Background

Zach went to Waiakea High School on the Big Island of Hawaii. He recieved his BA in Chemistry in 2003 from the University of San Diego In the fall of 2003 Zach joined the graduate program at UCSC.

Research

Optical Glucose Detection

Team Sharrett

Daniel Cunningham-Bryant

Paul Levin

Publications

Sharrett, Zachary; Gamsey, Soya; Fat, Jonathan; Cunningham-Bryant, Dan; Singaram, Bakthan. Substituent effects on boronic acid-modified benzyl viologens: Fluorescence quenching, glucose sensing and pKa studies. Abstracts of Papers, 232nd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, United States, Sept. 10-14, 2006 (2006).

Gamsey, Soya; Baxter, Nichol A.; Sharrett, Zachary; Cordes, David B.; Olmstead, Marilyn M.; Wessling, Ritchie A.; Singaram, Bakthan. The effect of boronic acid-positioning in an optical glucose-sensing ensemble. Tetrahedron (2006), 62(26), 6321-6331.

Cordes, David B.; Gamsey, Soya; Sharrett, Zach; Miller, Aaron; Thoniyot, Praveen; Wessling, Ritchie A.; Singaram, Bakthan. The interaction of boronic acid-substituted viologens with pyranine: The effects of quencher charge on fluorescence quenching and glucose response. Langmuir (2005), 21(14), 6540-6547.

Cordes, David B.; Miller, Aaron; Gamsey, Soya; Sharrett, Zach; Thoniyot, Praveen; Wessling, Ritchie; Singaram, Bakthan. Optical glucose detection across the visible spectrum using anionic fluorescent dyes and a viologen quencher in a two-component saccharide sensing system. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry (2005), 3(9), 1708-1713.

Cordes, David B.; Gamsey, Soya; Sharrett, Zachary; Miller, Aaron; Thoniyot, Praveen; Wessling, Ritchie A.; Singaram, Bakthan. Fluorescence sensing of glucose with boronic acid substituted quenchers and ionic dyes. Abstracts of Papers, 229th ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, United States, March 13-17, 2005 (2005), ORGN-918.

Other Interests

Zach enjoys playing sports but with the strenuous load a graduate student must take on, he rarely gets to enjoy the outdoors. He also likes to play poker and mingle at various local hangouts.