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
Jay McKinney
Primary Advisor: Nick Willet
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Education: B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology; M.S. in Medical Sciences, Boston University
Research Topic: Analysis of the therapeutic efficacy of human Mesenchymal Stem Cell paracrine signaling mechanisms in osteoarthritis
Contact: jmckinney 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
Edgar Ortiz
Staff
Education: B.A. in Chemistry, Berea College
Undergraduates
Benjamin Ahn
Education: Biology, Class of 2022
Research Topic: Modulating neuroimmune cell activity in Alzheimer's disease
Brae Davies
Education: Neuroscience, Class of 2023
Mentor: Alyssa
Bennie Tignor
Education: Biomedical Engineering, Class of 2022
Mentor: Jay
Rachel Grosswald
Education: Biomedical Engineering, Class of 2022
Mentor: Sara
Cole Landrum
Education: Neuroscience, Class of 2024
Mentor: Sara
Kareena Udeshi
Education: Neuroscience, Class of 2023
Mentor: Alyssa
Affiliates
Benjamin Guzman
Education: Biological Engineering, University of Georgia Class of 2021
Mentor: Alyssa
