Posts tagged with 'Biophysical Sciences'

Archives Research Undergraduate Research Associate (URA)

Archival research and digitization project in support of making the Smart Museum’s institutional history more widely accessible

Characterization of Chronic Thrombus

DAAD Research Internships in Science and Engineering (RISE)

Offers a stipend of 650 Euros (per month for up to three months) to conduct research in Germany over the summer.

Institute for Biophysical Dynamics Scholar Program

Jason MacLean

Opportunity to study single trial representations of sensory input and motor output in local neocortical circuits.

Our group studies single trial representations of sensory input and motor output in local neocortical circuits. Individual neurons are active differently even when the task conditions are identical. In part this is because a large majority of the activity that an experimenter records is not readily assigned to a specific sensory input or motor output. Rather than simple input output responses we postulate that many variables are simultaneously represented. Consequently, understanding the real time activity of the interconnected neurons in the brain will mean that we have achieved understanding of the code, and the computations, of neocortex. To do so we take an explicitly circuit centric, network science based, analytical perspective to recordings of hundreds of neocortical neurons. We complement this work and achieve further understanding by simulating and training spiking neuron networks.

Kenneth Bader

P.I. willing to mentor undergraduate research volunteers work study students, and students requring pay interested in Biomedical acoustics.

The focus of the Biomedical Acoustics Development and Engineering Research Laboratory (BADER Lab) is the translation of therapeutic ultrasound for non- or minimally invasive treatment of cardiovascular and cancerous disease. Specifically, we utilize acoustic cavitation for combinatorial ablation and enhanced drug delivery treatment strategies of pathologies resistant to standard interventional techniques. To assess bubble activity and the resultant changes in tissue structure, we are developing multi-modal imaging approaches via diagnostic ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging. Analytic and numerical bubble dynamics models are also utilized to gain insight into the mechanism of action of our therapeutic approaches. Current research topics include:

Chronic thrombus ablation with histotripsy and thrombolytic drugs
Passive cavitation and MR imaging to assess histotripsy-induced liquefaction
In vitro assessment of histotripsy-enhanced drug delivery
Histotripsy-induced sonochemical reactions for the treatment of cancer
Numeric and analytic models of bubble dynamics
Magnetic Resonance-guided transurethral prostate ablation

For more information, visit our laboratory website: baderlab.uchicago.edu

Luka Pocivavsek

PI looking for undergraduate research volunteers. My lab is a highly collaborative and interdisciplinary lab that combines the physical sciences, engineering, and surgery. We study aortic pathologies, stability and failure of endovascular repairs, stress focusing phenomena induced by surgical interventions, and interfacial adhesion, surface renewal, and topography.

Steve Kron

Opportunity for students to get research experience in the Kron lab.

The Kron lab has hosted over sixty undergraduates to date, mostly from the College. Students in the College can pursue research projects through the year or over the summer. Long-term projects are expected to lead to presentations and publications. While projects are typically collaborative with senior members of the lab, they are often independent. We are most interested in bringing on first and second year students, although some prior research experience is better. Third year students looking for Honors thesis projects are also welcome. If you are curious, take a look at our recent publications (kron sj on PubMed) and our web site before contacting us.

Summer Internship

Beyond the Scale: Tackling Obesity, Conquering Cancer

Super resolution microscopy in vascular cells

SurgBioMech Lab

Surgery is anatomy. Anatomy is geometry. Geometry is the heart of mechanics.

SurgBioMech Lab studies the geometry and biomechanics of surgical anatomies and biological interfaces.

UCSF Summer Research Training Program

UC San Francisco offers exciting summer research opportunities for undergraduate students in the health sciences.

UM-SMART Undergrad Summer Program

Research opportunities and training for students interested in obtaining combined MD/PhD degrees leading to careers in medicine and research.

Undergraduate Pipeline Network Summer Research Program

he program provides the opportunity for students to choose from several areas of research at the University of New Mexico's Health Sciences Center.

Undergraduate Research in Biomechanics

Undergraduate Summer Research Opportunities at the University of Michigan Medical School

Summer experiences offer opportunities to participate in exciting projects, mentored by and working side-by-side with some of the brightest minds in science and medicine.

University of Michigan Biophysics Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates Program (REU)

The summer REU provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to conduct ten weeks of summer research with some of the country's leading biophysicists.

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