Peyton:People

Principal Investigator

Shelly Peyton, Assistant Professor Department of Chemical Engineering University of Massachusetts, Amherst 686 N. Pleasant St. 159 Goessmann Lab Amherst, MA 01003 Phone: (413) 545-1133 Current CV

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Graduate Students

	Will Herrick ChemE PhD Program, Current CV		Thuy Nguyen ChemE PhD Program, Current CV
	Dannielle Ryman MCB PhD Program, Current CV		Lauren Barney ChemE PhD Program, Current CV

Undergraduate Students

Erinn Dandley

PROJECT: Biophysical determinants of tissue-specific
breast cancer metastasis

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

Email: edandley@student.umass.edu

Current CV

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Tyler Vlass

PROJECT: Stem cell migration on 2D biomaterials platforms

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

Email: tvlass@student.umass.edu

Current CV

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Jaclyn Somadelis

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

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

Email: jsomadel@gmail.com

Current CV

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Jonathan Chiang

PROJECT: Quantifying Smooth Muscle Cell
Phenotype in Engineering Materials

2nd Year Chemical Engineering Student
Hometown: Plymouth, MA

Email: jichiang@student.umass.edu

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Prateek Katti

PROJECT: Mechanisims of mechanosensing in
metastasis across multiple length scales

4th Year Chemical Engineering Student
Hometown: Acton, MA

Email: prateek.katti@gmail.com

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Dannielle LaValley

PROJECT: Matrix-Conferred Chemo-Resistance
Across Multiple Carcinomas

3rd Year Chemical Engineering Student
Hometown: Ware, MA

Email: djlavall@student.umass.edu

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Alumni

Ravitheja (Ravi) Yelleswarapu Biomedical Engineering at Boston University

Post-docs

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