11 BME Undergraduates Present Honors Theses
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