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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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...
Read MoreYasir Suhail wins the K99 grant award from NIH.
Read MoreAshkan Novin represents UConn in the 3MT national competition.
Read MoreCardiac Maturation Paper now in Cell Reports
Collaborating with Junaid Afzal at UCSF, we created a platform that closely mimics the...
Read MoreYasir’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...
Read MoreAshkan wins (again!) a silver in National Karate Championship in Chicago, 2021
Read MoreELI work featured in The Scientist
Shawna Williams covered our joint work with Wagner lab on the connection between pregnancy...
Read MoreA 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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