Muna Saleh
Muna participated in the Nordsletten lab with mentor Javiera Jilberto. Her work involved testing simulations of computational models of engineered heart tissues.
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 […]
Daniel Santana
Daniel worked in the He Lab under the mentorship of Jing Guo. He focused on Gold NanoRod Synthesis and surface modification of these nanoparticles for Biosensing.
Addianette Segarra
In 2021, Addianette Segarra worked in the Ekinci Lab researching with a device that shows antibiotic susceptibility testing. She using electrical signals to measure the bacterial growth in microfluidic channels. Learn more about Addianette and her work below!
Farnoush Shafiei
In 2021, Farnoush Shafiei worked in the Agarwal Lab. During this time she focused on micro- and meso-mechanics of agarose hydrogels. More specifically, she conducted tensor testing and indentation testing of mechanical properties of a growth hydrogel of different concentrations. Learn more about Farnoush and her work below!
Melody Siles
Melody Siles participated in CELL-MET summer research experiences in 2018 and 2019. She worked in Dr. He’s lab at FIU and participated at the University of Michigan in Max Shtein’s lab with Steve Forrest as her mentor the following summer. She made a gold nanoparticle film on PDMS for Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) substrates […]
Christine Smothers
Christine worked at the Nanobioengineering lab led by Dr. Chenzhong Li to explore various methods related to culturing and characterizing cardiomyocytes (heart cells). While at FIU, she was mentored by Maedeh Mozneb and learned about a wide variety of bioengineering techniques, such as cell culture, electrochemistry, and surface plasmon resonance. She also collaborated with lab […]
Colette Towles
Colette worked in the Bishop Lab getting acquainted with CAD software by building a 3D printer. She also used Python to code a temperature sensor for one of the labs in the photonics center. Learn more about Colette and her work below!
Dennis Ramos Trinidad
In 2019, Dennis Ramos Trinidad joined the Li Lab with Maedeh Mozneb as mentor. In this role, he studied 3D porous scaffolds fabrication for the implementation of cell culture. It targeted the development of optical based oxygen, ATP and Glucose biosensors for application in 3D tissue constructs while monitoring them in real time
Jonathan Urquia
Jonathan worked in the Lejeune lab and was mentored by Hiba Kobiessi. He created an accessible Python and Jupyter Notebook software that allows them to distribute strains from cardiac microtissue. He enjoyed seeing his programs functioning properly after constantly working on the code. Hear more about Jonathan’s REU experience!