Margo Tilley Frey

Title: Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering & Medical Physics (Ph.D. anticipated March 2008)
Education:
  • M.E., Biomedical Engineering, 2004, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
  • B.S., Mechanical Engineering, 1997, Louisiana State University.
  • Publications (Journal Articles and Book Chapters):
  • Billiar, K.L., Throm, A.M., Frey, M.T. (2005) Biaxial Failure Properties of Planar Living Tissue Equivalents. J Biomed. Mat. Res. A. 73:182-91.
  • Guo, W.H., Frey, M.T., Burnham, N.A., and Wang, Y.L. (2006) Substrate Rigidity Regulates the Formation and Maintenance of Tissues. Biophys. J. 90:2213-2220.
  • Frey, M.T., Tsai, I.Y., Russell, T.P., Hanks, S.K. and Wang, Y.-L. (2006) Cellular responses to 3D substrate topography: role of myosin II and focal adhesion kinase. Biophys. J. 90:3774-3782.
  • Frey, M.T., Engler, A., Lee, J., Wang, Y.L., and Discher, D.E. (2007) Microscopic Methods for Measuring the Elasticity of Gel Substrates for Cell Culture: Microspheres, Microindenters, and Atomic Force Microscopy. Methods Cell Biol. 83:45-63.
  • Conference Proceedings:
  • Frey, M.T., Bush, K.A., Billiar, K.L.Validation of an Inflation Method for Measuring the Strength of Engineered Tissues. 30th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, Springfield, MA, April 17-18, 2004. (Platform presentation)
  • Frey, M.T., Burnham, N.A., Wang, Y.L. UV-Softening Polyacrylamide Substrates for Spatio-Temporal Mechanotransduction Studies. Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Fall Meeting, Chicago, IL, Oct. 2006. (Poster)
  • Frey, M.T., Burnham, N.A., Wang, Y.L. UV-Softening Substrates for Spatio-Temporal Mechanotransduction Studies. 47th Annual American Society for Cell Biology Meeting, Washington, DC, Dec. 1-5, 2007. (Poster)
  • E-mail: margo.frey@umassmed.edu
    Website: www.geocities.com/mmtilley/mtfrey

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