Dr. Yuling Yan
Associate Professor, Bioengineering Program Director
Current Research Areas:
Current Research Areas:
- Biomedical imaging; Image/signal analysis and visualization
- Speech biomechanics/Laryngeal dynamics and physiology
- Fluorescence imaging microscopy; contrast-enhanced imaging using molecular switch probes and optical lock-in detection
Dr. Johnathan Zhang
Associate Professor, Bioengineering Program
Current Research Areas:
Current Research Areas:
- Protein Engineering: Expanding genetic codes in mammalian cells and stem cells; Engineering synthetic biomarker-recognizing reagents
- Reverse Protein Engineering: Searching for a "Peptide World"
- Biodevice / Bioinstrument Engineering: Applications of cell LASIK, label-free protein chip engineering
- Anti-infective drug discovery
Dr. Prashanth Asuri
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering Program
Current Research Interests:integrating tools and concepts from material science, cellular bioengineering, and stem cell biology, to engineer instructive cellular microenvironments that effectively instruct stem cell fate for applications in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
Current Research Interests:integrating tools and concepts from material science, cellular bioengineering, and stem cell biology, to engineer instructive cellular microenvironments that effectively instruct stem cell fate for applications in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine