Principal Investigator

Anand Bala Subramaniam

Associate Professor
Department of Bioengineering
University of California, Merced

PhD    in Applied Physics, Harvard University 2011
S.M.    in Applied Physics, Harvard University 2011
A.B.     in Biology, Cum Laude Harvard University 2005

Awards and Honors 
  • UC Merced Academic Senate Award for Distinguished Early Career Research 2018-2019
  • NSF CAREER Award 2019
  • Founding Co-Investigator, NASA Merced Nanomaterials Center for Energy and Sensing (MACES)

Graduate Groups 
  1. Bioengineering
  2. Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB)
  3. Physics
  4. Quantitative and Systems Biology (QSB)

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A: 5200 N. Lake Road, Merced, CA 95340.                                                         

Graduate Students

Alexis Cooper
PhD Candidate in Chemistry and Biochemistry
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B.S. Chemistry and Biology, 2020
University of Redlands, CA
Vignesha Vijayananda
PhD Candidate in Bioengineering
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M.S. Biomedical Engineering, '21 
San José State University, San Jose
 
B.E. Biomedical Instrumentation, '17 
Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), India
Samantha Tran
PhD Student in Bioengineering 
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Eugene Cota-Robles Fellow
 
B.S. Bioengineering, '23
University of California, Merced 

Undergraduate Students

Arham Ali
Bioengineering
Sophomore

CCBM CREST Undergraduate Fellow 2024-2025
Cianna Garibaldi
Bioengineering
Junior

CCBM CREST Undergraduate Fellow 2023-2024

Alumni

PhD Students 

Dr. Alexander Zhan Tu Li, PhD in Bioengineering 2023
Dr. Vaishnavi Girish, PhD in Bioengineering 2022. Senior Scientist II Nitto Biopharma.
Dr. Joseph Edward Pazzi III, PhD in Bioengineering 2021. Lead Scientist, reThink64 Bionetworks PBC

Masters Students

Nimra Khurram, Fulbright Scholar, MS in QSB '23, PhD Student in QSB, UC Merced
Theresa Stelter, MS in BEST ‘17. Senior Systems Engineer, Beckman Coulter Life Sciences
KM Rifat Faysal, MS Physics '16. In the lab from Spring 2015 - Spring 2016, Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University

Undergraduate Students

Samantha Tran, B.S. in Bioengineering ‘23,  CCBM CREST Undergraduate Fellow Fall 2022, Spring 2023 ,  PhD Student in Bioengineering, University of California Merced
Artury Ramirez, B.S. in Bioengineering ‘23, LEAP AY Research ,CCBM CREST Undergraduate Fellow Fall 2021, Spring 2022, PhD Student in Bioengineering, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Erik Gutierrez, CCBM CREST Undergraduate Fellow Fall 2021, Spring 2022, QA Senior Specialist, Cardinal Health.
Breanna Paredes, B.S in Bioengineering, '20  University of California, Merced, UROC Summer 2019 Fellow, CCBM Fellow Fall 2019, Spring 2020
Oscar Medrano, B.S. in Bioengineering '19
Jared Tse, Chemistry, CCBM CREST Undergraduate Fellow Fall 2017, Spring 2018
Kurtis Brent, Bioengineering CCBM CREST Undergraduate Fellow Fall 2018, Spring 2019, PhD student in UC Berkeley/UCSF Bioengineering Program
Calvin Hu University of California, Berkeley, CCBM C-SIP Fellow 2019, PhD Student in Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University
Jesus Salcido Guerrero, UROC SURF Fellow 2018. BS in Bioengineering '18. In lab 2017-2018. Currently Scientist II at Genentech
Benjamin Lawrence, Merced College CCBM C-SIP Summer Fellow 2018. 
Ramces Gonzalez, Chemistry minor in Physics '18, MACES Undergraduate Fellow, UC LEADS Scholar, ARC Scholar. In lab 2015-2018.
Jacob Orozco, Chemistry, Merced College, C-SIP Summer Fellow, Summer 2017.
Joshua Greschler, Physics, Allegheny College , MACES Summer Fellow, Summer 2017. 
Marcos Lucero, B.S Chemistry, '17. MACES Undergraduate Fellow, UC LEADS Scholar. 
Victor Hernandez, In Lab from Spring 2015-Fall 2016.
William Chueng, California State University, Stanislaus, MACES Summer Fellow, Summer 2016. Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Kayleigh Kresse, Junior Specialist.  In Lab from Summer 2015-Summer 2016. Currently a Research Assistant at Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland.
Jesus Partida, Bioengineering '16, In the lab from Spring 2015-Summer 2016.
Jonny Nguyen, B.S. Bioengineering '16. In lab from Spring 2015-Spring 2016.
Salvador Padilla, MACES Undergraduate Fellow, Fall 2015-Spring 2016.
June Park, UC Merced AiMM REU Student, Summer 2015 .

High School Students

Abigail Her, El Capitan High School, ACS SEED Student I, Summer 2023
Jasmine Aguirre, Golden Valley High School, ACS SEED Student I, Summer 2018
Maycy Lee, Buhach Colony High School, ACS SEED Student I, Summer 2018
Gudalupe Covarrubias-Oregel, ACS SEED I, Summer 2017
Luis Garcia, ACS SEED Student II Summer 2016
Jerry Vue, ACS SEED Student II Summer 2016
Luis Garcia, ACS SEED Student Summer 2015