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Xiaojing Gao
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
BioHow do we design biological systems as “smart medicine” that sense patients’ states, process the information, and respond accordingly? To realize this vision, we will tackle fundamental challenges across different levels of complexity, such as (1) protein components that minimize their crosstalk with human cells and immunogenicity, (2) biomolecular circuits that function robustly in different cells and are easy to deliver, (3) multicellular consortia that communicate through scalable channels, and (4) therapeutic modules that interface with physiological inputs/outputs. Our engineering targets include biomolecules, molecular circuits, viruses, and cells, and our approach combines quantitative experimental analysis with computational simulation. The molecular tools we build will be applied to diverse fields such as neurobiology and cancer therapy.
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Emma del Carmen Gonzalez Gonzalez
Ph.D. Student in Chemical Engineering, admitted Autumn 2017
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am a Ph.D. student in the Chemical Engineering Department. My research interests include colloidal systems, complex fluids, and rheology. My current project aims to improve understanding of intracellular mechanical transport utilizing our group’s newly developed and evolving computational model, where confinement and particle shape, size, and interactions are aimed toward rigorous modeling of the key transport processes in a model eukaryotic cell.
