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Our group is highly collaborative and we believe in giving interns the freedom to develop their own research direction, depending on the project's initial outcome and your personal interests and skills.
BEP/MEP
- It's a trap! Confining cells via protein micropatterning
- Study of the assembly and reconstitution of the cytoskeletal glial fibrillary acidic protein
- Study of the mechanical properties of the cytoskeletal glial fibrillary acidic protein
- Development of a microfluidic device to study synthetic cell division
- Building a living cell from scratch using microfluidics
- Mechanobiology of in vitro cartilage tissues)
- Evolutionary approach to building a synthetic cell
- Establishing programmable liposome fusion to enable synthetic cell growth
- The matrix matters: investigating the interplay between ECM composition and fibroblast activation in the context of fibrosis
BEP
- Synthetic tissues under strain
- Encapsulating synthetic cells in extracellular matrix systems
- Assessing cytoskeletal network architecture and co-localization with microscopy
- Unveiling the role of intermediate filaments in the cell's deformability
- Model intercellular bridge with septin and other proteins
- Cytoskeletal crosstalk in confined cancer cells
- Building a living cell from scratch using microfluidics