Participating Faculty and Researchers

Bioengineering (Core Faculty)

Biochemistry

• Richard A. Luben, Signal transduction

Biomedical Sciences

• David Johnson, Enzyme mechanism analysis
• John Shyy, Genetics of biomechanic effects on cells

Botany and Plant Sciences

• Elizabeth Lord, Biological mechanisms of guidance
• Eugene Nothnagel, Control of biosynthesis in the golgi apparatus
• Natasha Raikhel, Vacuolar trafficking through the secretory system, biosynthesis of cell wall polysaccharides in plants

Cell Biology and Neuroscience

• Sarjeet Gill, Neuroscience Cell membrane transport
• Manuela Martins-Green, Wound healing and tumor development
• Vladimir Parpura, Neuron signaling

Chemistry

• David Bocian, Energy-transducing systems, molecular photonic devices
• Robert C. Haddon, Electronic structure and properties of molecules and materials
• Thomas H. Morton, Mechanisms of receptor-ligand interactions
• Michael Marsella, Electromechanical actuators, double helical macromolecules, molecule-based electrooptical switches
• Christopher J. Bardeen, Transport processes occur in complex systems
• Quan Cheng, Biosensing and imaging arrays
• Cynthia K. Larive, Ligand-protein interactions, tissue-targeted metabonomics
• Dallas Rabenstein, Solution chemistry of peptides and proteins

Chemical and Environmental Engineering

• Wilfred Chen, Novel biocatalysts and biological materials
• Ashok Mulchandani, Biosensors and biodetoxification
• Nosang Myung, Nano-devices
• Sharon Walker, Biofilms, bioremediation
• Jianzhong Wu, Biothermodynamics and enzymatic processes
• Yushan Yan, Nanostructured materials

Computer Science and Engineering

• Tao Jiang, Bioinformatics, design and analysis of algorithms, computational molecular biology
• Stefano Lonardi, Computational molecular biology, data compression, data Mining, information hiding

Electrical Engineering

• Bir Bhanu, Computer vision, machine learning
• Mihri Ozkan, Integrating quantum dots with cells

Mechanical Engineering

• Guillermo Aguilar, Medical lasers
• Cengiz S. Ozkan, Self-assembly of structures and nanofabrication
• Thomas F. Stahovich, Computational design tools
• Kambiz Vafai, Microcantilever arrays for bioanalysis

Entomology

• Michael E. Adams, Signaling in the nervous system

Physics & Astronomy

• Umar Mohideen, Signal transmission in the human brain
• Harry W.K. Tom, Nonlinear optics, surface science, ultra-fast phenomena

Psychology

• G. John Andersen, Computational models of high level visual processing
• Khaleel A. Razak, Development of sensory processing