Faculty Mentors

Michael Beyeler develop novel methods and algorithms to interface sight recovery technologies with human visual systems.

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

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

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

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

Zvonimir Dogic engineer ensembles of molecular motors and cytoskeletal filaments.

Emilie Dressaire 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.

B.S. Manjunath researches image/video analysis, multimedia databases and data mining, steganography, and signal/image processing for bio-informatics.

Cristina Marchetti uses theory and simulations to understand the emergent behavior of active and living matter.

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

Nina Miolane's research aims to create computational representations of the human body at different scales.

Denise Montell 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.

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

Arnab Mukherjee 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.

Michelle O'Malley researches genetic engineering and synthetic biology of non-model microorganisms.

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

Angela Pitenis 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.

Kevin Plaxco 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.

Omar Saleh 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.

Spencer Smith studies how the brain works, at the level of neurons and synapses.

Ryan Stowers 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.

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

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

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

Niels Volkmann 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

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

Enoch Yeung studies how biological systems enact control, make decisions and perform computation.

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