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