Biological Engineering - Ph.D. / Sc.D.

Understanding mucus selective permeability across length scales ?

Samad, Tahoura Sajida. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)

Mucus is a hydrogel that covers all wet epithelia in the human body including the eyes, respiratory, gastrointestinal and female reproductive systems. While mucus is sometimes characterized as a waste product, it actually ...
Epitranscriptomics : translational regulation of metabolism, drug resistance and proteostasis during cellular stress ?

Davis, Nick K.(Nicholas K.) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)

The epitranscriptome -- the naturally occurring system of chemical modifications on ribonucleic acid (RNA) --
Engineering diatom peptides for the synthesis of silica nanomaterials ?

Wallace, Andrea Kimi. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)

The ability to fabricate silica materials with highly organized nanostructures is of increasing demand across the medical, optical, energy, and mechanical fields. Diatoms, a class of eukaryotic algae, produce intricately-patterned ...