Peyton:People

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Shelly R. Peyton, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Chemical Engineering University of Massachusetts, Amherst 159 Goessmann Lab 686 N. Pleasant St. Amherst, MA 01003 Phone: (617) 258-8417 Email: speyton@ecs.umass.edu

[[Media:SRPeytonCV.pdf‎ |Current CV]]

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Graduate Students
Will Herrick

PROJECT: Testing for Inflammatory Feedback Loops in Models of Cardiovascular Disease with Novel shRNAs

3rd Year Graduate Student Hometown: Lewiston, Maine BS in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Johns Hopkins University, 2008

Email: wherrick@ecs.umass.edu

[[Media:WherrickCV.doc‎ |Current CV]]

Thuy Nguyen, MS

PROJECT: Using high throughput technologies to study how cues from the matrix in the onset of liver inflammation may protect hepatocellular carcinoma cells from chemotherapeutics

1st Year Graduate Student BS (2008) and MS (2010) in Chemical Engineering Georgia Tech University

Hobbies: Listening to music, shopping, singing karaoke

Email: tnguyen@ecs.umass.edu

[[Media:TnguenCV.doc‎ |Current CV]]

Dannielle Ryman

PROJECT: Using patterned polymer microlenses to study stiffness sensing in metastatic breast cancer cells

1st Year Graduate Student in MCB Program BS (2009) in Biotechnology Delaware State University

Email: dryman@mcb.umass.edu

[[Media:DRyman.doc‎ |Current CV]]

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Nathan Colon

PROJECT: Bulk and micromechanical properties of novel zwitterionic polymer systems toward building metastatic tissue mimics

1st Year Graduate Student in MCB Program BS (2010) Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of Massachusetts Amherst

Email: nlnoloc@gmail.com

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Undergraduate Students
Erinn Dandley

PROJECT: Biophysical determinants of tissue-specific breast cancer metastasis

HHMI Sponsored Fellowship Third Year Chemical Engineering Student Concentration in Biology Hometown: Bolton, Massachusetts

Email: edandley@student.umass.edu

[[Media:EdandleyCV.pdf |Current CV]]

Tyler Vlass

PROJECT: Stem cell migration on 2D biomaterials platforms

College of Engineering Sponsored REU Third Year Chemical Engineering Student Concentration in Biochemical Engineering Hometown: Natick, MA

Email: tvlass@student.umass.edu

[[Media:TvlassCV.doc |Current CV]]

Ravitheja (Ravi) Yelleswarapu

PROJECT: Mechanosensing nanoparticles and grids

MRSEC Sponsored REU Rising Sophomore in Biomedical Engineering at Boston University Concentration in Nanotechnology Hometown: Westwood, MA

Email: ravethjay@yahoo.com

[[Media:ryelles.pdf |Current CV]]

Jaclyn Somadelis

PROJECT: Anomalous diffusion modeling methods to predict 3D stem cell dissemination

Third Year Chemical Engineering Student Minors: Psychology, Mathematics, Modern Greek Hometown: Hopkinton, MA

Email: jsomadel@gmail.com

[[Media:JsomadelisCV.doc |Current CV]]

Post-docs
The Peyton lab is currently recruiting Post-docs. See Open Positions for more information!