Directory

Staff

TK Erickson

Business Officer

1104 Bioengineering
Oversees department operations: Budget & Finance, Academic Personnel, Human Resources, Gifts, Procurement, Student Affairs.

Nicole Becker

Student Affairs Manager

1106 Bioengineering
Responsible for the overall management of all graduate services, including the Biological Engineering PhD Program, the Bioengineering Graduate Emphasis, and the NSF and NIH training grants.

Maya Fuentes

Academic Personnel and Payroll Analyst

1110 Bioengineering

Support for all matters related to personnel and payroll for academic, staff and students. 

Marty Grant

Contracts & Grants and Financial Manager

Remote

Responsible for the overall management of departmental finances and contracts and grants pre-award administration.

Johanna Soong

Academic Program Administrator

1108 Bioengineering
Program coordinator for the training programs housed in the Department of Bioengineering. Responsible for program administration, mentor and student coordination for the NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) program in Data Driven Biology and the NIH T32 training grant in Quantitative Mechanobiology.

Faculty

Catherine Klapperich

Professor and Chair of Bioengineering

1102 Bioengineering

Marley Dewey

Assistant Professor of Bioengineering

3110 Bioengineering
The Dewey Lab engineers biomaterials with extracellular vesicles towards skeletal repair. Specifically, we examine a new class of extracellular vesicle residing in the extracellular matrix, termed matrix-bound nanovesicles. Using these tools we answer basic science questions and create translational therapies related to bone cancer, improving bone repair, preventing bone infection, and repairing coral reefs.

Siddharth Dey

Associate Professor of Bioengineering
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering

3008 Bioengineering
The goal of our lab is to develop novel single-cell sequencing technologies to understand how variability in the epigenome regulates gene expression heterogeneity and cell fate decisions.

Dorit Hanein

Professor of Bioengineering
Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Office: 1126C Chemistry Labs: 1126, 1135A Chemistry
The Hanein Lab is exploring the structural functional complexities of the macromolecular machines that drive our biological processes—this includes imaging them in three-dimension and high resolution while at work in isolation, as well as within cells, organoids and tissues.

Carolyn Mills

Assistant Professor of Bioengineering

3004 Bioengineering
The Mills lab is focused on the study and engineering of protein assemblies to address challenges in plastic waste remediation, biological liquid-liquid phase separation, and oral vaccine development. Leveraging combined expertise in protein engineering, soft matter, and synthetic biology, we aim to engineer microbial and biomolecular solutions to pressing global challenges that are low-cost and accessible.

Michelle O'Malley

Professor of Bioengineering
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Scholle Chair in Chemical Engineering
Director of the NSF ExFAB Biofoundry
www.exfab.org

3343 Engineering II
Genetic engineering and synthetic biology of non-model microorganisms.

Kevin Plaxco

Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Professor of Bioengineering
Biomolecular Science and Engineering Program

3002 Bioengineering
In-vivo molecular measurements, anyone?

Beth L. Pruitt

Professor of Bioengineering
Professor by courtesy of Mechanical Engineering, Biomolecular Science and Engineering Program, and Molecular, Developmental, and Cellular Biology
Mehrabian Chancellor's Chair
Director, NIH T32 Training Program in Quantitative Mechanobiology
Director, NSF Research Training Program in Data Driven Biology

3108 Bioengineering
The Pruitt Lab studies how mechanics mediates biological signaling using microtechnologies for cellular mechanobiology and mechanical measurements.

Ryan Stowers

Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

3112 Bioengineering
Engineering biomaterials to probe questions in mechanobiology.

Niels Volkmann

Professor of Biongineering
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Biomolecular Science and Engineering

Focuses on the development and application of innovative new computational, artificial intelligence, and data science tools to bridge information between the atomic and cellular scales, covering more than six orders of magnitude from Ångstroms to tens of microns

Students

Christian Alonso Catano (He/Him/His)

Graduate Student
T32 Trainee
Stowers and Pruitt Labs

Ivan Chavez (They/Their/Them)

Graduate Student
T32 Trainee
Dewey Lab

Anika Dasgupta (She/Her/Hers)

Graduate Student
DDB Trainees
Dewey Lab

Renata Dos Reis Marques (She/Her/Hers)

Graduate Student
T32 Trainee
Dewey Lab

Ella Evensen (She/Her/Hers)

Graduate Student
T32 Trainee
Dressaire and Stowers Labs

Sam Feinstein (He/Him/His)

Graduate Student
DDB Trainee
Pruitt Lab

Gianna Gathman (She/Her/Hers)

Graduate Student
T32 Trainee
Stowers Lab

Natasha Jones (She/Her/Hers)

Graduate Student
DDB Trainee
Mills Lab

Ben Kunimoto (He/Him/His)

Graduate Student
DDB Trainee
Dey Lab

Shaylee Larson (She/Her/Hers)

Graduate Student
T32 Trainee
Plaxco Lab

Trent Llewellyn (He/Him/His)

Graduate Student
DDB Trainee
Volkmann Lab

Max Mahoney-Schaefer (He/Him/His)

Graduate Student
T32 Trainee
Dewey and Pruitt Labs

Haley Obenshain (She/Her/Hers)

Graduate Student
DDB Trainee
Dewey Lab

Samantha Ortiz (She/Her/Hers)

Graduate Student
DDB Trainee
Mills Lab

Maya Papez (She/Her/Hers)

Graduate Student
T32 Trainee
Stowers Lab

Lorenzo Pessi (He/Him/His)

Graduate Student
DDB Trainee
O'Malley Lab

Artury Ramirez (He/Him/His)

Graduate Student
DDB Trainee
O'Malley Lab

Elisabeth Rothman (She/Her/Hers)

Graduate Student
DDB Trainee & Chien Fellow
Dey Lab

Katelyn Schwarz (She/Her/Hers)

Graduate Student
DDB Trainee
O'Malley Lab

Sarah Seagrave (She/Her/Hers)

Graduate Student
O’Malley Lab

Rafael Solorzano (He/Him/His)

Graduate Student
DDB Trainee
O'Malley Lab

Zsofia Szegletes (She/Her/Hers)

Graduate Student
DDB Trainee
Dey Lab

Ananda Turner (He/Him/His)

Graduate Student
DDB Trainee

Kevin Valenzuela (He/Him/His)

Graduate Student
DDB Trainee
Wilson Lab

Marcus Varni (He/Him/His)

Graduate Student
DDB Trainee
Moeller and O'Malley Labs

Postdocs

Marissa Gionet-Gonzalez

Postdoctoral Researcher
ASEE E-Fellow Award
UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow
AHA Postdoctral Fellow Award

Joint postdoc in Pruitt and Stowers labs studying the design of viscoelastic biomaterials for in vitro models of cardiovascular health