Current Students

Rishika Agarwal

Vellore Inst. of Technology

B.Tech Biotechnology

Research Preceptor & Project

David Giljohann

"SNAs for gene regulation in the skin"

Alexandria Alverdy

Villanova University

BS Chemical Engineering

Research Preceptor & Project

Amy Paller

"Nanotechnology approacher to skin cancer/epidermolytic ichthyosis"

Sagar Anantatmula

University of Illinois at Chicago

BS Biological Sciences

Research Preceptor & Project

David Giljohann

"Nano-flares for viral RNA detection"

Bradley Biggs

University of Southern California

BS Chemical Engineering

Research Preceptor & Project

Horacio Espinosa

"Development of Protocols for Nanofunction Probe Electroporation"

Alaksh Choudhury

Manipal Institute of Technology

BE Industrial Biotechnology

Research Preceptor & Project

Michael Jewett

"Yeast cell-free protein synthesis"

Mark Enselman

Truman State University

BA Biology

Research Preceptor & Project

Ramille Shah

"Integration of a bioreactor with 3-D bioploted composit scaffolding for the induced differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells in tissue engineering"

Xin Gao

Northeastern University

BS Biology

Research Preceptor & Project

Chonghui Cheng

"Regulation of alternative splicing"

Ye Gao

Sun Yat-sen University

BS Biotechnology

Research Preceptor & Project

Qingshen Gao

"Function of BRCA2 in the Estrogen receptor signaling pathway"

Andrew Gentile

Univ. of IL at Urbana-Champaign

BS Agricultural and Biological Engineering

Research Preceptor & Project

Keith Tyo

"Accelerating genetic computations using inducible protein degradation"

Seok (Gene) Hong

University of Notre Dame

BS Science-Business

Research Preceptor & Project

Mitra Hartmann

"Quantification of the material properties of rodent vibrissae"

Wei Hong

Wuhan University

BS Biology Base Class

Research Preceptor & Project

William Klein

"Pathology of epigenetic regulation in an in vitro AD model"

Christopher Jacobson

Univ. of IL at Urbana-Champaign

BS Psychology

Research Preceptor & Project

William Klein

"A therapeutic approach utilizing insulin/insulin mimetics to mitigatet he detrmental pathological effects of mGluR5 in A-Beta oligormer early-induced Alzheimer's disease"

Haoming (Daniel) Jiang

Sun Yat-sen University

BS Bioscience

Research Preceptor & Project

Wiliam Klein

"Affinity isolation of toxic receptors involved in Alzheimer's dementia"

Kathryn Kiefer

Ohio Northern University

BS Biology

Research Preceptor & Project

Jason Wertheim

"Optimization of the extracellular matrix scaffold of porcine kidneys established via perfusion of detergents through a bioreactor"

Jonathan Ko

University of Chicago

BA Biology

Univ. of IL at Urbana-Champaign

JD

Research Preceptor & Project

Keith Tyo

"Web FBA 2.0"

Ben Ma

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

BS Bioengineering

Research Preceptor & Project

Yun Wang

"The roles of redox-active metabolites in bacterial anaerobic survivability"

Huey-Ming Mak

University of California Davis

BS Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Research Preceptor & Project

Derk Joester

"Study of membrane proteins composition along growing spicule with respect to VEGF concentration"

Jeffrey Mayer

Univ. of IL at Urbana-Champaign

BS Molecular and Cellular Biology

Research Preceptor & Project

Keith Tyo/Joshua Leonard

"Engineering Yeast-Derived Biosensors as a Diagnostic Device for Resource-Poor Settings"

Melvin McElrath

Marquette University

BS Biomedical Engineering

Research Preceptor & Project

David Kelso

"Development of Lyophilization process to be integrated into point-of-care PCR diagnostic device for HIV & TB for use in low resource settings"

Khyati Meghani

Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeeth Univ.

B.Tech Biotechnology

Research Preceptor & Project

William Miller

"Analysis of O2 and CO2 using gas mixing devices on the differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells and megakaryocyte development"

Melvin Moore

North Carolina State University

BS Chemistry

Research Preceptor & Project

Jennifer Koblinski

"Examining the role of sydecan 1 in breast cancer metastasis to the brain"

Rommel Morales

Univ. of IL at Urbana-Champaign

BS Molecular and Cellular Biology

Research Preceptor & Project

Melina Kibbe

"Influence of Endothelial Microparticles on Nitric Oxide's Ability to Inhibit Neointimal Hyperplasial Nitric Oxide Regulation of SOD-1 in Different Metabolic Environments"

Darcie Patterson

Hawaii Pacific University

BS Biology-Human Health Sciences

Research Preceptor & Project

Derk Joester

"Post VEGF stimulation of transcription factors"

Danielle Ponsi

Univ. of IL at Urbana-Champaign

BS Molecular and Cellular Biology

Research Preceptor & Project

Dimitra Georganopoulou

"Research and development of electrochemical detection method and device for the detection of proteins"

Sreenithya Ravindran

SRM University

B.Tech Biotechnology

Research Preceptor & Project

Lonnie Shea

"Nanoparticles for the treatment of Type I Diabetes"

Karna Shah

Vellore Institute of Technology

B.Tech Biotechnology

Research Preceptor & Project

Gayle Woloschak

"The effects of TiO2-nanoconjugates on neuroblastoma cells"

Joleen Su

Univ. of IL at Urbana-Champaign

BS Bioengineering

Research Preceptor & Project

David Giljohann

"Delivery of siRNA using gold nanoparticles for cancer therapeutics"

Srishti Tibrewala

SRM University

B.Tech Biotechnology

Research Preceptor & Project

Yun Wang

"Bacterial-fungal interactions via redox-active toxins"

Bansi Vedia

University of Buffalo

BS Biotechnology

Research Preceptor & Project

Lonnie Shea

"Directed differentiation of stem cell transplants into myelinating glia"

Vysak Venkateswaran

Duke University

BS Biology

Research Preceptor & Project

Khash Khazaie

"Pathogenic versus protective function of T-regulatory cells in human colon cancer"

Shuya Wang

Sichuan University

Bachelor of Biology

Research Preceptor & Project

Khash Khazaie

"The role of IL-10 in mouse polyposis"

Yikai Xu

Ocean University of China

BS Life Sciences

Research Preceptor & Project

Khash Khazaie

"Pathogenic Outcome of Mast Cell/T Cell Interactino in Cutaneous Lymph"

Hanwen Zhang

Peking University

BS Biological Sciences

Research Preceptor & Project

Qingshen Gao

"Inhibition of centrosome duplication as a potential therapeutic approach for pancreatic cancer with few side effects"

Peter Zhang

University of California Berkeley

BS Chemical Engineering

Research Preceptor & Project

Joshua Leonard

"Constructing TEV prolease and prolease cleaving sequence system on the surface of E.coli as a biosensor"

Lingji Zhu

Beijing Normal University

BS Biotechnology

Research Preceptor & Project

Paul Grippo

"Omega-3 and Omega-6 stabilization in human body"