PhD Candidate

Email: mgp73@cornell.edu

Matalin earned her B.S. in Biological Engineering at Montana State University – Bozeman in 2021, with a minor in Biomedical Engineering. Along with her classes, she did research in Dr. Connie Chang’s Soft Matter and Microfluidics lab. In the lab, Matalin aimed to optimize the encapsulation of cells using microfluidics for organoid culturing, as well as study the migration of dendritic cells through hydrogels. This was part of a larger project taking place in the department to study how bacteria and the immune system interact in the gut, and its effects on surrounding cells. Matalin started her Ph.D at Cornell in the Fall of 2021 and is now co-advised by Dr. Ben Cosgrove and Dr. Alex Nikitin. Her project focuses on determining cell types prone to malignant transformation leading to serous endometrial cancer using mouse models, organoids, and RNA sequencing technologies.