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Dixon Atkins

Graduate Researcher (2021-2025)
Interdisciplinary Program in Quantitative Biosciences
Co-advised by Prof. Sid Dey
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Education

2025, Ph.D., Interdisciplinary Program in Quantitative Biosciences, University of California, Santa Barbara

2020, B.S., Biochemistry, University of Buffalo

2020, B.A., Mathematics, University of Buffalo

Awards

T32 Mechanobiology Fellowship

Research

Dixon’s work focuses on characterizing and utilizing hydrogels to model tumor microenvironment mechanics, and next-generation sequencing technologies to help understand how pancreatic cancers respond to and remember their mechanical environment.