Laboratory

Our Lab is focussed on Cellular Neuroscience.  The lab currently consists of 3 Undergraduate Students, 3 Ph.D. Students, and 6 Master's students.

Lab Students

• Michelle Sibille, undergraduate.  Nano and micropatterns for brain cell growth and repair.  Supported by LURA grant.
• James McNamara, Ph.D. student.  Biological interaction with nanomaterials.  Supported by LBRN grant.
• Kinsey Cotton, Ph.D. student.  Signal transduction in brain cells.  Currently supported by COES stipend.
• Dustin Green, Master's student.  Nanopatterning for attachment and differentiation of neuronal cell lines.  Currently an NSF GK-12 fellow and also supported by an ANS mini-grant.
• Si Chen, Master's student.  2D and 3D matrices for tissue engineering of brain cells.  Currently supported by COES stipend and served as Teaching Assistant for BIEN 500.
• Jessica Wasserman, Master's student.  Biocompatibility of 2 dimensional matrices for brain cell growth.  Currently supported by COES stipend; serves as a Graduate Lab Assistant.
• Satish Kotha, Master's student.  Computational models for apoptosis.    Currently supported by COES stipend and LBRN grant; serves as a Graduate Lab Assistant.
• Sowgandhi Maddi, Master's student.  Cell methods for apoptosis.    Currently supported by COES stipend and LBRN grant; serves as a Graduate Lab Assistant.
• Ruturaj Masvekar, Master's student.  Inflammatory responses in brain cells.   Currently supported by COES stipend and LBRN grant; serves as a Graduate Lab Assistant.
• Senaka Kanakamedala, Ph.D. student.  Microdevices, micromixing, enzyme-biosensor detection.  Currently supported by NSF-EPSCOR RII grant.
• Enkhjin Bayarsaikhan, Undergrad.  Image Analysis Apoptosis.  Currently supported by LBRN grant in collaboration with Dr. Andrei Paun.
• Kris Chain, Undergrad.  Image Analysis Apoptosis.  Currently supported by LBRN grant in collaboration with Dr. Andrei Paun.