{"id":2506,"date":"2014-10-29T14:00:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T21:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/?p=2506"},"modified":"2014-10-14T15:16:45","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T22:16:45","slug":"wednesday-vince-remcho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/2014\/10\/29\/wednesday-vince-remcho\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Am I? Wednesday &#8211; Vince Remcho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Name:<\/strong> Vince Remcho<\/p>\n<p><strong>Area of Study \/ Position Title:<\/strong> Analytical Chemistry \/ Professor and Patricia Valian Reser Faculty Scholar<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why chemistry? (What about it initially interested you?):<\/strong> For me, it all started with a great summer job in high school: we developed analytical methods to determine the onset of dormancy in loblolly pine tree seedlings by quantifying polysaccharides. \u00a0Following that, it was great mentorship from my undergraduate research advisor (Tom Sitz, a nucleic acid biochemist) and a true gentleman-scholar of a doctoral mentor (Harold McNair, a \u201cfounding father\u201d of modern chromatography and chemical analysis).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research focus (in non-science terms) or basic job duties?<\/strong> We design, model and build tools that solve complex biochemical and environmental chemical puzzles. Most of this involves microfluidics, a field that builds the chemical analogues to integrated circuit chips. For example, we have built \u201clab-on-a-chip\u201d devices to detect antimalarial drug adulteration, measure disease biomarkers in biological fluids, synthesize genes and detect toxins in the environment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One thing you truly love about your job?<\/strong> There are many things I love about my work! If I had to select only one, it would be the people I am fortunate enough to work with: inspiring and inventive graduate and undergraduate students, capable and accomplished postdocs, and wonderful collaborators whose abilities complement those of the group.<\/p>\n<p><strong>One interesting\/strange factoid about yourself.<\/strong> I am an instrument rated commercial pilot; I also enjoy trail running \u2013 very long, quiet runs through the forest. (That\u2019s two!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Vince Remcho Area of Study \/ Position Title: Analytical Chemistry \/ Professor and Patricia Valian Reser Faculty Scholar Why chemistry? (What about it initially interested you?): For me, it all started with a great summer job in high school: we developed analytical methods to determine the onset of dormancy in loblolly pine tree seedlings&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/2014\/10\/29\/wednesday-vince-remcho\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[208276],"tags":[208179,208277,208281],"class_list":["post-2506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-who-am-i","tag-vince-remcho","tag-who-am-i-2","tag-who-am-i-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2507,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions\/2507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/erlenmeyer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}