Bioengineering Systems | MIT Affiliated Students

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Research topic/area: Biomedical Devices & Technologies

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Research topic/area: Feedback Based Design of Therapeutic Strategies

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Research topic/area: Variable Stiffness Mechanism for Running Augmentation

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Research topic/area: Efficiently Minimizing Paramter Uncertainity in Biological Systems

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Research topic/area: Understanding the dynamics of Industry-university linkages, and their implications on innovation, technology transfer, and research collaborations

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Research topic/area: High-throughput quantification of glycoprotein sialylation

Publications: Markely, L.R.A. and Yin, J. (2007). Intracellular Dynamics of Bacteriophage øX174 Gene Expression. Journal of Young Investigators, 16.

Markely, L.R.A., Andrzejewski, D., Butzlaff, E., and Kiselev, A. (2006). Enhancement of Combustion by Drift in a Coupled Reaction-Diffusion Model. Communications in Mathematical Sciences, 4(1): 213-225.

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Research topic/area: Biomedical Devices – We are evaluating the performance of wearable inertial measurement units (IMU’s) in measuring joint angles of the lower limbs during walking trails. Ultimately these sensors would be incorporated into smart prostheses and orthoses that would assist small children with cerebral palsy in developing the correct gait. We make use of a Kalman filter to obtain joint angles from the IMU data, which we then compare with motion capture data (the golden standard in the industry) to determine accuracy.

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Research topic/area: Computational modeling of protein-biomolecule interactions with application to mechanotransduction and antibody maturation

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Research topic/area: Immunotherapy of Colon Cancer

Publications: Ackerman ME, Chalouni C, Schmidt MM, Raman VV, Ritter G, Old LJ, Mellman I, Wittrup KD. A33 Antigen Displays Persistent Surface Expression, Cancer Immunol Immunother (2008) 57:1017–1027

Ackerman ME, Pawlowski DJ, Wittrup KD, Effect of Antigen Turnover Rate and Expression Level on Antibody Penetration into Tumor Spheroids, Mol Cancer Ther in press

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Research topic/area: Biocatalysis and magnetic nanoparticles

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Research topic/area: Entrepreneurship Policy

Other interests: Social enterprise; Fostering entrepreneurship in the developing and developed world

Publications: Thesis – Entrepreneurship policy for entrepreneurs: A cognitive approach to the entrepreneurial environment.

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Research topic/area: Biomechanics of human movement

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Research topic/area: Proteomic and Genomic Analysis of Lycopene-Overproducing Escherichia coli Strains

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Research topic/area: Experience-Dependent Dendritic Arbor Remodeling In GABAergic; Interneurons of the Adult Visual Cortex

Links: http://monster.mit.edu/nedivi-lab/

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Research topic/area: Rational engineering of E. coli strains and vectors for improved manufacturing of plasmid biopharmaceuticals

Communications/Conference presentations:

Poster presentation: Engineering of an E. coli host for production of plasmid biopharmaceuticals Vaccine Technology II, Albufeira, Portugal, June 2008

Links: http://web.mit.edu/prathergroup/ (Prather Research Group Website)