Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Recent Publications
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
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. (2025). The Lived Experience of Mortality in Cancer Care: A Phenomenologically Grounded Qualitative Study of Being-Towards-Death. Qualitative Health Research. Advance online publication. 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