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People

Principal Investigator

Alex Hughes, Ph.D.
Office: 371B Hayden Hall
Phone: (510) 219-5206
Email: ajhughes@seas.upenn.edu

Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania

Secondary Faculty, Cell & Developmental Biology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Member, Penn Bioengineering graduate group
Member, Cell & Molecular Biology graduate group (Developmental, Stem Cell, and Regenerative Biology program)

Postdoc: Jane Coffin Childs Fellow, UC San Francisco
Graduate: UC Berkeley
Undergraduate: University of Auckland, New Zealand

POSTDOCS

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Louis Prahl, PhD, NIH F32 Fellow
Location: 390 Towne
Phone: (215) 573-6260
Email: lprahl@seas.upenn.edu
Research: I am studying how signaling interactions between epithelial and mesenchymal tissues sculpt kidney collecting ducts during development and how congenital kidney defects arise. I use DNA-based cell patterning to create spatially defined interfaces between tissues and then observe and interpret the results using live imaging and mathematical modeling.

Graduate students

 

Zheyuan (Aria) Huang, Bioengineering
Location: 390 Towne
Phone: (215) 573-6260
Email: pikaria@seas.upenn.edu
Research: I am working on understanding physical cues that determine kidney development at organ scale.

 

Sam Grindel, Bioengineering
Location: 390 Towne
Phone: (215) 573-6260
Email: sgrindel@seas.upenn.edu
Research: I am working on nephrogenesis pace-making in kidney organoids.

 

Sachin Davis, Bioengineering
Location: 390 Towne
Phone: (215) 573-6260
Email: sacdavis@seas.upenn.edu
Research: I am working on rhythmic nephron formation and synthetically reconstituting planar cell polarity.

 

Ronald Canlla, Bioengineering
Location: 390 Towne
Phone: (215) 573-6260
Email: rcanlla@seas.upenn.edu
Research: I am working on remote control of branching morphogenesis for large-scale epithelial engineering.

 

Sophia Zhou, Bioengineering
Location: 390 Towne
Phone: (215) 573-6260
Email: zhousoph@seas.upenn.edu
Research: I am working on single-cell proteomics technologies for interrogation of tissues in development and disease.

 

Emma Warrner, Bioengineering
Location: 390 Towne
Phone: (215) 573-6260
Email: warrner@seas.upenn.edu
Research: I am working on large-scale patterning of nephron organoid connectivity and function.

 

Alumni

Catherine Porter.
Mariia (Masha) Alibekova Long, Ph.D.
(2024, ASN fellow). Completing Penn M.D. training.
John Viola, Ph.D.
(2024). Scientific advisor, Riverside Law.
Jiageng Liu (NSF GRFP fellow). Powell lab, Penn.
Nathan Petrikas.
Tempus AI.
Ananya Gupta.
Clinical research coordinator, Penn Medicine.
Trevor Chan. Penn BE PhD student.
Gabriela Hayward-Lara. Penn CDB PhD student.
Marysol Chu Carty. Cornell PhD student.
Michael Foster
Siera Rosen.
Penn CDB PhD student.