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Principal Investigator
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Shelly Peyton, PhD (she/her/hers)
Professor and Department Chair

Professor and Department Chair, Biomedical Engineering

Adjunct faculty member, Chemical and Biological Engineering

Training Faculty Member, ODET T32 Training Program

Training Faculty Member, Tufts IRACDA Program

shelly.peyton@tufts.edu

CV, Updated 4-26-24

Graduate Students, Post-docs, and Research Technicians
Auggie Wirastapura

Auggie Wirasaputra ChemEng PhD Student Project: Bone Marrow Dormancy

Adrian Lorenzana

Adrian Lorenzana ChemEng PhD student, UMass Amherst CBI Fellow and Spaulding-Smith Fellow Project: Force-responsive materials, Co-Advised with John Klier alorenzana@umass.edu

Becca Huber

Becca Huber ChemEng PhD student, UMass Amherst NSF GRFP Fellow Project: Astrocytes and MS rhuber@umass.edu

Akaansha Rampal

Akaansha Rampal MCB PhD student, UMass Amherst BTP Fellow 2021-23 Project: MALDI Imaging of tissues and gels, Co-Advised with Richard Vachet arampal@umass.edu

Ninette Irakoze

Ninette Irakoze ChemEng PhD student, UMass Amherst Project: Lung Cancer nirakoze@umass.edu

Nate Richbourg

Dr. Nathan Richbourg Post-Doc nathan.richbourg@tufts.edu

Juan Flechas-Beltran

Juan Flechas-Beltran BME PhD Student Tufts Leadership Fellow Juan.Flechas_Beltran@tufts.edu

Tianna Edwards

Tianna Edwards BME PhD Student tianna.edwards@tufts.edu

Haylee Wagner

Haylee Wagner BME PhD Student haylee.wagner@tufts.edu

Zakora Moore

Zakora Moore BME MS Student

Undergraduate Students

The Peyton lab is always recruiting undergraduate students passionate about applying their quantitative classroom training to solving problems in human health.  See the Open Positions page for information about joining.

Current Undergraduates

Benjamin Pepper

Dhimitraq Nikolla

Mahidhar Lakkavaram

Hsu Shwe Yee Naing

Dora Eng-Wu

Narine Berberian

Publications from Peyton lab that have Peyton lab undergraduate authors (shown in bold).

 

Kundu, A.N., Dougan, C.E., Mahmoud, S., Kilik, A., Panagiotou, A., Irakoze, N., Richbourg, N., and Peyton, S.R.*, (2023) “Tenascin-C activation of lung fibroblasts in a 3D synthetic lung extracellular matrix mimic” Advanced Materials doi: 10.1101/2023.02.24.529926​

Kim, H., Wirasaputra, A., Mohammadi, F., Kundu, AN, Esteves, J.A.E., Heiser, L.M., Meyer, A.S., and Peyton, S.R.*, (2023) “Live cell lineage tracing of dormant cancer cells” Advanced Healthcare Materials doi: 10.1101/2022.10.08.511405

Jansen, L.E., McCarthy, T., Lee, M., and Peyton, S.R., (2022) A synthetic, three-dimensional bone marrow hydrogel, Biomaterials doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2021.121270 PMID: 34890973 PMCID: PMC8890749

Barney, L.E., Hall, C.L., Schwartz, A.D., Parks, A.N., Sparages, C., Galarza, S., Platt, M.O., Mercurio, A.M., and Peyton, S.R. (2020) “Tumor cell-organized fibronectin is required to maintain a dormant breast cancer population”, Science Advances doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/686527

 

Polio, S., Kundu, A., Dougan, C., Birch, N., Aurien-Blajeni, D.E., Schiffman, J., Crosby, A., and Peyton, S.R., (2018) “Cross-platform mechanical characterization of lung tissue” PLOSOne DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0204765

 

Luzhansky, I.D., Schwartz, A.D., MacMunn, J.P., Cohen, J.D., Barney, L.E., Jansen, L.E., and Peyton, S.R., (2018) “Anomalous diffusion as a descriptive model of cell migration” APL Bioengineering doi: 10.1063/1.5019196

 

Brooks, E.A., Jansen, L.E., Gencoglu, M.F., Yurkevicz, A.M., and Peyton, S.R. (2018) “Complementary, semiautomated methods for creating multidimensional PEG-based biomaterials” ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering, doi: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.7b00737.

 

Tran, Y.H., Rasmuson, M.J., Emrick, T.S., Klier, J., and Peyton, S.R. (2017) “Strain-stiffening gels based on latent crosslinking” Soft Matter DOI: 10.1039/C7SM01888F

 

Herrick, W.G., Rattan, S., Nguyen, T.V., Grunwald, M.S., Barney, C.W., Crosby, A.J., and Peyton, S.R. (2015) “Smooth muscle stiffness sensitivity is integrin specific and FAK driven” Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering. DOI: 10.1007/s12195-015-0397-4.

 

Barney, L.E., Dandley, E.C., Jansen, L.E., Reich, N.G., Mercurio, A.M., Peyton, S.R. (2015) “A cell-ECM screening method to predict breast cancer metastasis” Integrative Biology. 7:198-212. DOI: 10.1039/C4IB00218K.

 

Nguyen, T.V., Sleiman, M., Moriarty, T. Herrick, W.G, and Peyton, S.R. (2014) “Sorafenib resistance and JNK signaling in carcinoma during extracellular matrix stiffening” Biomaterials. 35(22):5749-5759. DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2014.03.058.

 

Herrick, W.G, Nguyen, T.V., Sleiman, M., McRae, S., Emrick, T.S. and Peyton, S.R., (2013) “PEG-Phosphorylcholine Hydrogels As Tunable and Versatile Platforms for Mechanobiology” Biomacromolecules. 14(7):2294-2304. DOI: 10.1021/bm400418g.

Peyton Lab Alumni

Graduate Student Alumni

Alexi Panagiotou, Molecular and Cell Biology MS.

Baktha Kannadasan, Chemical Engineering MS, PhD student at UMass Amherst, https://www.linkedin.com/in/bakthavachalam-kannadasan-21481a156/

Carey Dougan, Chemical Engineering PhD, Post-doc Smith College, https://www.linkedin.com/in/careydougan/

Hyuna Kim, Molecular and Cell Biology PhD, Post-doc UT Austin, https://www.linkedin.com/in/hyuna-kim/

Katie Bittner, Molecular and Cell Biology PhD, https://www.linkedin.com/in/kbittner/

Aritra Nath Kundu, Chemical Engineering PhD, Associate Scientist, United Therapeutics https://www.linkedin.com/in/aritra-nath-kundu/

Ning-Hsuan Tseng, Molecular and Cell Biology PhD, Alltrna, https://www.linkedin.com/in/nhtseng/

Yen Tran, Chemical Engineering PhD candidate, Afton Chemical, https://www.linkedin.com/in/yen-tran-cheme/

Sualyneth Galarza, Chemical Engineering PhD, Millipore, https://www.linkedin.com/in/s-galarza/

Elizabeth Brooks, Chemical Engineering PhD, https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-b-6b061a111/

Alyssa Schwartz, Chemical Engineering PhD, Seattle Genetics, https://www.linkedin.com/in/alyssaschwartz2/

Jamiu Giwa-Owatsu, B.S. (PREP Program), University of Maryland, https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamiu-giwa-otusajo-0a7015127/

Igor Luzhansky, Chemical Engineering M.S., Washington University https://www.linkedin.com/in/igorluzhansky/

Lauren Jansen, Chemical Engineering PhD, Sigilon, https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauren-jansen-ph-d-48ba7335/

Lauren Barney, Chemical Engineering PhD, Sigilon

Lenny Negron-Piniero, B.S. (PREP Program), PhD student NYU, https://www.linkedin.com/in/lenny-negrón-piñeiro-4a8a489a/

Thuy Nguyen, Chemical Engineering PhD, Pfizer, https://www.linkedin.com/in/thuy-nguyen-2b150564/

Marcos Manganare, Molecular and Cell Biology MS, CDC, https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcos-manganare-4b5202114/

Nathan Colon, B.S. (PREP Program), Drexel, https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-colon-17b8b022/

William Herrick, Chemical Engineering PhD, Post-Doc: Leidos, https://www.linkedin.com/in/wherrick/

Dannielle Berlinghieri (Ryman). Molecular and Cell Biology MS, Leidos, https://www.linkedin.com/in/dannielleryman/

Formber Post-Docs and Lab Managers

Sonu Kizhakkepura, PhD

Carey Dougan, B.S.

Maria Gencoglu, PhD

Chris Hall, PhD

Sam Polio, PhD

 

Former Undergraduate Studuents

Cam Lobik, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Sage Seymour, UFP Technologies

Nimesha Ratnatuge, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Diana Barr, B.S. Rice University PhD program

Gary Ren, B.S., Pall Corporation

Alara Kilic, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Jennifer Esteves, Washington University Biomedical Engineering PhD program

Sean Tipps, University of Washington PhD Program

Sean Corriveau, UMass Chemical Engineering

Max Hayward, Georgia Tech Chemical Engineering

Jacob Ong, B.S., Moderna

Bryan Kennedy, B.S., Moderna

Jenna Elsner, B.S., Abbvie

Allie Triozzi, B.S.

Samantha Downs, B.S., Epic

Ian Kilcoyne, B.S., Eastman

Eric Blanchard, B.S.

Sarah Duquette, B.S., PhD Program at MIT

Adam Selsman, B.S., PhD Program at Tufts University

Chris Sparages, B.S., Sigilon

Annali Yurkevicz, B.S., PhD Program at Yale University

Dave Podorefsky, B.S., PhD Program at UCSB

Jessica Belliveau, B.S., PhD Program at Delaware

Matt Rasmuson, B.S., Lanxess

Marisa Souza, UMass ChemEng Department

Michael Fitman, B.S., Wayfair

John MacMunn, B.S.

Tom McCarthy, B.S., Emerson

Ari Gilman, PhD program at Princeton University

Shayna Nolan, B.S., Waters

Mariusz Rdultowski, B.S., PhD Program at RPI

Justine Jesse, B.S., MassBiologics

Marianne Sleiman, B.S. University of California, Berkeley PhD Program

Michael Grunwald, B.S. Moderna Therapeutics

Nick Koenig, B.S., Banner Health

Tim Moriarty, B.S., Eversource

David Gallagher, University of Massachusetts Chemical Engineering Department

Jonathan Chiang, University of Massachusetts School of Public Health, Biostatistics

Aidan Gilchrist, B.S., University of Illinois Materials Science PhD Program

Isaac Han, B.S., Brigham and Women's

Elyse Hartnett, Process Development Engineer at Illumina

Maxsimillyan Nowak, UCSB Chemical Engineering PhD Program

Matthew Crotty, B.S., Koch Membrane Systems

Rob Gunther, University of Massachusetts Chemical Engineering Department

Danielle LaValley, B.S. Cornell University Biomedical Engineering PhD Program

Jaclyn Somadelis, B.S. Process Development Engineer, Applied Medical

Prateek Katti, B.S. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill MD/Ph.D Program

Erinn (Dandley) Needham, B.S., (PhD at NC State), IDEXX

Tyler Vlass, B.S., Moderna

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