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MBP Class of 2012-2013/14

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Rishika Agarwal

• BTech Biotechnology, Vellore Institute of Technology - Vellore, Tamil Nadu (India)
• MBP Research Project: SNAs for gene regulation in the skin (D. Giljohann)

Alexandria Alverdy

• BS Chemical Engineering, Villanova University - Villanova, PA
• MBP Research Project: Nanotechnology approacher to skin cancer/epidermolytic ichthyosis (A. Paller)
• Continued Education: MD Candidate, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science - North Chicago, IL (2016 - )

Sagar Anantatmula

• BA Biological Sciences, University of Illinois (Chicago) - Chicago, IL
• MBP Research Project: Nano-flares for viral RNA detection (D. Giljohann)

Bradley Biggs

• BS Chemical Engineering, University of Southern California - Los Angeles, CA
• MBP Research Project: Development of protocols for nanofunction probe electroporation (H. Espinosa)
• Continued Education: PhD Candidate, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University - Evanston, IL (2015 - )

Alaksh Choudhury

• BE Industrial Biotechnology, Manipal Institute of Technology - Manipal, Karnataka (India)
• MBP Research Project: Yeast cell-free protein synthesis (M. Jewett)
• Continued Education: PhD Chemical Engineering, University of Colorado (Boulder) - Boulder, CO (2014 - 2019)

Mark Enselman

• BA Biology & BA Spanish, Truman State University - Kirksville, MO
• MBP Research Project: Integration of a bioreactor with 3-D bioploted composit scaffolding for the induced differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells in tissue engineering (R. Shah)

Xin (Daniel) Gao

• BS Biology, Northeastern University - Boston, MA
• MBP Research Project: Regulation of alternative splicing (C. Cheng)
• Continued Education: PhD Candidate, Biomedical Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School - Worcester, MA (2016 - )

Ye Gao

• BS Biotechnology, Sun Yat-Sen University - Guangzhou, Guangdong (China)
• MBP Research Project: Function of BRCA2 in the Estrogen receptor signaling pathway (Q. Gao)
• Continued Education: PhD Biology/Biological Sciences, University of California (San Diego) - San Diego, CA (2014 - 2019)

Andrew Gentile

• BS Agricultural Engineering, University of Illinois (Urbana Champaign) - Champaign, IL
• MBP Research Project: Accelerating genetic computations using inducible protein degradation (K. Tyo)

Seok (Gene) Hong

• BS Biological Science and Business, University of Notre Dame - Notre Dame, IN
• MBP Research Project: Functional study of BRCA2 in the development of head and neck cancer (Q. Gao)

Wei Hong

• BS Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Wuhan University - Wuhan, Hubei (China)
• MBP Research Project: Centrobin knock out mice develop hepatic steatosis on regular low fat diet (Q. Gao)
• Continued Education: MBA, Indiana University Kelley School of Business - Bloomington, IN (2016 - 2018)

Christopher (Chris) Jacobson

• BS Psychology, University of Illinois (Urbana Champaign) - Champaign, IL 
• MBP Research Project: Optical and electromechanical methods for clinical diagnostics (D. Georganopoulou)

Haoming (Daniel) Jiang

• BS Bioscience, Sun Yat-Sen University - Guangzhou, Guangdong (China)
• MBP Research Project: Affinity isolation of toxic receptors involved in Alzheimer's dementia (W. Klein)
• Continued Education: MS Occupational Health and Industrial Hygiene, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) - Houston, TX (2016)
  

Kathryn Kiefer (*Morales)

• BS Biology, Ohio Northern University - Ada, OH
• MBP Research Project: Optimization of the extracellular matrix scaffold of porcine kidneys estrablished via perfusion of detergents through a bioreactor (J. Wertheim)

Jonathan Ko

• BA Biology, University of Chicago - Chicago, IL; JD, University of Illinois College of Law - Champaign, IL
• MBP Research Project: Web FBA 2.0 (K. Tyo)
• Continued Education: EE Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University - Tempe, AZ

Ben Ma

• BS Bioengineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Minhang, Shanghai (China)
• MBP Research Project: The roles of redox-active metabolites in bacterial anaerobic survivability (Y. Wang)
• Continued Education: PhD Candidate, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Minnesota - Minneapolis, MN

Huey-Ming Mak

• BS Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of California (Davis) - Davis, California
• MBP Research Project: Study of membrane proteins composition along growing spicule with respect to VEGF concentration (D. Joester)

Jeffrey Mayer

• BS Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Illinois (Urbana Champaign) - Champaign, IL
• MBP Research Project: Engineering yeast-derived biosensors as a diagnostic device for resource-poor settings (K. Tyo & J. Leonard)

Melvin McElrath

• BS Biomedical Engineering, Marquette University - Milwaukee, WI
• MBP Research Project: Development of Lyophilization process to be integrated into point-of-care PCR diagnostic device for HIV & TB for use in low resource settings (D. Kelso)

Khyati Meghani

• BTech Biotechnology, Dr. DY Patil Vidyapeeth University - Pune, Maharashtra (India)
• MBP Research Project: Analysis of O2 and CO2 using gas mixing devices on the differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells and megakaryocyte development (W. Miller) 

Melvin Moore

• BS Chemistry, North Carolina State University - Raleigh, NC
• MBP Research Project: Examinging the role of sydecan 1 in breast cancer metastasis to the brain (J. Koblinski) 

Rommel Morales

• BS Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Illinois (Urbana Champaign) - Champaign, IL
• MBP Research Project: Influence of endothelial microparticles in nitric oxide's ability to inhibit neointimal hyperplasial nitric oxide regulation of SOD-1 in different metabolic environments (M. Kibbe)

Darcie Patterson

• BS Biology and Human Health, Hawaii Pacific University - Honolulu, HI
• MBP Research Project: Post VEGF stimulation of transcription factors (D. Joester)

Danielle Ponsi

• BS Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Illinois (Urbana Champaign) - Champaign, IL
• MBP Research Project: Research and development of electrochemical detection method and device for the detection of proteins (D. Georganopoulou)

Sreenithya Ravindran

• BTech Biotechnology, SRM University - Chennai, Tamil Nadu (India)
• MBP Research Project: Nanoparticles for the treatment of Type I Diabetes (L. Shea)

Karna Shah

• BTech Biotechnology, Vellore Institute of Technology - Vellore, Tamil Nadu (India)
• MBP Research Project: The effects of TiO2-nanoconjugates on neuroblastoma cells (G. Woloschak)

Joleen Simpson (née Su)

• BS Bioengineering, University of Illinois (Urbana Champaign) - Champaign, IL
• MBP Research Project: Delivery of siRNA using gold nanoparticles for cancer therapeutics (D. Giljohann)

Srishti Tibrewala

• BTech Biotechnology, SRM University - Chennai, Tamil Nadu (India)
• MBP Research Project: Bacterial-fungal interactions via redox-active toxins (Y. Wang)

Bansi Vedia

• BS Biotechnology, University of Buffalo - Buffalo, NY
• MBP Research Project: Directed differentiation of stem cell transplants into myelinating glia (L. Shea)

Vysak Venkateswaran

• BS Biology, Duke University - Durham, NC
• MBP Research Project: Pathogenic versus protective function of T-regulatory cells in human colon cancer (K. Khazaie)

Shuya Wang

• BS Biology, Sichuan University - Chengdu, Sichuan (China)
• MBP Research Project: The role of IL-10 mouse polyposis (K. Khazaie)
• Continued Education: PhD Nanotechnology and Biomedical Science, Northwestern University - Evanston, IL (2014 - 2019)

Yikai Xu

• BS Life Sciences, Ocean University of China - Qingdao, Shandong (China)
• MBP Research Project: Pathogenic outcome of mast cell/T cell interaction in cutaneous lymph (K. Khazaie)

Hanwen Zhang

• BS Biological Sciences, Peking University - Haidian, Beijing (China)
• MBP Research Project: Inhibition of centrosome duplication as a potential therapeutic approach for pancreatic cancer with few side effects (Q. Gao)

Peter Zhang

• BS Chemical Engineering, University of California (Berkeley) - Berkeley, CA
• MBP Research Project: Constructing TEV prolease and prolease cleaving sequence system on the surface of E.coli as a biosensor (J. Leonard)

Lingji Zhu

• BS Biotechnology, Beijing Normal University - Haidian, Beijing (China)
• MBP Research Project: Omega-3 and Omega-6 stabilization in human body (P. Grippo)