Jeremiah Zartman is an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Notre Dame.
The Zartman lab focuses on the systematic analysis of chemical and mechanical signaling at the tissue scale, including developing computational models of how cells self-organize into organs of the correct shape and size. We address these questions using experiments and modeling in systems such as Drosophila that are amenable to sophisticated genetic approaches, live imaging and in vitro culture.
Jeremiah completed his PhD in Chemical Engineering in the lab of Professor Stas Shavartsman in June 2009. His thesis explored the genetic specification of cells that form tubular structures in a common model organism. Jeremiah is completed a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich in the lab of Professor Konrad Basler, where he studied the control of epithelial tissue growth during development and is interested in how chemical signaling gradients and mechanical feedback are integrated to determine the final size of organs.
Other previous awards include: Princeton Wu Fellowship (2004-present), Goldwater Scholarship (2002), David L. Boren Scholarship for study in Khabarovsk, Russia (2002-2003), and the Boettcher Scholarship (1998).
