People
Here is a picture of several lab members in Skirkanich Hall. From left to right: (bottom row) Emory, Yung Chia, Dave (2nd row) Adam, Anthony (3rd row) Mahlet, Pallab (4th row) Rosie, Katie, Jennifer (top row) William
Principal Investigator
	Dr. David F. Meaney BSE in Biomedical Engineering- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1987 MSE, 1989 and Ph.D., 1991, in Bioengineering, the University of Pennsylvania dmeaney@seas.upenn.edu
Post-Doctoral Fellows
	Anthony Choo , Ph.D. BASc in Engineering Science, University of Toronto, 1998 MASc in Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia, 2001 PhD in Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia, 2007 chooa@seas.upenn.edu	Research Interests: Fibrin gels as a neuroprotective and growth permissive substrate for repairing brain injuries Two-photon in vivo imaging of mechanical injuries in the cortex Patterns of mechanical injury in organotypic hippocampal slice cultures Spinal cord injury and repair
	Rosalind (Rosie) E. Mott, Ph.D. BS Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 1999 Ph.D. Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, 2008 rmott@seas.upenn.edu	Research Interests: The impact of injury on protein translation at the dendritic spine The mechanisms of protein translation in synaptic plasticity Biochemical coupling/crosstalk of dendritic spines Live cell imaging
PhD Students
	Yung Chia Chen BSE in Biomedical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County PhD student in Bioengineering cheny@seas.upenn.edu	Research Interests: Changes in astrocytic signalling after neurotrauma through:    - In vivo 2-photon imaging    - Mechanical injury to hippocampal slice cultures    - Mechanical injury to cell cultures
	Mahlet N. Mesfin BSE in Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2003 MSE in Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2004 Ph.D. candidate in Bioengineering mesfinm@seas.upenn.edu	Research Interests: Examining the expression and activation of a tyrosine phosphatase following TBI Determine how protein interactions can modulate signaling cascades after TBI Determining if targetted disruption of certain protein interactions can affect neuronal fate after injury
	Pallab Singh BS in Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester, 2004 Ph.D. Candidate in Bioengineering psingh@seas.upenn.edu	Research Interests: The response of specific NMDA Receptor subtypes to mechanical injury The development of a computational model to investigate the patterns of glutamate receptor activation and the resulting intercellular signaling under physiological and pathological conditions
	Jennifer Spaethling BS in Chemical Engineering, Bucknell University, 2003 Ph.D. Candidate in Pharmacology jspaethl@mail.med.upenn.edu	Research Interests: Signaling pathways leading to insertion of calcium permeable AMPA receptors at the synapse Contribution of calcium permeable AMPA receptors to neuronal fate following TBI Possible therapies targeted to the calcium permeable AMPA receptor population following TBI
	Katie von Reyn BS in Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech 2003 Ph.D. Candidate in Bioengineering vonreyn@seas.upenn.edu	Research Interests: My research focuses on the role of the voltage gated sodium channel (NaCh) in traumatic brain injury (TBI), specifically by: - Identifying changes in NaCh structure, function, and expression following a TBI - Investigating the mechanisms that mediate these changes - Determining how these changes direct overall outcome following a TBI
Masters Students
	William Hong BSE in Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, 2005 Master's student in Biotechnology whong@seas.upenn.edu	Research Interests: Neurodegeneration in post-traumatic brain injury
Research Technicians
	Adam Hockenberry BA in Biological Anthropology, Temple University 2008 adamhock@seas.upenn.edu	Research Interests: Neuronal cell culture Analyze how varying states of cellular actin affect the movement of mitochondria in neuronal processes Determine the possible role that this could have for the energy supply to active areas of the neuron
	Emory Kuo BE in Biomedical Engineering, SUNY at Stony Brook, 2008 kuor@seas.upenn.edu	Research Interests: Perform animal models of brain injury using surgical techniques and mechanical devices Study protein marker and its protein expression after TBI Study astrocyte response and calcium influx after injury Breed transgenic mice
Undergraduates
	Minna Zhang Bioengineering student, C/O 2010 zhangml@seas.upenn.edu
Lab Alumni
Bill Miller, Ph.D .
Donna M. Geddes-Klein, Ph.D.
Michael DeRidder, Ph.D.
Andrew Taylor, MD, Ph.D.
Allison Bain, Ph.D.
Theresa Lusardi, Ph.D.
Reid Miller, Ph.D.
David Shreiber, Ph.D.
Dave Scarsella, BS, MS Gang Liu, MD Gul Serbest, PhD Kimberly Schiffman, BS Evan Silverstein, BSE Melissa Simon, BSE Adam Sinensky, BSE Krithika Ramamoorthy, MSE Jeff Rangan, BSE Jessica Barag, BSE Dora Chiang, BSE Jeff Gross, BSE Josh Kachner, BSE Michael Kohanski, BSE Jimmy Sastra, BSE Justin Tannir, BSE Tracy Yuen, BSE Ashley Grosvenor, BA