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Past Students

Post Doctoral Fellow

Peter Yaron, PhD - Chemical Engineering
Current position: Lexmark

Graduate Students:

Zhixia Zhong - PhD, Chemical Engineering, graduated 5/10
Thesis: Structural and Mechanical Roles of Spectrin Repeat Proteins in Nucleated Cells and Implications on Muscular Dystrophy
Current position: maternity leave

Alexandre J.S. Ribeiro - PhD, Biomedical Engineering, graduated 12/10
Thesis: Mechanics of the Nucleus in Differentially Uncommitted Cells
Current position: postdoctoral fellowship Stanford University

Agnieszka Kalinowski - MD-PhD Student, Biomedical Engineering, graduated 12/11
Thesis: Lamin A Tail Domain Variants and their Membrane Association
NIH-NRSA predoctoral fellowship
Current position: completing medical degree at UPMC

Elizabeth A. Booth-Gauthier, graduated 5/12
Thesis: Mechanoresponsive Characterization of the Nucleus with Implication in Aging
Current position: postdoctoral fellowship UC Berkeley

Masters:

Julia T. Philip - Masters Student, Chemical Engineering, graduated 12/07
MS thesis: Nuclei Respond to Extracellular Shear Stress by Upregulating and Reorganizing Lamins

Chao-Kuei "Eric" Wang - Masters Student, Chemical Engineering, graduated 12/06
MS thesis: Actin polymerization in vitro and the Effects of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes

Richard Taylor - Masters Student, Biomedical Engineering, graduated 05/11
MS thesis: Bone Marrow-Derived Stem Cells: Injection Response and Socio-Economic Hurdles to Clinical Utility

P. Alexander Short - Masters Student, Biomedical Engineering, graduated 05/11
MS thesis: The Mechanics of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes Effects on Cellular Mechanisms
Aishwarya Sukumar - Masters Student, Biomedical Engineering, graduated 05/12
MS thesis: Altering deformability of chromatin and the nucleoskeleton in cancer cells

Undergraduate Students: