Dr. Brad Osgood is a mathematician by training and applies techniques from analysis and geometry to various engineering problems. He is interested in problems in imaging, pattern recognition, and signal processing.
Dr. Boris Heifets's research group is dedicated to understanding and improving on powerful, rapid-acting therapies for psychiatric disease, such as ketamine, MDMA and psilocybin. They bridge basic science and clinical trials, connecting neuroscience, psychiatry and anesthesiology in pursuit of highly effective, safe treatment strategies scalable to the millions of patients who need them.
Dr. Bomi Lee's lab is dedicated to unraveling the complexities of the immune microenvironment and its role in the pathogenesis of pancreatic diseases, such as pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer. By leveraging cutting-edge technology, innovative experimental and genetic animal models, as well as human specimens from donors, we aim to identify novel immune markers and potential therapeutic targets. Our goal is to advance the understanding of immune cells and their contributions to these diseases and to translate our findings into innovative treatments.
Dr. Biondo Biondi and his students devise new algorithms to improve the imaging of active and passive seismic data. Images obtained from seismic data are the primary source of information on the structural and stratigraphic complexities in Earth's subsurface and on many subsurface dynamic processes. These images are constructed by processing seismic wavefields recorded at the Earth's surface and generated by either active-source (e.g., vibroseis trucks) experiments or by natural (e.g., ocean waves) and anthropogenic (e.g., vehicle traffic) sources.
Dr. Bingwei Lu's laboratory is interested in understanding how the diverse neuronal cell types are generated and maintained in the nervous system. They are taking a combined molecular, cellular, genetic, and genomic approach in the model organisms Drosophila and mouse. To study how neuronal diversity is generated, the Lu lab focuses on investigating the mechanisms of asymmetric division of neural stem cell that balances the self-renewal and differentiation potentials of neural stem cells.
