David Hall

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David Hall
Biomedical Engineering
david.hall@ufl.edu | LinkedIn
Magnetic Nanoparticle Stimulation

 

David received his B.S. degree from The University of Texas at San Antonio in 2019. He is now pursuing his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering with Professors Otto and Dobson. His current work focuses on understanding how functionalized magnetic nanoparticles can be employed to modulate cellular activity.

Esdras Camacho

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Esdras Camacho
Chemical Engineering
esdrascamacho@ulf.edu@ulf.edu

Esdras graduated with a BS in chemical engineering student at the University of Florida. He has collaborated on the MARTEENI project to develop an understanding of the applications and interactions of PEDOT:PSS on microelectrodes by assisting in implanting these devices in vivo into Lewis Rats. 

Angelique Vela (2022-2023)

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Angelique Vela 
Electrical & Computer Engineering
avela1@ufl.edu | LinkedIn
Engineering the neuronal response to
electrical microstimulation/ULTRASTIM

Angelique completed her BS in Electrical Engineering at the University of Florida in 2022. Her interest in the electrical stimulation of stem cells from her undergraduate research experience with Dr. Erin Patrick led her to pursue graduate research with Dr. Kevin Otto working on the electrical stimulation of neural units. Currently, she is a PhD student in Dr. Otto’s Neuroprostheses Research Lab collaborating with an interdisciplinary team to engineer neural interfaces, specifically, multi-channel implantable microdevices in both the central and peripheral nervous systems.

Pedro Gracias

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Pedro Gracias
Biomedical Engineering
pgracias@ulf.edu
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Pedro is a senior biomedical engineering student at the University of Florida. He is collaborating on the MARTEENI project in which he will be understanding the applications and interactions of PEDOT:PSS on MARTEENI by implanting these devices in Lewis Rats. 

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Carson A Boogaart

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Carson Boogaart 
Biomedical Engineering
cboogaart@ufl.edu
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Carson is a fourth-year biomedical engineering student. He will be collaborating on MARTEENI in which he will help accomplish goals of understanding the applications and interactions of PEDOT: PSS on MARTEENI. He will be performing lab tasks such as cryo-sectioning, aiding in the surgeries of the implantation of this device into Lewis Rats, and chronic collection of data of animals implanted.

Erynne San Antonio

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Erynne San Antonio
Biomedical Engineering
esanantonio@ulf.edu

Erynne is a third year biomedical engineering student at the University of Florida. She is researching the electrical and electrochemical changes between the different counter-ion molecular weights of the polymer PEDOT:PSS.

Kathleen Yang

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Kathleen Yang
Electrical Engineering
kathleen.yang@ufl.edu

Kathleen is a second year electrical engineering student at the University of Florida. She is currently studying voltage-induced structural changes of PEDOT:PSS, with neural electrode applications.

Renae Burke

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Renae Burke
Biomedical Engineering

Renae Burke is a fourth year double major in biomedical engineering and violin performance. She is currently working on intracortical magnetic stimulation and is interested in researching bidirectional brain-machine interfaces.

Anastasia Valimaki (2019-2020)

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Ramya Saldanha

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Ramya Saldanha
Biomedical Engineering
rsaldanha@ufl.edu

Ramya is a third year biomedical engineering student at the University of Florida. She is researching the effects of electrode site placement on intracortical microstimulation and is interested in attending med school after graduation.

Hunter Hakimian (2018-2022)

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Hunter Hakimian
Biomedical Engineering
hakimianh13@ufl.edu
Neural interfaces and neural stimulation

Hunter completed his BS in Physics at Georgia Tech in 2017. His undergraduate research under Dr. Flavio Fenton focused on entropy analysis of cardiac tissue activity under ventricular fibrillation. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering.