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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.

GRADUATE STUDENTS

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WILL LE

Graduate Student, BME Program, 2nd 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
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, 1st 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

Research Associates

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Andrew wishart

Research Technician
Hometown: Cape Town, South Africa
Education:
MSc, Medical Biochemistry, University of Cape Town, 2017 
BSc Honors, Medical Biochemistry, University of Cape Town, 2014
BSc, Human Physiology and Genetics, University of Cape Town, 2013
Email: Andrew.Wishart@tufts.edu

Research interests: I am interested in understanding how cancer cells manipulate normal cellular processes to their advantage and how this information can be applied to inform diagnostics and therapeutic interventions. My prior work has involved cancer secretomics, investigating the potential of nuclear transport proteins as biomarkers for prevalent South African cancers. I also have a background in fibroblast research, investigating the wound healing response of fibroblasts when exposed to stem cell conditioned medium in vitro, looking particularly at the regulation of extracellular matrix factors. I am excited to be applying insights from my previous work to my research in the Oudin lab, where I will be looking at how extracellular matrix cues drive cancer metastasis.

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHERS

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LILY HAYES

Undergraduate researcher, Tufts Summer Scholar 2018
Hometown: Haverhill, MA
Education: Biology and Architectural Studies double major, Tufts Class of 2019
Email: lily.hayes@tufts.edu

Research Interests: I love genetics, biochemistry, and environmental science!   I am particularly interested in how the extracellular environment contributes to the progression of diseases like cancer. ​
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CLAIRE DUNN

Undergraduate researcher, Laidlaw Scholar 2018
Hometown: Utrecht, The Netherlands
Education: Biology major, Tufts Class of 2020
Email: claire.dunn@tufts.edu
Research Interests: Cancer growth and Metastasis

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Gabrielle MuNOZ

Undergraduate researcher
​Hometown: Dallas, TX
Education: Biology and Biotechnology Double Major, Tufts Class of 2019
Email: gabrielle.munoz@tufts.edu
Research Interests: I am interested in the effects of extracellular environments on cell behavior and the field of genetic engineering.
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JOANNA PENG

​Hometown: Shanghai, China
Education: Chemical Engineering Major, Tufts Class of 2020
Email: yifan.peng@tufts.edu
Research Interests: Tumor Pathology, Pharmaceutical Development
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JANANI BASKARAN

BME7/8 Senior Design Project
Hometown: Acton, MA

Education: Biomedical Engineering Major and Engineering Management minor, Tufts Class of 2019
Email: janani.baskaran@tufts.edu
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SAKSHI WADHWA

BME7/8 Senior Design Project
Hometown: North Attleboro, MA
Education: Biomedical Engineering, Tufts Class of 2019
Email: sakshi.wadhwa@tufts.edu
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NINA PITTAS

Undergraduate researcher
​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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MARGUERITE SALAMONE

Undergraduate researcher​
Hometown: Yardley, Pennsylvania 
Education: Biomedical Engineering, Tufts Class of 2020
Email: marguerite.salamone@tufts.edu 
Research Interests: Effects of membrane potential and external electric fields on tumor cells, as well as immunotherapies for cancer.

Lab Alumni

Former Masters students:
Brendon Clover, MSc in Biomedical Engineering, January-October 2018

Former Rotation students:
Daniel Worstell, MD-PhD program, Tufts Medical School, Summer 2018

Former Undergraduate Researchers:
Erin Soule-Albridge and Sarah Mackin, BME 3 Class project, Fall 2018
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

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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