People
Jordan Pagliuca – 4th Year BMEBT PhD Candidate
Hometown: Taunton, MA
Ongoing Projects:
1.) Fabrication of Dipeptide Nanotube Reinforced Hydrogels for Neural Cell Culture
2.) Vapor Deposited Tyrosine-Based Nanostructures as a Basis for Melanin Synthesis
Contact: jpagliuca@umassd.edu
Parthiv Ravikumar – 1st Year BMEBT PhD Candidate
Hometown: Oviedo, FL
Ongoing Projects:
1.) Assembling Peptoid Nanostructures Using Plasmon Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD)
2.) Fabricating Peptide Nanotubes for Neural Cell Culture
Contact: pravikumar@umassd.edu
Michael Callahan – BMEBT Master’s Degree Candidate
Hometown: Hanson, MA
Ongoing Projects
1.) Extraction of small microvesicles for early cancer detection by Size Exclusion Chromatography (SEC) on a fast protein liquid chromatography (FPLC) system
2.) Characterization of an Ovarian Cancer Cell SKOV3 line by Flow cytometry and other techniques
Contact: mcallahan8@umassd.edu
Janice Rullan – BMEBT Masters Degree Candidate
Hometown: New Bedford, MA
Ongoing Project:
1.) Genetic manipulation of C. lytica for harnessing iridescence
Contact: jrullan@umassd.edu
Alumni
Class of 2024
Jillian Wilson – M.S., B.S. BMEBT
Nathaniel Keighly – M.S., B.S. BMEBT
Class of 2023
Grace Pelletier – M.S., B.S. BMEBT
Jean-Luke Arevalo – M.S., B.S. BMEBT
Alecsander DaSilva – M.S., B.S. BMEBT
Dylan Saraiva – M.S. BMEBT
Sneha Lakshmi Somarouthu – M.S. BMEBT
Class of 2021
Dylan Bryda – M.S., B.S. BMEBT
Mark DeSimone – M.S., B.S. BMEBT
Class of 2019
Prathyushakrishna Macha – Ph.D. BMEBT