Ishanu Chattopadhyay
P.I. willing to mentor undergraduate research volunteers interested, work study students or students requiring pay in Data Science, Machine Learning, Viral Evolution.
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Jasmine Nirody
We study the physics of how biological systems interact with their environments, as well as the role of these interactions in shaping organismal morphology and behavior.
We use a range of theoretical and empirical (laboratory + field) techniques to answer questions that sit at the intersection of behavior, biophysics, and evolution.
We work on problems across organismal systems and levels of biological organization. While the underlying mechanisms (and the techniques we use to study them) may vary as we shift our focus from molecular motors to bacteria to animals, the larger questions we are fascinated by remain the same!
- How do biological systems sense and respond to mechanical stresses in complex environments?
- In what environments do adaptive mechanics improve performance?
- How do flexible locomotive strategies affect the evolution of biomechanical structures?
Our research provides ample opportunities for undergraduate engagement. Please email Jasmine at jnirody@uchicago.edu to discuss options!
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.
Jean Greenberg
P.I. willing to mentor undergraduate research volunteers, workstudy students, and those requiring pay interested in Plant biology, plant-microbe interactions.
Jennifer Cone
P.I. willing to mentor undergraduate research volunteers interested in Trauma Surgery.
Jeremy Baeten
P.I. willing to mentor undergraduate research students requiring pay interested in Cancer Biology.
Jocelyn Malamy
P.I. willing to mentor undergraduate research volunteers or work study students interested in Plant biology, epithelial wound healing in jellyfish.
John Cunningham
P.I. willing to mentor undergraduate research volunteers, work study students and students requiring pay interested in Hematopoiesis/stem cells.
Joy Bergelson
P.I. willing to mentor undergraduate research volunteers and work study students interested in Ecology and evolution of microbe-plant interactions.
Jubao Duan
P.I. willing to mentor undergraduate research volunteers, work study students, and students requiring pay interested in Functional genomics of neuropsychiatric disorders using induced pluripotent stem cells as a model.
Kay Macleod
P.I. willing to mentor undergraduate research volunteers, work study students and students requiring pay interested in Cancer Biology.
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
Knowledge Lab
The explosion of digital information offers an unprecedented opportunity to study the dynamics that shape human understanding, investigation and certainty.
KT Jerry Yeo
P.I. willing to mentor undergraduate research volunteers, work study students, and students requiring pay interested in Clinical Mass Spectrometry Translational Research.