A. Positions and Honors

Positions:
2001 – 2003    Postdoctoral Research Associate, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Bio division.
2003 – 2008    Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Portland State University
2009 –                         Courtesy Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Portland State University
2009 –                         Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado, Denver

Honors:
1997    American Chemical Society, Colloid division Presentation award.
1998    Department of Education GAANN Fellowship.
2000    Kenneth G. Hancock Memorial Scholarship.  Presented with the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge awards.
2000    University of Oregon Doctoral Fellowship.
2002    Outstanding REU Mentor Award – Los Alamos National Laboratory – Bioscience Division.

B. Selected peer-reviewed publications

Robert S. Clegg, Scott M. Reed, and James E. Hutchison, “Self-Assembled Monolayers Stabilized by Three‑Dimensional Networks of Hydrogen Bonds.” Journal of the American Chemical Society,1998, 120, 2486-2487.

Robert S. Clegg, Scott M. Reed, Rachel K. Smith, Bridgette L. Barron, Jamieson A. Rear, and James E. Hutchison, “Two-Dimensional Models of Peptide Interactions: The Interplay of Peptide and Hydrophobic Interactions in Self-Organized Molecular Assemblies.” Langmuir, 1999, 15, 8876-8883.

James E. Hutchison, Leif O. Brown, Jana L. Mooster, Scott M. Reed, Mary E. Schmidt, Laura I. Clarke, and Martin N. Wybourne, “Nanoscale Patterns of Metal Nanoparticles Chemically-Assembled on Biomolecular Scaffolds: Assembly, Stability, and Electron Transport Properties.” Materials Research Society Proceedings, 1999, 582.

Scott M. Reed, Timothy J. R. Weakley, and James E. Hutchison, “Polymorphism in a Conformationally Flexible Substituted Anthraquinone; A Crystallographic, Thermodynamic, and Molecular Modeling Study” Crystal Engineering, 2000, 3, 85-99.

Marvin G. Warner, Scott M. Reed, and James E. Hutchison, “Biphasic Synthesis of Thiol Stabilized Water Soluble Gold Nanoparticles.” Chemistry of Materials, 2000, 12, 3316-3320.

Scott M. Reed and James E. Hutchison, “Green Chemistry in the Organic Teaching Laboratory: An Environmentally Benign Synthesis of Adipic Acid.” Journal of Chemical Education, 2000, 77, 1627-1629.

Walter W. Weare, Scott M. Reed, Marvin G. Warner, and James E. Hutchison, “Improved Synthesis of Small (dCORE = 1.5nm) Phosphine-Stabilized Gold Nanoparticles." Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2000, 122, 12890-12891.

Rachel K. Smith, Scott M. Reed, Jason D. Monnell, Penelope A. Lewis, Robert S. Clegg, Kevin F. Kelly, Lloyd A. Bumm, James E. Hutchison, and Paul S. Weiss, “Phase Separation within a Binary Self-Assembled Monolayer on Au{111} Driven by an Amide-Containing Alkanethiol.” Journal of Physical Chemical B, 2001, 105, 1119.

LeRoy H. Klemm and Scott M. Reed, "Free-Radical 4-Nitrophenylation of
Thieno[2,3-b]pyridine.  Part 3: Consideration of Mechanistic and Selectivity Factors Involved in the Substitution Process." Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry, 2001, 38, 1433.

Penelope A. Lewis, Rachel K. Smith, Kevin F. Kelly, Lloyd A. Bumm, Scott M. Reed, Robert S. Clegg, James E. Hutchison, and Paul S. Weiss, "The Role of Buried Hydrogen Bonds in Self-Assembled Mixed Composition Thiols on Au{111}." Journal of Physical Chemical B, 2001, 105, 10630.

Scott M. Reed, Robert S. Clegg, and James E. Hutchison, “Tuning the Electrical Properties of Monolayers Using Amide Bonds.” ACS Symposium Series - Molecules as Components of Electronic Devices, 2003 ,844, 36-50.

James E. Hutchison, Evan W. Foster, Marvin G. Warner, Scott M. Reed, Walter W. Weare, “1.5-nm Triphenylphosphine-Stabilized Gold Nanoparticles.” Inorganic Synthesis, 2003, 34 (51).

Suri S. Iyer, Aaron S. Anderson, Scott M. Reed, Basil Swanson and Jurgen G. Schmidt "Synthesis of Orthogonal End Functionalized Oligoethylene Glycols of Defined Lengths." Tetrahedron Letters, 2004, 45, 4285-4288.

Karen M. Grace, Roy M. Goeller, W. K. Grace, Jerome D. Kolar, Leeland J. Morrison, Martin R. Sweet, L. G. Wiig, Scott M. Reed, Sabine A. Lauer, Kristin M. Little, Gerrie L. Bustos, Aaron S. Anderson, Basil I. Swanson “Reagentless Optical Biosensor.” Proceedings of SPIE-The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2004, 5269, 55-64.

Christina E. Inman, Scott M. Reed, and James E. Hutchison “In Situ Deprotection and Assembly of S-Tritylalkanethiols on Gold Yields Monolayers Comparable to Those Prepared Directly from Alkanethiols.” Langmuir, 2004, 20, 9144-9150.

“Process for Conjugating Biomolecules to Hydrophobic Membrane-Incorporated Molecules.” Basil I. Swanson, Clifford J. Unkefer, Jurgen G. Schmidt, Scott M. Reed, John E. Shively, Lin Li, U.S. Patent Application, 2004.

"Scaffold-Organized Clusters and Electronic Made Using Such Devices.", U.S. Patent No. US 6,872,971. James E. Hutchison, Scott M. Reed, and Martin N. Wybourne, 2005.

 “High Throughput Screening using Fluorophore Labeled Lipid Membranes and Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy.” James H. Werner, Scott M. Reed, and Basil I. Swanson U.S. Patent Application # 20050191705, 2005.

Melik Demirel, Atul Parikh, Vincent Crespi, and Scott Reed, “Biologically Inspired Nanomaterials:  A Conference Report.”  arXiv:0708.0164. 2007.

Kindra Andrews, Scott M. Reed, and Susan E. Masta “Spiders Fluoresce Variably Across Many Taxa.” Biology Letters, 2007, 3, 265-267.

Marilyn R. Mackiewicz, Benjamin R. Ayres and Scott M. Reed “Reversible, Reagentless Solubility Changes in Phosphatidylcholine-Stabilized Gold Nanoparticles.” Nanotechnology, 2008 19, 115607.

Sarita Sitaula and Scott M. Reed “Porphyrin Conjugated to DNA by a 2'-Amido-2'-deoxyuridine Linkage.” Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2008, 18, 850-855.

Sarita Sitaula, Marilyn R. Mackiewicz, and Scott M. Reed “Gold Nanoparticles Become Stable to Cyanide Etch When Coated with Hybrid Lipid Bilayers.” Chemical Communications, 2008, 26, 3013-3015.

Scott M. Reed, My-Trinh Do, and Susan E. Masta “Parallel Factor Analysis of Spider Fluorophores.” Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology, 93, 2008, 149-154.

C. Research Support

Ongoing:

Air Force Office of Scientific Research – Safer Nanomaterials and Nanomanufacturing Institute, “Biocompatible, Lipid-Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles.” 10/15/05 – 10/15/10, Major Goal: Synthesis, shape control, and surface modification of gold and silver nanoparticles. Subcontract from University of Oregon. Grant number: FA8650-05-1-5041.  Role: PI on subcontract

ONAMI Nanometrology and Nanoelectronics Program 10/1/2008 – 9/30/2009 “Biochemical Sensors and Integrated Measurement Platform Controlled by Optical Tweezers and Microfluidics.” Major Goal: Prepare gold nanorods for near-IR imaging.  Role: Co-PI With McIntyre, Ostroverkhova, Shvarev, Remcho, and Prasad.

ONAMI Nanometrology and Nanoelectronics Program 10/1/2008 – 9/30/2009 “Breaking the Diffraction Barrier by Selective Control of Near- and Far-field Optical Modes” Major Goal: Image single labeled DNA on surfaces with NSOM.  Role: Co-PI with LaRosa, (PSU), Vu (OHSU), Moeck (PSU).

NSF – IGERT – “Interdisciplinary Materials Program to Accelerate the Transition from Student to Scientist.” Joint program with University of Oregon, Oregon State University, and PSU.  Major Goal: Training grant for Materials Science students.  Role: Co-PI with Johnson (UO) et al.

Completed:

Oregon Medical Research Foundation, 9/1/03 – 9/1/05 “Gold Nanoparticle-Enhanced Photodynamic Therapy.” Major Goal: To measure fluorophore lifetimes at a series of distances from a metal to demonstrate concept of nanoparticle-enhanced photodynamic therapy.  Role: PI

Department of Defense – Breast Cancer Concept Award, 7/1/04 – 6/30/06, “Nanoparticle Enhanced Optical Diagnosis and Treatment of Breast Cancer.” Major Goal: To demonstrate changes in fluorophore lifetime on binding of Her2/neu mRNA to a nanoparticle conjugated to a stem-loop oligonucleotide.  Grant # W81XWH-04-1-0758.  Role: PI

Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Special Grant Program in the Chemical Sciences, 3/15/07 – 3/14/08 “Chem Map: Mapping the Chemistry of Everyday Materials.” Major Goal: To design software for nanoscience outreach courses.  Role: PI

NorthWest Academic Computing Consortium, 5/11/2007 – 5/10/2008, “Software to Support Nanoscience Outreach Education.” Major Goal: To design web-based mapping software for nanoscience outreach courses.  Role: PI

Department of Defense - DURIP 9/1/07, “Probing Bio-Electronic Surface And Interfaces At Single Molecule Sensitivity.” Major Goal: Instrumentation grant to acquire single molecule sensitive fluorescence microscope.  Role: Co-PI with A. La Rosa, P. Moeck, M. Yan, PSU

Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM) 1/16/08, “Emergent Properties of Hierarchical Nanostructures in Biological and Synthetic Systems.” A workshop conference grant.  Role, Co-PI with Melik Demirel (Penn State)

Office of Naval Research: Nanometrology and Nanoelectronics Initiative, 11/03/07 – 11/02/08, “A Molecular Approach to Monitoring Cardiovascular Disease.” Major Goal: To measure Nanometal Surface Energy Transfer between metal nanoparticles and CRP. Grant number: 00014-07-1-0457 Role: PI on subcontract

 

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