Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Recent Publications
Barrios, J., Goetz, A., Leggett, S. E., & Dixit, P. D. (2026). Endocytosis shapes extracellular chemical gradients in autonomous cell-cell attraction. Physical Review Research, 8(3), Article 033374. https://doi.org/10.1103/qn2h-7wml
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