Dr Vinod Ammathi Suresh

BTech IIT Chennai, MS PhD Stan.

Senior Lecturer

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Senior Lecturer

Biography

Vinod Suresh graduated with a Bachelor of Technology in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai (formerly known as Madras). His doctoral research in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University examined the effects of surface tension and electrical forces on flows in microfluidic devices.

As a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan Vinod developed fluid dynamics models of surfactant delivery and liquid ventilation gas exchange in the lungs. His later postdoctoral work at the University of California, Irvine, focused on studying nitric oxide transport and metabolism in the lungs using cell culture systems and mathematical modelling.

Vinod's affiliations are

Principal Investigator, Auckland Bioengineering Institute
Academic staff member, Department of Engineering Science
Associate Investigator, Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery

Research | Current

Vinod's research focuses on the study of biotransport phenomena at scales ranging from the cellular to whole organism level. Current areas of interest are fluid transport in lung epithelium, neurovascular coupling, cardiovascular models for pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, satiety signalling in the intestines and the rumen mechanics in sheep and cows.

His projects combine mathematical, computational and empirical approaches to iteratively build, test and improve models. Techniques used in his work include cell culture and molecular biological experimentation, lumped parameter modelling and finite element modelling.

Ongoing projects include:

Mechanisms of fluid transport in lung epithelium
- PhD students: Candice Ren and Shelley Fong
Signalling pathways associated with appetite control (in collaboration with Plant and Food Research)
- ME student: Aaron Smith
Computational modelling of rumen structure, motility and mixing
- PhD student: Stephen Waite

Teaching | Current

Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering and Engineering Science

Postgraduate supervision

Completions:

Matthew Barrett, PhD, (2014) Modelling Blood Flow and Oxygen Transport in the Active Brain
Soroush Safaei, PhD (2015) Simulating Blood Flow in an Anatomical Arterial Network

Areas of expertise

biofluid mechanics
epithelial transport
cell signalling
computational physiology

Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)

Waite, S. J., Zhang, J., Cater, J. E., Waghorn, G. C., Bain, W. E., McEwan, J. C., & Suresh, V. (2019). Development of an in situ procedure to evaluate the reticulo-rumen morphology of sheep selected for divergent methane emissions. Animal, 13 (3), 542-548. 10.1017/S1751731118001854
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/43689
Other University of Auckland co-authors: John Cater, Ju Zhang
Van Hove, S. C., Storey, J., Adams, C., Dey, K., Geoghegan, P. H., Kabaliuk, N., ... Suresh, V. (2016). An experimental and numerical investigation of CO2 distribution in the upper airways during nasal high flow therapy. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 44 (10), 3007-3019. 10.1007/s10439-016-1604-8
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/31988
Other University of Auckland co-authors: John Cater, Sibylle Van Hove
Waite, S. J., Cater, J. E., Walker, C. G., Amirapu, S., Waghorn, G. C., & Suresh, V. (2016). Passive mechanical properties of ovine rumen tissue. International Journal for Computational Methods in Engineering Science & Mechanics, 17 (3), 156-164. 10.1080/15502287.2015.1082676
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/31058
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Cameron Walker, Satya Amirapu, John Cater
Barrett, M. J., & Suresh, V. (2015). Improving estimates of the cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen from optical imaging data. NeuroImage, 106, 101-110. 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.11.041
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/25439
Nickerson, D. P., Ladd, D., Hussan, J. R., Safaei, S., Suresh, V., Hunter, P. J., & Bradley, C. P. (2015). Using CellML with OpenCMISS to simulate multi-scale physiology. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 210.3389/fbioe.2014.00079
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/25442
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Jagir Hussan, Peter Hunter, Christopher Bradley, David Nickerson, Soroush Safaei
Smith, A., Suresh, V., Walker, E., & Ingram, J. (2014). Glucose sensing in enteroendocrine cells. Paper presented at Medical Sciences Congress 2014, Queenstown. 25 August - 27 August 2014. Related URL.
Safaei, S., Bradley, C. P., & Suresh, V. (7/7/2014). 1D modelling of blood flow in human vascular network. Poster presented at 7th World Congress of Biomechanics (WCB2014), Boston, U.S.A.. Related URL.
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Christopher Bradley, Soroush Safaei
Barrett, M. J. P., & Suresh, V. (2013). Extra permeability is required to model dynamic oxygen measurements: Evidence for functional recruitment?. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, 33 (9), 1402-1411. 10.1038/jcbfm.2013.74