Charles Knight
Charles worked on the Lab on a Chip project that is working on microchips that will eventually be used to help repair heart tissue. He went on to work as a computer scientist at the US Department of Defense. Learn more about Charles and his work below!
Babajide Koleoso
Babajide worked on building a scaffold that would house heart cells to make the cells communicate more effectively and contract cohesively. Learn more about BJ and his work below!
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 […]
Megan Maero
In 2021, Megan worked in the Herron Lab (Cardiovascular Regeneration Core Laboratory) researching different devices to analyze cardiac heart tissue to look for a high throughput way to analyze three dimensional cardiac heart tissues for research in toxicity levels of new medicines. Learn more about Megan and her work below!
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.
Madison Nieves
Madison worked in the Chen Lab on a project called Characterizing SynNotch Receptors for Improved Cardiac Regeneration. She took synthetic notch receptors, synNotch, and introduce them into human endothelial cells. Learn more about Madison’s REU experience below!
Alex Nuñez Carrasquillo
In 2021, Alex Nuñez Carrasquillo worked in the Lahann Lab focusing on biomimetic materials, advanced polymers and particle drug delivery. He designed an underlying scaffold to be able to place proteins that can stretch to emulate how heart tissues stretch. Learn more about Alex and his work below!
Destiny Nunez-Parra
Destiny worked at the Lejeune Lab focusing on SARCgraph which is a computational framework used to segment, track, and analyze sarcomeres. Learn more about Destiny and her work below!
Suleyman Omer
In 2023, Suleyman Omer worked in the Baker Lab. WHile in the lab, Suleyman strengthened his knowledge of how structure and mechanics of the cellular microenvironment guide fundamental cell processes