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Funding from UMass MRSEC The Peyton lab was just awarded a Seed award from the UMass MRSEC to study how cells are able to sense mechanical properties across multiple length scales. This work is in collaboration with Al Crosby (PSE), Pat Wadsworth (Biology), and Sallie Smith-Schneider (Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Institute). --Shelly Peyton 08:38, 4 February 2012 (EST) Congrats Lauren! Lauren Barney passed her qualifying exam on Friday 1/27, with flying colors! --Shelly Peyton 08:35, 4 February 2012 (EST) Welcome Lauren! Lauren Barney is a first year Chemical Engineering student and is joining our lab this semester! She will be working with Erinn on Engineered Metastatic Microenvironments and collaborating with the Emrick lab to make novel 3D hydrogel platforms to visualize 4D migration. --Shelly Peyton 11:55, 18 December 2011 (EST) Congrats to Will and Dannielle for ICE Awards Will Herrick won an ICE IGERT fellowship for his next two years of graduate school, which includes fees and a healthy stipend increase. Congrats Will! Dannielle has been awarded an ICE travel award to present her research at the BMES conference this fall in Hartford, CT. Congrats Dannielle! --Shelly Peyton 09:37, 11 June 2011 (EDT) Peyton Lab research recently highlighted at UMass See two articles about our research at the College of Engineering and at the UMass News Office. Erinn wins HHMI summer research fellowship! Erinn Dandley was awarded a fellowship from the HHMI Undergraduate Science Program! This provides her with a substantial stipend to perform her research project in the lab this summer. It is a very well deserved award!!! --Shelly Peyton 07:44, 22 April 2011 (EDT) Congrats Thuy! Thuy passed his qualifying exam with flying colors. Congrats Thuy! --Shelly Peyton 16:08, 11 February 2011 (EST) Will wins ICE travel award! Congratulations to Will Herrick, who won a travel award today from ICE at UMass-Amherst to attend the Biomaterials GRC! --Shelly Peyton 16:08, 11 February 2011 (EST) Welcome Dannielle! Dannielle Ryman from Molecular and Cell Biology will be rotating in our lab for the Spring semester. She will be working on a collaborative project with Al Crosby's lab in PSE, looking at cell motility on substrates with spatially controlled stiffness patterns. --Shelly Peyton 16:06, 11 February 2011 (EST) Welcome Erinn and Jackie! Erinn Dandley and Jaclyn Somadelis (both 3rd year ChE undergraduate students) have officially joined the Peyton lab. Erinn will be working on building tissue models of breast cancer metastasis. Jackie will be building migratory microenvironments and mathematical modeling techniques to predict 3D stem cell motility in synthetic scaffolds. --Shelly Peyton 12:13, 23 January 2011 (EST) Welcome Will and Thuy! Will Herrick (a 3rd year ChE graduate student) and Thuy Nguyen (a 1st year ChE graduate student) have officially joined the Peyton lab. Will will be working on building novel shRNA libraries to study the involvement of specific genes in regulating smooth muscle motility during cardiovascular disease. Thuy will be using high throughput technologies to study how cues from the matrix in the onset of liver inflammation may protect hepatocellular carcinoma cells from chemotherapeutics. --Shelly Peyton 14:10, 5 November 2010 (EDT) Peyton Lab Opening in January 2011 See this ChemEng link for info on our new lab. The Peyton lab is currently recruiting graduate students, undergraduates, and post-docs to jump start research in January! See Open Positions for information!