Awarded in 2022
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisors: Michael Lin (Neurobiology and Bioengineering), Nathanael Gray (Chemical & Systems Biology), and Michelle Monje (Neurology & Neurological Sciences)
The ultimate goal of Dr. Yang Hu's laboratory is to develop efficient therapeutic strategies to achieve CNS neural repair, through promoting neuroprotection, axon regeneration and functional recovery.
Specifically, they are using state-of-the-art tools and creating novel tools to study retinal ganglion cell (RGC) and optic nerve in various optic neuropathies including traumatic, glaucomatous and inflammatory optic nerve injuries, to fully understand the molecular mechanisms of CNS neurodegeneration and axon regeneration failure.
Home Department: Biomedical Informatics
Faculty Advisor: Henry Lowe
Talk Title: A Standards-Based Approach to Represent Clinical Documents
Event: 10th China Hospital Information Network Conference
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Zhenan Bao
Talk Title: Dynamic enamine-one bonds enabled sustainable polymeric materials
Event: ACS Fall Meeting 2022
Supported by The Matthew Frank Family
Dr. Yaochun Yu's research focuses on functional environmental microbiology and environmental analytical chemistry to uncover and harness microorganisms for chemical biotransformation. Dr. Yu's lab integrates high-resolution mass spectrometry, meta-omics sequencing, molecular microbiology and biochemistry, and computational modeling to identify the functional microbes, genes, and enzymes that drive these processes. Building on these mechanistic insights, they aim to develop environmentally benign chemicals and novel biosolutions for bioremediation and waste-to-resource recovery.
