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Amina Ann Qutub
Principal Investigator
Amina’s research focuses on the development of new computational methods and experimental analyses in order to uncover design principles of human cells during growth and regeneration. The Qutub Lab uses fundamental knowledge gained by understanding cellular communication to transform the treatment of hematological cancers and neurovascular diseases
Program Affiliations: UTSA/UT-Health Sciences BME Program (Director), MATRIX AI Consortium (Research Thrust co-Lead), Brain Health, Regenerative Medicine
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PhD: Bioengineering, Berkeley & UCSF
Postdoc: Johns Hopkins University
Department: Biomedical Engineering
Awards: AIMBE Fellow, NSF CAREER Awardee, Bioinformatics Peer Prize, NAKFI Awardee, NRSA Fellow, Whitaker Fellow
Byron Long
Research Scientist & Instructor
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.
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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.
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BS: University of Texas, San Antonio
Projects: The Quantu Project
Zacharie Maloney
Graduate Student
Zacharie Maloney is a PhD student in UTSA's Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Joint UTSA/UTHSC Graduate Group in Biomedical Engineering. Integrating new modeling and experimental methods, Zach's project focuses on characterizing cellular and proteomic processes underlying changes in daily behaviors indicative of brain health. Joining the Qutub Lab in Fall 2019, Zach brings experience in biomedical engineering, systems biology, software engineering and financial modeling.
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BS: Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology
Projects: Neural network modeling & experiments, Quantu
Erin Pollet
Graduate Student
Erin Pollet is a PhD student in UTSA's Department of Biomedical Engineering and the Joint UTSA/UTHSC Graduate Group in Biomedical Engineering. Her project focuses on uncovering neural and neurovascular mechanisms underlying changes in sleep and other daily behaviors using integrated modeling and experimental approaches. Joining the Qutub Lab in Fall 2018, Erin brings 10 years of clinical sleep experience as a registered polysomnographic technologist to her research project.
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BS: Biomedical Engineering, UTSA
Projects: Quantu, Correlating Behavior to Cellular Changes in Alzheimer's
Awards: Brain Health Consortium Seed Grant 2018
Sean Tritley
Graduate/Undergraduate 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.
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Projects: Vascularized brain-in-a-dish models & experiments, Quantu
Tomisin Adebayo
Undergraduate Researcher
Tomisin is a biomedical engineering undergraduate student researching computational and experimental methods to uncover how neural networks form.
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Aishwarya Sathish
Undergraduate Researcher
Ash is a biomedical engineering undergraduate student applying computational methods to interpret patterns in sensor-based fitness data and identify how changes in daily activity affect the brain.
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