Awarded in 2018
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Roseanna Zia (Chemical Engineering) and Drew Endy (Bioengineering)

Research Title: Spherically confined colloidal suspensions: a model for intracellular transport

Research Description: Living  cells synthesize, host, incubate, and organize macromolecules via an astonishing ballet of chemical and physical activity. While a decades-long focus on genetics and biochemistry has produced astounding achievements for human health, there is emergent recognition that the physics of cell function plays as central a role as biochemical activity. Computational modeling of such processes is essential to understanding these processes, but current models are limited. Emma will leverage on the expertise of 2 different fields—suspension mechanics and computational modeling of solvent-suspended particles—to produce full-scale computational models of intracellular transport that could be key for advances in disease treatment.

<h4><em>WHERE IS SHE NOW?</em></h4>

<p>Emma is a senior research specialist at Dow.</p>