faculty :
A directory of faculty who conduct research relevant to biomedical
engineering.
chemical &
biological engineering
Celeste Nelson|webpage
Dynamic processes controlling tissue development (tissue
morphodynamics).
Clifford Brangwynne|webpage
Embryo Patterning, RNA/protein body physical properties, and cytoskeleton architecture.
Mark Brynildsen|webpage
Host-pathogen interactions, bacterial persistence, and biofilms.
Jamie
Link|webpage
Protein
engineering and chemical biology.
Robert Prud'homme|webpage
Mobility of DNA molecules in pulsed-field gel electrophoresis.
Christodoulos
Floudas
Energy conformations of organic molecules, peptides,
and proteins.
Jeffrey
Carbeck|webpage
Fundamentals of protein engineering: protein function in (man-made) systems.
Stanislav Shvartsman|webpage
Computational biology of cell signaling networks.
George Scherer|webpage
Biopreservations (and other non-BE projects).
Howard Stone|webpage
Biofilm and cellular-scale hydrodynamic, biofilm formation and characterization, and natural material drying and transport (and other non-BE projects).
David Wood|webpage
Protein engineering and bioseparations.
Pablo Debenedetti
Physical chemistry of stabilization of biomolecules in vitreous matrices.
civil and environmental
engineering
Peter
Jaffe
The effect of surfactants on bacterial transport in
porous media.
chemistry
Jannette Carey|webpage
Molecular
basis of macromolecular structure, stability, and interactions.
electrical engineering
Bradley
Dickinson
Behavior of neurons in the visual cortex; auditory
processing dysfunctions.
Ron
Weiss|webpage
Biochemical and cellular computation, microbial engineering and robotics.
Claire Gmachl|webpage
Development of new quantum devices, especially lasers, and their optimization
for sensor systems and their applications in environment and health.
Paul Prucnal|webpage
Photonic systems, nonlinear Optics and quantum optics.
Naveen Verma|webpage
Biomedical applications of computing.
computer science
Olga Troyanskaya|webpage
Bioinformatics and genomics Analysis and display of large-scale genomic data
sets.
Mona
Singh|webpage
Deciphering genomic data at the level of proteins.
Kenneth Steiglitz
Storage of information in states of optical solitons.
electrical engineering
molecular biology
Michael Berry|webpage
Neural computation in the retina.
physics
Joshua Shaevitz|webpage
The role that mechanical forces play in biology (biophysics).
mechanical and aerospace
engineering
Michael
Hecht|webpage
Synthetic biology and Alzheimer's disease.
Wole Soboyejo|webpage
Biomedical devices, biomaterials, and nanotechnology.
Michael Littman
Biological methods for robot design and control: compliant manipulators.
Michael McAlpine|webpage
Biomechanical energy harvesting and biomimetic nanosensing.
Wole Soboyejo
Biomaterials and alternative energy systems.
Philip
Holmes|webpage
Mathematical models of solid, fluid, and biological systems.
Alexander Smits|webpage
Gasdynamics.
David J.
Srolovitz
Formation and evolution of microstructure;
simulations using molecular dynamics.
Szymon Suckewer
Application of lasers for research in biomaterials and medical devices.
Robert F. Stengel
Bioinformatics, robust control, neural networks, and intelligent systems.
operations research and financial
engineering
Jianqing
Fan|webpage
Biostatistics, functional data analysis, survival analysis, and computational
biology.
Updated September 2011.