Michelle R Dawson is an Assistant Professor of Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biotechnology and Biomedical Engineering at Brown University. She has served as ad-hoc reviewer for 20+ journals along editorial board member for 2 journals. She’s an active member in the Biomedical Engineering Society and American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Her lab is actively investigating the complex and dynamic intracellular signaling cascades that control cytoskeletal stiffening, force transmission, and directed motility in normal tissues and tumors. Cells undergo rapid changes in shape and organization during migration, which is dynamically controlled by cytoplasmic polymers that mechanically support the cell structure and spatially organize the contents of the cell. These studies will increase our understanding of (i) stem cell homing, (ii) tumor cell metastasis, and (iii) chemotaxis Michelle R Dawson is an Assistant Professor of Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biotechnology and Biomedical Engineering at Brown University. She has served as ad-hoc reviewer for 20+ journals along editorial board member for 2 journals. She’s an active member in the Biomedical Engineering Society and American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Her lab is actively investigating the complex and dynamic intracellular signaling cascades that control cytoskeletal stiffening, force transmission, and directed motility in normal tissues and tumors. Cells undergo rapid changes in shape and organization during migration, which is dynamically controlled by cytoplasmic polymers that mechanically support the cell structure and spatially organize the contents of the cell. These studies will increase our understanding of (i) stem cell homing, (ii) tumor cell metastasis, and (iii) chemotaxis

Biotechnology and Biomedical Engineering