Summer of 2019, Ithaca, New York
Program Director/Principal Investigator
Ankur Singh, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory Medicine
Office: 1306, Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences (IBB)
Georgia Institute of Technology
315 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332-0363
email: ankur.singh@gatech.edu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Grazia Marsico, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, National University of Ireland, Galway
Previous awards: DAAD Fellow, Marie Curie ITN AngioMatTrain fellow, European Microbiology Organization (EMBO) fellowship
Research: Lymphoid Tissues
Ph.D. Students
Tibra Wheeler
5th yr Biomedical Engineering Ph.D.
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow (2018-2021)
Sloan Fellow
Co-advisor: Prof. Marjolein van der Meulen
Research: Nanogels for anti-inflammatory responses
B.S: University Of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Sungwoong Kim
5th yr Material Science and Engineering Ph.D.
Research: Dynamic Living Hydrogels for Immune Regulation
B.S and M.S: Hanyang University
Kristine Lai
5th Yr Mechanical Engineering Ph.D.
Research: Microfluidics for immune tissues
BS: Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Santa Barbara
Zhe (Monica) Zhong
3rd Yr BioEngineering/Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. (Georgia Tech)
Research: Germinal Center B Cell Organoids
BS: Biomedical Engineering, Boston University
Liana Kramer
2nd yr Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. (Georgia Tech)
NIH T32 Immunoengineering Fellow
Co-advisor: Prof. Krishnendu Roy
Research: B Cell Biomanufacturing
B.S & M.S: Brown University (BME)
Valeria Juarez
1st yr Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. (Georgia Tech/Emory University)
National GEM Consortium Associate Fellow
Georgia Tech Presidential Fellowship
Research: Gut-Immune Interactions
B.S: The University of Texas at San Antonio (BME)
Manuel J. Quiñones Pérez
1st yr Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. (Georgia Tech/Emory University)
Emory Centennial Scholarship
Goizueta Foundation Fellowship
Georgia Tech Presidential Fellowship
Research: Vaccine Immunoengineering
B.S: Industrial Biotechnology, University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez
Christopher Carlson
1st yr Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. (Georgia Tech/Emory University)
Research: Germinal Centers
B.S: Bioengineering, University of California Merced, Merced, CA
Staff Research Associate, University of California San Francisco
Zixing (Vincent) Fan
1st Yr Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. (Georgia Tech)
Research: Immune technologies
MS: Cornell University
BS: University of Michigan
Jessica Elmore
5th yr Immunology Ph.D. (Cornell)
Sloan Fellow
Co-advisor: Prof. Avery August
Research: New Inflammatory Mouse Model and
Hydrogels for inflammation
B.S: Howard University
Master of Science (Thesis)
Zhonghao (Eric) Dai
1st year MS, Biomedical Engineering (Georgia Tech)
Research: Immunoengineering
BS: Biomedical Engineering, Boston University
Deepali Balasubramani
1st year MS, Biomedical Engineering (Georgia Tech)
Research: Immunoengineering
BS: Biomedical Engineering, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
Undergraduate Researchers
Thi Dao (Biochemistry, Georgia Tech)
Anjum Alam (Chemical Engineering, Georgia Tech)
Nicole Felix-Velez (Biological Engineering, Cornell University, LSAMP Scholar, Winner of 2019 Engineering learning Initiatives award)