Our Team
Principal Investigator: Levi Wood
Dr. Wood completed his graduate training at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While there he worked under the guidance of Drs. H. Harry Asada and Roger Kamm to develop and use microfluidics to identify mechanisms governing vascular geometry.
During his postdoc, Dr. Wood worked under Dr. Kevin Haigis (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School) and Dr. Douglas Lauffenburger (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) to use systems biology to identify novel signaling mechanisms driving neuronal death in Alzheimer's disease and epithelial cell death during intestinal inflammation.
Contact: levi dot wood at me dot gatech dot edu
Graduate Students
Oluwagbemisola (Gbemi) Aderibigbe
Education: B.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of South Florida
Research Topic: Examining transcriptional profiles in Pediatric Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
Contact: oaderibigbe7 at gatech dot edu
Chenxing (Kristin) Li
Education: B.S. in Biochemistry, Psychology, University of Washington
Research Topic: Traumatic Brain Injury and the role of heme and hemoglobin in Alzheimer's disease
Contact: cli780 at gatech dot edu
Felix Rivera Moctezuma
Education: B.S. in Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico
B.S. in Biology/Biological Sciences, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez
Contact: felix dot rivera at me dot gatech dot edu
Sara Bitarafan
Education: B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Research Topic: Quantifying changes in microglial activation in neuroinflammatory diseases
Contact: sbitarafan74 at gatech dot edu
Brendan Tobin
Education: B.S. in Bioengineering, Clemson University
Research Topic: Systems modeling of ERK signaling in microglia in Alzheimer's Disease
Contact: btobin7 at gatech dot edu
Staff
Abigail Holberton
Education: B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Contact: abigail dot holberton at me dot gatech dot edu
Martin Griffin
Education: B.S. in Neuroscience, Georgia Institute of Technology
Contact: mgriffin73 at gatech dot edu
Anna Silverio
Education: Biochemistry, Class of 2024
Mentor: Kristin
Zachary Uhlig
Education: Neuroscience, Class of 2025
Mentor: Brendan/Sara
Kevin Zheng
Education: Biomedical Engineering, Class of 2025
Mentor: Abbi
Ariana Kalantari
Education: Neuroscience, Class of 2025
Mentor: Abbi
Aaron Chadwick
Education: Biomedical Engineering, Class of 2025
Mentor: Abbi
Vrinda Bhat
Education: Class of 2024
Mentor: Abbi/Brendan
Aryaman Bisen
Education: Emory Premedicine, Class of 2026
Mentor: Brendan
Adhrija Anbuchelian
Education: Neuroscience, Class of 2026
Mentor: Abbi
Angela Gomez
Education: Neuroscience, Class of 2025
Mentor: Abbi