Team

The MEchanosensing and Cellular Biomechanics Lab started its activity at the University of Glasgow in October 2019, within the Centre for the Cellular Microenvironment. If you are interested in joining the Lab, or you want additional information, please feel free to contact us via email.

Aiden Doyle

PhD student

MEng in biomedical engineering, working with AFM based applications and FLIM to investigate mechanosensitivity through Piezo 1 and membrane tension dynamics.

a.doyle.1@research.gla.ac.uk

Aleksandra Kozyrina

PDRA

Physicist by education, mechanobiologist by love. Working on the simultaneous mechanochemical fingerprint mapping of a dynamic bone marrow niche.

aleksandra.kozyrina@glasgow.ac.uk

David Matthew Hughes

Guest

MEng in EEE engineering prototype devices (acustofluidics, microindentation) for potential commercialisation

david.hughes.4@glasgow.ac.uk

Emily Horsburgh

PhD student

Exploring living materials for producing pigments

2697854H@student.gla.ac.uk

Faiza Abdul Salam

PhD student

Industrial PhD student working with Schaefer SEE on the development of a next generation nanoindentation platform

2725666S@student.gla.ac.uk

Giedre Astrauskaite

PDRA

Physicist with a specialism in optical microscopy, passionate about working at the interface of imaging and life science. Current project: 'Brillouin microscopy of in-vitro bone marrow models to support early diagnosis of leukaemia.'

Giedre.Astrauskaite@glasgow.ac.uk

Ke Wang

PhD student

Exploring mechanosensing and mechanoprotection in physiology and pathology

2222113W@student.gla.ac.uk

Laura Sabio Rodriguez

Guest

Focused on the development and testing of Engineered Living Material using probiotics.

Laura.SabioRodriguez@glasgow.ac.uk

Massimo Vassalli

Staff (Professor)

Head of the Lab, mechanobiology enthusiast, curious scientist

massimo.vassalli@glasgow.ac.uk

Sai Sreeja Samavedam

PhD student

PhD student (1st supervisor: Prof. Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez). Project: Impact of matrix viscoelasticity on macrophage polarisation.

3018716S@student.gla.ac.uk

Theodoros Simakou

PDRA

Mechanobiologist focused on cellular mechanotransduction, with background in Immunology and Biomedicine. Currently contributing to PRISM-LT project, advancing the development of living tissues in vitro.

Theodoros.Simakou@glasgow.ac.uk

Xally Valencia

PhD student

lifETIME CDT PhD Student (1st supervisor Prof John Christie). Project "Designing animal-free organoids based on engineered vegetables and protein crystals"

2783756V@student.gla.ac.uk

Alumni

We are particularly grateful to all the scientists who participated in the activities of the MECB Lab in recent years, and we wish them a great future career.