Assistant Professor

Additional Campus Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

Recent Publications

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

Leggett, S. E., & Nelson, C. M. (2022). Tissue Architecture in Cancer Initiation and Progression. In L. A. Akslen, & R. S. Watnick (Eds.), Biomarkers of the Tumor Microenvironment (2 ed., pp. 91-107). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98950-7_6

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