Projects

 Ongoing Projects

  1. Optofluidics for flow cytometry (CCAMP and IIT-Madras)
  2. STED microscopy (NCBS and IIT-Madras)
  3. Gated photon counting (NCBS and IIT-Madras)
  4. Cellular sensing of the microenvironment (inStem and MIT)
  5. Biological movements and forces
  6. Avian Acoustic Network (NIAS and IITM)

 Wish List
Please contact the faculty member if you are interested in one of these bio-engineering challenges.

  1. Madhu
    • Morphology and control in animals and machines
    • Control, stability and energy consumption during locomotion on uneven terrain
    • Stability and control of fingers
    • Speed and accuracy in throwing rocks and spears
  2. Vatsala
    • Engineering in-vivo and in-silico hybrids to understand neural dynamics
  3. Domonik
    • Mass-spectrometry based chemical imaging
    • Novel coupling of FACS sorting and mass-spectrometry
  4. Krishnan
    • Femto calorimetry: measuring the temperature difference on the two sides of a cell
    • Synthetic spinnerets: making spider silk from cows milk
  5. Sanjay Sane
    • Biomechanics of flight
  6. Upi Bhalla
    • Numerical and parallel algorithm development for neuronal and systems biology simulators.
    • The million synapse project: Novel optical methods for working out connection matrices in the brain.
  7. Shachi
    • Developing computational methods to understand the dynamics and folding of structured- RNA
  8. Uma
    • Studies in symmetry of stripe patterns on tigers