Principle Investigator
Dr. Denis Tsygankov, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University SOM
Georgia Tech BioEngineering Program Faculty
Georgia Tech BioInformatics Program Faculty
Cancer Cell Biology Research Program Member at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
Ph.D. Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Center for Nonlinear Sciences
M.S. & B.S. Applied Physics and Mathematics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia
Office: U.A. Whitaker Building, Room 1212
Email: denis.tsygankov (at) bme.gatech.edu
Postdoctoral Scholars
Dr. Olga Chernaya
Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Ph.D. Physiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois
B.S. Biology, Moscow State University, Russia
Research Interests: My research interests focus on understating intercellular communications during epithelial and endothelial morphogenesis and regeneration.
Graduate Students
William Pilcher
Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Joint Georgia Tech & Emory University BME Ph.D. Program
B.S. Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia
Research Interests: Computational Systems Biology and Image Analysis
Office: U.A. Whitaker Building, Room 1213
Anastasia Zhurikhina
Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Bioinformatics Interdisciplinary Graduate Program
B.S. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Research Interests: Biomechanics of Collective Cell Behavior
Office: U.A. Whitaker Building, Room 1213
Siarhei Hladyshau
School of Biology. Bioinformatics Interdisciplinary Graduate Program
M.S. Biotechnology, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
B.S. Applied Physics and Mathematics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Research Interests: Computational Systems Biology and Bioinformatics
Office: U.A. Whitaker Building, Room 1213
Master’s Students
Yinghan Xu
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, BioEngineering Interdisciplinary Masters Program
Research Project: Graphical User Interface for analysis of complex cell patterns
Office: U.A. Whitaker Building, Room 1213
Undergraduate Students
Asher Altman
Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Project: The role of PYGO1 in Cerebral Cavernous Malformation
Office: U.A. Whitaker Building, Room 1213
Farhan Rahman
Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
Research Project: The role of noise-induced excitable dynamics of Rho family GTPases in the regulation of actin cytoskeleton
Office: U.A. Whitaker Building, Room 1213
Lab Alumni
Arjun Patel
Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
UG research project: Inverse Voronoi problem in the cell cluster context
John Miles
Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
UG research project: Visualization of actin cytoskeleton for studying collective cell behavior
Matvey Murashko
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Summer internship project: developing RNA-seq analysis pipeline
Justin Cha
Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
UG research project: modeling biomechanics of cell clusters
Rajan Jayasankar
Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
UG research project: Visualization of actin cytoskeleton for studying collective cell behavior
Sidi Zhao
Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
UG research project: Graphical User Interface for analysis of complex cell patterns
Dae Eun “Danny” Park
Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
UG research project: Biomechanical 3D model of endothelial cells
Kian Pourak
Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
UG research project: modeling adhesion dynamics in migrating cells
Brooke Trogdon
Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
UG research project: Visualization of actin cytoskeleton for studying collective cell behavior
Argy Kosmakos
Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
UG research project: collective endothelial cell behavior during vasculogenesis