Ian Schneider
Email: ians@iastate.edu
Phone: 515-294-0450
Title(s):
Associate Professor
Office
2035 Sweeney
618 Bissell Rd.
Ames, IA 50011-1098
Information
Professional Affiliations
- American Institute of Chemical Engineers
- Biomedical Engineering Society
- The American Society for Cell Biology
- Americal Society for Matrix Biology
Institutional Service
- Professor-in-charge, Biomedical Engineering Program, Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Advisor, Biomedical Engineering Society Student Chapter
Education
- Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University, 2005
- M.S. Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University, 2002
- B.S. Chemical Engineering, Iowa State University, 2000
Interest Areas
- Cellular and molecular mechanobiology
- Biomaterials to control cell function in wound healing, immune response and cancer.
- Mechanically regulated drug release
- Aptamer development
- DNA origami
- Dr. Ian Schneider Research Group Page
Publications
- Ostrowski, Z, Price, T, Zhang, J, Kaufmann, T, Judka, N, Gardner, T, Thatcher, M, Miller, E, Mesyk, L, Koep, A, Melvin, AT, Ren, J, Schneider, IC, Leveraging crosslinker diffusion to template stiffness gradients in alginate hydrogels, bioRxiv, 2024.06. 26.599742 (2024)
- Koep, A, Masud, N, Van’t Hul, J, Stanley, C, Nilsen-Hamilton, M, Sarkar, A, Schneider, IC, Design and assembly of a cargo-agnostic hollow two-lidded DNA box for drug delivery, bioRxiv, 2024.03. 27.586853 (2024)
- SRU Veettil Unnikandam, SR, Hwang, D, Correia, J, Bartlett, MD and Schneider, IC, Cancer cell migration in collagen-hyaluronan composite extracellular matrices, Acta Biomaterialia 130: 183-198 (2021)
- Veettil Unnikandam, SR, Bruggen Van, SM, Hwang, DG, Bartlett, MD and Schneider, IC, Tuning surface functionalization and collagen gel thickness to regulate cancer cell migration, Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 179: 37-47 (2019).
- Wang, J, Koelbl, J, Boddupalli, A, Yao, Z, Bratlie, KM and Schneider, IC, Transfer of assembled collagen fibrils to flexible substrates for mechanically tunable contact guidance cues, Integrative Biology, 10: 705-718 (2018).
- Nuhn, JAM, Perez, AM and Schneider, IC, Contact guidance diversity in rotationally aligned collagen matrices, Acta Biomaterialia, 66, 248-257 (2018).
- Wang J and Schneider IC, Myosin Phosphorylation on Stress Fibers Predicts Contact Guidance Behavior across Diverse Breast Cancer Cells, Biomaterials, 120, 81-93 (2017).
- Wang J, Petefish J, Hillier A, Schneider IC, Epitaxially Grown Collagen Fibers Reveal Diversity in Contact Guidance Behavior among Cancer Cells, Langmuir, 31, 307-344 (2015).
- Haage A and Schneider IC, Cellular Contractility and Extracellular Matrix Stiffness Regulate Matrix Metalloproteinase Activity in Pancreatic Cancer Cells, The FASEB J., 8, 3589-3599 (2014).
- Lara Rodriguez L and Schneider IC, Directed Cell Migration in Multi-cue Environments, Integr. Biol., 5, 1306-1323 (2013).
- Gardel ML, Schneider IC, Aratyn-Schaus Y and Waterman C, Mechanical Integration of Actin and Adhesion Dynamics in Cell Migration, Ann. Rev. of Cell and Dev. Biol., 26, 315-333 (2010).
Primary Strategic Research Area
Engineered Medicine