Institute for Biology, Engineering and Medicine (I-BEAM)

11 BME Undergraduates Present Honors Theses

Eleven undergraduate students presented their thesis work and will graduate with honors this spring.

11 BME Undergraduates sitting in rows
Top row (left to right): Emma Rothkopf, Mallory Ehlers, Jonah Schwam, Jordan Watts, Scott Huson
Middle row (left to right): Daniel McDermott, Adam Spooner, Akshit Chhabra, Ruth Sullivan, Rebecca Schwartz
Bottom row (left to right): FIona Dunn, Nipun Jayatissa, Alexandr Alexandrov, Stephen Pyon

Eleven undergraduate students presented their thesis work on Friday, May 5th and will graduate with honors this spring.

Alexander Alexandrov

(Advisor: Joseph Crisco)
Assessing Shoulder Proprioception in Three Dimensions

Akshit Chhabra

(Advisor: Arto Nurmikko)
Design and Testing of An Electrophysiological Phantom Model for Transcranial EEG

Mallory Ehlers

(Advisor: David Borton)
Determining Brainwave Frequencies Associated with Symptoms of Obsessive-compulsive Disorder for Detection of a Candidate Neural Biomarker

Nipun Jayatissa

(Advisor: George Karniadakis)
Physical Characterization of Red Blood Cells Passage Through the Spleen in Diabetics

Daniel McDermott

(Advisor: Joseph Crisco)
Design of An Instrumented Trapezium to Collect In Vivo Load Data Across the Trapeziometacarpal Joint

Aditi Patel

(Advisor: Anita Shukla)
Elucidating the Interactions Between Gelatin Nanoparticles and the Matrix of Bacterial Biofilms

Stephen Pyon

(Advisor: Kareen Coulombe)
Engineering a Dynamic Roller Bottle Bioreactor to Improve hiPSC-CM Yield

Emma Rothkopf

(Advisor: Anubhav Tripathi)
Detection of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) from Human Dried Blood Spots Using Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)

Jonah Schwam

(Advisor: Qian Chen)
Investigating the Role of miRNA-365 and LINE-1 Derepression in Mesenchymal Stem Cell Senescence and Osteoarthritis Pathogenesis

Adam Spooner

(Advisor: Anubhav Tripathi)
Detection and Quantification of Cortisol in Cerumen: Assessing an Alternative Diagnostic Matrix

Ruth Sullivan

(Advisor: Vikas Srivastava)
Experimental Validation of FEA Trained Neural Network for Characterization of Soft Tissue Anomalies