PARTICIPANT HIGHLIGHT – Bryana Harris – 2017 PROGRAM

Leidong Mao / August 4, 2017 / Comments Off / 2017 Program, Highlights

“I’m not observing, I’m actively doing hands-on research and learning new techniques.”

Bryana Harris, a chemical engineering student from Auburn University, conducted research in Dr. Leidong Mao’s lab at the University of Georgia College of Engineering during this summer’s Nanotechnology and Biomedicine REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates). A rising junior, Bryana helped Dr. Mao’s team optimize a micro-fluidic device designed to separate breast cancer circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from the bloodstream.

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The REU program will provide an interdisciplinary research experience at the interface of micro-/nano-technology and biomedicine to undergraduate students from other institutions, leveraging the diverse interdisciplinary expertise, resources, and training opportunities in this area at University of Georgia (UGA).

Students will participate in interdisciplinary research projects that apply micro-/nano-technology to specific biomedical questions. Each REU student will be co-mentored by paired faculty from the nanotechnology and biomedical disciplines on a collaborative research project. In addition to a total-immersion, hands-on research experience, students will participate in enriching activities that will include ethics-in-science workshop; weekly career development seminars; research seminars; educational field trips; participation in conferences in nanotechnology and biomedicine.

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