Team

The Cellular Mechanobiology Lab started its activity at the University of Glasgow in October 2019, within the Centre for the Cellular Microenvironment. If you are interested in joining the Lab, or you want additional information, please feel free to contact us via email.

Massimo Vassalli
Massimo Vassalli
Staff (Professor)

Head of the Lab, mechanobiology enthusiast, curious scientist

massimo.vassalli@glasgow.ac.uk
Sabah Sardar
Sabah Sardar
PhD student

Project: Identification of label-free biomarkers in visceral myopathy

2078317s@student.gla.ac.uk
Anna Maria Kapetanaki
Anna Maria Kapetanaki
PhD student

lifETIME CDT PhD student, Interested in mechanobiology. Project: Label-free physical biomarkers for cell sorting

2454721k@student.gla.ac.uk
Camilla Romagnoli
Camilla Romagnoli
PhD student

Project: Mechanobiology of senescent cells

c.romagnoli.1@research.gla.ac.uk
David Matthew Hughes
David Matthew Hughes
Guest

MEng in EEE engineering prototype devices (acustofluidics, microindentation) for potential commercialisation

david.hughes.4@glasgow.ac.uk
Emily Horsburgh
Emily Horsburgh
PhD student

Exploring living materials for producing pigments

2697854H@student.gla.ac.uk
Fiona Lawler
Fiona Lawler
PhD student

Determining plastic mechanisms underlying neoteleost bone remodelling and morphological divergence in response to temperature

2259179L@student.gla.ac.uk
Giuseppe Ciccone
Giuseppe Ciccone
PhD student

keen in cellular biomechanics and mechanobiology

g.ciccone.1@research.gla.ac.uk
Mariana Azevedo Gonzalez Oliva
Mariana Azevedo Gonzalez Oliva
PhD student

PhD student (first supervisor Prof Salmeron-Sanchez), actively collaborating with the CML for the study of Piezo1 mechanosensitivity

m.azevedo-gonzalez-oliva.1@research.gla.ac.uk
Marta Cubero Sarabia
Marta Cubero Sarabia
PhD student

Project: Remote mechanical stimulation of stem cells for osteochondral regenerative therapy

2496511c@student.gla.ac.uk
Noah Schram
Noah Schram
BEng student

Project: Image-based diagnosis from biological fluids via acoustofluidics

2417180S@student.gla.ac.uk
Xally Valencia
Xally Valencia
PhD student

lifETIME CDT PhD Student (1st supervisor Prof John Christie). Project "Designing animal-free organoids based on engineered vegetables and protein crystals"

2783756V@student.gla.ac.uk

Alumni

We are particularly grateful to all the scientists who participated in the activities of the Cellular Mechanobiology Lab in recent years, and we wish them a great future career.