Biosensing and biorobotics laboratory

VIJAY RAJENDRAN

Research Engineer

MS

University of Minnesota, Biomedical Engineering (2019)

BS

University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Materials Science (2015)

Biosketch

Vijay received his M.S. in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Minnesota in 2019 where he researched tissue engineering of the trachea using a cell spraying device, and his B.S. in Materials Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, in 2015. He is currently one of three lab technicians in the Biosensing and Biorobotics Laboratory where he primarily works on See-Shell variants for applications like MRI, vessel diameter tracking in the dorsal cortices of freely behaving mice, and building Miniscopes for collaborators.

Publications

Mathew L Rynes, Daniel Surinach, Samantha Linn, Michael Laroque, Vijay Rajendran, Judith Dominguez, Orestes Hadjistamoulou, Zahra S Navabi, Leila Ghanbari, Gregory W Johnson, Mojtaba Nazari, Majid Mohajerani, Suhasa B Kodandaramaiah, (2020, June). Miniaturized head-mounted device for whole cortex mesoscale imaging in freely behaving mice. bioRxiv.

HOnors and awards

2020 BSBRL MVP