Alumni

FORMER GRADUATE STUDENTS:

Rex Blair, M.E.

Instructor, United States Military Academy (USMA), West Point, NY, USA

Lucas Kerscher, M.E.

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich, Germany

Poling Kuo, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, ROC

Megan O’Grady, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA

Terrence Pong, M.S.

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston, MA, USA

FORMER POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS:

Patrick Alford, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, MN, USA

Mark Bray, Ph.D.

Computational Biologist, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA, USA

Adam Feinberg, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, PA, USA

Christian Franck, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

Sylvain Gabriele, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Université de Mons, Mons, Belgium

Nicholas Geisse, Ph.D.

Research Scientist, Asylum Research, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Anna Grosberg, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA

Hyungsuk Lee, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Yonsei University, South Korea

Crystal Ripplinger, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis, CA, USA

If you need to update your information or want to send us news about yourself, please contact DBG Administrator, Joan Chambers.

What's New

Picture of the Month – April 2012 April 6th, 2012

Isotropic cardiac myocyte monolayer stained for actin (red), beta-catenin (white), and nuclear DNA (blue). Image by Megan McCain, Parker lab.

Congrats to Kartik Balachandran! March 14th, 2012

Kartik Balachandran has been awarded the Postdoctoral Fellow Best Abstract Award by the Association of Scientists of Indian Origin Special Interest Group of the Society of Toxicology (SOT) at the SOT Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA. This competitive award was based on a submitted abstract and a cover letter outlining the significance of his research. The award includes a plaque and monetary award of $500. Congratulations, Kartik!!

Congrats to Josh Goss!! March 5th, 2012

Josh Goss is one of the winners of the first Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Dean’s Excellence Award. Josh is the senior instrumentation engineer and staff scientists in the Disease Biophysics Group, designing and prototyping all of our experimental systems from microfluidic systems for organs on chips to blast bioreactors for brain injury research. Congratulations, Josh!! Thanks for all of your hard work!!

Picture of the Month – February 2012 February 24th, 2012

Micropatterned mouse ventricular muscle cells assembled into an anisotropic tissue showing nuclei (pink) and organized sarcomeres (orange). This organization recapitulates features of the native architecture of cardiac tissue. Image by Anna Grosberg, Parker lab.

Postdoctoral Positions in the DBG February 19th, 2012

We have several postdoctoral positions opening now and in the coming months. We are especially interested in candidates with backgrounds in theoretical biomechanics who are interested in conducting bench experiments. These positions will focus on our efforts to recapitulate organ-level function on chips for drug discovery and safety pharmacology.

All of these positions require a doctoral degree in an appropriate field and a demonstrated publication record. Applications in the form of a single PDF file containing a cover letter, resume, and up to three examples of first author papers should be forwarded to Prof Parker (kkparker@seas.harvard.edu). A list of references should be submitted with the resume with contact information.