Thomas Bongiorno
Bioengineering PhD candidate with mechanical engineering degree and industry internship experience.
Achieved management of technology certificate (Georgia Tech business school) to diversify technical degrees.
Recipient of nationally competitive design & research award in biomedical engineering.
Engaged in graduate student leadership program.
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Thomas Bongiorno Receives Degree from Georgia Tech
Thomas Bongiorno of East Islip, NY, has earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Bioengineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Bongiorno was among approximately 3,200 undergraduate a...
January, 30 2017 - Verified by Georgia Institute of Technology
Thomas Bongiorno Receives Degree from Georgia Tech
Thomas Bongiorno of East Islip, NY, has earned a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Bongiorno was among approximately 2,700 undergradu...
June, 10 2015 - Verified by Georgia Institute of Technology
Graduate Research Assistant at Georgia Institute of Technology
• Purifying specific cell types from mixed populations.
• Confirmed that mesenchymal stem cell stiffness changes during bone cell differentiation.
• Created custom tools in ImageJ and CellProfiler to quantify protein staining images.
• Conceived a custom system to attribute stiffness, shape, and protein staining parameters to individual cells.
• Generated a color matrix representing multivariate correlations.
• Initiated and managed collaborations with 4 other labs at Georgia Tech, VCU, and University of Georgia.
• Improved lab operations via semesterly orientation and weekly lab maintenance duties for 30 undergraduates.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
• Rapid fire podium & poster presentations, Regenerative Medicine Workshop, Hilton Head Island, SC. May 2015. Bongiorno T, et al. Cellular Young’s Modulus as a Novel Stemness Marker in the Corneal Limbus.
• Poster presentation, BMES Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX. October 2014. Bongiorno T, et al. Depletion of Linker Histone H1 Increases Cellular and Nuclear Young's Moduli.
• Podium presentation, TERMIS-AM Conference, Atlanta, GA. November 2013. Bongiorno T, et al. Mechanical Stiffness as an Indicator of Osteoblastic Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Differentiation.
• Poster presentation, BMES Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. September 2013. Bongiorno T, et al. Mechanical Stiffness as an Indicator of Osteoblastic Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Differentiation.
• Poster presentation, BMES Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA. October 2012. Bongiorno T, et al. The Stiffness of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells Decreases During Chemically-induced Osteogenesis.
August 2011 - Present
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