John Connelly's Biography

John Connelly, Senior Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London

I received my Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology where I investigated the chondrogenesis of mesenchymal progenitors within engineered hydrogels. I then did my postdoc in Professor Fiona Watt’s laboratory at the University of Cambridge where I developed micro-patterned substrates to study the roles of cell shape and the actin cytoskeleton in keratinocyte terminal differentiation. I joined the Centre for Cutaneous Research at Queen Mary in 2010 as a non-clinical lecturer. My laboratory is interested in how keratinocytes sense and respond to changes in their physical microenvironment. We employ engineered materials and model systems to precisely control the signals presented to cells