General Research Interests: Water and wastewater treatment, environmental engineering and microbiology, tools at 16S rDNA level, groundwater remediation.

Student Participation: The undergraduate can assist me in running the bench scale reactors, doing 16S rDNA analysis, data analysis, and working with PhD students.

Background Needed: Math, science, high school chemistry and biology.

Outside Majors: Biology, chemistry, microbiology, bioengineering, environmental engineering, geology, soil science.

Student generated projects may be considered.

Hlady, Vladimir
108A BPRB
Phone: 581-5042
E-mail: vladimir.hlady@m.cc.utah.edu

General Research Interest: Interfacial chemistry and biophysics, virus-membrane interactions, molecular spectroscopy and microscopy, blood proteins-materials interaction.

Student Participation: Work in the laboratory on specific projects.

Background Needed: Chemistry, Material Science, Biology, and some instrumentation (optics).

Outside Majors: Chemistry, Material Science, and Physics.

Key Words: Atomic force microscopy, protein-surface interactions.

Student generated projects are not possible.

Horch, Ken
2480 MEB
Phone: 585-1981
E-mail: k.horch@utah.edu

General Research Interest: Neuroprosthetics

Student Participation: Collaborate on neuroprosthetics projects.

Background Needed: Physics & basic electronics; introductory human physiology or anatomy.

Outside Majors: Electric Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Biology, Psychology, Pre-Medicine.

Key Words: sensory systems, nervous system, motor control, neuroprosthetics.

Student generated projects may be considered.

Normann, Richard A.
506 BPRB
Phone: 581-7645
Email: Normann@m.cc.utah.edu

General Research Interest: Information processing in the verterate nervous system, development of new therapies to nervous system disorders (sensory and motoer) using microelectrode arrays.

Student Participation: Help acquiring nerual data, analyzing data, assisting in surgical procedures.

Background Needed: Good hands, highly motivated, some programming experience.

Outside Majors: Biology, Psychology, Premed, Bioengineering.

Key Words: Retina, brain, artificial vision, sensory physiology, motor physiology, microelectrode arrays.

Tresco, Patrick A.
BIOG 570, Rm. 108-D
Phone: 581-8873
E-Mail: patrick.tresco@m.cc.utah.edu

General Research Interest: Tissue engineering; growing replacement tissues for therapeutic or research applications - specifically, tissues of the nervous system & vocal fold.

Student Participation: Help conduct basic research and development of tissue engineered components.

Background Needed: First year OR introductory courses in biology, engineering, OR drafting.

Outside Majors: Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Exercise & Sport Science, Materials Science, Materials Engineering, or Pharmacy

Student generated projects may be considered.

Weiss, Jeffrey A.
2458 MEB
Phone: 587-7833
Web Page: http://hodad.bioen.utah.edu/~weiss/
E-Mail: jeff.weiss@m.cc.utah.edu

General Research Interest: Orthopedic biomechanics, soft tissue mechanics, soft tissue healing, computational biomechanics.

Student Participation: Data acquisition and analysis, design and fabrication of new test fixtures.

Background Needed: Undergraduate Physics and first-year Calculus. Some biology helpful.

Outside Majors: Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Biology, Pre-Med

Student generated projects may be considered.

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