
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

Alyssa Pybus
Education: B.S. in Bioengineering, MIT
Research Topic: Identifying mechanisms driving neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in repetititive mild traumatic brain injury
Contact: afpybus at gatech dot edu

Oluwagbemisola (Gbemi) Aderibigbe
Education: B.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of South Florida
Research Topic: Identifying diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic neuroinflammatory RNAs in pediatric brain injury
Contact: oaderibigbe7 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

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

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
Staff

Abigail Palmieri
Education: B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Contact: abigail dot palmieri at me dot gatech dot edu
Undergraduates

Martin Griffin
Education: Neuroscience, Class of 2024
Mentor: Kristin

Zachary Uhlig
Education: Neuroscience, Class of 2025
Mentor: Brendan/Sara

Anna Silverio
Education: Biochemistry, Class of 2024
Mentor: Kristin

Vrinda Bhat
Education: Class of 2024 Mentor: Abbi/Brendan

Aryaman Bisen
Education: Emory Premedicine, Class of 2026
Mentor: Brendan
