Lab members
Associate Professor
J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering
Laboratory Manager
Fixer, organizer extraordinaire and experimentalist
Postdoctoral Fellow
(joint w/ Mathews Lab)
Islet immune interface in living pancreas tissue slices
PhD Student
Mechanisms of islet GABA secretion
PhD Student
Engineering local immune tolerance for beta cell replacement in type 1 diabetes
PhD Student
Engineering immune cell – beta cell interactions
PhD Student
Microgels for beta cell replacement
PhD Student
Imaging immune cell – beta cell interactions in pancreas tissue slices
Undergraduate
Undergraduate
Undergraduate
Lab Alumni
Ph.D. Students
- Walker Hagan, PhD, Scientist II – NMJ Team Lead, Hesperos, Inc.
- Matthew Becker, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weaver Lab, Arizona State University and CEO of ImmunoShield Therapeutics
- Jorge Santini-González, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Ross Lab, Cleveland Clinic, Port St. Lucie, FL
- Mollie Huber, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Kulkarni Lab, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School
- Adrienne Widener, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Russ Lab, University of Florida Diabetes Institute
- Charles Lazimi, PhD, Scientist, Hallandale Pharmacy
Postdoctoral Associates
- Sandra Ferreira, PhD, Senior Scientist at Mirscience Therapeutics
Medical Fellows
- Kendra Sylvester-Armstrong, MD, private practice South Florida
- Callie Reeder, MD, University of Tennessee Medical Center
Masters Students
- Jennifer Simonovich – University of Florida, BME PhD Program
- Robert Dolan – Engineer at U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Sushain Kaul – University of Florida, APK PhD Program
- Dylan Smurlick – University of Florida, BME PhD Program
- José Torres Crespo – University of South Florida, BME PhD Program
Undergraduates
- Yarelis Gonzales Vargas, BME PhD Program, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Mallika Bhatta, Medical Honors Program (joint BS, MD), University of Florida
- Natalia Vallenilla, Clinical Specialist, Electrophysiology at Abbott
- Kevin Ling, BME PhD Program, University of Rochester
- Shabeen Raza, Technical Development Program Engineer at Edwards Lifesciences
- Rebecca Erwin, Hydrogen Shot Fellow at DOE
- Maryum Salim, Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation Engineer at Jacobs
- Caroline Lesher, M.S.Program in Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida
- Veronica Bubay, recent graduate, B.S. Biomedical Engineering, University of South Carolina
- Conor Given, Clinical Specialist, Abbott
- Abilene Roberts, University of Texas Health San Antonio, MD/PhD program
- Collin Klaus, M.Eng. Program at Duke University
- Grace Koch, Undergraduate Program in Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida
- Siri Yarrapatni, Undergraduate Program in Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida
- Christian Gomez, Undergraduate Program in Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida
Technical Staff
- Andrece Powell, Clinical Research in Neuro-oncology, University of Florida