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