Diego Vargas
Ph.D. Candidate in Biomedical Engineering
- Title Ph.D. Candidate in Biomedical Engineering
- Office 44 Cummington St., Room 329
- Email vardiego@bu.edu
- Education B.S. Biomedical Engineering – University of Texas at Austin, 2009
Curriculum Vitae
Research Interests
My main interest is in modeling of biological systems and biophysics. As spatiotemporal dynamical systems cells make fascinating subjects, displaying phenomena such as mechanotransduction and collective behavior. Currently I am focusing on the effect of cell-cell adhesion in metastasis at the cellular level, but I hope to return to studies at the protein level (single-molecule force spectroscopy, molecular dynamics).
Selected Publications
Computational modeling of stem cell migration: a mini review. [Liu, X., D. A. Vargas, D. Lü, Y. Zhang, M. H. Zaman, and M. Long] Cell and Molecular Bioengineering, 7:196-204 (2014).
Computational model to probe cellular mechanics during epithelial-mesenchymal transition. [Vargas, D. A., O. Bates, and M. H. Zaman]Cells Tissues Organs, 197: 435-444 (2013).
Computational model for migration of a cell cluster in three-dimensional matrices. [Vargas, D. A. and M. H. Zaman] Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 39: 2068-2079 (2011).
Serine at phosphorylation site regulates the mechanical and structural behavior of fascin. [Vargas, D. A. and M. H. Zaman] Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, 2: 504-513 (2009).