Graduate Student
Michigan State University, United States
Michael received his bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Connecticut in 2020. As an undergraduate, Michael researched healing aids for the intestinal lumen by characterizing the material properties of silk/mucin solutions, and assisted in the development of an in vitro model for traumatic brain injuries using rat neurons seeded on a silk/collagen scaffold. Michael joined Dr. Saha’s lab in Fall of 2020 to investigate the use of ex vivo locust brains to detect cancer biomarkers, as well as to study honeybee social neurobehavior. Michael enjoys playing Ultimate Frisbee and reading science fiction.
Thursday, October 12, 2023
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM PDT