Bill Charette

Bill Charette is a General Chemistry Lab Instructor at the Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University. He has been teaching at Penn State since 2004.

• M.S. in Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University (2004)
• B.S. in Chemistry, University of California, Irvine (2001)
• B.S. in Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine (2001)

His research experiences span molecular diagnostics (e.g., SNP detection on barcoded nanowires), nanoparticle chemistry using atomic force microscopy (AFM) and scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), and biomolecule-surface interactions for biomedical applications. His scientific interests bridge chemistry and biology, with a focus on practical laboratory techniques.

Bill works in Dr. Christine Keating’s lab at Penn State as a graduate student, developing methods for molecular analysis on nanowires. As an undergraduate at UC Irvine, he researched nanoparticle chemistry in Dr. Reginald Penner’s lab and contributed to biotech innovations in Irvine, CA.