Our Team
Amber Yu
Amber Yu is a senior at Ann Arbor Huron High School. She has been working with Dr. Larkin's lab since the summer of 2019 and has thoroughly enjoyed contributing to this online course. She also enjoys studying the sciences, especially biology, and loves to practice karate, play clarinet and piano, volunteer, and play fetch with her dog, Waffle.
Celeste Forester
Celeste Forester is a sophomore currently attending the University of Michigan. She has been awarded a position in the Molecular & Integrative Physiology Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program. In her free time, she enjoys stargazing and playing jazz piano.
Dario Rodriguez Steinhardt
Dario A. Rodriguez Steinhardt graduated from the industrial microbiology program at the University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez. His research interests are in tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, and the regulatory aspects of their clinical applications. As a hobby, he likes to play video games, hike, and cook with friends.
Derek Hwang
Derek Hwang is a freshman engineering student at the University of Michigan. He’s always been interested in physiology and decided to stem his interest in engineering into biology and got interested in tissue engineering.
Eileen Su
Eileen Su is currently a senior at Ann Arbor Huron High School. She has been working with Dr. Larkin’s lab since the summer of 2019 and is interested in engineering. In her free time, she enjoys painting, cycling, and napping with her cat.
Lisa Larkin
Lisa M Larkin, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology at the University of Michigan. She holds a joint appointment in the Biomedical Engineering Department and is co-director of the Skeletal Tissue Engineering Laboratory. Dr. Larkin has 25 years of expertise in musculoskeletal physiology, specifically focused on ligament, tendon, muscle, and bone tissue engineering. Her laboratory has pioneered methods to co-culture scaffold-free tissue constructs to engineer functional tissues and their interfaces, and Dr. Larkin holds multiple US and global patents for her inventions.