Name: Geraldine Baer
Email: gmbaer@ucdavis.edu
Gradgroup: Biomedical engineering
Advisor: Dennis Matthews
Research Interest: neurovascular stents

Name: Amy Anderson
Email: asasnderson@ucdavis.edu
Gradgroup: undecided
Advisor: Ruledge/Parikh
Research Interest: I am developing a technique for studying membrane proteins and their microdomains in a 2-dimentional synthetic system.  I plan to use this technique to study the multiple results of chronic injury to human aortic endothelium.
Link to Lab website: http://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/parikh/

Name: Alan Szmodis
Email: awszmodis@ucdavis.edu
Gradgroup: Biophysics
Advisor: Atul Parikh
Research Interest: Model biological membranes, their fundamental interactions, and the kinetic and thermodynamic constraints, which direct the size and formation of lipid raft domains.
Link to Lab website: http://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/parikh/

Name: Rajesh Raman
Email: topraman@ucdavis.edu
Gradgroup: Applied Science
Advisor: Stavros Demos
Research Interest: Using spectroscopic methods to study tissue viability.

Name: Huawen Wu
Email: hwwu@ucdavis.edu
Gradgroup: Applied Science
Advisor:   Yin Yeh
Research Interest: Biological applications of Fluorescence Imaging, FCS, I-FCS, FRET and TIRF.

Name: Bevin Lin
Email: belin@ucdavis.edu
Gradgroup: Biomedical Engineering
Advisor: Dennis Matthews
Research Interest: medical lasers/devices

Name: James Landry
Email: jplandry@ucdavis.edu
Gradgroup: Physics
Advisor: Xiangdong Zhu
Research Interest: Macromolecular interactions (e.g., between protein and DNA or between protein and membranes) under label-free conditions/: In this post-genome era, we study macromolecular interaction (soft condensed matter) at protein and membrane level under conditions as native as is relevant to their properties. Conventionally, macromolecular interactions are investigated and characterized by labeling at least one of the reactants with fluorescent molecule(s) as a marker. Since proteins and membrane are soft condensed matter and yet fucntion in a complex way that may involve subtle overall change of the whole molecules, attachment of foreign labeling molecule(s) can alter the very interaction either quantitatively or qualitatively, and such an alteration is often difficult to specify or characterize without independent label-free measurements. We recently developed an oblique-incidence reflectivity difference (OI-RD) technique for surface science study into a label-free optical microscope (OI-RD Microscope) for detection of macromolecules on hard and soft substrates (e.g., membranes). Such a technique and others in development enable us to investigate macromoleuclar interactions, particularly the phyiscs and chemistry of proteins and membranes under label-free conditions.
Link to Lab website: http://www.physics.ucdavis.edu/xdzhu

Name: Bhanu Uppalapati
Email: ubp79@yahoo.com
Advisors: Dr. Reinhard Bruch and Dr. Yin Yeh
Department: Electrical Engineering
Research Interest: Designing Medical Devices. Just getting started. Currently involved in interfacing dual optical trap system for fine control.