REU Mentors
Systems biology and biomedical data sciences is a research strength area at the University of Virginia. It's why our REU can pull faculty mentors from ten departments across four schools.
Our faculty are committed to training undergraduates and involving them as critical components of their research programs. Undergraduate students in our faculty mentors' labs have won best paper awards in conference proceedings, won competitions, and co-authored papers in high-profile journals including Science, Nature Cell Biology, Neuron, Nature Neuroscience, Molecular Systems Biology, and PLOS Computational Biology.
Timothy Allen, Biomedical Engineering
Research areas: pedagogy in systems modeling, protein translation
Laura Barnes, Systems & Information Engineering
Research areas: health informatics, machine learning
Silvia Blemker, Biomedical Engineering
Research areas: muscle mechanics and remodeling
Phil Bourne, Biomedical Engineering
Research areas: systems pharmacology, multiscale modeling using data science techniques
Mete Civelek, Biomedical Engineering
Research areas: big data analytics, personalized medicine
Christopher Deppmann, Biology
Research areas: neuron dynamics
Sepideh Dolatshahi, Biomedical Engineering
Research areas: neonatal and maternal systems immunology
Mohammad Fallahi-Sichani, Biomedical Engineering
Research areas: cancer, molecular mechanisms of cell fate decisions
Greg Gerling, Systems & Information Engineering
Research areas: computational neuroscience, design
Kevin Janes, Biomedical Engineering
Research areas: cellular signaling, cancer, host-pathogen interactions
Peter Kasson, Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Research areas: infection by emerging viruses, drug-resistant bacteria, protein structure
Matthew Lazzara, Chemical Engineering / Biomedical Engineering
Research areas: cell signalling, cancer
Clint Miller, Center for Public Health Genomics / Biomedical Engineering
Research areas: genomics, data science, cardiovascular genetics
Kristen Naegle, Biomedical Engineering
Research areas: regulation and function of tyrosine phosphorylation in complex networks
Jason Papin, Biomedical Engineering
Research areas: metabolic networks, infectious disease, cancer
Shayn Peirce-Cottler, Biomedical Engineering
Research areas: tissue patterning, angiogenesis, tissue engineering
Jeffrey Saucerman, Biomedical Engineering
Research areas: cellular signaling, image processing
Chongzhi Zang, Center for Public Health Genomics / Biomedical Engineering
Research areas: bioinformatics, cancer, epigenetics and genomics
Aidong Zhang Biomedical Engineering
Research areas: adaptive machine learning, automated indexing
Eli Zunder, Biomedical Engineering
Research areas: cell lineage trajectories, brain disorders