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Undergraduate and High School Mentees

Judy Chen

  • Mentor: Juhi Samal, PhD
  • Project: MALDESI data analysis for stroke brains
  • Skills: Mass spectrometry data analysis
  • School: Duke University undergraduate

Emma Lee

  • Mentor: Lindsay Riley, PhD
  • Project: Analyzing simulated MAP scaffolds using LOVAMAP and higher dimensional analysis
  • Skills: Python, density-based clustering algorithms
  • School: Stanton College Preparatory School high school student

Steven Lee

  • Mentor: Elle Caston
  • Project: TBD
  • Skills: TBD
  • School: Duke University undergraduate

Hannah Newman

  • Mentors: Yunxin Ouyang
  • Project: Modification of microgels with bioactive glycans
  • Skills: Microfluidics
  • School: Duke University undergraduate

Long Nguyen

  • Mentor: Alex Anderson
  • Project: Assessing tumor cell growth in pro-repair biomaterials
  • Skills: In vivo tumor surgeries, tissue processing, confocal microscopy
  • School: Duke University undergraduate

Samantha Owusu-Antwi

  • Mentor: Holly Lewis, MD, PhD
  • Project: Chemically engineering a bioscaffold for skin graft transplantation
  • Skills: Mouse skin surgery and organ procurement, cell purification for flow cytometry, histological processing
  • School: Duke University undergraduate

Auggie Poysungnoen

  • Mentors: Yunxin Ouyang
  • Project: Assessing microglia & macrophage response to PSA-microgels
  • Skills: Tissue culture, animal handling
  • School: Duke University undergraduate

Sierra Putney

  • Mentors: Nhi Phan, MEng
  • Project: MAP fabrication for astrocyte modulation
  • Skills: TBD
  • School: Duke University undergraduate

Rishi Rao

  • Mentor: Juhi Samal, PhD
  • Project: TBD
  • Skills: TBD
  • School: Duke University undergraduate

Vidhi Reddy

  • Mentor: Lindsay Riley, PhD
  • Project: Studying pre-organoid neurosphere formation in MAP scaffolds
  • Skills: Matlab, Python, Imaris
  • School: Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology high school student

Aarushi Sahni

  • Mentor: Lindsay Riley, PhD
  • Project: Studying pre-organoid neurosphere formation in MAP scaffolds
  • Skills: Prism, lit review
  • School: UC Riverside undergraduate

Chloe Tamis

  • Mentor: Elle Caston
  • Project: TBD
  • Skills: TBD
  • School: Duke University undergraduate

Yike Zhu

  • Mentors: Nhi Phan, MEng
  • Project: Studying astrocytes in MAP scaffolds
  • Skills: Hydrogel microparticle fabrication, stroke in mice, rheology, protein production
  • School: Duke University undergraduate

Colin Wang

  • Mentor: Lindsay Riley, PhD
  • Project: Analyzing simulated MAP scaffolds using LOVAMAP and higher dimensional analysis
  • Skills: Python, density-based clustering algorithms
  • School: Duke University undergraduate

Ari Willig