Pancreatic Cellular and Biomaterials Engineering
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor
J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering
Laboratory Manager
Fixer, organizer extraordinaire and experimentalist
Postdoctoral Fellow
Effect of the neurotransmitter GABA on islet hormone secretion
Postdoctoral Fellow (joint w/ Mathews Lab)
Islet immune interface in living pancreas tissue slices
PhD Student (joint w/ Mathews and Atkinson Labs)
Live human pancreas tissue slices as a platform for investigating immunopathological processes of type 1 diabetes
PhD Student
Granular hydrogel materials as extracellular microenvironments
PhD Student
Dynamic real-time sensing of pancreatic islet physiology
PhD Student
Mechanisms of islet GABA secretion
PhD Student
Engineering local immune tolerance for beta cell replacement in type 1 diabetes
PhD Student
Engineering immune cell – beta cell interactions
Walker Hagan, Scientist II – NMJ Team Lead, Hesperos, Inc.
Matthew Becker, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weaver Lab, Arizona State University
Jorge Santini-González, recent graduate
Kendra Sylvester-Armstrong, M.D., private practice South Florida
Callie Reeder, M.D., University of Tennessee Medical Center
Robert Dolan – Engineer at U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Jennifer Simonovich – University of Florida, BME PhD Program
Sushain Kaul – University of Florida, APK PhD Program
Yarelis Gonzales Vargas, BME PhD Program, Georgia Institute of Technology
Mallika Bhatta, Medical Honors Program (joint BS, MD), University of Florida
Natalia Vallenilla, Clinical Specialist, Electrophysiology at Abbott
Kevin Ling, BME PhD Program, University of Rochester
Shabeen Raza, Technical Development Program Engineer at Edwards Lifesciences
Rebecca Erwin, Hydrogen Shot Fellow at DOE
Maryum Salim, Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation Engineer at Jacobs
Caroline Lesher, M.S.Program in Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida
Veronica Bubay, recent graduate, B.S. Biomedical Engineering, University of South Carolina
Conor Given, recent graduate, B.S. Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida
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