Maxwell Barrueta
Maxwell worked in the Bifano Lab on a project called Making Heart Tissue Dance. He created an electrical pacemaker for heart tissue engineering. Learn more about Max’s REU experience below!
Ivanna Corzo
Ivanna participated in the Bifano Lab, focusing on optics and using high- tech microscopes to observe biological samples. By the end of the summer, she was able to transfer some of her research from BU to FIU.
Marva Lawrence
Marva worked in the Bifano Lab alongside graduate student mentor, Ruifeng Hu. Some of her tasks included creating PDMS devices, ensuring that the heart tissue can stay on the device’s posts, and taking side view images of them. She also communicated with Florida International University since they test the stiffness of the devices. Learn more […]
Sebastian Martinez
Sebastian worked on “High Throughput Screening System for Engineered Heart Tissues” in the Bifano lab. The project aims to analyze the contractile force of engineered heart tissue. Learn more about Sebastian and his work below!
Antonio Martinez-Margolles
Antonio had two CELL-MET REU experiences. First he worked in the Bifano Lab at Boston University researching optics. Then, he work at the He Lab calibrating an Epi-Illumination Fluorescence Microscope with Piezo Stage that is meant for biological imaging the following summer.
Paris Pippen
Paris worked in the Bifano Lab in the summer of 2021. She measured wavelengths from a spectrometer to see how light projects from a prism. Learn more about Paris and her work below!
Francisco Sanchez Morales
Francisco Sanchez Morales worked with CELL-MET for two summers. First, he worked in the Forrest Lab at the University of Michigan with the pattering of parelyn to eventually use it in the pattering of cells. The following summer, he worked at the Bifano Lab at Boston University developing a setup to measure the effects of […]
Jack Zamen
In the summer of 2021, Jack Zamen joined the Bifano Lab. As part of his research experience, he designed and implemented a system to electrically stimulate and pace engineered heart tissue. This pacing is important to maturing the cells. Learn more about Jack and his work below!