Graduate Research Assistant
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS CHICAGO
Ashlin Michell graduated from NYU with a BA in Biology in 2017 and worked at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard as a research technician from 2017-2020 studying the functional antibody response to malaria vaccines. Since 2020 she has been working as a graduate student in the Microfabricated Tissue Models Lab at UIC with Dr. Salman Khetani to study the role of micropatterning and fibroblast coculture on iPSC-cardiomyocyte maturation, the effects of cryopreservation on iPSC-cardiomyocyte drug sensitivity, the role of liver cells on cholangiocyte branching and morphogenesis, and the role of the fetal liver microenvironment on hematopoietic stem cell expansion.