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Principal Investigator Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering Department of Chemical Engineering University of Massachusetts, Amherst 159 Goessmann Lab 686 N. Pleasant St. Amherst, MA 01003 Phone: (413) 545-1133 Email: speyton@ecs.umass.edu Current CV Graduate Students Will Herrick PROJECT: Testing for Inflammatory Feedback Loops in Models of Cardiovascular Disease with Novel materials Funding: ICE IGERT Fellowship, UMass-Amherst 4th 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 2nd 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: Engineered Materials to quantify mechanosensing at the primary tumor microenvironment 2nd Year Graduate Student in MCB Program BS (2009) in Biotechnology Delaware State University Email: dryman@mcb.umass.edu Current CV Lauren Barney PROJECT: Tissue Tropism in Breast Cancer 1st Year Graduate Student in Chemical Engineering BS (2011) in Chemical Engineering University of Rhode Island Email: laurenbarney@gmail.com 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 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 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 Jonathan Chiang PROJECT: Quantifying Smooth Muscle Cell Phenotype in Engineering Materials 2nd Year Chemical Engineering Student Hometown: Plymouth, MA Email: jichiang@student.umass.edu Dannielle LaValley PROJECT: Matrix-Conferred Chemo-Resistance Across Multiple Carcinomas 3rd Year Chemical Engineering Student Hometown: Ware, MA Email: djlavall@student.umass.edu 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!