Faculty Mentors

Developing novel methods and algorithms to interface sight recovery technologies with human visual systems.

Researches the molecular basis of neural development and disease; retinal development and degeneration; differentiation of ocular cells from embryonic and adult stem cells.

Specializes in the application of experimental mechanics to materials science in an effort to characterize, design, and develop advanced materials.

Dr. Dewey's lab aims to combine biomaterials with extracellular vesicles for skeletal repair and disease treatment, including broader impacts in marine biology.

Develops single-cell sequencing technologies to study how chemical and mechanical cues regulate cell-to-cell variability in the epigenome.

Engineering ensembles of molecular motors and cytoskeletal filaments.

Uses a combination of fluid mechanics and soft matter physics to develop new microfluidic tools and study how fluid-structure interactions control biological and bio-inspired microflows.

Researches image/video analysis, multimedia databases and data mining, steganography, and signal/image processing for bio-informatics.

Uses theory and simulations to understand the emergent behavior of active and living matter.

Focuses on molecular engineering of proteins that control spatial organization in biological systems, with applications in plastic remediation and oral vaccine delivery.

Aims to create computational representations of the human body at different scales.

Studies cell behaviors such as recovery from the brink of apoptotic cell death, cell cannibalism, collective cell migration, and establishment of new connections after migration.

Uses high resolution live imaging, synthetic biology and biochemistry to figure out when and where signaling molecules are activated to make these essential decisions.

Engineers molecular reporters for noninvasively imaging living systems in previously impossible ways - for example, spying on neural activity with brain-wide coverage in vertebrates and locating deep-seated infections and tumors in vivo.

Researches genetic engineering and synthetic biology of non-model microorganisms.

Develops mathematical and computational tools for modeling, simulation and data analytics of multiscale systems in biology and medicine.

Works at the intersection of materials science, physics, chemistry, and biology, and aims to understand interfacial phenomena and energy-dissipation at the interfaces of soft materials.

Builds bioanalytical sensors and investigate protein biophysics, among other basic and applied research thrusts.

Mechanobiology metrologies integrating quantitative imaging, biophysical, and biomolecular assays to probe the role of mechanics in cell signaling in health and disease.

Studies molecular biophysics, particularly by building and applying high-resolution single-molecule manipulation instruments capable of mechanical and elastic measurement of biopolymer and motor protein behavior.

Studies how the brain works, at the level of neurons and synapses.

Develops 3D hydrogel cell culture platforms to mimic mechanical, structural, and compositional elements of native extracellular matrices and uses these to investigate how cells sense and respond to their environment.

Uses ideas and concepts from physics, computer science, and mathematics to ask how embryos get in shape, and how organs function.

Studies the marriage between materials, electronics and micro/nanofabrication as a means of developing new devices and tools for medical applications.

Studies the future of interactive technologies, haptics, robotics, human-computer interaction, sensorimotor augmentation, and interaction in virtual reality.

Focuses on the development and application of innovative new computational, artificial intelligence, and data science tools to bridge information between the atomic and cellular scales, covering more than six orders of magnitude from Ångstroms to tens of microns

Combines tools from Biology, Engineering, and Physics to understand the cell’s perceptual field.

Studies how biological systems enact control, make decisions and perform computation.

We study evolutionary biology using comparative genomic and epigenomic methods. A main research thrust of the Yi lab is evolutionary epigenomics. We ask how epigenetic regulatory mechanisms evolve and how they contribute to fundamental biological phenomena.