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