Participating Faculty

Andrews, Lauren, PhD Primary (and Secondary) Appointment(s): Chemical Engineering (Molecular & Cellular Biology) Role in BTP: Training Faculty Research Interest: Synthetic Biology in Health and Biotechnology

Babbitt, Courtney, PhD Appointment: Biology Role in BTP: Training Faculty Research Interest: Comparative genomics, functional noncoding DNA

Butler, Caitlyn, PhD Appointment: Civil and Environmental Engineering Role in BTP: Training Faculty Research Interest: Microbial Dynamics and Design Considerations for Decentralized Microbial Fuel Cells

Chien, Peter, PhD Appointment: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Role in BTP: Training Faculty Research Interest: Regulated protein degradation in bacteria

Chase Cornelison Appointment: Chemical Engineering Role in BTP: Training Faculty Research Interest: Biomaterial scaffolds and approaches to neural tissue repair

DeAngelis, Kristen, PhD Appointment: Microbiology Role in BTP: Training Faculty Research Interest: Bacterial degradation of complex biopolymers

Emrick, Todd, PhD, DVM Primary Appointment(s): Department of Polymer Science and Engineering Role in BTP: Training Faculty Research Interest: Synthetic organic/polymer chemistry, functionalization of nanoscale and 2-D materials, aqueous polymer assembly and the preparation of polymer-based therapeutics

Fissore, Rafael, PhD, DVM Primary (and Secondary) Appointment(s): Veterinary & Animal Sciences (Molecular & Cellular Biology) Role in BTP: Training Faculty Research Interest: Mechanisms of Ca2+ homeostasis in mammalian eggs

Fritz-Laylin, Lillian, PhD Appointment: Biology Role in BTP: Training Faculty Research Interest:Quantitative cell biology and genetic tool development

Hardy, Jeanne, PhD Primary (and Secondary) Appointment(s): Chemistry (Molecular & Cellular Biology) Role in BTP: Training Faculty, Program Director & Executive Committee Research Interest: Engineering allostery in caspases for selective cell killing

Hazen, Sam, PhD Appointment: Biology Role in BTP: Training Faculty Research Interest: Regulatory genomics of plant growth

Jimenez, Juan PhD Primary (and Secondary) Appointment(s): Mechanical & Industrial Engineering (Molecular & Cellular Biology) Role in BTP: Training Faculty Research Interest: Fluid Flow in Biology

Kearney, Cathal, PhD Appointment: Biomedical Engineering Role in BTP: Training Faculty Research Interest: Aim to engineer tools to understand and mimic natural biological cue timing to enhance tissue repair and regeneration. We develop technologies to deliver therapeutics at specific time-points and use them to probe the role of timing in repair processes. We also think about timing in terms of age, and the effects of aging on tissue, cells, and repair.

Kulkarni, Ashish, PhD Appointment: Chemical Engineering Role in BTP: Training Faculty Research Interest: Immunoengineering

Lee, Jungwoo, PhD Appointment: Chemical Engineering Role in BTP: Training Faculty Research Interest: Bone marrow tissue engineering

Ma, Li-Jun, PhD Appointment: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Role in BTP: Training Faculty Research Interest: Fungal comparative genomics, eukaryotic genome evolution and organism adaptation

Mafu, Sibongile, PhD Appointment: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Role in BTP: Training Faculty Research Interest: Cellular dynamics and the kinetochore

Mager, Jesse, PhD Appointment: Veterinary & Animal Sciences Role in BTP: Training Faculty Research Interest: Developmental Biology, Epigenetics

Maresca, Thomas, PhD Primary (and Secondary) Appointment(s): Biology (Molecular & Cellular Biology) Role in BTP: Training Faculty Research Interest: Biological chemistry of plant natural products

ChangHui Pak, PhD Primary (and Secondary) Appointment(s): Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (Molecular & Cellular Biology) Role in BTP: Training Faculty Research Interest: Utilizing human pluripotent stem cell derived neural cells to study synaptic dysfunction in neuropsychiatric disorders

Pobezinsky, Leonid, PhD Primary (and Secondary) Appointment(s):  Veterinary & Animal Sciences (Molecular & Cellular Biology) Role in BTP: Training Faculty Research Interest: Non-coding RNAs in the immune system

Rothchild, Alissa PhD Primary (and Secondary) Appointment(s):  Veterinary & Animal Sciences (Molecular & Cellular Biology) Role in BTP: Training Faculty Research Interest: Pulmonary immunology and macrophage biology

Rauch, Jennifeer PhD Primary Appointment(s): Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Role in BTP: Training Faculty Research Interest: Mechanisms of protein misfolding, aggregation, and spread in neurodegenerative disease

Santore, Maria, PHD Appointment: Polymer Science and Engineering Role in BTP: Training Faculty Research Interest: Biomaterials for Devices and Regenerative Medicine (BDRM) and Membranes in Biology & Medicine

Schiffman, Jessica, PhD Appointment: Chemical Engineering Role in BTP: Training Faculty Research Interest: Bionanotechnology, electrospinning, hydrogels

Srimathveeravalli, Govind, PhD Appointment: Mechanical and Industrial Engineering; Adjunct Biomedical Engineering Role in BTP: Training Faculty Research Interest: Research and develop technology for the delivery of non-ionizing energy that enables ablation or drug delivery to both tumors and healthy living tissue. Mathematical models guide the design of novel medical devices to deliver energy to different locations in the body.

Thayumanavan, Sankaran, PhD Primary (and Secondary) Appointment(s): Chemistry (Molecular & Cellular Biology) Role in BTP: Training Faculty Research Interest: Designing polymeric nanomaterials for biomedical applications

Timme-Laragy, Alicia, PhD Primary (and Secondary) Appointment(s): Environmental Health Sciences, SPHHS (Molecular & Cellular Biology) Role in BTP: Training Faculty Research Interest: Developmental toxicology, oxidative stress, Nrf and Ahr, transcription factors, glutathione

Tremblay, Kimberly, PhD Appointment: Veterinary & Animal Sciences Role in BTP: Training Faculty Research Interest: Development Organogenesis, liver and pancreas formation

Visconti, Pablo, PhD Primary (and Secondary) Appointment(s): Veterinary & Animal Sciences (Molecular & Cellular Biology) Role in BTP: Training Faculty Research Interest: Improved reproductive techniques, novel contraceptive targets

X. Frank Zhang, PhD Primary Appointment(s): Biomedical Engineering Role in BTP: Training Faculty Research Interest: Focuses on using single-molecule detection techniques to study the mechanosensing and activation mechanisms in blood clotting, viral infection, tissue repair.