{"id":273,"date":"2014-09-03T10:48:58","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T14:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/zaman\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=273"},"modified":"2016-03-23T00:59:35","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T04:59:35","slug":"yasha-sharma","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/zaman\/profile\/yasha-sharma\/","title":{"rendered":"Yasha Sharma"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/zaman\/files\/2015\/02\/Yasharesume.pdf\"><em><span color=\"CC0000\" style=\"color: #cc0000;\">Curriculum Vitae<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2>Research Interests:<\/h2>\n<p>Cancer cell research is often approached cell by cell, cell type by cell type. We know some molecules are over-expressed in particular cancers, and we know some physical characteristics of other cancers. I am interested in treating cancer as a complex system. Particularly, I suspect that the properties of collective motion confer advantages to a cancer: spatially, temporally and physiologically. Does leadership arise and \u00a0lead to collective decision making? Does chemical feedback enable collective motion? Do cancer cells flock or swarm when they metastasize? I want to investigate and answer these questions, and see if cancer may exist as a critical state phenomenon.<\/p>\n<h2>Selected Publications:<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Sharma Y<\/strong>, Pegoraro A, Vargas D, Lepzelter D, Weitz D, Zaman MH. Collective motion of cellular cohorts in a 3-dimensional matrix. (In preparation)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yasha Sharma<\/strong> and Muhammad H. Zaman. Cell migration in Three Dimensional Matrices. In \u201cCell\u00a0and Matrix Mechanics\u201d. Zemmel and Kaunus Editors. Taylor and Francis. 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Schwartz, M. P., Rogers, R. E., Singh, S. P., Lee, J. Y., Loveland, S. G., Koepsel, J. T., \u2026 Anseth, K. S.\u00a0(2013). A quantitative comparison of human HT-1080 fibrosarcoma cells and primary human\u00a0dermal fibroblasts identifies a 3D migration mechanism with properties unique to the\u00a0transformed phenotype. PloS One, 8(12), e81689. doi:10.1371\/journal.pone.0081689<\/p>\n<p>Fong, E. J., <strong>Sharma, Y<\/strong>., Fallica, B., Tierney, D. B., Fortune, S. M., &amp; Zaman, M. H. (2013). Decoupling directed and passive motion in dynamic systems: particle tracking microrheology of sputum. annals of biomedical engineering, 41(4), 837\u201346. doi:10.1007\/s10439-012-0721-2<\/p>\n<p>De Oliveira, M., Vera, C., Valdez, P., <strong>Sharma, Y<\/strong>., Skelton, R., &amp; Sung, L. A. (2010). Nanomechanics of multiple units in the erythrocyte membrane skeletal network. Annals of biomedical engineering, 38(9), 2956\u201367. doi:10.1007\/s10439-010-0040-4<br \/>\nSharma, M., Pathak, A., &amp; <strong>Sharma, Y<\/strong>. (2009). Endoscopic ultrasound in CBD stone. Gastroenterology, 137(2), e7\u20138. doi:10.1053\/j.gastro.2009.01.059<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7526,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/zaman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/zaman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/zaman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/zaman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7526"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/zaman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/zaman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/273\/revisions\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/zaman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}