Shelly Peyton

Professor, Armstrong Professional Development Professor

BME Adjunct

Graduate Program Director (fall 2021)

Pronouns: she/her

Mailing Address:
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Massachusetts Amherst
N531 Life Sciences Laboratories
240 Thatcher Rd
Amherst MA 01003-9364

Peyton Research Group

speyton@ecs.umass.edu

413.545.1133 (office)

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Education

Post-Doc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Biological Engineering
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, Chemical Engineering 2007
M.S., University of California, Irvine, Chemical Engineering 2004
B.S., Northwestern University, Chemical Engineering, 2002

Research

The mission of the Peyton lab is to learn how a variety of different cell types are able to process information from biochemical and biophysical cues from the extracellular matrix (ECM), and make decisions about migration and phenotype. To do this, our lab uses both 2D and 3D biomaterial model systems, which can be engineered from the ground-up to instruct cells via both biochemical and biophysical signaling pathways. We focus on applications toward: cardiovascular disease, where tissue homeostasis is normally maintained in a mechanically dynamic ECM; stem-cell therapeutics, where rational scaffold design may be the key to directing appropriate progenitor cell migration and differentiation for tissue regeneration; and cancer, where disruptions in the local ECM microenvironment may cause drastic changes in individual cell motility and phenotype.

Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jKVW8SUAAAAJ

Herrick WG, Nguyen TV, Sleiman M, McRae Page S, Emrick T, Peyton SR. (2013) PEG-phosphorylcholine hydrogels as tunable and versatile platforms for mechanobiology. Biomacromolecules. Jul 8;14(7):2294-304.
H-D. Kim and S.R. Peyton (2012) “Bio-inspired materials for parsing matrix physicochemical control of cell migration: A Review. ” Integrative Biology. Jan;4(1):37-52.
S.R. Peyton, Z.I. Kalcioglu, J.D. Cohen, A.P. Runkle, K.J. VanVliet, D.A. Lauffenburger, and L.G. Griffith (2011) “Marrow-Derived stem cell motility in 3D synthetic scaffold is governed by geometry along with adhesivity and stiffness.” Biotechnol Bioeng. May;108(5):1181-93.
S.R. Peyton, P.D. Kim, C.M. Ghajar, D. Seliktar, and A.J. Putnam (2008) “The effects of matrix stiffness and RhoA on the phenotypic plasticity of smooth muscle cells in a 3-D biosynthetic hydrogel system.” Biomaterials. Jun:29(17):2597-607
S.R. Peyton, C.B. Raub, V.P. Keschrumrus, and A.J. Putnam. (2006) “The use of poly(ethylene glycol) hydrogels to investigate the impact of ECM chemistry and mechanics on smooth muscle cells.” Biomaterials. Oct;27(28):4881-93.
S.R. Peyton and A.J. Putnam. (2005) “Extracellular matrix rigidity governs smooth muscle cell motility in a biphasic fashion.” Journal of Cellular Physiology. 204(1):198-209.

Honors

Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Young Innovator Award (2015)

National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2015-2020)

UMass Award for Outstanding Accomplishments in Research and Creative Activity (2014)

UMass College of Engineering Barbara and Joseph Goldstein Outstanding Junior Faculty Award (2014)

National Institutes of Health New Innovator Award (2013-2018)

Pew Biomedical Scholar (2013-2017)

Barry and Afsaneh Siadat Career Development Fellow (2012-2017)

Society for Physical Regulation of Cell Biology Rising Star Award (2012)

Links

CV:

Peyton CV - Jan 2016.pdf

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