Viibre - Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystem Research and Education - About VIIBRE

Research, technological development, and the delivery of advanced education
in the biophysical sciences and bioengineering

Research opportunities are available through

SYBBURE
(Systems Biology and Bioengineering Undergraduate Research Experience)

Summer 2008 SYBBURE research opportunity

V. Prasad Shastri leads an effort to show that "large volumes of bone can be engineered in a predictable manner" with an "engineered bone thatn is biomechanically identical to the native bone. PNAS, 102(32) 11450-55, 2005

VIIBRE continues to promote the professional development and research capabilities of faculty and students through VIIBRE initiated or VIIBRE specific research. VIIBRE's microfabrication and microfluidics facilities (unique at Vanderbilt) have given birth to new devices for the study of cellular metabolic dynamics and signaling, chemotaxis and hapotaxis, development, angiogenesis, and cancer growth and metastasis.

Gordon Gee Pictures

Hutson, an assistant professor of physis and a VIIBRE fellow, has plans to develop graduate and undergraduate courses with the goal of encouraging students in physics and biology to work together on interdisciplinary projects and to continue his study of the nature of cell movements within a fertilized egg.