 5651-5654.

  9. N. Pernodet, M. Rafailovich, J. Sokolov, D. Xu, N.L. Yang, K.J. McLeod (2003). "Surface charge density mediates spontaneous fibronectin matrix formation". J.Biomed.Mat.Res. 64(4), 684-692.

  10. N. Pernodet, L. Collazo, M. Rafailovich, J. Sokolov, D. Xu, N.L. Yang, K.J. McLeod (2006). "Electric Field Effects on Fibronectin Matrix Formation and Cell Behavior", American Journal of Physiology- Cell Physiology, (submitted).

  11. J. Jerome, S. Zhu, Y-S. Seo, M. Ho, N. Pernodet, R. Gambino, J. Sokolov, M. Rafailovich, V. Zaitsev, S. Schwartz, R. DiNardo (2004). "Phase Segregation of Thin Film Polymer Blends on Au Nanopatterned Si Substrates". Macromolecules 37(17), 6504-6510.

  12. N. Pernodet, Xiaohua Fang, Asya Bakhtina, Abraham Ulman, Miriam Rafailovich (2006). "Effects of Citrate/Gold Nanoparticles on Human Dermal Fibroblasts". SMALL 2(6), 766-773.

  13. K. Subburaman, N. Pernodet, S.Y. Kwak, E. DiMasi, S. Ge, V. Zaitsev, X. Ba, N.L. Yang, M. Rafailovich. (2006) " Templated Biomineralization on Self-Assembled Protein Fibers" PNAS 2006 (published).

  14. N. Pernodet, Jessica Fields, Kaustabh Ghosh, Taylor Bernheim, Shouren Ge, Lenny Slutsky, Jonathan Sokolov, Miriam Rafailovich. (2006). "Single Cancer Cell Detection through Mechanics". Nature Biotechnology (submitted).


Conferences and Proceedings/Abstracts

  1. APS March Meeting, March 2006, Baltimore.

  2. MRS Meeting, November 2005, Boston.
    "Single cancer cell detection"
    Nadine Pernodet, Jessica Fields, Lenny Slutsky, Kaustabh Ghosh, Taylor Bernheim, Shouren Ge, Jonathan Sokolov, Miriam Rafailovich.

  3. MRS Meeting, November 2005, Boston.
    "Effects of Aging and Cell Mechanical Properties"
    Nadine Pernodet, Lenny Slustsky, Anna Shneidman, Madelyn Ho, Shouren Ge, Miriam Rafailovich.

  4. MRS Meeting, November 2005, Boston.
    "Biomineralization Studies on Self-Assembled Protein Fibers"
    Karthikeyan Subburaman, Nadine Pernodet, Seo-Young Kwak, Elaine DiMasi, Shouren Ge, Nan-loh Yang, Miriam Rafailovich.

  5. MRS Meeting. November 2004. Boston.
    "Effects of Gold Nanoparticles on Dermal Fibroblasts"
    Nadine Pernodet, Xiaohua Fang, Asya Bakhtina, Abraham Ulman, Miriam Rafailovich.

  6. MRS Meeting. November 2004. Boston.
    "Protein Self-Assembly on Patterned Surfaces"
    Karthikeyan Subburaman, Nadine Pernodet, Miriam Rafailovich, Nan-Loh Yang.

  7. Physics and Biology: A Materials Approach. NSF/NIH. June 2004. Paris, France.
    "Control of Cell Morphology through Protein Organization on Au/Si Micropatterns"
    Nadine Pernodet, Lenny Slutsky, John Jerome, Miriam Rafailovich.

  8. American Physical Society. March Meeting 2004. Montreal, Canada.
    "Control of cell morphology through protein organization on Au/Si micropatterns"
    Nadine Pernodet, Lenny Slutsky, John Jerome, Miriam Rafailovich.

  9. American Physical Society. March Meeting 2004. Montreal, Canada.
    "Cell Responses to Patterned Surfaces from Micro- to Nano-scale topography"
    Madelyn Ho, Lenny Slutsky, Miriam Rafailovich, Nadine Pernodet.

  10. American Physical Society. March Meeting 2004. Montreal, Canada.
    "ECM Proteins Glycosylation and Relation to Diabetes"
    Nadine Pernodet, Ayla Bloomberg, Vandana Sood, Lenny Slutsky, Shouren Ge, Richard Clark, Miriam Rafailovich.

  11. NSF/MRSEC Workshop. SUNY at Stony Brook. 2003.
    "Self-Organization of Proteins and Cells on Surfaces".
    Nadine Pernodet, Miriam Rafailovich, Richard Clark, Elena Cimboiasu,, Nan-Loh Yang, Lenny Slutsky, Madelyn Ho, Michelle Simpser, Rikky Frenkel, John Jerome.

  12. Workshop NSF/MRSEC. April 2003. Stanford University.
    "Self-Organization of Proteins on Patterned Surfaces- (A Seed Project of the GARCIA MRSEC)"
    Nadine Pernodet, John Sokolov, Miriam Rafailovich, Richard Clark, Lourdes Collazo, Elena Cimboiasu,, Nan-Loh Yang, Lenny Slutsky, Madelyn Ho, Michelle Simpser, Rikky Frenkel.

  13. American Physical Society. March Meeting 2003. Austin, TX.
    "Control of fibronectin organization by Au/Si micropatterns and impact on cell morphology".
    N. Pernodet, L. Slutsky, J. Jerome, M. Rafailovich.

  14. American Physical Society. March Meeting 2003. Austin, TX.
    "Spontaneous Natural Fibrillogenesis on Charged Surfaces".
    N. Pernodet, M. Simpser, R. Frenkel, L. Collazo, M. Rafailovich.

  15. Functional Nanostructure Symposium, August 2001. Brookhaven National Lab. Upton, NY.
    "Self-Organization of Fibronectin on Sulfonated Polystyrene"
    Nadine Pernodet, Nan-Loh Yang, Miriam Rafailovich, Kenneth McLeod.

  16. BEMS 23rd annual meeting, Saint Paul, Minnesota, June 10-14, 2001:
    "Induced Charge Effects on Extracellular matrix formation"
    N. Pernodet, C. Laramee, M. Rafailovich, J. Sokolov, K. McLeod.

  17. The 4th Annual University/Industry Workshop GARCIA-MRSEC:
    Biofunctional Systems and Polymers at Interfaces, Munich, Germany, June 20-22, 2001:
    "Spontaneous Fibronectin Matrix Organization Induced by Charged Surfaces"
    N. Pernodet, M. Rafailovich, J. Sokolov, K. McLeod.

  18. BEMS 22nd annual meeting, Munich, Germany, June 9-16, 2000:
    "Surface Charge Density Mediates Spontaneous Fibronectin Matrix Formation in the Absence of Cells"
    N. Pernodet, M. Rafailovich, J. Sokolov, K. McLeod.

  19. American Physical Society, March 2000 meeting, Mineapolis, Minnesota, March 20-24, 2000.
    Section: Biopolymers. Ref: K23.013
    "Spontaneous formation of fibronectin network on charged surfaces".
    N. Pernodet, D. Gersappe, J. Sokolov, M. Rafailovich, K. McLeod.

  20. American Physical Society Centennial Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, March 20-26, 1999.
    "DNA Fractionation on a Silicon Wafer".
    N. Pernodet, K.W. Shin, H. White, J. Sokolov, M. Rafailovich, B. Chu.

  21. MRSEC, Stony Brook, New York, 1998.
    "DNA Electrophoresis on a block copolymer Surface".
    N. Pernodet, K.W. Shin, H. White, M. Rafailovich, J. Sokolov, B. Chu.

  22. Garcia MRSEC Annual Workshop, Brookhaven National Laboratory, October 25-27, 1998.
    "The Effect of Surface Interaction on DNA Adsorption and DNA Fractionation".
    N. Pernodet, K.W. Shin, H. White, A. Rahman, C. Durning, M. Rafailovich, J. Sokolov, B. Chu.

  23. Garcia MRSEC Annual Workshop, Brookhaven National Laboratory, October 25-27, 1998.
    "Protein Adsorption on Polystyrene Surface and Sulfonated Polystyrene Surfaces".
    N. Pernodet, M. Rafailovich, J. Sokolov, K. McLeod.


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