Tommaso Ranzani
2026 REU Project: Coming Soon Professor Tommaso Ranzani leads the Morphable Biorobotics Lab whose focus is robotic technologies for medicine, surgery, rehabilitation, and exploration. Dr. Ranzani has extensive experience in the development of medical robots for Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS). He explored different technologies and developed a number of manufacturing paradigms to design and manufacture […]
John White
Professor White’s laboratory uses engineering approaches to understand how information is processed in the brain, with the goal of exploiting these findings to improve the human condition. Previous REU/RET Projects include: Population Responses of Living Neural Networks to Periodic Drive (2024) Artificial Memory Reactivation Using a Red-shifted Opsin (2022) Assessing Methods for Imaging Activity in […]
Yanyu Zhao
Dr. Yanyu Zhao was a graduate student in the Biomedical Optical Technologies Lab. Previous REU/RET Projects include: Nano-Based Sensing of Tissue Environments in Deep Tissue (2015)
Darren Roblyer
2026 REU Project: Fabricating customizable anisotropic phantoms for the assessment of clinical optical technologies Dr. Roblyer’s research group develops new label free imaging modalities to diagnose disease and monitor therapies. A main thrust of the lab is development of new wearable and handheld technologies that can provide earlier assessments of therapy effectiveness for cancer, cardiovascular […]
Allison Dennis
Previous REU/RET Projects Include: Synthesis and Characterization of Thick-Shelled InP/ZnSe Quantum Dots (2015)
Ariane Garrett
Ariane Garrett is a graduate student in the Biomedical Optical Technologies Lab. Previous REU/RET Projects include: Speckle Contrast Optical Spectroscopy for Cuffless Blood Pressure Measurements (2024)
Brandon Williams
Brandon Williams is a graduate student in the Neuronal Dynamics Laboratory. Previous REU/RET Projects include: Population Responses of Living Neural Networks to Periodic Drive (2024)
Aarohi Mehendale
Aarohi Mehendale is a graduate student in the Biomedical Optical Technologies Lab. Previous REU/RET Projects include: An Optical Phantom to Mimic Skin Affected by Scleroderma (2023)
Claudia Varela
Dr. Claudia Varela is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Tissue Microfabrication Lab. Previous REU/RET Projects include: An In Vitro Model of the Infarct Border Zone (2024)
Population Responses of Living Neural Networks to Periodic Drive
Mentors Project Description The hippocampal formation (HF) in mammals is responsible for collecting information about the sensory world and, if appropriate, storing that information as memories, to be offloaded to other brain structures later. The HF has a number of notable response properties, including nested, quasi-periodic activity. In this project, the student will work with […]