Team:UC San Diego/Team
Team
Walter Thavarajah
Bioengineering - Biotechnology
Goals:
Academic Interests:
Hobbies:
Fernando Contreras
Bioengineering - BioSystems
Goals: Learning to read.
Academic Interests: Dr. Seuss, Regenerative Medicine
Hobbies: Tequila
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:
Academic Interests: Quorum Sensing, Protein Folding
Hobbies: cooking, food videos, Mozart L'opera Rock
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
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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.
Todd Coleman
Associate Professor
Focus: Interdisciplinary research involving applied mathematics, scalable machine learning, bio-electronics, medicine and public health applies for perinatal health, chronic disease management and cognitive monitoring during aging.