Andrea Gilkey
[email protected] | MIT | Bioengineering Systems
Research topic/area: Biomedical Devices & Technologies
Bioengineering Systems | MIT Affiliated Students
Nirmala Paudel
[email protected] | MIT | Bioengineering Systems
Research topic/area: Feedback Based Design of Therapeutic Strategies
Jiun-Yih Kuan
[email protected] | MIT | Bioengineering Systems
Research topic/area: Variable Stiffness Mechanism for Running Augmentation
David Hagen
[email protected] | MIT | Bioengineering Systems
Research topic/area: Efficiently Minimizing Paramter Uncertainity in Biological Systems
Julio Pertuze
[email protected] | MIT | Bioengineering Systems
Research topic/area: Understanding the dynamics of Industry-university linkages, and their implications on innovation, technology transfer, and research collaborations
Lam Raga Anggara Markely
[email protected] | MIT | Bioengineering Systems
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.
Roedolph Opperman
[email protected] | MIT | Bioengineering Systems
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.
Aurore Zyto
[email protected] | MIT | Bioengineering Systems
Research topic/area: Computational modeling of protein-biomolecule interactions with application to mechanotransduction and antibody maturation
Margaret Pawlowski
[email protected] | MIT | Bioengineering Systems
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
Sohan Patel
[email protected] | MIT | Bioengineering Systems
Research topic/area: Biocatalysis and magnetic nanoparticles
Sarah Bird
MIT | Bioengineering Systems
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.
Junjay Tan
[email protected] | MIT | Bioengineering Systems
Research topic/area: Biomechanics of human movement
Brian Mickus
[email protected] | MIT | Bioengineering Systems
Research topic/area: Proteomic and Genomic Analysis of Lycopene-Overproducing Escherichia coli Strains
Jerry Chen
[email protected] | MIT | Bioengineering Systems
Research topic/area: Experience-Dependent Dendritic Arbor Remodeling In GABAergic; Interneurons of the Adult Visual Cortex
Diana Bower
[email protected] | MIT | Bioengineering Systems
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)