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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 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 HHMI Sponsored Fellowship Third Year Chemical Engineering Student Concentration in Biology Hometown: Bolton, Massachusetts Email: edandley@student.umass.edu 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 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 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!