Program Highlights

Tentative Research Projects:

1) Dynamics of Cellular Focal Adhesions on Difference Substrates

2) Forster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) and Fluorerescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM)

3) Monotoring glucose-induced oxidative stress and addition of antioxidants in Cancer Cells

4) Monocyte Adhesion on enthothlial coated micro devices

What is happening when cells attach to fibronectin of varying concentrations?

Meet Hari Garg. Hari's project on the effect of the spread of CHO k1- Paxillin-EGFP expressing cells to difference fibronectin concentrations won him 1st Place at the Orange County Science Fair - Pharmacology division.

He was also was a National semifinalist for the Broadcom Masters Competition.

Click here to read about Hari's Research project: Cancer Cell Motility

Learn about the Great Barrier Reef on Australia’s Eastern Coast:

http://coralrekindlingvenus.com/research/coral-in-crisis/

We set up a temporary imaging station at One Tree Island and Lord Howe Island, in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Learning about about coral skeletal structures, we can gain insight on how biomimetic structures can be modeled to collect light more effeciently.

Meet Lynette Wallworth who is an extraordinary Australian artist whose work reflects the connection between human interaction and natural world.

Corals Emitting Green Fluorescence

Heron Island, Australia