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
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
Staff
Noriyuki Shinagawa
Education: B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Undergraduates
Benjamin Ahn
Education: Biology, Class of 2022
Research Topic: Modulating neuroimmune cell activity in Alzheimer's disease
Kareena Udeshi
Education: Neuroscience, Class of 2023
Mentor: Alyssa
Mohammad Adibi
Education: Georgia Tech
Mentor: Sara
Martin Griffin
Education: Neuroscience, Class of 2024
Mentor: Kristin
Brandon Sherrard
Education: Biomedical Engineering, Class of 2023
Mentor: Ben
Brae Davies
Education: Neuroscience, Class of 2023
Mentor: Alyssa
Arushi Khaitan
Education: Biomedical Engineering, Class of 2023
Mentor: Alyssa
