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Bioengineering Systems | MIT Affiliated Students

Andrea Gilkey

agilkey@MIT.EDU | MIT | Bioengineering Systems

Research topic/area: Biomedical Devices & Technologies


Nirmala Paudel

nirmala@MIT.EDU | MIT | Bioengineering Systems

Research topic/area: Feedback Based Design of Therapeutic Strategies


Jiun-Yih Kuan

kuan525@MIT.EDU | MIT | Bioengineering Systems

Research topic/area: Variable Stiffness Mechanism for Running Augmentation


David Hagen

drhagen@MIT.EDU | MIT | Bioengineering Systems

Research topic/area: Efficiently Minimizing Paramter Uncertainity in Biological Systems


Julio Pertuze

pertuze@MIT.EDU | MIT | Bioengineering Systems

Research topic/area: Understanding the dynamics of Industry-university linkages, and their implications on innovation, technology transfer, and research collaborations


Lam Raga Anggara Markely

lmarkely@mit.edu | MIT | Bioengineering Systems

Research topic/area: High-throughput quantification of glycoprotein sialylation

Publications: Markely, L.R.A. and Yin, J. (2007). Intracellular Dynamics of Bacteriophage øX174 Gene Expression. Journal of Young Investigators, 16.

Markely, L.R.A., Andrzejewski, D., Butzlaff, E., and Kiselev, A. (2006). Enhancement of Combustion by Drift in a Coupled Reaction-Diffusion Model. Communications in Mathematical Sciences, 4(1): 213-225.


Roedolph Opperman

roedolph@mit.edu | MIT | Bioengineering Systems

Research topic/area: Biomedical Devices – We are evaluating the performance of wearable inertial measurement units (IMU’s) in measuring joint angles of the lower limbs during walking trails. Ultimately these sensors would be incorporated into smart prostheses and orthoses that would assist small children with cerebral palsy in developing the correct gait. We make use of a Kalman filter to obtain joint angles from the IMU data, which we then compare with motion capture data (the golden standard in the industry) to determine accuracy.


Aurore Zyto

aurore@mit.edu | MIT | Bioengineering Systems

Research topic/area: Computational modeling of protein-biomolecule interactions with application to mechanotransduction and antibody maturation


Margaret Pawlowski

Mack7@mit.edu | MIT | Bioengineering Systems

Research topic/area: Immunotherapy of Colon Cancer

Publications: Ackerman ME, Chalouni C, Schmidt MM, Raman VV, Ritter G, Old LJ, Mellman I, Wittrup KD. A33 Antigen Displays Persistent Surface Expression, Cancer Immunol Immunother (2008) 57:1017–1027

Ackerman ME, Pawlowski DJ, Wittrup KD, Effect of Antigen Turnover Rate and Expression Level on Antibody Penetration into Tumor Spheroids, Mol Cancer Ther in press


Sohan Patel

sohanrp@mit.edu | MIT | Bioengineering Systems

Research topic/area: Biocatalysis and magnetic nanoparticles


Sarah Bird

MIT | Bioengineering Systems

Research topic/area: Entrepreneurship Policy

Other interests: Social enterprise; Fostering entrepreneurship in the developing and developed world

Publications: Thesis – Entrepreneurship policy for entrepreneurs: A cognitive approach to the entrepreneurial environment.


Junjay Tan

jjtan@mit.edu | MIT | Bioengineering Systems

Research topic/area: Biomechanics of human movement


Brian Mickus

bmickus@mit.edu | MIT | Bioengineering Systems

Research topic/area: Proteomic and Genomic Analysis of Lycopene-Overproducing Escherichia coli Strains


Jerry Chen

jerchen@mit.edu | MIT | Bioengineering Systems

Research topic/area: Experience-Dependent Dendritic Arbor Remodeling In GABAergic; Interneurons of the Adult Visual Cortex

Links: http://monster.mit.edu/nedivi-lab/


Diana Bower

dmbower@mit.edu | MIT | Bioengineering Systems

Research topic/area: Rational engineering of E. coli strains and vectors for improved manufacturing of plasmid biopharmaceuticals

Communications/Conference presentations:

Poster presentation: Engineering of an E. coli host for production of plasmid biopharmaceuticals Vaccine Technology II, Albufeira, Portugal, June 2008

Links: http://web.mit.edu/prathergroup/ (Prather Research Group Website)

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