Allyson E. Sgro, PhD Adjunct Assistant Professor, (BME)
Education B.A., Chemistry and Pre-Medical Studies, Bard College at Simon’s RockPrimary Appointment Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Areas of Interest Multicellular design, systems and synthetic biology, tissue engineering, microbial engineering quantitative biology, collective behavior, cell signaling, fluorescence microscopy, microfluidics, methods development
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Research Areas The Sgro Laboratory is interested in how cells work together in biomedical behaviors ranging from tissue assembly and wound healing to biofilm formation and microbial starvation responses. Our understanding of how cells work together and make group decisions has been limited due to technological and conceptual challenges presented by connecting microscale signaling events occurring on a timescale of seconds inside single cells to macroscale events occurring over hours and even days across the whole cellular population. We address these challenges through creating and applying new methods to observe and control these multicellular behaviors, using tools ranging from optogenetics and microscopy to machine learning and mathematical modeling. Our new approaches enable us to develop a predictive understanding of the design rules multicellular systems implement to organize themselves, permitting us to engineer multicellular behaviors for our benefit.
Honors and Awards 2019 Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow
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