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Dimitrios Morikis	Chris Kieslich	Aliana Lopez De Victoria	Paul Nguyen
Huseyin Hakkoymaz	Alex Cheung	Homero Vazquez	Mohammed Desai
Andrew Feier	Alumni

Group Leader

Dimitrios Morikis
Professor of Bioengineering

Education

· B.S., Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 1983

· M.S., Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 1985

· Ph.D., Physics (Biophysics), Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 1990

· Postdoctoral Fellowship, Structural Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, 1990-1993

· Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship, Computational Chemistry, University of California, San Diego, CA, 1999-2001

Awards

· Fellow, AIMBE (American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering), 2008

· Fellow, AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 2006

· Non-Senate Distinguished Researcher Award, University of California, Riverside, CA, 2003-2004

· N.I.H. (National Institutes of Health) National Research Service Award-Senior Fellowship, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, CA, 1999-2001

· Fulbright Graduate Fellowship to pursue graduate studies in physics in U.S.A., Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 1983-1984

· I.A.E.S.T.E. (International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience) Summer Undergraduate Student Trainship, The Institute of Atomic and Molecular Physics of the Polish Academy of Science, Poznan, Poland, 1981

· The Scripps Society of Fellows Travel Award for best presentation at the Scripps Society of Fellows Annual Research Symposium, 1993

· A.P.S. (American Physical Society) STEP Travel Grant to attend the March 1989 National A.P.S. Meeting in Saint Louis, MO, 1989

· A.P.S.-Fulbright STEP Travel Grant to attend the March 1986 National A.P.S. Meeting in Las Vegas, NV

· Fulbright Summer Orientation Program, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1983

Other Affiliations

· Faculty, Center for Bioengineering Research, University of California, Riverside, CA, 2008-

· Faculty, Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA, 2008-

· Cooperating Faculty Member, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, CA, 2007-

· Faculty Member, Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of California, Riverside, CA, 2007-

· Faculty, Center for Research in Intelligent Systems (CRIS), Bourns College of Engineering, University of California, Riverside, CA, 2007-

· Member, Center for Plant Cell Biology (CEPCEB), College of Natural and Agricultural Science, University of California, Riverside, CA, 2005-

· Adjunct Associate Professor, Division of Immunology and Department of Neurobiochemistry, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, CA, 2003-

· Participating Researcher, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology (IIGB), University of California, Riverside, CA, 2001-

Professional Societies

American Association for the Advancement of Science; American Chemical Society; American Physical Society; Biomedical Engineering Society; Biophysical Society; International Complement Society.

Graduate Students

$D:\morikis_lab\2008\chris_BIENTAofYear.jpg$	Chris Kieslich Graduate Student, Department of Bioengineering, UCR Education B.S., Bioengineering, Saint Louis University , St Louis, MO, 2007 Awards · Best Bioengineering Teaching Assistant Award, 2008. Professional Society Biomedical Engineering Society
$D:\morikis_lab\2008\bic_2008_IMGP6847.jpg$	Aliana Lopez de Victoria Graduate Student, Department of Bioengineering, UCR Education B.S., industrial Biotechnology, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, 2007 Professional Society Biomedical Engineering Society
	Paul Nguyen Graduate Student, Department of Bioengineering, UCR Education B.S., Bioengineering, University of California, Riverside, 2007
	Huseyin Hakkoymaz Graduate Student, Department of Computer Science & Engineering (Advisor: Professor Dimitrios Gunopulos) Education

Undergraduate Students

$C:\dimitri\my_presentations\2008\Pages from cheung_etal_ucrURJ_2008.jpg$	Alexander Cheung Bioengineering Major, University of California, Riverside Awards · Chancellor’s Scholar, 2005- · Medical Scholars Program, 2005- · University of California, San Francisco Summer Research Training Program, 2008
	Homero Vazquez Bioengineering and Biology Major, University of California, Riverside Awards · Medical Scholars program
	Mohammed Desai Bioengineering major, University of California, Riverside
	Andrew Feier Biology major, University of California, Riverside

Alumni

Postdoctoral

· Jayalakshmi Sridhar, Visiting Assistant Researcher, UCR Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering/Bioengineering, 2/2006-6/2007.

· Buddhadeb Mallik, Postgraduate Researcher and Staff Research Associate, UCR Departments of Chemical & Environmental Engineering and Bioengineering, 9/2002-9/2006. Subsequently at the Proteomics Facility of Keck Graduate Institute (KGI), Claremont Colleges Consortium, CA.

Doctoral

· Li Zhang, graduate student, UCR Department of Chemistry, 5/2004-7/2007. Ph.D. awarded in July 2007. Thesis title: Studies of Immunophysical Properties of the Complement System using Molecular Dynamics and Electrostatics. Subsequently at ISO, Inc., Jersey City, NJ.

Masters

· Jianfeng Yang, UCR Department of Computer Science & Engineering, 3/2007-12/2007. M.S. awarded in 12/2007. Project title: Implementation of a high-throughput computational protocol for calculation and clustering of electrostatic potentials of protein families. Subsequently at Brion Technologies, Santa Clara, CA.

Graduate

· Radoslaw Drozd, Visiting Summer Graduate Student (6/2006-9/2006) from the Enzymology Unit, Department of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Biotechnology and Animal Science, Agricultural University, Szczecin, Poland.

· Wei Yu, Graduate Assistant (10/2005-3/2006), UCR Department of Computer Science & Engineering.

· Nima Ghaderi, Research Assistant (4/2002-9/2002), UCR Departments of Chemistry and Physics. Concurrently, Doctoral Student in Chemistry, UCR, under the supervision of Professor Len Mueller. Subsequently, Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech.

Undergraduate

· Chelsea Vandegrift, Chemistry major, University of Dallas undergraduate student, Summer 2008.

· Ioannis Mountziaris, Molecular Biology major, Princeton University undergraduate student, UCR BRITE Bioengineering Summer Program, supported by NSF REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates), Summer 2008.

· Nic Novak, Neuroscience major, Oberlin College University undergraduate student, UCR BRITE Bioengineering Summer Program, supported by NSF REU, Summer 2008.

· Paul Nguyen, Bioengineering major, UCR, 3/2008-06/2008.

· Gabrielle Goodman, Bioengineering major, UCR, 1/2008-8/2008.

· Laura Hockaday, Bioengineering major, UCR, 10/2007-06/2008. Subsequently attending graduate school in Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University.

· Megan Chawner, Biochemistry major, Lafayette College undergraduate student, UCR BRITE Bioengineering Summer Program, supported by NSF REU, Summer 2007.

· Nicholas Huynh, Biochemistry and Economics major, UCR, 1/2004-6/2006. Graduated summa cum laude; 2006 Rosemary S.J. Schraer Award for academic excellence, leadership, and community service. Subsequently at University of Pittsburgh Medical School.

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