Allyson E. Sgro, PhD

Adjunct Assistant Professor, (BME)

Office CILSE, Room 505B
Email asgro@bu.edu
Phone 617-353-4343
Website Sgro Lab

Publications

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Research Areas

The Sgro Laboratory is interested in how cells work together in biomedical behaviors ranging from tissue assembly and wound healing to biofilm formation and microbial starvation responses. Our understanding of how cells work together and make group decisions has been limited due to technological and conceptual challenges presented by connecting microscale signaling events occurring on a timescale of seconds inside single cells to macroscale events occurring over hours and even days across the whole cellular population. We address these challenges through creating and applying new methods to observe and control these multicellular behaviors, using tools ranging from optogenetics and microscopy to machine learning and mathematical modeling. Our new approaches enable us to develop a predictive understanding of the design rules multicellular systems implement to organize themselves, permitting us to engineer multicellular behaviors for our benefit.

Honors and Awards

2019 Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow
2019 International Dictyostelium Junior Faculty Award
2017 Moorman-Simon Interdisciplinary Career Development Professor
2017 BU COE Dean’s Catalyst Award
2015 BWF Career Award at the Scientific Interface
2013 NIH National Research Service Award

Department or Division: Biomedical Engineering

Affiliations: Adjunct Faculty, Synthetic Biology, Tissue Engineering & Mechanobiology

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