Abigail Descoteaux, a Biology Ph.D. candidate, was awarded the Multicellular Design Program (MDP) fellowship, earning a one-year stipend. She has been working in the Bradham Lab under the supervision of Biology Professor Cynthia A. Bradham.
The Multicellular Design Program, supported by the Rajen Kilachand Fund for Life Sciences and Engineering, is a program that aims to understand the underlying design principles governing multicellular systems, and to leverage these principles for the development of new technologies.
Abigail’s research is in cell biology, developmental biology, imaging, and molecular biology. She describes her work as “investigating the role of chemokine signaling in directing sea urchin skeletal patterning and developing a live-imaging technique to track primary mesenchyme cell (PMC) migration and to visualize skeletogenesis within sea urchin larvae.”
Congratulations, Abigail!