Casandra E. Villava

This study induces skeletal muscle, neuronal, and endothelial cells from bovine embryonic stem cells and demonstrates their self-organization into vascularized tissue structures.

This paper introduces OptoShroom3, an optogenetic tool to control apical constriction in mammalian tissues, demonstrating its ability to induce 3D morphological changes in neural organoids.

The paper shows that the σV circuit in B. subtilis generates tunable phenotypic variability in response to stress, memory of previous stress, and genetic perturbations.

This study shows how E. coli uses noisy rpoS expression and growth modulation to survive oxidative stress through multi-generation rpoS pulses.