Genevieve Vega
Genevieve worked on “Assessment of culture substrate functionalization in an inducible border zone culture platform” in the Tissue Microfabrication Lab under PI Christopher Chen. The project focused on understanding communications between border zone cardiomyocytes and fibroblasts; and improving upon the integration of cardiomyocytes engraftments.
Jourdan Watson
Under the supervision of Helen Fawcett, Jourdan worked with Gabriel Hubbard on building and programming a robotic hand. In addition to coding the behavior, Jourdan helped developed robotic hand-focused curriculum for use in middle and high school classrooms. Learn more about Jourdan and his work below!
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!