During morphogenesis, tissues integrate mechanical and biochemical signals to drive organ-scale geometric transformations. Understanding the dynamic interplay between genetic patterning, mechanical forces, and tissue geometry requires a physical framework that connects cell interactions to tissue shape change. Inner organs such as the gut and…

I study how organisms integrate sensory information from multiple modalities across time and space to make decisions in complex naturalistic environments. My end goal is twofold: to understand how brains process sensory information, and to generate new, bioinspired, algorithms for engineered systems that enable the kind of resilience…

Eukaryotic cells contain organelle systems that organize and distribute molecular components. In this talk we will explore two such systems: mitochondria and the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), both of which form extensively networked architectures that span across the cell. While functionally distinct, both of these organelles give rise to…