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
Current CV
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
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
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
Current CV
Undergraduate Students
Erinn Dandley
PROJECT : Biophysical determinants of tissue-specific
breast cancer metastasis
Third Year Chemical Engineering Student
Concentration in Biology
Hometown: Bolton, Massachusetts
Email: edandley@student.umass.edu
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
Current CV
Post-docs
The Peyton lab is currently recruiting Post-docs. See Open Positions for more information!