Research

Our lab's objective is to understand a cell's interaction with its neighbors and the microenvironment. With a particular focus on tumor microenvironment, we aim to unravel the language cells employ to converse with each other, how the grammar and the content of the langage adapt to the environment, and how cells behave in response. We use a gamut of of techniques, including live microscopy, bioinformatics, tissue engineering, nanofabrication, cell patterning, evolutionary biology, and genetics to answer fundamental questions in biology...

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Lab Updates

Now in Cell Systems: Cancers cells cheat in hypoxia to continue to divide

A very long collaboration that started as a side gig in my postdoc with...

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Yasir Suhail wins the K99 grant award from NIH.

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Ashkan Novin represents UConn in the 3MT national competition.

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Cardiac Maturation Paper now in Cell Reports

Collaborating with Junaid Afzal at UCSF, we created a platform that closely mimics the...

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Yasir’s work in PNAS gets featured in science media outlets

Yasir Suhail's work identifying gene regulatory basis for changes in stromal invasability across mammals...

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Ashkan wins (again!) a silver in National Karate Championship in Chicago, 2021

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ELI work featured in The Scientist

Shawna Williams covered our joint work with Wagner lab on the connection between pregnancy...

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A new theory explaining cancer metastasis in Nature EE

Our paper connecting the evolutionary connections of pregnancy and cancer metastasis. Just out in...

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People

Shaofei Liu

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Wenqiang Du

Post Doctoral Fellow

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Ashkan Novin

Graduate Student

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Yamin Liu

Post Doctoral Fellow

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Kshitiz

Principle Investigator

Kshitiz’s interest ranges largely in understanding how cells interact with their immediate microenvironment, with a...

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Yasir Suhail

Post Doctoral Fellow

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