Research Topics

Human Physiology and Chronic Diseases (McLeod)

• Diagnosis and prevention of age related physiologic adaptations
  • Alzheimer's disease
  • chronic pain
  • obesity
  • osteoporosis
  • Parkinson's disease
  • venous insufficiency

Computer-Supported Diagnosis and Prognosis (Land, Schaffer)

• Survival analysis
• Breast density as import feature in breast cancer diagnosis
• Stable bio markers for colorectal and colon cancer
• Classification and Diagnosis of colon, lung and melanoma cancer types
• Detecting early signs of neurodegenerative disease using speech processing

Evolution of Smart Machines based on Spiking Neural Networks (Schaffer, Laramee)

• Autonomous robotics
• Smart prosthetics
• Modeling living neural systems

Computational Biology (Laramee, Sayama)

• Interaction of electromagnetic waves with tissue
• Adaptive network modeling of C. elegans embryogenesis

Bioelectromagnetics (Laramee, McLeod)

• Examining responses of living systems to static magnetic field exposures
• Static magnetic field (SMF) effects on mammalian gene expression
• SMF induced heat shock response
• SMF changes in viability of colorectal adenocarcinoma (caco-2) cells

In Vitro and In Silico Models of Organs and Tissues (Mahler)

• Biomechanical and biochemical cell signalling
• Cell-cell and cell-extracellular matrix interactions
• Cell behavior during disease and response to chemicals or drugs
• Applications toward cardiovascular disease and cancer

Drug Delivery and Molecular Imaging (Doiron)

• Designing nanoparticles from chemical building blocks to better deliver drugs or imaging agents to sites of disease
• Innovative materials with temperature-sensitive responses to their environment to augment specific delivery of agents
• Targeting diseases including atherosclerosis and cancer

Nanotechnology and Living Systems (Doiron, Mahler)

• Understanding how nanoparticles interact with biomolecules, cells, and tissues
• Molecular changes in nanoparticle design affect the way that nanoparticles react to their environment
• Nanotoxicity

Human and Social Dynamics (Sayama, Laramee)

• Evolutionary perspective on collective decision making
• Virtual Binghamton: Producing knowledge through community engagement
• Modeling adoption and diffusion of innovation over space and time

Complex Systems and Artificial Life (Sayama)

• Modeling and predicting state-topology coevolution of complex adaptive networks
• Collective behavior of heterogeneous swarms and its application to "Morphogenetic Engineering"

Interactive Evolutionary Computation (Sayama)

• Hyperinteractive evolutionary computation
• Network-informed brain-storming support systems

Transportation Systems (McLeod)

• Development of high speed ground transportation systems

Education (McLeod, Laramee, Sayama)

• Teaching social complexity and multidisciplinary team building: An experimental engineering approach
• Alternatives to the passive learning modalities utilized in K-16 education
• NetSci High: International high school student research on network science
• Online demonstrations of complex systems simulation
• PyCX Project: Complex systems simulation made simple in Python