Dr. Jahed, Zeinab
Department of NanoEngineering
UCSD
Seminar Information
Dr. Jahed is an assistant professor of Nanoengineering, and an affiliate professor of Bioengineering at the University of California San Diego. Her lab, the Bio-Nanoelectronics (Bione) Lab aims to develop rationally designed nanoscale devices that more intelligently interface with biological systems to manipulate and sense biological processes. To achieve this, her lab employs a three-level research approach. Firstly, we employ existing techniques and develop new techniques to study and understand the complex nano-bio interface such as the interface of nanomaterials and single cells (level 1: Understand). Next, we employ our understanding of the nano-bio interface and use advanced nanofabrication techniques to design high-throughput, accurate, and sensitive nanoelectronics with minimal perturbations to the biological system to collect readouts from the biological system. Examples include nanoscale electrodes that penetrate cell membranes and record electrical activity (level 2: Design/optimize/apply). Finally, we employ machine learning algorithms that can assist in interpreting the big dataset obtained from our high-throughput nano-bioelectronics to answer fundamental biological questions (level 3: Interpret).
Dr. Zeinab Jahed is currently an Assistant Professor of Nanoengineering, at the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. She completed her Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the department of Chemistry at Stanford University in 2020. She obtained her PhD in Applied Science and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley in the Departments of Mechanical and Bioengineering in 2018. Before moving to sunny California, Zeinab obtained her Bachelor’s degree up north at the University of Waterloo in Canada. Dr. Jahed's research is heavily multidisciplinary and spans several fields of engineering and biological sciences. She has obtained several academic honors and awards. In 2022 she was awarded the Air Force Young Investigator award. In 2018, she was named 1 of 24 recipients (top 0.05%) of Canada’s Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship and ranked #1 nationally in the selection committee for Chemical, Biomedical and Material Science and Engineering in the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postdoctoral Fellowship competition. Other notable and recent awards include the University of California, Berkeley Applied Science & Technology Excellence in Research Award in 2018, and the University of California Cancer Research Coordinating Committee (CRCC) predoctoral fellowship award in 2017.