Mechanics of Morphogenesis:
The Biology and Engineering Behind the Mysteries of Embryonic Development.

Physics Matters! Biological processes play out in the physical world where work, energy, and kinetics dictate the shape and form of embryos and organs.

Our mission is two-fold, first, to expose the ways in which the environment, genome, cell biology, and mechanics are integrated during development, and second, to turn the principles of development into practical technologies for tissue engineering.

Our Group

  • Lance A Davidson, MSc, PhD

    William Kepler Whiteford Professor and Director

  • Carsten Stuckenholz, MS, PhD

    Research Scientist

  • Sommer Anjum

    Graduate Student Researcher, Computational Modeling & Simulation

  • Yicheng Dong, MS

    Graduate Student Researcher, Bioengineering

  • Geneva Masak

    Geneva Masak

    Graduate Student Researcher, Integrative Systems Biology

  • Benjamin McCutchan

    Benjamin McCutchan

    Undergraduate Researcher, Bioengineering

  • Chloe Merino

    Undergraduate Researcher, Biochemistry

  • Jing Yang

    Jing Yang

    Graduate Student Researcher, Bioengineering

  • Rithik Rajasekar

    Rithik Rajasekar

    Undergraduate Researcher,
    Biological Sciences

  • Yingli Wang

    Yingli Wang

    Undergraduate Researcher, Bioengineering