Understanding Nature Through Engineering

Valerie Daggett. Protein folding; dynameomics/bioinformatics; extremophile proteins; protein modulators; protein design; unfolding diseases; protein complexes; single nucleotide polymorphisms.

Martin J. Kushmerick. NMR spectroscopy of tissues; muscle biophysics.

Gerald H. Pollack. Unexpectedly profound ordering of water at interfaces; role of water and light in natural processes; molecular basis of biological motion; engineering of water-based technologies for solving societal problems.

Michael Regnier. Contracile protein and tissue engineering for cardiac repair following heart attack and for treatment of cardiac disease.

Joan Sanders. The Sander’s group tissue engineers of vessel substitutes, heart valves, and vascular plexus.

Wendy E. Thomas. Mechanical regulation of reversible and nonfouling biomaterial adhesives, bacterial adhesion and biofilms, platelet adhesion, and thrombosis.

Rong Tian. Energy metabolism in cardiovascular diseases; mitochondrial dysfunction and metabolic signaling; NMR spectroscopy and imaging-guided spectroscopy.

Pedro Verdugo. Polymer networks; self-assembly of marine biopolymers and their role in global carbon cycling; ion-exchange properties, hydration equilibrium, and phase transition of secretory matrixes; development of biopolymer matrix-carriers for vaccine preservation.