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Amina Ann Qutub
Principal Investigator
Amina has focused her career on pioneering methods at the interface of computer science, neurovascular biology and engineering in order to understand how human cells communicate during processes of growth and repair, and to use this fundamental knowledge to help eradicate hematological and neurological diseases.
Burzik Professor in Engineering Design
Research Thrust Lead, MATRIX AI Consortium
Affiliations:
Member, U.S. National Academies, Biotechnology & National Security Committee
Member, UTSA-UT Health Graduate Group in Biomedical Engineering
Member, Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Member, Brain Health Consortium
Bio | Resume | CV
email: amina.qutub@utsa.edu
PhD: Bioengineering, Berkeley & UCSF
Postdoc: Johns Hopkins University
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Awards: AIMBE Fellow, NSF CAREER Awardee, Bioinformatics Peer Prize, NAKFI Awardee, NIH NRSA Fellow, Whitaker Fellow
Byron Long
Assistant Professor of Instruction,
Computer Science
Byron Long’s doctoral research was in logic for programs that use dynamic memory. Byron built on his training in logic to develop innovative state machine models of endothelial cells and a modeling framework for testing biological hypotheses. He combines these approaches with novel image-analysis programs to study how human cells form tissues, and predictive algorithms to interpret how molecular and cell-level changes influence daily behaviors at a systems level.
email: byron.long@utsa.edu
PhD: Computer Science, Indiana U.
Postdoc: Rice University
Projects: Quantu, cytoNet
Awards: Computational Cancer Biology Training Fellow
Jennifer Brethen
Quantu Project Manager
Jennifer (Jenny) Brethen is the Quantu Project manager and a post-bac fellow in UTSA's Department of Biomedical Engineering.
email: jennifer.brethen@utsa.edu
BS: University of Texas, San Antonio
Projects: The Quantu Project
Sean Tritley
Graduate Researcher
Sean is a senior biomedical engineering undergraduate student and incoming graduate student developing innovative vascularized models of brain regions that regulate sleep, exercise response and circadian rhythm. Sean's co-mentor is Dr. Eric Brey, vascular engineer and Chair of the UTSA Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering.
email: tritley.sean@yahoo.com
Projects: Vascularized brain-in-a-dish models & experiments, Quantu
Awards: UTSA College of Engineering Fellowship, NSF BRAVe Fellowship
Tomisin Adebayo
Undergraduate Researcher
Tomisin is a biomedical engineering undergraduate student researching computational and experimental methods to uncover how neural networks form.
email: tomisinadebayo@gmail.com
Projects: cytoNet, Quantu Project
Awards: Xilinx Fellowship in Artificial Intelligence, NSF BRAVe Fellowship
Grace Polston
Undergraduate Researcher
Grace is a biomedical engineering undergraduate student working in the lab to develop model systems of areas of the brain regulating sleep and response to exercise.
email: gpolston.uni@gmail.com
Projects: Brain models, Quantu Project
