Faculty Mentors
Below are representative SBES and VBI faculty and their research interests. BBSI interns may be placed with ANY SBES or VBI faculty with available research projects depending on the intern's research interests and application. Applicants are encouraged to write their personal statement with potential faculty research interests in mind.
Visit the SBES and VBI webpages for more information on potential faculty mentors.
Physiology
Rafael Davalos
- Biomedical microdevices
- Irreversible electroporation
- Dielectrophoretic cell manipulation
- Image-guided surgery
- Single cell analysis
- Cancer detection and treatment
J. Wallace Grant
- Mathematical modeling of inner ear
- Encoding of linear and angular acceleration of head
- Mechanotransduction aspects of receptor cells
- Theoretical and experimental work on vestibular mechanics
Bio-Imaging
Ge Wang
- Bioluminescence/fluorescence tomography
- Cone-beam x-ray CT
- Grating-based x-ray imaging
Chris Wyatt
- Image Analysis including active contours, stochastic methods, and differential geometry
- Computer Assisted Diagnosis and Evaluation
- Virtual Anatomical and Functional Visualization
- Robotic and Machine Learning Applications in Medicine
- DICOM, PACS and telemedicine
Bioinformatics
Reinhard Laubenbacher
- Mathematical biology
- Applied discrete mathematics
- Symbolic computation
- Systems biology
Jean Peccoud
- Computer Assisted Design of synthetic genetic systems
- Calibration of genetic parts
- Modularity of artificial gene networks
- Portability of artificial gene networks across biological species
Visit the SBES and VBI webpages for more information on potential faculty mentors.
