Faculty Research
May 20, 2020
REU Award for Modeling SARS-CoV-2 Proteins
BioE Affiliated Faculty Mary Jo Ondrechen, Assistant Professor Mona Minkara, and COS Assistant Professor Steven Lopez were awarded a $73K NSF RAPID grant for “Undergraduate Research in Modeling and Computation for Discovery of Molecular Probes for SARS-CoV-2 Proteins.”
May 20, 2020
Eduardo Sontag Gave Keynote Talk at 2020 European Control Conference
ECE/BioE Professor Eduardo Sontag gave the opening keynote talk on “Some Control Theory Ideas in Systems and Synthetic Biology” virtually at the 2020 European Control Conference at St Petersburg, Russia.
Apr 02, 2020
3D Printing Could Help in Finding Brain Cancer Treatments
BioE Associate Professor Guohao Dai, who specializes in 3D printing live tissue, created a three-dimensional model to study the development of brain tumors.
Jan 31, 2020
Unpicking the Proteome in Single Cells
BioE Assistant Professor Nikolai Slavov’s research into using single-cell mass-spectrometry methods for high-throughput analysis of proteins is featured in the Science article “Unpicking the proteome in single cells.”
Jan 30, 2020
Translating the ‘Mastermind’ Concept from Business to Academia
Assistant Professors Danielle Levac (Bouvé), Emily Zimmerman (Bouvé), Kristen Allison (Bouvé), Abigail Koppes (ChE), Sarah Ostadabbas (ECE), Jessica Oakes (BioE), and Associate Professor Eno Ebong (ChE) were awarded a 2020 ADVANCE Mutual Mentoring Advancement Program (M2AP) Grant for “Translating the ‘Mastermind’ Concept from Business to Academia: Facilitating Peer mentorship among female PIs leading active research labs”.
Jan 13, 2020
In Vitro Implementation of Robust Gene Regulation in a Synthetic Biomolecular Integral Controller
ECE/BioE Professor Eduardo Sontag’s research on “in vitro implementation of robust gene regulation in a synthetic biomolecular integral controller” was published in Nature Communications.
Jan 03, 2020
New Faculty Spotlight: Rouzbeh Amini
Rouzbeh Amini joins the Mechanical Engineering department in January 2020 as an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in Bioengineering.
Jan 03, 2020
New Faculty Spotlight: Mohammad Abbas Yaseen
Mohammad Abbas Yaseen joins the Bioengineering department in January 2020 as an Assistant Professor.