People

Tristan P. Driscoll, Ph. D.

Assistant Professor

Chemical and Biomedical Engineering


Email: tdriscoll2@eng.famu.fsu.edu

Office: COE B333


 

 Graduate Students

Ananya Naha

BME Ph.D.  Candidate

Email: an20bz@fsu.edu

Garrett McDaniel

BME Ph.D. Candidate

Email: gsm19a@fsu.edu

Sailesti Joshi

BME Ph.D.  Candidate  (Co-advisor Dr. Li)

Email: sjoshi@fsu.edu

Astrid Daugherty

BME Ph.D.  Student (Co-advisor Dr. Ricarte)

Email: acdaugherty@fsu.edu

Samuel Pagan

BME Ph.D. Student

Email: sap19j@fsu.edu

Harrison Craythorne

BME M.S. Student

Email: hdc18b@fsu.edu

Undergraduate Students

Christian Suastegui

Undergraduate Research Assistant


Saiabhinav Devulapalli

BME Undergraduate 


Juliet Delapena

BME Undergraduate 


Chase Johnson

BME Undergraduate 


Anghea Dolisca

BME Undergraduate 


Past Students

Chaitanya Vibhute (2022-2024) M.S. Thesis Student: Actin Binding Sites in Talin Regulate Contact Guidance (FSU M.S 2024)

John Sorensen (2023-2024) HITM: Characterization of Dextran Vinyl Sulfone Hydrogel System for Studying Fibrotic Cues (FSU B.S. 2024)

Santiago Lazarte (2023-2024) HITM: Mechanosensing in Dextran Vinyl Sulfone Hydrogels (FSU B.S. 2024)

Jose Maggiorani (2023-2024) Tropomyosin Regulation of Cell Adhesion Dynamics (FSU B.S. 2024)

Claudia Villalobos (2022-2024) Actin Branching in YAP Mechanosensing,  Adiponectin in Endothelial Mechanical Homeostasis (FSU B.S.  2024)

Blake Heath (2022-2023) HITM: Tropomyosin Regulation of Cellular Force Generation and Mechanosensing (FAMU B.S. 2023)

Preston Holt (2022) YAP Activation in Talin Mutant Cells (FSU B.S. 2023)

Amir Sadeghifar (2020-2023) M.S. Thesis Student: Debranched Actin Decouples Cell Spread Area from YAP Activation (FSU M.S. 2023)

Hana Grubb (2021-2022) Cellular Force Sensing in Electrospun Fiber Networks (FSU B.S. 2021)

Yusef Kutbi (2021) miRNA Sensors to Measure Contractile Regulation of miRNA Activity (FSU B.S. 2023)

Mitch Plasir (2021) CAD and Motion Control of a Stretch Bioreactor (FSU B.S. 2022)

Emma Pollard (2020 UROP) Molecular Force Transmission Through Sub-Cellular Structures