Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering faculty growth continues
Maria Dadarlat will join the Weldon School as an assistant professor in August 2019. She received her B.S. in biomedical engineering from Purdue University and her Ph.D. in the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Graduate Program in Bioengineering. Dadarlat is interested in understanding how animals learn to use novel sensory information to guide movements and in the application of these principles to neural prostheses. Her thesis work concerned the latter topic, studying how to use electrical stimulation of primary somatosensory cortex to deliver artificial sensation. Currently, she is a postdoctoral researcher in the physiology department at the University of California, San Francisco where she is studying how neural encoding of visual information is modulated by behavioral states.
Krishna Jayant is an assistant professor of biomedical engineering and joined the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering in December 2018. He received his M.S and Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Cornell University and B.Tech. in electrical and electronic engineering from National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli. Prior to joining Purdue, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, a research project collaborator at ARCES at the University of Bologna, Italy, and a research assistant at Indiana Institute of Sciences, Bangalore, India. Jayant is interested in bridging nanoscience and neuroscience. He is developing nanoprobes and integrated electronic systems to use in conjunction with two-photon microscopy and electrophysiology to study how fundamental biophysical features of neurons, including synaptic and dendritic mechanisms, influence neural circuit computation in vitro and in vivo.
Ramaswamy Subramanian is a professor of biological sciences and biomedical engineering the director of the Bindley Bioscience Center. He joined the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering in January 2019. A structural biologist with expertise in protein crystallography, Ramaswamy earned his Ph.D. in molecular biophysics from the Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore. After graduation, he moved to Uppsala, Sweden, for a fellowship at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Ramaswamy stayed at SLU for eight years, serving as a researcher and docent before moving to Iowa City for a faculty position at the University of Iowa. While working as assistant dean and director of core research facilities in Iowa, Ramaswamy helped create the university’s structural biology program -- an accomplishment he later duplicated at inSTEM in India. Ramaswamy was the founding dean at inStem. He co-founded and served as the first CEO of the Center for Cellular and Molecular Platforms, a life sciences innovation hub for academia, industry and startup companies.