Our Faculty
BIOENGINEERING
CORE FACULTY
eva de alba
Protein structure/dynamics and mechanistic studies. Protein engineering for biotechnological applications.
Email: edealbabastarrechea@ucmerced.edu
Hirosha Geekiyanage
Intracellular miRNA regulation and their implications in disease pathology. Extracellular miRNA configurations and their role as diagnostic biomarkers.
Email: dgeekiyanage@ucmerced.edu
arvind gopinath
Mechanobiology, structural biology and biochemical aspects of single-cell and collective motility and phototaxis in microorganisms
Email: agopinath@ucmerced.edu
arian aghilinejad
Research centers on the application of fluid–structure interaction, pulse wave analysis, and machine learning to improve diagnostics and treatment of cardiovascular disease.
Email: aaghilinejad@ucmerced.edu
victor munoz
Protein biophysics, engineering and design, protein folding, biosensors, design of allosteric macromolecular assemblies, single-molecule spectroscopy
Email: vmunoz3@ucmerced.edu
joel spencer
Biomedical optics, intravital imaging and sensing, tissue regeneration, transplantation, hematopoietic stem cells
Email: joel.spencer@ucmerced.edu
anand Bala subramaniam
Colloidal, polymeric and biologically active interfaces for design of biomimetic materials and semi-synthetic cells
Email: asubramaniam@ucmerced.edu