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Madeleine Oudin

Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering 
Hometown: Paris, France 
Education:
Post-doc, MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, 2012-2017
PhD Neuroscience, King's College London, 2011
MSc Pharmacology, King's College London, 2007
BSc Biochemistry, McGill University, 2006
​Email: madeleine.oudin@tufts.edu
Madeleine  grew up in Paris, France in a multicultural environment, and completed a BSc in Biochemistry at McGill University, a MSc in Pharmacology and a PhD in Neuroscience from King’s College London, UK. She has been a post-doctoral fellow working in Prof. Frank Gertler’s lab at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research for 5 years, trying to understand how metastasis, the dissemination of tumor cells throughout the body, occurs and how it affects response to chemotherapy. To find out more about her research, listen to this podcast! When she is not working hard in the lab, she enjoys traveling around the world, discovering new places and doing high-risk, high-adrenaline sports like flying trapeze and rock climbing. 

Post-Docs

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SAMANTHA PAYNE

Postdoctoral Scholar
Hometown: Bala, Ontario, Canada
Education: 
BSc, Biomedical Science, University of Guelph, 2010
MSc, Biomedical Science, University of Guelph, 2012
PhD, Chemical Engineering, University of Toronto, 2018 
Email: samantha.payne@tufts.edu
Twitter: @Samantha_lpayne

Research Interests:Samantha become interested in the field of Regenerative Medicine during her Undergraduate and Master's programs at the University of Guelph in Canada, where she investigated the mechanism of tail regeneration, specifically the regeneration of blood vessels, in a gecko model.  She continued to pursue this interest from a new angle during her PhD at the University of Toronto by combining neural stem cells and biomaterials for delivery to promote repair and regeneration in the stroke-injured rodent brain.  Not one to stick to a single topic, her current research in the Oudin Lab aims to explore the role of bioelectric signaling in cell behaviour and tissue patterning, with a focus on cancer cell metastasis, with an overall goal of understanding the full spectrum of regeneration-tumourigenesis-degeneration.  Outside of the lab Samantha enjoys playing guitar, yoga, and hiking.
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CHARLOTTE KELLEY

Hometown: Simsbury, CT
Education: 
BSc, Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut, 2014
PhD, Biology, Northeastern University, 2020
Email: charlotte.kelley@tufts.edu
Research Interests: In my graduate work I working in the Cram Lab at Northeastern University with the goal of understanding how cells coordinate and activate contractility across a tissue through modulation of different kinases, cytoskeletal proteins, and through redox signaling in the model C. elegans. I am now excited to join the Oudin Lab and move into a more clinically relevant system to study cell mechanics, motility, and contractility in the context of breast cancer and the extracellular matrix. Outside of lab I enjoy playing with my dog, hanging with my plants, and baking bread.

GRADUATE STUDENTS

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WILL LE

Graduate Student, BME Program, 4th year
Hometown: Hanoi, Vietnam
Education:BS in Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, 2017
Email: Thanh.Le@tufts.edu
Research Interests: The role of innervation in cancer growth and metastasis; Tumor microenvironment; Immunotherapy.
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JACKSON FATHERREE

Graduate student, CMDB Program, 4th year
Hometown: Napa, CA
Education: B.S. in Microbiology, UCSB 2015
Email: Jackson.fatherree@tufts.edu
​Research interests: Jackson grew up in Napa, CA in the heart of wine country, before completing his B.S. in Microbiology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.  Following a brief stint working in biotech, he moved to Boston to pursue research on novel therapeutics designed to treat non-small cell lung cancer, working in Dr. Jeff Engelman’s lab at Massachusetts General Hospital.  Since September 2017 he has been working towards a Ph.D. at Tufts Medical School, and as of May 2018 he has joined the Oudin Lab for his thesis research, where he will study how secreted modifiers of the extracellular matrix contribute to metastatic potential.  Beyond science, Jackson is a lover and creator of music, and carries a borderline pathological devotion to San Francisco sports teams.
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JUSTINNE GUARIN

Graduate student, BME Program, 3rd year
Hometown: Lexington, MA
Education: BSc Biology, Honors at UMASS Amherst 2014-2018
Email: jguari02@tufts.edu
Research Interests: Heterogeneity of the Cancer Microenvironment and how it contributes to drug resistance, evasion of apoptosis, metastasis, and metabolic adaptations
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SYDNEY CONNER

Graduate student, BME program, 3rd year
Hometown: Germantown, MD 

Education: BS, Biomedical Engineering, Union College, 2018
Email: sydney.conner@tufts.edu
Research Interests: Investigating the interplay between obesity, the extracellular matrix and cancer metastasis.   
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LOGAN RUBIO

MSc in Biomedical Engineering Thesis Student
Hometown: Syracuse, NY
Education: Boston University College of Engineering
Email: Logan.Rubio@tufts.edu
Research Interests: Fascinated with cell biology and inspired by engineering innovations. Interests include organ-on-a-chip technology, vascular tissue engineering, cell-ECM interactions, stem cell biology, and molecular biotechnology.
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VICTORY UNIGWE

MSc in Biomedical Engineering Thesis Student
Hometown: New York City

Education: BA, Physics, Colgate University, 2019
Email: victory.unigwe@tufts.edu
Research Interests: Tumor Pathology, OncoImmunology, Cancer Metastasis, Stem Cells, Neurology and Regenerative Medicine. ​
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PRIYANKA RAM

MSc in Innovation Management (2020) and Biomedical Engineering (2021), Thesis student
Hometown: Westford, MA
Education: B.A. w/ Neuroscience major and Biology minor, Wellesley College (2017)
Email: Priyanka.Ram@tufts.edu
Research Interests: Metastatic breast cancer, tumor pathology, acquired resistance, precision medicine. Interested in bridging the gaps between researchers, academics, physicians, and pharmaceutical companies to improve communication, innovate more efficiently, and find affordable patient-centric treatments.

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHERS

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NINA PITTAS

Undergraduate researcher, Laidlaw Scholar 2019
​Hometown: Brookline, MA
Education: Biomedical Engineering Major, Tufts Class of 2021
Email: nina.pittas@tufts.edu
Research Interests: Genetics and Regenerative Medicine
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RACHEL MCGINN

Undergraduate researcher, Laidlaw Scholar 2020
Hometown: Chelmsford, MA
Education: Biomedical Engineering Major, Tufts Class of 2022
Email: rachel.mcginn@tufts.edu
Research Interests: The conditions that promote and inhibit cancer metastasis, drug resistance
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DEEPTI SRINIVASAN

Undergraduate researcher
Hometown: Nashua, NH

Education: Biomedical Engineering Major, Tufts Class of 2023
Email: Deepti.srinivasan@tufts.edu
Research Interests: Cancer Metastasis and Regenerative Medicine
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DIAMOND MENSAH

Undergraduate researcher
Hometown: Bronx, NY

Education: Biomedical Engineering, Tufts Class of 2023
Email: diamond.mensah@tufts.edu
Research Interests: cancer metastasis, neurology, regenetive medicine
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Sara Blake

NSF LSAMP Fellow
Hometown: Miami, FL

Education: Biomedical Engineering, Tufts Class of 2021
Email: Sara.Blake@tufts.edu
Interests: Drug delivery, cancer metastasis, RNA cancer therapeutics
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EMILY HEINRICH

Undergraduate researcher
Hometown: Oakland, CA

Education: Biomedical Engineering, Tufts Class of 2023
Email: emily.heinrich@tufts.edu

Lab Alumni

Former graduate students
Brendon Clover, MSc in Biomedical Engineering 2019, January-October 2018, now at Silk Therapeutics
Daniel Worstell, MD-PhD program, Tufts Medical School, Rotation summer 2018
Janani Baskaran, BSc/MSc in Biomedical Engineering 2020, now a graduate student at Yale University in BME

Former staff
Andrew Wishart, Research Associate, 2017-2019

Former Undergraduate Researchers:
Sharad Mahajan, Spring 2020, Research for credit, Tufts Class of 2022
Elli Diaz, Rachel McGinn, Becca Crawley, BME 3 and 4 Class project, Fall 2019 and Spring 2020
Marguerite Salamone, Risa Williams, Blake McIntyre, BME7/8, 2019-2020, Tufts University Class of 2020
Joanna Peng, Tufts Summer Scholar 2019, 2019-2020, Chemical Engineering Major, Tufts University Class of 2020
Claire Dunn, Laidlaw Scholar 2018, 2018-2020, Biology Major, Tufts University Class of 2020
Nandita Subbiah, undergraduate researcher, Computer Science Major, Tufts University Class of 2021, Fall 2019
Rebecca Tang, undergraduate researcher, Biology Major, Tufts University Class of 2021, Summer 2019
Anna Weldy, Chemical Engineering Major, University of Rochester Class of 2020, NSF REU Summer student 2019
Sakshi Wadwha and Janani Baskaran, BME7/8, 2018-2019, Senior Capstone first prize winners, Tufts University Class of 2019
Gabrielle Munoz, undergraduate researcher, 2018-2019, Tufts University Class of 2019

Lily Hayes, Tufts Summer Scholar 2018, 2018-2019, Tufts University Class of 2019
Erin Soule-Albridge and Sarah Mackin, BME 3 and 4 Class project, Fall 2018 and Spring 2019
Annika Gallandt, Biology Major and Anthropology Minor, Macalester College Class of 2019, NSF REU Summer student 2018
Kelly Ward, 
Reading Memorial High School Class of 2019, Summer High School TUBERs program 2018

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

We are always looking for talented and motivated individuals to join our team. If you are an undergraduate researcher, please send Professor Oudin an email. If you are interested in graduate school in the BME department at Tufts, please see this page. If you are interested in post-doctoral opportunities in the lab, please contact Professor Oudin directly with a CV, your research interests and references.
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About the lab:

Our lab will use an interdisciplinary approach to tackle metastasis and drug resistance, working at the intersection of biology, engineering and translational research. We will combine cell biology, microfluidics, tissue engineering, intravital imaging, systems biology and implantable devices. The lab is located at Tufts University in the Biomedical Engineering Department in Boston. We are in a brand new interdisciplinary building with biologists, chemical and biological engineers with open lab space and shared core facilities. We will closely collaborate with cancer researchers and clinicians at Tufts and in the Boston area.


Location

Current address

Oudin Lab 
Science and Engineering Complex
Tufts University
Medford, MA

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