Portfolio

Experimental and computational cardiac fluid dynamics; rheology of blood and mechanics of the heart muscle

Kris N. Dahl

Mechanics of the cell nucleus in normal and disease states; nuclear mechanics in stem cell differentiation and cancer progression; mechanotransduction

Ender A. Finol

Fluid mechanics of the cardiovascular system; biomechanics of vascular aneurysms; continuum mechanics modeling of growth and remodeling of aneurysms

Philip R. LeDuc

Molecular and cellular biomechanics; mechanotransduction

Maumita Mandal

Mechanics of single RNA molecules and RNA-small molecule interactions

Kerem Pekkan

Cardiovascular fluid dynamics in embryonic, normal, and diseased states; fluid-tissue interactions

Yoed Rabin

Heat and mass transfer in biological systems; mechanical aspects of cryobiology; cryopreservation

Yu-li Wang

Mechanisms of cell division and migration; mechanics of cell-matrix interactions; mechanotransduction

Ge Yang

Cell molecular mechanics; mechanics of cell division; function and regulation of motor proteins in intracellular transport

Y. Jessica Zhang

Finite element method and its applications in biomechanics; geometric modeling and active site detection for molecular/protein structures

Bioavailability and proteolytic processing of growth factors

Justin C. Crowley

Formation of neural circuitry in the visual system

Chien Ho

Migration of immune cells in vivo; immune response to organ transplantation

Mathias Loesche

Molecular biophysics; biophysical mechanism of disease; functional, structural and dynamic characterization of protein-membrane interaction

Luminescent probes for cell imaging; probes for manipulating gene expression

Marcel P. Bruchez

Fluorescent probes for cell imaging; luminescent nanocrystal probes

Ender A. Finol

Segmentation algorithms for medical imaging

Chien Ho

MRI-based in vivo imaging

Takeo Kanade

Computer vision-based object tracking in microscopic images

Jelena Kovacevic

Image processing and analysis; multiresolution/multiscale image processing methods

Michael E. McHenry

Magnetic nanoparticles for tagging cells and MRI enhancement

Maumita Mandal

Single molecular mechanical manipulations; optical twizzers

Robert F. Murphy

Applications of machine learning in biological imaging; automated extraction of knowledge from complex cellular images

Gustavo K. Rohde

Automated image modeling; automated annotation of biological images; methods for image registration, segmentation, detection, and estimation

George D. Stetten

Statistics and geometry of image analysis; psychophysics of image perception/cognition

Yu-li Wang

Live cell imaging; image processing in fluorescence imaging; micromanipulation

Alan S. Waggoner

Optical biosensors for cell imaging and high throughput assays

Lee E. Weiss

Computer vision-based cell tracking

Ge Yang

Bioimage informatics; computer vision for live cell imaging; computational and statistical analysis of cell dynamics; single molecular imaging

Byron Yu

Neural signal processing; machine learning approaches in neuroscience

Stefan Zappe

High-throughput confocal fluorescence imaging technologies for cell/embryo-based screens

Y. Jessica Zhang

Geometric modeling and mesh generation of biomedical images; biomedical image processing and analysis

High throughput systems for cell growth analysis

Cellular interactions with nanomaterials

Michael E. McHenry

Cellular interactions with nanocrystalline magnetic materials; cellular effects of RF heating of magnetic nanoparticles

Philip R. LeDuc

Biological microfluidics and MEMS; molecular micropatterning

Mathias Loesche

Engineering of model membranes

Todd M. Przybycien

CMOS-MEMS-based biosensors

James W. Schneider

Nanoemulsions for DNA separation; novel biomimetic materials for bioseparation and biosensing

Metin Sitti

Nanoprobe based robots for micromanipulation

Robert D. Tilton

Nanoparticle probes; nanoparticle-cell interactions; environmental effects of nanoparticles

Stefan Zappe

Bio-MEMS for automated cell handling and manipulation; synthesis of nanoparticles for labeling and MRI tracking of stem cells and drug/gene deliveries

Optimization of bioreactor performance

Jeanne M. VanBriesen

Pathogen detection; biofilm formation

Design and assessment of cerebral protection devices and intravascular thrombectomy devices

Cardiovascular surgical planning; biomimetic circulation systems

 Prosthetic cardiac valves, cardiac assist devices

Protein structure characterization; processing of pharmaceutical proteins; protein drug delivery

Surfactant-based carriers for pulmonary drug delivery; protein adsorption and protein drug delivery; cell sorting technologies

Processing and analysis of medical images

Post processing and interpretation of medical images; automated image segmentation; registration, classification, and interpretation; MRI imaging; microwave non-invasive imaging

Automated analysis of subcellular patterns in tissue images

Automated digital pathology

Medical image guidance with in-situ virtual images; fingertip visual to haptic transducers

Surgical robotics; snake robots; path planning; motion control; mapping

Computer-assisted surgery; surgical planning and simulation

Takeo Kanade

Computer-assisted surgery

Yoed Rabin

Cryosurgery devices & techniques; computerized planning of cryosurgery

Cameron Riviere

Robotics for microsurgery and minimally invasive surgery; precision tracking in microsurgery

Kenji Shimada

Computer-assisted surgery; human body simulation

Metin Sitti

Microrobotics for diagnosis and surgery

Byron Yu

Neural prosthetic systems

Y. Jessica Zhang

Patient-specific geometric modeling for cardiovascular surgical planning; computer-assisted surgery

Musculoskeletal tissue repair and regeneration; biomimetic tissue engineering materials

Jeffrey O. Hollinger

Bone tissue engineering involving biomaterials, biologicals, imaging, histology-histomorphometry, in vitro and in vivo animal models; repair of bone fracture and gaps

Michael E. McHenry

Applications of magnetic nanoparticles and ferrogels in tissue engineering

Newell R. Washburn

Bioactive polymers for wound healing and regenerative medicine; biopolymer mediated manipulations of cytokines and growth factors

Lee E. Weiss

Bioprinting for tissue engineering; biofabrication; protein-based plastics; biodegradable electronics

Stefan Zappe

Stem cell systems biology and engineering; generation of complex modular tissue engineering constructs