I am a Ph.D. candidate at the C. Eugene Bennett Department of Chemistry at West Virginia University.  I received a BA in Biochemistry from West Virginia University in May 2005.  During my senior year, I began working on a Distance Research project for Dr. Lisa Holland.  A series of learning modules were developed and tested resulting in Internet-based resources designed to teach undergraduate researchers the principles and applications of Capillary Electrophoresis (CE) and Micellar Electrokinetic Capillary Chromatography (MEKC).  My first graduate project was to characterize phospholipid capillary coatings to suppress electroosmotic flow and reduce non-specific interactions with the capillary surface. I then spent 7 months as an intern with the Analytical R&D Group at Pfizer where I developed automated API extraction and analysis methods for several solid dosage formulations. Currently I am working on the characterization of particles by capillary electrophoresis in order to predict their behavior by dielectrophoresis.

1. CM White, LA Holland, P Famouri; Application of Capillary Electrophoresis to Predict the Crossover Frequency of Polystyrene Particles in Dielectrophoresis, accepted Electrophoresis (5/10).

2. CM White, R Luo, SA Archer-Hartmann, LA Holland; Electrophoretic Selection and Screening of Potential Ligands Under Suppressed Electroosmotic Flow with an Inert Phospholipid Coating, Electrophoresis 2007, 28 (17), 3049-3055.

3. CM White, KM Hanson, LA Holland; Capillary Electrophoresis Distance Learning Program: Guided Discovery on the Principles, Assembly, Operation, and Application of a Custom Built Capillary Electrophoresis System, Analytical Sciences Digital Library, link, Accepted October 4, 2005.

1. Separation of Functionalized Nanoparticles by Capillary Electrophoresis and Dielectrophoresis, CM White, X Wu, P. Famouri, LA Holland; 61th Annual Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, Orlando, FL, March 2010.

2. Characterization of the Dielectrophoretic Crossover Frequency of Bioconjugated Sub-Microspheres , CM White, P. Famouri, LA Holland; 60th Annual Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, Chicago, IL, March 2009.

3. Dual-Opposite Injection Affinity Capillary Electrophoresis Determination of Binding Constants Usings NSAIDs as Pharmaceutical Ligands, CM White, SA Archer-Hartmann, LA Holland; 59th Annual Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, New Orleans, LA, March 2008.

4. The Use of a Dynamic Phospholipid Coating to Facilitate Dual-Opposite Injection Capillary Electrophoresis, CM White and LA Holland; 58th Annual Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, Chicago, IL, March 2007.

5. The Application of Real-Time Internet- Based Videoconferencing and Web Learning Modules for Distance Mentoring of Capillary Electrophoresis Research, CM White and LA Holland; 57th Annual Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, Orlando, FL, March 2006.

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