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., 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
Bismillah, A. N., Bismuto, A., Blakney, A., Callens, S., Calvino, C., Crespi, S., Cruz-Acuña, R., Daly, A., Davenport Huyer, L., Docherty, J. H., Donnelly, L., Finbloom, J. A., Gurnani, P., Hein, R., Johnstone-Hack, J., Leggett, S. E., Leisgang, N., Lim, J. Y. C., Neumann, K., ... Wells, C. (2025). 35(+1) challenges in materials science being tackled by PIs under 35(ish) in 2025. Matter, 8(12), Article 102565. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2025.102565