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Thesis Research

There is no separate requirement for a Junior or Senior Project or Independent work in addition to the requirements in your home Department, but to receive the Certificate you must do Independent work or a Senior Thesis in your home Department. We assume you will find a thesis that satisfies your interests in Engineering Biology among theses offered in your Department. Many students do their theses under the direction of a faculty member in another Department or co-advised by a faculty member in their Department and one in another Department. You can check with the Engineering Biology Office to get a listing of faculty who sponsor interdisciplinary topics that relate to Engineering Biology. Arrangements for theses are at the discretion and by approval of your home Department.

Past Senior Thesis and Independent Work Topics

Here is a listing of Senior Thesis and Independent Projects that have been done by students in the Program:

Year Name Dept Project Title
'09 Patrick Benitez CHE Predicting Beta Sheet Topology: a Statistical Approach to Optimize Hydrogen Bonding
'09 Scott Callahan CHE Subcellular Localization of Smad Proteins
'09 Shiliang Chen CHM Vehicle Performance Modeling and Environmental Life Cycle Analysis of Direct Ethanol Fuel Cell Vehicles
'09 Nicole Clarke CHE Characterization of the Binding Interaction Between Fluorescently-Labeled BCL-XL and a Displayed Peptide of the BH3 Region of BAK Using the ECPX System
'09 Michael Coolbaugh CHE The Role of Integrins in Drosophila Oogenesis: Pattern Formation and Morphogenesis
'09 Igor Dikiy CHE Towards a Synthesis of Clickable Microcin J25
'09 Joline Fan CHE Water Dispersible Polymer Acid Doped Polyaniline as an Active Layer for Biosensing
'09 Michelle Gawrys CHE Detection of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals In Consumer Products and Mixtures Using Engineered Escherichia coli Cells
'09 Sharon Goswami CHE Studies of Degradation from Flooding and Current Distribution in a Self-Draining Channel-less Fuel Cell
'09 Concepcion Kafka CHE Biocompatible Drying and Redispersing Methods for Organic Nanoparticles to be Used for Drug Delivery
'09 Katherine Kelly MOL
'09 Thomas Klein CHM Characterization of the Effects of a Mutant Methionyl tRNA Synthetase on E. coli Physiology
'09 Tiffany Ko ELE Engineering Highly Selective Peptitdes for Target Analytes in Biomimetric Nanosensor
'09 Jiyong Kwak CHE Role of Inhibitory Morphogen Gradients in Chick Lung Development
'09 Abba Leffler CHM Simulating diffusion in a heterogeneous, anisotopic medium: insights into the Bicoid gradient in Drosophila melanogaster
'09 Shoshana Leffler CHM Combinatorial control in Drosophila melanogaster oogenesis
'09 Loheetha Ragupathi CHE Synthesis and Characterization of Poly(ethylene glycol)-b-Poly(D,L-lactide) (PEG-PLA) Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery to Solid Tumors
'09 Barbara Rauber CHM Engineering an Ahl based Signaling System in Mammalian Cells
'09 Anthony Rossettie EEB Adaptive Functioning of Barrier Webs: An Evolutionary Paradox Rationalized Through the Elucidation of Nephila Clavipes Life History
'09 Mark Smith EEB New Approaches to Hydrogen and Methane Production from Aquatic Phototrophs
'09 Philip Stern ELE Characterization of Protein Functions Based on Analysis of Structure
'08 Karen Aherne CHE Examining the Transcriptional Response of E coli to Unnatural
'08 Devang Amin CHE Adsorption of Tetradecyltrimethylammonium Bromide on Polycrystalline TiO2 Surfaces Grown by Thermal Oxidation of cp-Ti and Ti6Al4V
'08 James An COS A Computational Model for Goal-Directed Action Selection in the Prefrontal Cortex (BSE Student semester paper-Thesis not required)
'08 Haoqian Chen CHE The Synthesis of L3-Phase Silica Thin Films
'08 Daniel Cohen MAE A Novel Laser Transfer Technique for Cellular Manipulation
'08 Katherine Collier CHE Biocompatibility and Conductivity Assessment of PANI-PAAMPSA for Neural Recording Applications
'08 Paul Cowgill ELE Logic Circuit for Cancer Specific Defection and Destruction
'08 Yang Dai MAE Design and Contruction of an Autonomous Robotic Lamprey
'08 Max Freeberg MOL Spatiotemporal Modeling of Simulated Retinal Ganglion Cells with Varied Adaptation
'08 Jin Ge CHE Amphiphilic Block Co-Polymer PEG-b-PLGA for Nanoparticle Drug Delivery
'08 Sanjiv Goli ELE An Investigation into a T Cell Differentiation Network via Stochastic Spatiotemporal Modeling
'08 Xiaojing Huang CHM Homotopic Method for Optimal Parameter Identification in Kinetic Systems
'08 Karen Jeng CHM Investigations into the Cholera Atoinducer-1 Molecule and its Analogs
'08 Zaafir Kherani MAE Mechanical and Optical Modeling of the Human Eye
'08 Eva Leung CHE Tunable Angle-Independent Structural Color Pixels
'08 Kathryn Miller CHE Engineering sensors for in situ analysis of growth factor signalling
'08 Miles Miller CHM Engineering Approaches to Understanding Biological Networks at a Systems Level
'08 Jonathan Monk CHE An RNAi-Enhanced Logic Circuit for Cancer-Specific Detection and Destruction
'08 Rochelle Murray CHE Working Towards Improved Cellulases for Increased Catalytic Efficiency
'08 Avinash Murthy CHE Analysis of Clustering in Hodgkin-Huxley Neurons
'08 Rukmini Reddy CHE ELP-Tags Protein Purification in Pichia pastoris
'08 Lauren Ridge CHE Effects of surface polarity and structure on the phase behavior of nanoscopically confined water
'08 Sichen Shao CHE Characterization of Pharmacological Chaperones for Acid β-Glucosidase as a Potential Treatment of Parkinsonism
'08 Kayle Shapero CHE Comparison of response of animal and human estrogen receptors in a protein biosensor for estrogenic compounds.
'08 Andrew Soroka MAE Tatoo removal by multi-photon interactions,using ultra-short laser pulses
'08 Ishani Sud CHE Expression of Apoptotiz proteins in E. coli
'08 Baris Ungun CHE Composite Nanoparticles for Photodynamic Therapy
'08 Dave Uppal CHE Bioconjugation Of Block Copolymer Nanoparticles Via Copper-Catalyzed Azide-Alkyne Cycloaddition
'08 Sebastian Urday CHM NMR-based Metabolomic Analysis of Plasmodium Falciparum Infection and Drug Challenge
'08 Tom Waselenko CHE Bifurcations of smooth and lurching waves in thalamic neuronal networks
'08 Alexander Weldon CHE Elucidating the Bulk and Microscale Mechanical Properties of Collagen Gels.
'08 Theodore Wolfson CHE Stabalized Magnetic Nanoparticles for Biomedical imaging
'08 Hannah Xu CHE H2 purifications via PEM fuel cells
'08 Lucy Xu CHE Examining E. coli Stress Responses in Membrane Protein Production
'07 Anand Atreya EE Closed-loop control of stem cell differentiation using real-time fluorescence image analysis
'07 Thomas Brennan CHE Applications of Chi-Square-Directed Subfamily Generation in Protein Sequence Characterization and Alignment
'07 Deborah Chen MOL A High Throughput Screen for Compounds
'07 Caroline Chopko CHE That Inhibit Aggregation of the Alzheimer’s Peptide
'07 Sara Conwell CHE Survival of the Unfittest: Establishing the Tunability of Thymidylate Synthase-Based Selection
'07 Samira Farouk CHE Modeling, Patterning, and Quantification of and EGF Receptor Ligand and Targets in Drosophila Oogenesis
'07 William Fowler CHM Modeling Nitrogen Assimilation in Eacherichia coli
'07 Nathan Harbacek WWS Athletic enhancement:confronting doping in the modern age – a political and social evaluation
'07 Meir Hasbani CHE Stability and Functionalization of Nanoparticles for Cancer Drug Delivery
'07 Ritu Kamal EE Multiplexed Cell Fate Determination in Mouse Embyronic Stem Cells
'07 Sandor Kovacs CHE Dynamic Micro-Pixelated Materials with Biological Applications
'07 Kathleen Lee CHE Purification of organophosphate hydrolase by self cleaving affinity tag
'07 Tara Lloyd CHE NMR-Based Analysis of Complex Biological Fluids as a Reflection of Disease Onset and Its Outcome -- A Case Study of Pregnant Mares Grazing Endophyte Infected Fescue
'07 Zack McKinney MAE Electroactive Polymer Artificial Muscles as Prosthetic Actuators
'07 Safiyy Momen EE A Microfluidics-based Biochip for Exogenerous Control of Genetic Circuits
'07 Frank Mycroft MAE Tracking the Migratory Patterns of Small Animals from
'07 Andrew Park CHE Modeling Immune Responses and an Equation-Free Approach to Modeling Cellular Dynamics
'07 Christian Theriault MOL In Vitr analysis of a new targeted Drug Delivery system using PEG-PCL Block Co-polymer Micells Nano particles
'07 Vikram Vijayan EE

RNA-mediated Epigenetic Reprogramming of a Genome-rearrangement Pathway
'07 Diane Weiner CHE Analysis of the mechanisms of tissue morphogenesis and gene expression patterns of cell adhesion molecules in Drosophila melanogaster