The Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience at Georgia Tech

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  • Athanassios Sambanis Athanassios Sambanis Professor School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Office: IBB 1306 Phone: 404.894.2869 Email address: athanassios.sambanis@chbe.gatech.edu Web site: http://www.chbe.gatech.edu/sambanis/DrSambanis.html Lab Web site: http://www.chbe.gatech.edu/sambanis/ Research Interests The application of chemical engineering principles towards developing enabling technologies for cell and tissue-based therapies for metabolic diseases, primarily diabetes
  • Ken Sandhage Ken Sandhage Professor School of Materials Science Engineering Office: M Bldg 3100L Phone: 404.894.6882 Email address: ken.sandhage@mse.gatech.edu Web site: http://www.mse.gatech.edu/FacultyStaff/MSE_Faculty_researchbios/Sandha
    ge/sandhage.html     Lab Web site: http://www.gems.gatech.edu/ Research Interests Biological/biochemical processing of inorganic materials and micro/nano-structures; Near net-shape reaction processing of ceramics and composites; High-temperature oxidation and corrosion
  • Lisa Schildmeyer Lisa Schildmeyer Senior Research Scientist Wallace H Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering Office: UAW 1216 Phone: 404.385.6342 Email address: lisa.schildmeyer@bme.gatech.edu Research Interests Prof. McIntire Research Lab
  • Jeffrey Skolnick Jeffrey Skolnick Professor School of Biology Office: GTRI 138 Phone: 404.407.8975 Email address: jeffrey.skolnick@biology.gatech.edu Web site: http://www.biology.gatech.edu/faculty/jeffrey-skolnick/ Lab Web site: http://cssb.biology.gatech.edu/skolnick/ Research Interests Bioinformatics ; Protein function prediction; Elucidation of metabolic pathways; Development and implementation of algorithms for large-scale computer simulations of proteins
  • Garrett Stanley Garrett Stanley Associate Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering Office: UAW 3102 Phone: 404.385.5037 Email address: garrett.stanley@bme.gatech.edu Web site: http://www.bme.gatech.edu/facultystaff/faculty_record.php?id=108 Lab Web site: http://www.stanley.bme.gatech.edu Research Interests Integration of experimental and theoretical approaches to sensory neurophysiology.
  • Steve Stice Steve Stice Professor Department of Animal and Dairy Science, University of Georgia Phone: 706.583.0071 Email address: sstice@arches.uga.edu Web site: http://www.ads.uga.edu/personnel/faculty/stice.html Lab Web site: http://www.biomed.uga.edu/stice/ Research Interests Embryonic stem cells as a possible treatment for neurodegenerative
  • Francesca Storici Francesca Storici Assistant Professor School of Biology Office: CE 331 Phone: 404.385.3339 Email address: francesca.storici@biology.gatech.edu Web site: http://www.biology.gatech.edu/faculty/francesca-storici/ Research Interests DNA repair, Recombination, RNA-mediated DNA repair, Gene targeting, Gene therapy
  • Todd Streelman Todd Streelman Assistant Professor School of Biology Office: EST 2244 / 2165 Phone: 404.385.4435 Email address: todd.streelman@biology.gatech.edu Web site: http://www.biology.gatech.edu/faculty/todd-streelman/index.php Lab Web site: http://www.biology.gatech.edu/faculty/todd-streelman/lab.php Research Interests Evolution and Development of Functional Systems
  • Mark Styczynski Mark Styczynski Assistant Professor School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Office: ES&T L1222 Phone: 404.894.2825 Email address: mark.styczynski@chbe.gatech.edu Web site: http://www.chbe.gatech.edu/fac_staff/faculty/styczynski.php Research Interests Dr. Styczynski’s research lies at the interface of engineering, bioinformatics, molecular biology, and analytical chemistry. His lab takes a systems biology approach to understanding and engineering biotechnologically and biomedically relevant organisms. Using experimental and computational techniques, the lab studies the connections between the different layers of regulation in cells and their ultimate phenotypic outcomes. Of most interest to his lab are metabolites, the small molecule building blocks necessary for all cellular functions both as source materials and as cues that prompt regulation and other cellular responses. Metabolites are one of the most direct, real-time readouts of cellular state that researchers can assay. Using chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry, the Styczynski lab tracks the concentrations and turnover rates of metabolites, revealing details about the cell’s reaction network and its regulation. The lab’s model organisms include a variety of yeast species. Metabolic and transcriptional responses to environmental and genetic perturbations in these species are studied to understand how these organisms respond to stimuli; this information is then used to engineer the cells to perform novel, useful functions. These yeasts are also used as a model system to understand the evolution and mechanistic underpinnings of cancer metabolism. The Styczynski lab also performs direct metabolite profiling studies on a variety of other systems such as stem cells, cancer cells, and some novel model systems. In these systems, metabolites can be used as biomarkers that indicate the presence or progression of disease and metabolic dysfunction. Knowledge of such biomarkers can then be used in the development of advanced diagnostics, including tests that look for these biomarkers in biofluids (like blood and urine). Understanding changes in metabolite profiles can also be used to better characterize and manipulate the dynamics and regulation of systems that are under study. Accordingly, the Styczynski lab also works to understand more deeply the many different regulatory and signaling roles that metabolites play in cells. Dr. Styczynski also has an array of interests in computational biology and bioinformatics. His lab develops new methods for the analysis of large-scale data sets and the synthesis of that data into useful knowledge. Topics of interest include the integration of metabolite data with other types of large-scale data sets, tracking unknown metabolites in samples, deducing fluxes from concentrations of labeled metabolites, and identifying disease biomarkers in metabolomic data from blood and other biofluids.
  • Todd Sulchek Todd Sulchek Assistant Professor School of Mechanical Engineering Office: Love 303 Phone: 404.385.1887 Email address: todd.sulchek@me.gatech.edu Web site: http://www.me.gatech.edu/faculty/sulchek.shtml Research Interests Bioengineering and Microelectromechanical Systems: Atomic force microscopy, pathogen adhesion and endocytosis, cell biomechanics, single molecule biophysics, drug delivery and targeting, cell membrane mimetics, biosensors
  • M. Cameron Sullards M. Cameron Sullards Principal Research Scientist School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Office: IBB 0501 Phone: 404.385.4249 Email address: cameron.sullards@chemistry.gatech.edu Research Interests Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry
  • Jin Suo Jin Suo Senior Research Scientist Wallace H Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering Office: UAW 2112 Phone: 404.385.0133 Email address: jsuo@bme.gatech.edu Lab Web site: http://www.bme.gatech.edu/groups/giddens/giddens_homepage.html Research Interests Prof. Giddens Research Lab