Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Recent Publications
Byrne, T., Leggett, S. E., Techmanski, J., Zapata, A., Smithing, F., Jameel, R., Jun, R., MacLeod, J., McMillian, A., Mallampooty, V., Blodgett, P., Tennant, J., White, S. T., & Wu, L. (Accepted/In press). The Lived Experience of Mortality in Cancer Care: A Phenomenologically Grounded Qualitative Study of Being-Towards-Death. Qualitative Health Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323251395568
Byrne, T., Leggett, S. E., Mallampooty, V., Jameel, R., Zapata, A., Blodgett, P., Wu, L., McMillian, A., Smithing, F., Volny, E., White, S. T., Zapata, X., & Xiao, Z. (2025). The struggle for identity in doctoral supervision: a phenomenologically grounded qualitative study of power and conflict. Studies in Higher Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2025.2499705
Cheung, B. C. H., Abbed, R. J., Wu, M., & Leggett, S. E. (2024). 3D Traction Force Microscopy in Biological Gels: From Single Cells to Multicellular Spheroids. Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering, 26(1), 93-118. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-bioeng-103122-031130
Leggett, S. E., Brennan, M. C., Martinez, S., Tien, J., & Nelson, C. M. (2024). Relatively Rare Populations of Invasive Cells Drive Progression of Heterogeneous Tumors. Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering, 17(1), 7-24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12195-023-00792-w
Hruska, A. M., Yang, H., Leggett, S. E., Guo, M., & Wong, I. Y. (2023). Mechanobiology of Collective Cell Migration in 3D Microenvironments. In Current Cancer Research (pp. 1-32). (Current Cancer Research). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22802-5_1