Shapiro, Mikhail G.

Committee Member — 114 thesises

• Shaker, Sammy — 3D Vat Photopolymerization of Microarchitected Magnetic Metal Alloys for Chemotherapy Capture Filters (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lanfranchi, Francesco (Frank) — A Multispecies Perspective on the Evolution of Form Vision (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bedrossian, Manuel M. — A Novel Digital Holographic Microscope (DHM) to Investigate and Characterize Microbial Motility in Extreme Aquatic Environments (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhou, Jie — A Tale of Two Strategies: Evolving and Engineering Biology Across Scales (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shivaei, Shirin — A Viral Toolkit for Ultrasound Imaging of Cellular Activity and Gene Expression (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ling, Bill — Acoustic Biomolecules for Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jin, Zhiyang — Acoustic Biosensors for Noninvasive Imaging of Molecular Processes (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Farhadi, Arash — Acoustic Reporter Genes for Noninvasive Imaging of Cellular Function (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Hongyi Richard — Acoustically Targeted Gene Delivery for Non-Invasive Neuroengineering (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vyatskikh, Andrey — Additive Manufacturing of 3D Nano-Architected Metals and Ceramics (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tong, Xin — Advanced Imaging with Sound and Light: Photoacoustic Tomography and Quantum Microscopy (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hui, Yue — Applications of Genetically Engineered Bacillus subtilis in Biocatalysis and Functional Materials (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shin, Soyoung — Bioinspired Microfluidic Wearable Sensors for Continuous Sweat Sampling and Metabolic Monitoring (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schrunk, Erik Tao — Biomolecular Engineering of Gas Vesicles with Thiol Functionality (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wu, Di — Biomolecular Tools for Noninvasive Imaging and Manipulation of Engineered Cells (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Xinyan — Bioorthogonal Noncanonical Amino Acid Tagging for Understanding Bacterial Persistence (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Dongkwan — Bond-Selective Nonlinear Optical Microscopy: From Live Cells to Single- Molecule Imaging (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Grace Zimu — Chemo-Selective Proteomics for Discovery of Polymicrobial Interactions (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gregrowicz, Jan M. — Combinatorial Signaling in the Dopamine Receptor System (2027, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ding, Xiaozhe — Computation-Aided Protein Engineering for Targeted Therapeutic Delivery (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Friesenhahn, Nicholas James — Computational Design of Protein-Based Biosensors for Nicotine (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chung, Jaebum — Computational Imaging: a Quest for the Perfect Image (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ou, Xiaoze — Computational Microscopy: Breaking the Limit of Conventional Optics (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hanewich-Hollatz, Mikhail Henning — Conditional Guide RNAs: Programmable Conditional Regulation of CRISPR/Cas Function via Dynamic RNA Nanotechnology (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shen, Kevin — Conformations and Charge Fluctuations in Polyelectrolyte Solutions (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhang, Raymond J. — Construction of Bacterial Genome Chimeras (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dutka, Przemysław — Cryo-ET Reveals Molecular Details of Multi-Megadalton Bacterial Protein Complexes (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Clark, Andrew James — Delivery of Targeted Nanoparticles Across the Blood-Brain Barrier Using a Detachable Targeting Ligand (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ko, Dennis Lok — Design and Implementation of a Microparticle Delivery Device for the Cornea (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ailianou, Artemis — Development of Semicrystalline Morphology of Poly(L-lactic Acid) during Processing of a Vascular Scaffold (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, Joey Dongjin — Effects of Branching on Conformation, Crystallization, and Self-Assembly of Polymers (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Totoiu, Christian Alexander — Electron Spin-Based Quantum Sensing in Biomolecular Systems (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lu, Andrew C. — Engineered Protein Circuits for Cancer Therapy (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lakshmanan, Anupama — Engineering Acoustic Protein Nanostructures for Non-Invasive Molecular Imaging using Ultrasound (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chong, Lucy Shin — Engineering and Delivery of Programmable Protein Circuits as Potential Therapeutic Devices (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lukas, Heather Lauren — Engineering Bioaffinity Sensors toward Continuous Electrochemical Biosensing (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wu, Yong Yi — Engineering Biosynthetic Pathways in Cell-Free Systems for Sustainability and Chemical Innovation (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Trudeau, Devin Lee — Engineering Enzyme Systems by Recombination (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dev, Ishaan Joshan — Engineering Multi-Protein Assemblies with Machine Learning and Experimental Optimization (2027, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bedbrook, Claire Nicole — Engineering Novel Rhodopsins for Neuroscience (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hurt, Robert Cooper — Engineering of Second-Generation Acoustic Reporter Genes (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Watkins-Dulaney, Ella Jenná — Engineering the Tryptophan Synthase β-Subunit for Synthesis of Noncanonical Amino Acids (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yang, Jee Won — Engineering Ultrasonic Reporters for Imaging Cellular Enzyme Activity (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sawyer, Daniel Patrick — Enhanced Noninvasive Imaging of Acoustic Biomolecules (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Guareschi, Matteo Michele — Enriching Architectures for Biosensing and Motor-Filament Systems Through the Programmability of DNA (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lewis, Russell DeRieux — Evolution and Characterization of Carbene Transferases for Cyclopropanation and Carbon–Silicon Bond Formation (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lal, Ravi Goel — Expanding Enzyme Function Through Data-Guided Evolution (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Duan, Mengtong (Tom) — Expanding Frontiers in Biomedical Imaging and Synthetic Biology: Dynamic Acoustic Reporter Gene Imaging and Ratio-Tuning of Mammalian mRNA Polycistronic Expression (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Qin, Ziyang — Expanding the Chemical Space of Nitrene Transferases: Biocatalytic Construction of C–N Bonds (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Knight, Anders Matthew — Expanding the Scope of Metalloprotein Families and Substrate Classes in New-to-Nature Reactions (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Xiong, Lealia Li — Expanding the Toolbox for Thermal Control of E. coli: Cold-Activated Transcription with Applications in Temperature Self-Regulation (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Takatori, Sho C. — Forces, Stresses, and the (Thermo?) Dynamics of Active Matter: The Swim Pressure (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Flytzanis, Nicholas C. — From Single-Cell to Whole-Body: Developing a Molecular Neuroscience Toolkit (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Blom, Antoinette Elisabeth Maria — Functional Evaluation and Development of Novel Agonists and Modulators of Neuronal Ion Channels (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• MacKrell, Elliot James — Global Analysis of Protein Synthesis and Degradation in Escherichia coli (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ross, Tyler David — Guiding Self-Organization in Active Matter with Spatiotemporal Boundary Conditions (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Garrett, David Christopher — Human-Scale Ultrasound, Thermoacoustic, and Photoacoustic Tomography (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ramesh, Pradeep — Imaging and Control of Engineered Cells using Magnetic Fields (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jue, Erik Bradley — Improved Tools for Point-of-Care Nucleic Acid Amplification Testing (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Schlappi, Travis Stratton — Improving the Speed and Performance of Point-of-Care Diagnostics with Microfluidics (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Colón, Katsuya Lex — In Situ Signal Amplification for Spatial Transcriptomics Using Programmable DNA Assemblies (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Min, Jihong — Innovations in Wireless Bioelectronics for Precision Medicine, from Sustainable Sweat Sensing to Ingestible Gut Monitoring (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Colazo, Adrian — Investigating Single-Cell Metabolism with Advanced Stimulated Raman Scattering Microscopy (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Griggs, Whitney Scott — Listening to the Internal Representation of Actions Within the Posterior Parietal Cortex (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Monge Osorio, Manuel Alejandro — Localization and Stimulation Techniques for Implantable Medical Electronics (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sharma, Saransh — Low-Power and Miniaturized Medical Electronics for In-Vivo Localization and Tracking (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Row, Hyeongjoo — Mechanical Approach to Active Matter: Reverse Osmotic Effect and Motility-Induced Phase Separation (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhou, Dan — Mechanism of Action of a Therapeutic Peptide, Risuteganib, Suggests that Supporting Mitochondrial Function Underlies its Clinical Efficacy in Treating Leading Causes of Blindness (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gholamin, Sharareh — Mechanism of Response and Resistance to CAR T Cell Therapies (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Davis, Hunter Cole Davis — Mechanistic Insights for Magnetic Imaging and Control of Cellular Function (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mosesso, Richard Albert — Mechanistic Investigations of Receptor Signaling via Canonical and Non-Canonical Amino Acid Mutagenesis (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, Jungwoo — Microfluidic Analysis in Patient Biopsies: toward Precision Medicine for Glioblastoma Multiforme (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fu, Amy Hau Yu — Mitigating Scarring and Inflammation during Corneal Wound Healing using Nanofiber-Hydrogel Scaffolds (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mittelstein, David Reza — Modifying Ultrasound Waveform Parameters to Control, Influence, or Disrupt Cells (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chour, William — Molecular Technologies for Antigen-Based Immunity (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Lei — Multi-Contrast Photoacoustic Computed Tomography (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ng, Ryan Cecil — Nanophotonic Phenomena in Dielectric Photonic Crystals (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cheung, Yuen Man Kathy — Neural Coding of Fear: From Genes to Brain-Wide Dynamics (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Muthusamy, Anand Kumar — Neuropsychiatric Drug Biosensors in Organelles, Cells, Biofluids, & Behaving Animals (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wackelin, Daniel Joseph — New to Nature C–C Bond Forming Cyclases: Pushing the Boundaries of Ring Forming Reactions (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Liu, Yang — Novel Parylene Filters for Biomedical Applications (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Fu, Harold Jin — Open-Circuit Stability and Integration of Silicon Electrodes for Solar Fuels Devices (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dilanyan, Taleen Gaied — Open-Source Custom Beads for Single-Cell Transcriptomics (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shang, Kuang-Ming — Oxygen-Regulating MEMS Devices for Cell Transplantation to Cure Type 1 Diabetes (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lin, Li — Photoacoustic Tomography: From Bench to Bedside (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cook, Colin Andrew — Phototherapeutic Devices for the Treatment of Diabetic Retinopathy (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Luo, Meng (Stella) — Polymer Mechanochemistry Using Ultrasound: From Fundamental Reactivity to Controlled Drug Delivery (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Koo, Jin Mo — Probing the Biological Interactions of a Therapeutic Small Peptide at the Tissue, Cellular, and Molecular Levels for Treating Retinal Diseases (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Thubagere Jagadeesh, Anupama — Programming Complex Behavior in DNA-based Molecular Circuits and Robots (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bhattacharya, Paulomi — RNA-Mediated Toxicity In Neurodegeneration: The Mechanistic Role Of The C9ORF72 Repeat Expansion In ALS Molecular Pathogenesis (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Friedman, Andrew Collin — Scalable Fabrication of Micro-Architected Water Filtering Membranes (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Maeda, Kazuki — Simulation, Experiments, and Modeling of Cloud Cavitation with Application to Burst Wave Lithotripsy (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lipschitz, Mikel — SLIM: Stochastic Lineage-Based Iterative Minimization (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Miao, Kun — Stimulated Raman Scattering: a Biophysical Perspective for Imaging Cells and Tissues (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gorin, Gennady — Stochastic Foundations for Single-Cell RNA Sequencing (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gonzalez, Kevin Jaime — Strategies and Tactics in Alkaloid Synthesis: Total Synthesis of Strempeliopidine via a Non-Directed Petasis Reaction and Progress Toward the Synthesis of Mitomycin B (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ifkovits, Zachary Philip — Strategies for Enabling Stable and Efficient (Photo)Electrochemical Water Splitting (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gerber, Bryan Michael — Synthetic Control of the Biological Central Dogma (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wyatt, Emily Ann — Targeted Nanoparticle Delivery of Therapeutics Across the Blood-Brain and Blood-Tumor Barriers to Breast Cancer Brain Metastases (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kjeldbjerg, Camilla Maria — The Effects of Confinement in Active Matter: the Casimir Effect, Partitioning, and Hindered Diffusion (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rosakis, Alexandros Yiannis — The Hemodynamics of Native and Surgical Aortic Valves with Regards to Wall Shear Stress and Residence Time (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Abedi, Mohamad — Thermal Bioswitches for Non-Invasive Control of Cellular Therapies (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Maggi, Alessandro — Three-Dimensional Nano-Architected Materials as Platforms for Designing Effective Bone Implants (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Miller, Sophie Eve — Time-Resolved Proteomic Analysis in Zebrafish and Cultured Neurons Using Bioorthogonal Noncanonical Amino Acid Tagging (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Buss, Marjorie Theresa — Tools for Noninvasive Imaging and Control of Engineered Bacteria In Vivo (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yuet, Kai P. — Tools For Spatiotemporally Specific Proteomic Analysis In Multicellular Organisms (2016, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sarraf, Namita — Towards Integrated Molecular Machines: Structural, Mechanical, and Computational Motifs (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Peng, Zhiwei — Transport and Microrheology of Active Colloids (2022, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Piraner, Dan Ilya — Tunable Thermal Bioswitches as a Control Modality for Next Generation Therapeutics (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Justin — Ultrasound Control and Imaging of Cellular Immunotherapy (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Abundo, Maria Paulene Bernal — Ultrasound Controlled Drug Delivery by Acoustically Switchable Hydrogels (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Weaver, Sara Jean — Visualizing Small Proteins with the cryoEM Platform and The Structure of the Vibrio cholerae Type IV Competence Pilus Secretin PilQ (2020, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kim, Gunho — Wave Propagation in Periodic Acoustic Metamaterials: from 1D to 3D (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tu, Jiaobing — Wearable Sweat Sensors for Disease Monitoring and Management (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))