Position
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Office Phone
609-258-8738

Email
danielcohen@princeton.edu

Office
109 Hoyt Laboratory

Website
https://cohengroup.princeton.edu/

CV
cohen_cv.pdf

Degrees
Ph.D., UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco, 2013

Advisee(s):
Elena Cho
Kevin Suh




Bio/Description

Honors and Awards

Life Sciences Research Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship, Life Sciences Research Foundation / Howard Hughes Medical Institute (sponsor), 2014-2017
NSF Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (declined), 2014
Daniel Cubicciotti Doctoral Award , Electrochemical Society, 2013
National Science Foundation?NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP), 2008-2013
National Science Foundation National Defense Science and Engineering Fellowship (NDSEG), 2008-2011

Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Associated Faculty, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Associated Faculty, Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials

Research Interests

Research in the Cohen lab focuses primarily on bioengineering with applications to biomaterials and tissue engineering. We take the elegant swarming and collective behaviors that allow tissues to heal injuries, grow, and form complex structures and connect them to engineering approaches that enable us to control those behaviors in new ways. One example of this is ‘outside-in’ control of tissues where we are building microfluidic and bioelectric devices to literally herd the migration of hundreds of thousands of cells in a manner analogous to sheep herding. This technology may enable us to better control tissue growth and to accelerate wound healing. On the flip side, we are building cell-mimetic materials and microstructures that can integrate directly into living tissues in order to control them from the 'inside-out’. Our work spans a variety of disciplines and we welcome people from all backgrounds to come join us!

Selected Publications
Cohen DJ, Gloerich M, Nelson WJ. Epithelial self-healing is recapitulated by a 3D biomimetic E- cadherin junction. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Dec 20;113(51):14698-14703. PubMed PMID: 27930308
Cohen DJ, Nelson WJ, Maharbiz MM. Galvanotactic control of collective cell migration in epithelial monolayers. Nat Mater. 2014 Apr;13(4):409-17. PubMed PMID: 24608142.?
Cohen DJ, Mitra D, Peterson K, Maharbiz MM. A highly elastic, capacitive strain gauge based on percolating nanotube networks. Nano Lett. 2012 Apr 11;12(4):1821-5. PubMed PMID: 22409332.?
Cohen DJ, Morfino RC, Maharbiz MM. A modified consumer inkjet for spatiotemporal control of gene expression. PLoS One. 2009 Sep 18;4(9):e7086. PubMed PMID: 19763256; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2739290.?
Libby T, Moore TY, Chang-Siu E, Li D, Cohen DJ, Jusufi A, Full RJ. Tail-assisted pitch control in lizards, robots and dinosaurs. Nature. 2012 Jan 4;481(7380):181-4. PubMed PMID: 22217942.?

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Research Areas
Biomolecular Engineering
Cellular and Tissue Engineering
Complex Materials and Processing