Profiles

Waymon Whiting IV - Bio-X Undergraduate Fellow

2021 Undergraduate Summer Research Program Participant and 2022 Cohort Lead

Home Department: Human Biology
Mentor: Laura M. K. Dassama (Chemistry)
Warren Lau - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2015

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Elizabeth Sattely
Talk Title: Pathway Discovery in Medicinal Plants: Elucidation of Podophyllotoxin Biosynthetic Genes
Event: 2015 Gordon Research Seminar and Conference: Plant Metabolic Engineering
Wanxin Wang - Bio-X Bowes Fellow

Bio-X Graduate Student Fellow

Awarded in 2015
Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisors: Stephen Quake (Bioengineering, Applied Physics), Carlos Simon (OB-GYN/Reproductive, Perinatal & Stem Cell Biology Research), and Barry Behr (Obstetrics & Gynecology)
Walter Sobba - Bio-X Undergraduate Fellow

2019 Undergraduate Summer Research Program Participant

Home Department: Human Biology
Mentor: Calvin Kuo, Medicine (Hematology)
Walter Roper - Bio-X Undergraduate Fellow

2016 Undergraduate Summer Research Program Participant

Home Department: Bioengineering
Supported by: Victoria Reed
Mentor: Eugene Butcher, Pathology
Wakuna Galega - Bio-X Travel Awardee

Awarded in 2018

Home Department: Civil & Environmental Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Craig Criddle
Talk Title: Elucidating the Role of CO₂ in Type II Methanotrophic Growth & Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) Synthesis
Event: Sustainable Packaging Symposium 2018 - Innovations in Transforming Waste to Value-Added Products
Wah Chiu - Professor of Photon Science, Bioengineering, and of Microbiology & Immunology

Bio-X Affiliated Faculty, Clark Center Faculty

CAP Profile

Dr. Chiu's research is the development of methodology for electron cryo-microscopy to determine 3D structures of macromolecules, molecular machines, organelles and cells.
W. E. Moerner - Harry S. Mosher Professor and Professor of Chemistry and (by courtesy) of Applied Physics

Bio-X Affiliated Faculty

Stanford Profile

Dr. Moerner's Lab Homepage

Dr. Moerner's laboratory utilizes laser spectroscopy and microscopy of single molecules to probe biological processes, one biomolecule at a time.
Vladimir Mamchik - Bio-X Undergraduate Fellow

2024 Undergraduate Summer Research Program Participant

Home Department: undeclared
Mentor: Daniel Palanker (Ophthalmology)
Vivianne Tawfik - Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative & Pain Medicine

Bio-X Affiliated Faculty

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Dr. Tawfik's overall research interest is to understand how the immune system interacts with the nervous system after injury to promote the transition from acute to chronic pain.