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Program Faculty (Graduate Studies Committee Members)
Technical Area 1, Cellular and Molecular Imaging
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James Bankson, (M. D. Anderson) Regular GSC Member; Research interests: Magnetic resonance imaging; fast imaging; quantitative imaging; parallel imaging; system engineering; receiver coil and phased array detector design; signal processing. jbankson@mdanderson.org (713-792-4273)
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Adela Ben-Yakar, Regular GSC Member: Assistant Professor, UT Austin Mechanical Engineering Department. Research interests: Femtosecond Laser Micro-Surgery (FLMS) and Two-photon Imaging using optical MEMS devices and Photonic Bandgap Fibers for cancer detection and treatment; Femtosecond laser micromachining of integrated devices for microfludics. ben-yakar@mail.utexas.edu (512-475-9280)
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Andrew Dunn, BME Faculty GSC Member: Assistant Professor, UT Austin BME Dept. Research interests: Optical microscopy, functional brain imaging, molecular imaging, neuroscience. adunn@mail.utexas.edu (512-232-2121)
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Stanislav Emelianov, BME Faculty GSC Member: Assistant Professor, UT Austin BME Dept. Research interests: Ultrasound and MNR elasticity imaging, ultrasound microscopy, molecular imaging. emelian@mail.utexas.edu (512-471-1733)
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Robert H. Flake, Regular GSC Member: Professor, UT Austin Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Research interests: Environment systems, pattern classification. robert.flake@mail.utexas.edu (512-471-1014)
- Wilson S. Geisler, Regular member of GSC, UT Austin Department of Psychology; Research interests: Current projects are concerned with perceptual grouping, visual search, natural scene statistics, and the neurophysiology of primary visual cortex. geisler@psy.utexas.edu (512-471-5380)
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Ann Gillenwater (M. D. Anderson) Associate GSC Member: Assistant Professor (NTCA), Head & Neck Surgery. Research interests: Optical detection and treatment of premalignant and early malignant lesions of upper aerodigestive tract, treatment of advanced skin cancers, treatment of thyroid malignancies. (713-792-8841)
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Joydeep Ghosh, Regular GSC Member: Professor, UT Austin Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Research interests: computer engineering, communications, networks and systems (CommNetS). ghosh@ece.utexas.edu (512-471-8980)
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Mark F. Hamilton, Regular GSC Member: Professor, UT Austin Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. Research interests: Physical acoustics, ultrasonics. hamilton@mail.utexas.edu (512-471-3055)
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Daniel Johnston, Regular GSC Member; Professor, UT Austin Dept. of Neuroscience; Research interests: Research in the Johnston laboratory is primarily directed towards understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms of learning and memory. We have focused our attention on neurons and synapses from the limbic system, mostly the hippocampus, subiculum, and entorhinal cortex. These areas are known to play important roles in learning and memory. Our research uses quantitative electrophysiological, molecular, optical imaging, and computer modeling techniques. djohnston@mail.clm.utexas.edu (512-232-6564)
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Thomas E. Milner, BME Faculty GSC Member: Associate Professor, UT Austin BME Dept. Research interests: Optical-based therapeutics and diagnostic imaging, biomedical fiber sensors, infrared imaging radiometry. milner@ece.utexas.edu (512-471-1332)
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Massoud Motamedi (UTMB - Galveston) Regular GSC Member: Director, Biomedical Engineering Center. mmotamed@utmb.edu (409-772-8363)
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Martin Poenie, Regular GSC Member: Associate Professor, UT Austin School of Biological Sciences. Research interests: Cellular imaging; Cellular regulation and development. poenie@mail.utexas.edu (512-471-5598 or 512-471-3503)
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Ponnada Narayana (UT Health Science Center-Houston) Regular GSC Member: Professor. Research interests: Magnetic Resonance (MR) imaging analysis. ponnada.a.narayana@uth.tmc.edu (713-500-7677)
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Konstantin Sokolov, (M. D. Anderson) Associate GSC Member, Assistant Professor in Dept of Imaging Physics. Research interests: optical imaging and spectroscopy of cancer; molecular imaging, multimodal contrast agents; nanoparticles and nanotechnology in molecular imaging. kostia@mail.utexas.edu (512-471-7440)
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James Tunnell, BME Faculty GSC Member: Assistant Professor, UT Austin BME Dept. Research interests: Biomedical optical spectroscopy and imaging; laser-tissue interactions. jtunnell@mail.utexas.edu (512-232-2110)
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A. J. Welch, BME Faculty GSC Member: Marion E. Forsman Centennial Professor in Engineering, UT Austin BME Dept. Research interests: Optical and thermal interactions of laser light with tissue, evaluation of therapeutic and diagnostic applications of lasers in medicine. welch@mail.utexas.edu (512-471-1453)
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Xiaojing
Zhang, BME Faculty GSC Member: Assistant Professor,
UT Austin BME Dept.. Research interests:
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and nanodevices and
fabrication for bio-manipulation, imaging and sensing. zhangxj@mail.utexas.edu (512-475-6872)
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Technical Area 2, Cellular and Bio-Molecular Engineering
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Ananth Annapragada, (UT Health Science Center-Houston) Regular GSC Member; Associate Professor, School of Information Sciences; Research interests: Targeted drug delivery; respiratory drug delivery; computational methods in biomedicine; targeted delivery of contrast agents for various imaging modalities. Ananth.Annapragada@uth.tmc.edu (713- 500-3982)
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Akhil Bidani, (UT Health Science Center-Houston) Regular GSC Member: Professor, Dept. of Internal Medicine - Pulmonary. abidani@utmb.edu (409-772-2436)
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Lisa Brannon-Peppas, Regular GSC Member: Research Professor, UT Austin BME Dept. Research interests: Biomaterials, controlled drug delivery and targeting to the vascular system and cancer cells, biodegradable materials, structure-property relationships of polymers. peppas@mail.utexas.edu (512-471-4348)
- Shaochen Chen, Regular GSC Member: Associate Professor, UT Austin Dept of Mechanical Engineering. Research Interests: Biomedical micro and nano devices, micro and nano scale laser processing of biomaterials.scchen@mail.utexas.edu
- Jay Conyers, (UT Health Science Center-Houston) Regular GSC member; Research interests: Atherosclerotic Plaque Imaging Agents, Smart Drug Delivery Platforms, Ionizing Radiation Protection/Mitigation Agents Multifunctional Vectors. Jodie.L.Conyers@uth.tmc.edu (713- 500-3643)
- Andrew Ellington, Regular GSC Member: Associate professor, UT Austin Chemistry and Biochemistry. Research Interests: Evolutionary engineering of molecules, metabolism and organisms. andy.ellington@mail.utexas.edu)(512-232-3424 or 512-471-6445)
- Mauro Ferrari, (UT Health Science Center-Houston) Regular GSC member; Professor; Research interests: Biomedical nanotechnology; translational science; medical therapeutics in drug delivery application in oncology, cardiovascular disease and diabetes; biosensors and bioseparation technology; multiscale discrete/continuum mechanics and biomechanics. Mauro.Ferrari@uth.tmc.edu (713-500-2444)
- Wolfgang Frey, BME Faculty GSC Member: Assistant Professor, UT Austin BME Dept. Research Interests: Nanostructures, polymeric and inorganic surfaces in cell interaction, bio-optical sensors in protein-ligand recognition. wfrey@mail.utexas.edu (512-471-1434)
- Yong-Jian Geng, (UT Health Science Center-Houston) Regular GSC member; Associate Professor, MD, PhD; Research interests: Cardiovascular gene expression; apoptosis; lipoprotein metabolism; transgenic mice; gene and cell therapy; tissue engineering. yong-jian.geng@uth.tmc.edu (832-355-9165)
- George Georgiou,
CHE faculty,BME Faculty GSC Member: Professor, UT Austin. Research
interests: Antibody engineering, enzyme engineering, protein
folding in vivo. ggmjd@mail.utexa.edu (512-471-6975
or 512-232-4103)
- George
Kramer, (UTMB - Galveston) Regular GSC Member:
Professor, Dept. of Anesthesiology. Administration. Microcirculatory
transport of fluid and solutes, resuscitation of circulatory
shock, mechanisms of membrane depolarization and cellular
edema in shock, closed loop technologies to treat medical
emergencies. gkramer@utmb.edu (409-772-3969)
- Anshu
Mathur, (M. D. Anderson) Regular GSC Member: Director of Research, Tissue Regeneration and Molecular Cell Engineering Labs (TRAMCEL); Assistant Professor, Depts. of Biomedical Engineering and Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Research interests: Biologically derived materials, Engineered 3-D nanomaterials for tissue and patient specific reconstructive applications, Cell-Engineering at the molecular scale, Guided tissue regeneration, In vivo models for tissue regeneration, Targeted Biological Nanotherapeutics, Nano-Therapeutic delivery via a microvascular tissue flap. amathur@mdanderson.org (713-563-7568)
- Nicholas Peppas, CHE faculty, BME Faculty GSC Member: Fletcher Stuckey Pratt Chair in Engineering and Associate Chair-Academic Affairs of the UT Austin BME Dept. Research interests: Biomaterials, controlled drug delivery, molecular modeling of protein structures in contact with biomaterials and tissues, modeling of biomedical devices, bionanotechnology and molecular recognition processes. peppas@che.utexas.edu (512-471-6644)
- Gregory Reece, (M. D. Anderson) Regular GSC member; Professor; Research interests: Angiogenesis in wound healing, tissue engineering and vascular biology. greece@mdanderson.org (713- 794-1247)
- Krishnendu Roy, BME Faculty GSC Member: Assistant Professor, UT Austin BME Dept. Research Interests: Polymer based DNA delivery, DNA vaccines, transcutaneous and transmucosal delivery of nucleic acids, effects of spatio-temporal gene delivery on stem cell differentiation and tissue regeneration. kroy@mail.utexas.edu (512-232-3477)
- Christine Schmidt, BME Faculty GSC Member: Associate Professor and Graduate Adviser, UT Austin BME Dept. Research interests: Development of bioartificial tissues and enhancement of native tissue function using fundamental engineering principles and molecular level knowledge of cellular interactions. schmidt@che.utexas.edu (512-471-1690)
- Li Shi,
Regular GSC Member, Associate Professor, UT Austin Dept. of Mechanical
Engineering; Research interests: We investigate transport and
nano sciences to advance energy, information, biomedical, and
security technologies. lishi@mail.utexas.edu (512-471-3109)
- Jason Shear, Chemistry & Biochemistry Faculty GSC Member: Associate Professor, Research interests: Biomaterials, Cellular Engineering, Chemical Microanalysis, Microscopy. jshear@mail.utexas.edu (512-232-1454).
- Michael Smolensky, (UT-Houston Medical School) Associate GSC Member: Professor,Environmental Physiology, Dept of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine. Research interests: circadian rhythms in desease processes and their chronotherapy. msmolensky@houston.rr.com (713-500-9237)
- Laura J. Suggs, BME Faculty GSC Member: Assistant Professor, UT Austin BME Dept. Research interests: Cardiovascular tissue engineering, adult progenitor cells and vasculogenesis, biologically active materials. laura.suggs@engr.utexas.edu
- Muhammad H. Zaman, Regular GSC Member: Assistant Professor, UT Austin BME Dept. Research interests: Tumor cell migration and cell-matrix interactions in 3D matrices. Combined theoretical and high-throughput experimental approaches to study cancer cell invasion, cellular and matrix mechanics, metastasis and cell-cell communication. mhzaman@mail.utexas.edu (512-471-4205)
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Technical Area 3, Computational Biomedical Engineering and Bioinformatics
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Lawrence D. Abraham, Regular GSC Member: Associate Professor, UT Austin Dept. of Kinesiology and Health. Research interests: Neural control of movement, human biomechanics. l.abraham@mail.utexas.edu (512-471-3476 or 512-232-2684)
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Orly Alter, BME Faculty GSC Member: Assistant Professor, UT Austin. Research interests: Genomic signal processing and computational biology. orly.alter@engr.utexas.edu (512-471-7939)
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Chandrajit L. Bajaj, Regular GSC Member: UT Austin Professor, Dept. of Computer Science. Research interests: Computer models of physical domains with associated physics. bajaj@cs.utexas.edu (512-471-8870)
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John Byrne (UT Health Science Center-Houston) Regular GSC Member: Neurobiology & Anatomy. Research interests: Analysis and synthesis of neural circuits and biochemical and genetic networks mediating learning and memory. John.H.Bryne@uth.tmc.edu (713-500-5602)
- Vittorio Cristini(UT Health Science Center-Houston) Regular GSC Member; Associate Professor; Research interests: development, integration and application of computational and experimental models in the field of predictive oncology. Vittorio.Cristini@uth.tmc.edu (713-500-3965)
- Kenneth R. Diller, BME Faculty GSC Member: Professor and Chairman, UT Austin BME Dept. Research interests: Low-temperature biology, thermal modeling, tissue banking, burn injury, computer vision. kdiller@mail.utexas.edu (512-471-7167)
- Jonathan Dingwell, Regular GSC Member: Assistant Professor, UT Austin Dept. of Kinesiology and Health Education. Research interests: biomechanics, neuromuscular control, and nonlinear dynamics. jdingwell@mail.utexas.edu (512-232-1782)
- Mary Edgerton, (M. D. Anderson) Regular GSC member; MD, PhD; Research interests: Breast pathology, pagetoid spread of ductal carcinoma in situ, data mining of gene expression profiles for oncogenic pathways, pathology informatics, informatics for research tissue collection. (713-745-1212)
- Joydeep Ghosh, Regular GSC Member: Professor, UT Austin Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Research interests: Computer Engineering, Communications, Networks and Systems (CommNets) ghosh@ece.utexas.edu (512)471-8980
- Lisa Griffin, Regular GSC Member: Assistant Professor, UT Austin Dept. of Kinesiology and Health Education. Research interests: Development of Functional Electrical Stimulation systems to enable hand muscle movement of those affected by paralysis from stroke and spinal cord injury. l.griffin@mail.utexas.edu (512-471-2786)
- Robin Gutell, Regular GSC member; Associate Professor, Dept. of Integrative Biology; Research interests: The analysis of RNA sequences from an RNA structure and a molecular phylogenetic perspective can reveal the secondary and tertiary structure of RNA molecules, most notably for the 16S and 23S ribosomal RNAs, and phylogenetic relationships for organisms that span the entire tree of life. robin.gutell@mail.utexas.edu (512-232-4814)
- Edward Marcotte, Regular GSC Member: Asst. Professor, UT Austin Chemistry and Biochemistry. Research Interests: Bioinformatics; functional genomics, proteomics; mass-spectrometric detection of protein expression; protein microarrays; protein-network-guided drug discovery; high-throughput protein interaction screening; high-throughput discovery of gene function. marcotte@icmb.utexas.edu (512-471-5435 or 512-232-3919)
- Mia Markey, BME Faculty GSC Member: Assistant Professor, UT Austin. Research interests: Machine learning and statistical techniques for detection, classification and prediction in biology and medicine; biomedical image analysis. mia.markey@mail.utexas.edu (512-471-1711)
- Dianna Milewicz (UT Health Science Center-Houston) Associate GSC Member: Associate Professor, Dept. of Internal Medicine. Research interests: Bioinformatics; genomics of cardiovascular and connective tissue diseases. Dianna.M.Milewicz@uth.tmc.edu (713-500-6725)
- Tess J. Moon, Regular GSC Member: Professor, UT Austin. Research
interests: Cellular and tissue biomechanics and biophysics. tmoon@mail.utexas.edu (512-471-0094 or 512-471-6515)
- Richard Neptune, Regular GSC Member: Assistant Professor, UT Austin Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. Research interests: Areas of musculoskeletal and sport biomechanics and neural control of human movement. rneptune@mail.utexas.edu (512-471-0848)
- Pengyu Ren, BME Faculty GSC Member: Assistant Professor, UT Austin BME Dept. Research Interests: Molecular modeling of biological systems; computational biology. pren@mail.utexas.edu (512-232-1832)
- Harel Shouval, (UT Health Science Center-Houston) Regular GSC Member: Assistant Professor, Neurobiology & Anatomy. Theoretical/Computational stduies on the cellular basis of learning, memory and development. harel.shouval@uth.tmc.edu (713-500-5708)
- Bugao Xu, Regular GSC Member: Associate Professor, UT Austin Dept. of Human Ecology. Research interests: Applications of computer vision technology to measure size and shape of the human body. bxu@mail.utexas.edu (512-471-7226 or 512-471-7224)
- Muhammad H. Zaman, Regular GSC Member: Assistant Professor, UT Austin BME Dept. Research interests: Tumor cell migration and cell-matrix interactions in 3D matrices. Combined theoretical and high-throughput experimental approaches to study cancer cell invasion, cellular and matrix mechanics, metastasis and cell-cell communication. mhzaman@mail.utexas.edu (512-471-4205)
- Ronald E. Barr, Regular GSC Member: Professor, UT Austin Dept. of Mechanical Engineering: Research interests: Biosignal analysis, computer graphics, biomechanics. rbarr@mail.utexas.edu (512-471-3008 or 512-471-5615)
- Alan Bovik, Regular GSC Member: Professor, UT Austin Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Research interests: Biomedical image processing, computer vision. bovik@mail.utexas.edu (512-471-5370)
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John A. Pearce, Regular GSC Member: Professor, UT Austin Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Research interests: Thermal damage in tissue, electrosurgery, bioelectric phenomena. jpearce@mail.utexas.edu (512-471-4984 or 512-471-6902)
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H. Grady Rylander III, BME Faculty GSC Member: Professor, UT Austin BME Dept. Research interests: Vision research, biomedical sensors, laser applications, neuroprosthesis design. rylander@mail.utexas.edu (512-471-1995)
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Delbert Tesar, Regular GSC Member: Professor, UT Austin Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. Research interests: Development of advanced component and system technology for intelligent machines and robotics including their performance, condition-based maintenance, and fault tolerance for applications in space, manufacturing, military operations and microsurgery. tesar@mail.utexas.edu (512-471-3039)
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Jonathan W. Valvano, Regular GSC Member: Professor, UT Austin Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Research interests: Bioinstrumentation, measurement of perfusion, tissue thermal properties, real-time temperature measurements, thermal modeling in tissue, embedded applications of microcomputers. valvano@uts.cc.utexas.edu (512-471-5141 or 512-471-1216)
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