Eric Upton

Program: Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Current advisor: Tony Tsai, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: University of Maryland-Baltimore County, 2020

Enrollment year: 2022

Research summary
Examining mechanochemical crosstalk during tissue morphogenesis

Determining how between mechanical forces exerted on cells during tissue morphogenesis influence their response to secreted chemical fate determinants by perturbing mechanical microenvironment using an optogeneic myosin activator system.

Graduate publications
Karvas RM, Zemke JE, Ali SS, Upton E, Sane E, Fischer LA, Dong C, Park KM, Wang F, Park K, Hao S, Chew B, Meyer B, Zhou C, Dietmann S, Theunissen TW. 2023 3D-cultured blastoids model human embryogenesis from pre-implantation to early gastrulation stages. Cell Stem Cell, 30(9):1148-1165.e7. PMCID: