Undergraduate Research Assistant
Paid research assistant at Dr. Yuxiao Zhou’s lab at TAMU. Designed and fabricated magnetic tensile machine for strtetching aortic tissue inside the lab’s Atomic Force Microscope (AFM), as well as other needed fixtures for two other tensile stages. Ran tensile experiments on mouse tibia and pig aorta samples. Calibrated load cells using emprical force curves and Arduino software. Ran AFM data analysis in JPKSPM software to create figures for two upcoming papers expected this fall.