Currently Funded Trainees

CMMB IGERT funding is available for up to two years, after which research projects are faculty funded. Trainees continue to have the same access to facilities and resources throughout their PhD program.

 

Cohort 5 | Start Date: Fall 2014

 

 

Rachel Hatano

Biological Engineering and Small-scale Technologies, UC Merced

Faculty Advisers:
Kara E. McCloskey, School of Engineering
Collaborators: Chelsey Simmons, (University of Florida), Michelle Khine (UC Irvine), and Nipavan Chiamvimonvat (UC Davis)

Project Title:
Dynamic Micro-patterned System for Studying Vascularization through a Derived Cardiac Tissue
 

Rosaline Hsu

Cell and Developmental Biology

Faculty Advisers:
Supriya G. Prasanth, Cell and Developmental Biology
Taekjip Ha, Physics

Project Title:
Orc1/ORCA at telomeres: Roles in heterochromatin organization and/or replication
 

Eunkyung (Clare) Ko

Bioengineering

Faculty Advisers:
Hyunjoon Kong, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Rashid Bashir, Bioengineering

Project Title:
TBD
 

Lydia Kwon

Bioengineering

Faculty Advisers:
Brian Cunningham, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Project Title:
Photonic Crystal Enhanced Microscopy (PCEM) for Studying the Invasiveness of Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) Cells
 

Phuong Le

Bioengineering

Faculty Advisers:
Andrew Smith, Bioengineering
Kristopher Kilian, Materials Science and Engineering

Project Title:
Dynamic, Single-Molecule Imaging of the Breast Cancer Microenvironment of Metastasis

 

Ellen Qin

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Faculty Advisers:
Hyunjoon Kong, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Deborah Leckband, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Project Title:
TBD
 

Lian Wong

Biological Engineering and Small-scale Technologies, UC Merced

Faculty Advisers:
Kara E. McCloskey, School of Engineering
Collaborators: Adam Engler (UC San Diego)

Project Title:
Effects of Biochemical Cues and Stiffness on Vascular Differentiation

 

Cohort 4 | Start Date: Fall 2013

 

 

Yung (Anthony) Fan

Mechanical Science and Engineering

Faculty Advisers:
Taher Saif, Mechanical Science and Engineering
Rhanor Gillette, Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Project Title:
TBD
   

Mark Gryka

Bioengineering

Faculty Advisers:
Rohit Bhargava, Bioengineering

Project Title:
TBD
 

Spencer Mamer

Bioengineering

Faculty Advisers:
Princess Imoukhuede, Bioengineering

Project Title:
TBD
 

Ghazal Naseri

Neuroscience

Faculty Advisers:
Martha Gillette, Cell and Developmental Biology

Project Title:
Structural and Functional Properties of Neurons in Engineered 3D Microenvironments vs. Brain Slices
 

Rishi Singh

Mechanical Science and Engineering

Faculty Advisers:
Ning Wang, Mechanical Science and Engineering

Project Title:
TBD
 

Qinyu Sun

Cell and Developmental Biology

Faculty Advisers:
Fei Wang, Cell and Developmental Biology

Project Title:
TBD