David L. Bark Jr.
Office: 304 Scott Bioengineering Building
Phone: (970)491-1443
Email: david.bark (at) colostate (dot) edu
Dr. Bark is a recent recipient of the prestigious American Heart Association (AHA) Career Development Award from the American Heart Association. He completed his Ph.D. in bioengineering and M.S. in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and completed his BS in mechanical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. His postgraduate professional experience includes Research Fellow positions at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, and the Australian Centre for Blood Diseases at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia; Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Colorado State University; and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO. His postdoctoral research was supported by a National Institutes of Health (National Heart Lung and Blood Institute) F32 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Graduate Students
Alex Gendernalik
Alex received a BS Biological Sciences from Colorado State University and joined the Bark lab as a PhD student in January 2017. Alex’s current work focuses on how the mechanical properties of the embryonic heart tissue responds to and influences cardiac development.
Banafsheh Zebhi
Banafsheh joined Dr. Bark lab in 2017 in pursuit of a PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering. She is working on simulation of fetal heart development and congenital heart diseases. She received her M.S. in Mechanical engineering at CSU. The focus of her M.S. research was to investigate the effect of aortic valve calcification on post-procedural paravalvular leak.
Alireza Sharifi
Alireza received Bachelor of science in BSc (Thermal fluid dynamics) and a MSc in Mechanical Engineering (Energy conversion) at the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. Alireza joined the lab in August 2017 and is developing a new blood pump and evaluates thrombotic and coagulant responses in response to medical devices.
Iain Briongos
BS Biological Sciences, Edinburgh University and Colorado State University
Project: Researching platelet responses to mechanical environment and the role in thrombosis.
Iain joined the lab as a MS student in August 2017.