Spring Undergraduate Project List

Electrophysiology – Dr. Madhuvika Murugan

• Waleed Mujib - Examining Hearing Deficits and Tinnitus in a Rat Model of Blast induced Traumatic Brain Injury
• Ajay Gandhi - Characterizing Monocyte Dynamic Properties after Blast-induced Traumatic Brain Injury using Two-Photon Imaging.
• Geetasravya (Sravya) Vegunta - Characterizing Microglia Dynamics after Blast-induced Traumatic Brain Injury using Two-Photon Imaging.
• Swathi Pavuluri - Examining sleep disturbances after blast induced traumatic brain injury
• Shafia Talat - Learning Molecular and Behavioral Techniques to Examine Changes in Mouse Brain after Blast-induced Traumatic Brain Injury

Computational Modeling – Dr. Molly Townsend

• Aayush Verma - Development and validation of a computational model of an anatomically accurate human head exposed to a primary shock wave.
• Rahul Shah - Sensitivity analysis of a computational model of a rodent exposed to a primary shock wave.
• Nanotechnology – Dr. Perumal Venkatesan
• Manisha Kannan - Apocynin loaded albumin nanoparticle formulation, characterization and evaluation in in vivo TBI model.
• Rashmi Venkatarama - Myonocyclin loaded albumin nanoparticle formulation, characterization and evaluation in in vivo TBI model.

Biochemistry – Dr. Venkata RamaRao Kakulavarapu

• Alekhya Thota - Pathophysiological Mechanisms of repeated Low-Level Blast (rLLB): Role of blood brain barrier and neurobehavior deficits.
• Mitushi Khare - Pathophysiological Mechanisms of repeated Low-Level Blast (rLLB): Role of Neuroinflammation
• Navya Pendyala - Mechanisms of Central and Peripheral auditory damage in blast TBI
• Chandni Patel - Role of synaptic and axonal proteins in single and repeated blast induced TBI
• Swata Gade - Therapeutic efficacy of human mesenchymal stem cells in blast-induced TBI

Biomechanics – Dr. Maciej Skotak

• Julia Nguyen - In-depth comparative analysis of the cortical and hippocampal proteome of a rat exposed to a single shock wave at 130 kPa blast overpressure
• Supriya Iyer - Optimization and calibration of a Marmarou closed head impact acceleration brain injury device
• Zenit Winfield - Rodent to human scaling laws: the selection of biofidelic materials for the development of the rat head model under shock wave loading
• Thinuri Fernando - Optimization and calibration of a Marmarou closed head impact acceleration brain injury device