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Research Expertise and Interest

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Department

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

neural crest gene regulatory network, vertebrate embryonic development, regeneration of tissue

Iswar Hariharan

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

growth regulation, regeneration, cancer

Dr. Seung-Wuk Lee reviewing bio-inspired materials in a library

Dept of Bioengineering

nanotechnology, bio-inspired nanomaterials, synthetic viruses, regenerative tissue engineering materials, drug delivery vehicles

O'Connell on UC Berkeley's campus

Grace D O'Connell

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

biomechanics, tissue engineering, intervertebral disc, cartilage

Sona Kang

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

metabolism, obesity, adipose tissue, epigenetics

Dept of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

metabolism, obesity, adipose tissue, brown fat, thermogenesis, tissue engineering, diabetes, fatty acid transport, fatty acid, stem cells, microphysiological systems, lipid nanoparticles, liver disease

Dept of Bioengineering

stem cell niche engineering, tissue repair, stem cell aging and rejuvenation

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

tissue biomechanics, biomaterial science, fatigue and fracture micromechanisms, orthopedic polymers for total joint replacement, synthetic cartilage

Christine Wildsoet

School of Optometry

optometry, vision science, myopia, refractive errors, accommodation, aberrations, eye growth, ocular therapeutics, optical myopia control, pharmacological myopia control, ocular tissue engineering, ocular stem cells, basic and clinical research with social implications

Dept of Integrative Biology

evolution of sex and recombination, Y degeneration, dosage compensation, sexually antagonistic variation

Phillip Messersmith

Phillip Messersmith

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

adhesion, polymers, regenerative medicine, sustainable polymers, biomimetics, medical devices

Kyriakos Komvopoulos

Kyriakos Komvopoulos

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

contact mechanics, fracture and fatigue of engineering materials, finite element modeling of surface contact and machining, thin-film processing and characterization, adhesion and fatigue of MEMS devices, plasma-assisted surface functionalization of biomaterials, surface patterning for cell adhesion and growth control, mechanics & tribology of magnetic recording devices, microfibrous scaffolds for tissue engineering, tribology and mechanics of artificial joints, mechanical metamaterials

Shannon Boettcher

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Dept of Chemistry

electrochemistry, materials chemistry, heterogeneous catalysis, hydrogen generation, electrolysis, batteries, membrane science

Teresa Puthussery in lab setting with pink filtered lighting and machinery in background.

Teresa Puthussery

School of Optometry

retinal neurobiology, retinal neurophysiology, ion channels, glutamate receptor, glaucoma, retinal degeneration, cell biology of photoreceptors, retinitis pigmentosa

Dept of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research

Haas School of Business

supply chain management, service systems management, production-quality interface issues, marketing-production interface issues

Kevin Edward Healy

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Materials Science and Engineering

bioengineering, biomaterials engineering, bioinspired materials, regenerative medicine, stem cell engineering, microphysiological systems, organs on a chip, drug screening and discovery

Jonathan Shewchuk

Jonathan Shewchuk

Division of Electrical Engineering (EECS)

scientific computing, computational geometry (especially mesh generation, numerical robustness, surface reconstruction, numerical methods, machine learning, physically-based animation

Carlos Fernandez-Pello

Carlos Fernandez-Pello

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

fire, combustion, flammability of materials, wildland fire spotting, wildland fire propagation, ignition and fire spread, smoldering and flaming, self heating and ignition, small scale energy generation

Andrew Scharlach

Andrew Scharlach

School of Social Welfare

aging, social welfare, family issues, aging-friendly communities, long-term care policies

Enrique Iglesia

Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

chemical engineering, catalytic materials, heterogeneous catalysis, chemical reaction engineering, methane and biomass coversion processes, refining processes, hydrogen generation, alkane activation deoxygenatiion and desulfurization catalysis, zeolites

School of Public Health

causal inference, targeted learning, statistical issues in epidemiology, precision medicine and public health

School of Education

policy analysis and evaluation, reform issues, charter schools, child care, early childhood development, economy and education

Marvalee H. Wake

Dept of Integrative Biology

development, evolution, systematics, amphibians, reproductive biology, vertebrate evolutionary morphology, fishes, reptiles, comparative analysis, biodiversity issues

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Dept of Geography

Latin America, human rights, peasantry, migrations, social movements, political conflict, Mayan communities in Guatemala, issues of memory, grief

Catherine Albiston

Catherine Albiston

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

Dept of Sociology

inequality, social change, law, employment, legal profession, public interest law, community-engaged research/scholarship, gender, work and family issues