Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Recent Publications
Byrne, T., Leggett, S. E., Mallampooty, V., Zapata, A., Blodgett, P., Smithing, F., Jameel, R., Wu, L., McMillian, A., Volny, E., Techmanski, J., MacLeod, J., White, S. T., & Jun, R. (2026). Recognition in STEM doctoral education: a phenomenology of student complaints, institutional response, and lived conditions. Teaching in Higher Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2026.2686937
Byrne, T., Leggett, S. E., Mallampooty, V., Zapata, A., Blodgett, P., Smithing, F., & Wu, L. (2026). The Commodification of Doctoral Student Agency in STEM Lab Supervision: A Phenomenologically Directed Study. Journal of Higher Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221546.2026.2715286
Byrne, T., Leggett, S. E., Zapata, A., Smithing, F., MacLeod, J., Xiao, Z., Wu, L., & Pickert, J. (2026). The medical gaze reframed: A phenomenological investigation of patient visibility in oncology. Health (United Kingdom). Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/13634593261446988
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. (2026). The struggle for identity in doctoral supervision: a phenomenologically grounded qualitative study of power and conflict. Studies in Higher Education, 51(6), 1143-1160. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2025.2499705
Kohram, M., Trenado-Yuste, C., Brennan-Smith, M. C., Navarro Salazar, E. S., Zhang, P., Hao, J. E., Xu, X., Chavre, B., Oh, W., Zhang, S. X., Leggett, S. E., Ryseck, R. P., Rabinowitz, J. D., & Nelson, C. M. (2026). Fat promotes growth and invasion in a 3D microfluidic tumor model of triple-negative breast cancer. APL Bioengineering, 10(1), Article 016111. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0291646