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Team

Walter Thavarajah

Bioengineering - Biotechnology
4th Year

Goals: Get one of those fancy "PhD" things
Academic Interests: Recombinant product synthesis
Hobbies: Video games, Terrible movies, Boring nerd stuff

Fernando Contreras

Bioengineering - BioSystems
4th Year

Goals: Ph.D. in Bioengineering
Academic Interests: Signal processing in biological systems and emergent behavior.
Hobbies: Jamming, Abstract films, Design

Vivienne Gunadhi

Bioengineering - Biotechnology
3rd Year

Goals: Ph.D. in Bioengineering, Work abroad
Academic Interests: Regenerative medicine
Hobbies: Dancing, Painting, Jamming

Tiffany Tran

Biophysics and Philosophy
3rd Year

Goals: Grad school, Bio-related research, Interdisciplinary work
Academic Interests: Cell motility, Biophysics of neuronal systems, Quorum sensing, Protein folding
Hobbies: Cooking, Food videos, Mozart L'opera rock, Reading, Opera

Roshni Ravindran

Bioengineering - Biotechnology
3rd Year

Goals: Clinical research, M.D./Ph.D.
Academic Interests: Regenerative medicine, Translational medicine
Hobbies: Reading, Music, Hanging with friends, Traveling

Jenny Lee

Biochemistry & Cell Biology
2nd Year

Goals: Grad School, Research, Teaching, Interdisciplinary work
Academic Interests: Circadian Biology, Cellular & Molecular Biology
Hobbies: Graphics, Coding, Baking

Advisors

Phillip Kyriakakis

Post Doctorate
Focus: Developing synthetic biology approaches to engineer optical control of cells/genes with an emphasis on neuroscience.

Jahir Gutierrez

Graduate Student
Focus: Modeling the molecular processes in the protein secretion pathway of mammalian cell systems and elucidating relevant emergent properties of this network in metabolism.

Bart Borek

Post Doctorate
Focus: Quantitative biology approaches to studying gene and metabolic networks and their roles in cellular aging.

Todd Coleman

Associate Professor
Focus: Integration of applied mathematics, scalable machine learning, bio-electronics, medicine and public health for perinatal health, chronic disease management and cognitive monitoring during aging.