Participating Faculty

Alfandari, Dominique, PhD Appointment: Veterinary and Animal Sciences Role in BTP: Training Faculty Research Interest: Studies how the face of vertebrate embryos is built

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

Bartlett, Madelaine, PhD Appointment: Biology Role in BTP: Training Faculty Research Interest: Molecular genetics of developmental evolution

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 Appointment: Polymer Science & Engineering Role in BTP: Training Faculty Research Interest: New polymeric platforms in biomaterials research

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

Garman, Scott, PhD Primary (and Secondary) Appointment(s): Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (Chemistry, Molecular & Cellular Biology) Role in BTP: Training Faculty Research Interest: Structural biology of human lysosomal storage diseases

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

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

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

Osborne, Barbara, PhD Primary (and Secondary) Appointment(s): Veterinary & Animal Sciences (Molecular & Cellular Biology) Role in BTP: Training Faculty, Co-Director  & Executive Committee Research Interest: Modulation of T lymphocyte responses in disease

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

Peyton, Shelly, PhD Primary (and Secondary) Appointment(s): Chemical Engineering (Molecular & Cellular Biology) Role in BTP: Training Faculty, Co-Director & Executive Committee Research Interest: Biomaterials to understand cell-matrix interactions in disease

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

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

Tew, Gregory, PhD Primary (and Secondary) Appointment(s): Polymer Science & Engineering (Molecular & Cellular Biology) Role in BTP: Training Faculty Research Interest: Molecular scaffolds, protein delivery, antimicrobial surfaces

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