SURF Mentoring
Potential projects/topics: Development of therapeutics for improved cold adaptation. We designed a new method to develop therapeutics at a fraction of the cost and time. In this DARPA-funded project we will develop drugs that can warm the body up in a cold weather. Students will work on:
1) Drugs for induction of cold adaptation
2) Development of synthetic serum markers for noninvasive monitoring of brain activity.
Potential skills gained: behavioral testing in vivo work, next-generation sequencing, tissue culture, protein engineering, high-throughput screening, bioinformatics analysis
Required qualifications: biochemistry and/or cell biology course, intro biology lab or similar
Direct mentor: Graduate Student
Student Project Titles List
High Resolution Targeting of Brain Regions with Ultrasound-Enhanced Gene Delivery
Acoustic Biomaterials for Prolonged Blood-Brain Barrier (BBB) Opening
Focused Ultrasound Guided CRISPR Delivery Through the Blood Brain Barrier to Targeted Specific Brain Sites
Honors & Awards
Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor 2020