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MICHAEL GOWER
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Michael received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines in 2004. He conducted undergraduate research at Mines in microfluidics, soft lithography techniques, and surface modification of the silicone elastomer, PDMS. Michael is now in his 3 rd year of graduate school at UC Davis pursuing a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering. He is a fellow in the Integrating Medicine into Basic Science program; a Howard Hughes Medical Institute sponsored initiative to train Ph.D. students to conduct clinically relevant research and decrease the time it takes for bench top discoveries to be integrated into bedside treatments. His current studies include the molecular mechanisms of atherogenesis, the effects of shear stress on endothelial inflammatory potential, and endothelial progenitor cell biology.
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MIN-HO KIM
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Min-Ho received a PhD in Bioengineering from Penn State University in 2004. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Molecular and Cellular physiology department at LSU Health Sciences Center from 2005 to July 2006. His previous research focused on microvascular transport and inflammation using in vivo intravital microscopy. Since then, he joined Simon lab as a Post-doc, where his research interests are in the areas of leukocyte adhesion, endothelial transmigration, wound healing, and vascular permeability using tissue fluorescence imaging technique.
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ULRICH Y. SCHAFF
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Ulrich received a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from University of California Davis in June 2007 after 4 years of research in the Simon Lab. His initial research focused on the development of micofluidic flow chambers and real time fluorescent imaging techniques. For the past two years he has served as a graduate fellow in the NIH animal models of infectious disease training program. He currently is investigating the dynamics of calcium signaling in rolling neutrophils. Dr. Schaff was an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley where he obtained a BS in Bioengineering.
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HAROLD TING
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Harold received a B.S. in Bioengineering in 2002 from the University of California at Berkeley. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at the University of California at Davis establishing an in vitro chronic injury model of atherosclerosis. His experimental work is primarily focused on the early inflammatory events of atherogenesis derived after repetitive exposure of endothelium to isolated lipoproteins from donors of both normal and compromised metabolic state.
There are a number of undergraduate research assistants who work to make our research possible. They include:
Tiffany Tse
Lilian Kibathi
Ken Yamayoshi
Kelly Fong
Amar Ghodasara
Ajay Kemat
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