Faculty Mentors

Tony De Tomaso

Professor
Molecular Cell and Development Biology

Marley Dewey

Assistant Professor
Bioengineering

3110 BioEngineering
Dr. Dewey's lab aims to combine biomaterials with extracellular vesicles for skeletal repair and disease treatment, including broader impacts in marine biology.

Siddharth Dey

Assistant Professor
Bioengineering
Chemical Engineering

3008 BioEngineering
Develops single-cell sequencing technologies to study how chemical and mechanical cues regulate cell-to-cell variability in the epigenome.

Zvonimir Dogic

Professor
Physics

4419 Broida
Engineering ensembles of molecular motors and cytoskeletal filaments.

Emilie Dressaire

Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering

2326 Engineering II
Uses a combination of fluid mechanics and soft matter physics to develop new microfluidic tools and study how fluid-structure interactions control biological and bio-inspired microflows.

Dorit Hanein

Professor
Bioengineering
Chemistry

PSBN 4619
Developing and employing protocols for correlative light and electron cryogenic microscopy and in situ cellular tomography.

Cristina Marchetti

Professor
Physics

6235 Broida
Uses theory and simulations to understand the emergent behavior of active and living matter.

Craig Montell

Duggan Professor and Distinguished Professor
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

4130-F Biology II
Explores the central question in neurobiology of how animal behavior and decision making are controlled by the environment.

Denise Montell

Duggan Professor and Distinguished Professor
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

4130-I Biology II
Studies cell behaviors such as recovery from the brink of apoptotic cell death, cell cannibalism, collective cell migration, and establishment of new connections after migration.

Meghan Morrissey

Assistant Professor
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

1113 Life Sciences
Uses high resolution live imaging, synthetic biology and biochemistry to figure out when and where signaling molecules are activated to make these essential decisions.

Arnab Mukherjee

Assistant Professor
Bioengineering
Chemical Engineering

3349 ENGR II
Engineers molecular reporters for noninvasively imaging living systems in previously impossible ways - for example, spying on neural activity with brain-wide coverage in vertebrates and locating deep-seated infections and tumors in vivo.

Linda Petzold

Mehrabian Distinguished Professor
Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering

3106 BioEngineering
Develops mathematical and computational tools for modeling, simulation and data analytics of multiscale systems in biology and medicine.

Angela Pitenis

Assistant Professor
Materials Department

3019 Materials Research Lab
Works at the intersection of materials science, physics, chemistry, and biology, and aims to understand interfacial phenomena and energy-dissipation at the interfaces of soft materials.

Beth L. Pruitt

Director, Quantitative Mechanobiology Training Program
Chair, Biological Engineering
Professor of BioE, ME and BMSE

3108 BioE
Mechanobiology metrologies integrating quantitative imaging, biophysical, and biomolecular assays to probe the role of mechanics in cell signaling in health and disease.

Omar Saleh

Professor
Materials Department

3006 Bioengineering
Studies molecular biophysics, particularly by building and applying high-resolution single-molecule manipulation instruments capable of mechanical and elastic measurement of biopolymer and motor protein behavior.

Ryan Stowers

Assistant Professor
Bioengineering
Mechanical Engineering

BioE 3112
Develops 3D hydrogel cell culture platforms to mimic mechanical, structural, and compositional elements of native extracellular matrices and uses these to investigate how cells sense and respond to their environment

Sebastian Streichan

Associate Professor
Physics

4409 Broida
Uses ideas and concepts from physics, computer science, and mathematics to ask how embryos get in shape, and how organs function

Yon Visell

Associate Professor
Biological Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Media Arts and Technology
Mechanical Engineering

2213 Elings Hall
Studies the future of interactive technologies, haptics, robotics, human-computer interaction, sensorimotor augmentation, and interaction in virtual reality.

Niels Volkmann

Professor
Bioengineering
Biomolecular Science and Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Focuses on the development and application of innovative new computational, artificial intelligence, and data science tools to bridge information between the atomic and cellular scales, covering more than six orders of magnitude from Ångstroms to tens of microns.

Max Wilson

Assistant Professor
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

3127 Biology II
Combines tools from Biology, Engineering, and Physics to understand the cell’s perceptual field.

Enoch Yeung

Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering

3104 BioE
Studies how biological systems enact control, make decisions and perform computation.