Working Group 3 | Person Categories | Center for Engineering Mechanobiology

Benjamin Prosser, PhD

By Patience on March 15, 2018 in Principal Investigators, Working Group 1, Working Group 2, Working Group 3, Working Group 4

Keywords: mechanotransduction; mechanical signalling; mechanical stress; cytoskeleton; cardiac physiology and pathology; mechanobiology

Lucia Strader, PhD

By Patience on March 7, 2018 in Principal Investigators, Working Group 3

Keywords: auxin, plant morphogenesis, cell division and expansion, environmental response, biosynthesis, cell transport, storage forms, indole-3-butyric acid (IBA), mechanobiology

Rajan Jain, MD

By Patience on March 7, 2018 in Principal Investigators, Working Group 2, Working Group 3

Keywords: nuclear architecture; gene regulation; chromatin; epigenetics; 3D genome organization; heart development; stem cell biology; mechanobiology

Robert Mauck, PhD

By Patience on January 18, 2018 in Mission Directors, Principal Investigators, Working Group 2, Working Group 3, Working Group 4, Working Group Leaders

Keywords: soft tissue mechanobiology; physiologic processes; patho-physiologic processes; tissue engineering; technological development; mesenchymal stem cells; mechanobiologic cultures; cell scaffolding; mechanobiology

Elizabeth Haswell, PhD

By Patience on January 18, 2018 in Executive Committee, Mission Directors, Principal Investigators, Working Group 1, Working Group 2, Working Group 3,

Keywords: mechanosensitive ion channels, mechanosensitivity, cell signaling, programmed cell death, biochemical and molecular genetic approaches, live-imaging, electrophysiology; mechanobiology

Derrick Dean, PhD

By Patience on January 16, 2018 in Principal Investigators, Working Group 2, Working Group 3, Working Group 4

Keywords: micro- and nanostructured polymer composites; scaffolding; tissue engineering; drug delivery; mechanobiology

Vivek Shenoy, PhD

By Patience on January 15, 2018 in Director, Principal Investigators, Working Group 2, Working Group 3, Working Group 4

Keywords: physical properties and growth mechanisms of 2D materials; nanocrystals and nanowires; mechanics of biological systems and materials; materials for energy; mechanobiology

Rebecca Wells, MD

By Patience on January 15, 2018 in Executive Committee, Mission Directors, Principal Investigators, Working Group 2, Working Group 3, Working Group 4

Keywords: Hepatic stellate cells, liver fibrosis, TGF-ß, portal fibroblasts, biliary atresia, liver mechanics, fibronectin; mechanobiology

Treena Arinzeh, PhD

By Patience on January 15, 2018 in Executive Committee, Mission Directors, Principal Investigators, Working Group 2, Working Group 3, Working Group 4,

Keywords: tissue engineering; cell-biomaterial interaction; biomaterials processing; surface characterization and modification of biomaterials; materials testing; stem cell therapy; tissue-engineering scaffolds and biomaterials for the repair of bone and other related musculoskeletal tissue; nerve tissue regeneration utilizing stem cells and other cell types; mechanobiology

Marcus Foston, PhD

By Patience on January 15, 2018 in Principal Investigators, Working Group 3, Working Group Leaders

Keywords: conversion of biomass into chemicals; interfacing the catalytic depolymerization of biomass with microbial utilization; cell stimulus response; liquid-phase; heterogeneous catalysis; mechanobiology