Color-coded light-responsive biocompatible hydrogels. Credit: Max Wilson
Credit: Max Wilson
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Nanoscale discoveries and engineering are driving lifesaving innovations in healthcare and medicine. CNSI researchers are developing fundamental insights into molecular, cellular, and systems biology, and translating this understanding to generate new tools, advanced diagnostics and novel treatment technologies. These discoveries are driven by deep expertise in bioimaging, biomanufacturing, mechanobiology, and computation, and accelerated by the research infrastructure provided by the NSF BioPACIFIC MIP and our partnership with CNSI at UCLA.

 Affiliated Researchers

Paul Atzberger

Professor
Research in scientific computation, machine learning, statistical mechanics, soft materials, biophysics.
Biotechnology
Information Technologies
Discovery Tools

Siddharth Dey

Assistant Professor
We develop novel single-cell sequencing technologies to understand mammalian tissue development in space and time.
Biotechnology
Discovery Tools

Brian Dincau

Lab Manager
Microfluidics Laboratory and Innovation Workshop
Facilitating researchers working in the Microfluidics Laboratory and Innovation Workshop; manager for the Microfluidics Laboratory and Innovation Workshop.
Microfluidics Laboratory
Innovation Workshop
Biotechnology
Complex Systems
Sustainability

Erika Eliason

Assistant Professor
The Eliason Lab examines how climate change constrains the performance and persistence of marine animals.
Biotechnology
Sustainability

Paul Hansma

Professor
Our novel Biofeedback devices are beginning to help people recover from chronic pain due to neuroplasticity.
Biotechnology
Discovery Tools

Skirmantas Janusonis

Associate Professor
Cellular and computational neuroscience; Stochastic axon systems.
Biotechnology
Complex Systems

Kenneth Kosik

Harriman Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience
The Kosik lab intends to create an intellectual setting conducive to the exploration of fundamental biological processes, particularly those related to the brain and its evolution.
Biotechnology

Daniel Morse

Distinguished Research Professor
Discovery of biophysical & genetic surrogates for phosphorylation controlling amyloid formation, protein assembly, structure & function.
Biotechnology
Complex Systems
Advanced Materials
Discovery Tools

Arnab Mukherjee

Assistant Professor
We look for biomolecules with unusual physical and chemical properties and retool these to develop MRI tools for exploring biological functions from neuroscience to infection imaging.
Biotechnology
Discovery Tools

Michelle O'Malley

Professor
Genetic engineering and synthetic biology of non-model microorganisms.
Biotechnology
Sustainability
Discovery Tools

Angela Pitenis

Assistant Professor
Soft, biological, and bio-inspired materials and interfaces.
Biotechnology
Complex Systems
Sustainability
Advanced Materials
Discovery Tools

Ryan Stowers

Assistant Professor
Engineering biomaterials for mechanobiology.
Biotechnology
Advanced Materials

Megan Valentine

Professor
Co-Director, CNSI
Mechanics of cells and tissues; design of bio-inspired materials with applications to packaging, healthcare and robotics; instrument development.
Biotechnology
Complex Systems
Advanced Materials
Discovery Tools

Yon Visell

Associate Professor
Research on haptic science and engineering, soft robotics, and additive manufacturing.
Biotechnology
Advanced Materials
Information Technologies

Lizzy Wilbanks

Assistant Professor
My research is driven by the hunt for the elusive interactions of wild microbes and seeks to understand the structure and activity of natural bacterial and archaeal populations
Biotechnology

Max Wilson

Assistant Professor
We use photo-switchable proteins to precisely control how information flows through biological networks to understand how cells make decisions.
Biotechnology
Complex Systems
Advanced Materials