2024 Scholars
Grace Ford
Petit Scholar
Mentor: Valeria Juarez
Project: Evaluation of inflammatory responses in Synthetic Immune Tissues challenged with E. Coli and K. Pneumoniae bacterial lysates
Lab: Ankur Singh
Trinity Fourte
Petit Scholar
Mentor: Sean Healy
Project: Engineering an Autoinjector Platform for Intratumoral Drug Delivery and Real-Time Tumor Monitoring
Lab: Alex Abramson
Ruorong Qi
Petit Scholar
Mentor: Ronghao (Luke) Zhang
Project: Tactile Processing in Mouse Models of Parkinson's Disease
Lab: Alan Emanuel
Megha Seri
Petit Scholar
Mentor: Ashley Prichard
Project: Noninvasive Neurostimulation's Effects on Neuromodulators of Alzheimer's Disease Pathology in a Mouse Model
Lab: Annabelle Singer
Claire Tharp
Petit Scholar
Mentor: Miriam Simma
Project: Biophysical Characterization of Saposin D and Acid Ceramidase for Farber's Disease
Lab: Andrew McShan
Rachel Mason
Petit Scholar
Mentor: Ishmamul Hoque Sadab
Project: Engineering cytokine displaying protein nanosheets for cancer treatment in-vitro
Lab: Julie Champion
Jifei Xiao
Petit Scholar
Mentor: Scott Boebinger
Project: Investigating sources of cortical contributions to reactive balance control in aging and Parkinson’s disease
Lab: Lena Ting
Yonatan Amsalu
Petit Scholar
Mentor: Anna Pavlova
Project: How V3 loop mutations impact gp12
Lab: JC Gumbart
Jeffrey Li
Petit Scholar
Mentor: Tarunya Rao Sudarshan
Project: Gaining Structural Insights into Amyloid-β42 C-Sheet Conformations through Solid-State NMR
Lab: Anant Paravastu
Benjamin Fargnoli
Petit Scholar
Mentor: Michael Rosenburg
Project: Characterizing associations between impaired muscle coordination and machine learning-based models of neuromechanical locomotion dynamics in human stroke survivors
Lab: Lena Ting
Mariana Rodriguez
Petit Scholar
Mentor: Angelica Torres
Project: Engineering of a PEG hydrogel for Cell Delivery Applications
Lab: Andres Garcia
Joon Han Kim
Petit Scholar
Mentor: Kristen Jakubowski
Project: Using machine learning to predict center of mass kinematics from wearable sensors
Lab: Lena Ting
Alexa Boylan
Petit Scholar
Mentor: Deepali Balasubramani
Project: Investigating the impact of Ly-TME cues on B cell receptor signaling events in Activated B cell Diffuse Large B cell Lymphoma using Proximity Ligation Assay
Lab: Ankur Singh
Charles Anderson
Petit Scholar
Mentor: Rajas Poorna
Project: Evapinator: A low-cost blowdown evaporator for cold-chain-free clinical sample transportation
Lab: Saad Bhamla
Elaine Feller
Petit Scholar
Mentor: Ramy Ghanim
Project: Tissue Interfacing Circuits for Ionic Communication
Lab: Alex Abramson
Medina McCowin
Petit Scholar
Mentor: Mehdia Nadeem Rajib Ali
Project: Understanding the early apoptosis/necrosis endpoints in chemotherapy treated leukemia cells using Atomic Force Microscopy
Lab: Todd Sulchek
Rustin Makhmalbaf (Harandi)
Petit Scholar
Mentor: Jamison Siebart
Project: Development of antigen-presenting nanoparticles to target autoreactive CD4 T cells in type 1 diabetes
Lab: Gabe Kwong
Richard Hou
Petit Scholar
Mentor: Valeria Juarez
Project: Evaluation of inflammatory responses in Synthetic Immune Tissues challenged with E. Coli and K. Pneumoniae bacterial lysates
Lab: Ankur Singh
Xi Ying
Petit Scholar
Mentor: Wenting Shi
Project: Optimizing Antibody Release from Injectable Hydrogels
Lab: M.G. Finn