Telemicroscopy for Disease Diagnosis

Project Leader: Daniel Fletcher

Dan Fletcher, the faculty advisor for this project, is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering. His research on cell mechanics and motility involves the development of high-resolution optical imaging systems and the study of blood diseases. He teaches BioE 164, Optics and Microscopy, where initial design of the Telemicroscopy system was the semester project.

Other Team Member(s) Info:

David Breslauer is a second year graduate student in the UCSF/UC Berkeley Graduate Group in Bioengineering. He received his B.S. in Bioengineering from the UC San Diego. His primary research interests are in the development of microfluidic devices for the study of cell and macromolecule biophysics, as well as the development of easy-to-use and field-ready medical technology.

Chris Rivest is a graduate student in the mechanical engineering department at UC Berkeley. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT. He has expertise in the areas of biomedical instrumentation and technology development for developing countries.

We would also like to greatly acknowledge the assistance of Wendy Hansen, a graduate student in Biophysics at UC Berkeley, member of Fletcher Laboratory, and GSI for the Fall 2006 Bioengineering 164 class. We sincerely thank Robi Maamari, Alison Lynch, Gene Cho, and Katrina Lin for initial developments in the project.