Primary Research Area:

Biomedical Engineering including Biofluids Modeling, Biomaterials, Biomechanics, Cytomechanics, Fluid Dynamics, Functional Tissue Engineering, Image Processing and Analysis, Mathematical Modeling, Modeling in Mechanobiology, Physiological Systems, Tissue Mechanics

Communications and Signal Processing including Image Analysis

Research Interests:

Models of mechanical problems in soft tissues - morphogenesis, biomechanics, transport, tissue engineering, and mechanobiology.

Education:

PhD in Applied Mathematics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (1992)

Recent Publications:

1. Backes TM, Latterman R, Small SA, Mattis S, Pauley G, Reilly E, Lubkin SR. "Convergent extension by intercalation without mediolaterally fixed cell motion" J Theor Biol. 256(2):180-6 (2009)
2. SR Lubkin, “Branched organs: Mechanics of morphogenesis by multiple mechanisms” Current Topics in Developmental Biology 81:249-68, S Schnell, PK Maini, SA Newman, T Newman, Eds., Academic Press, 2008.
3. X Wan, Z Li, SR Lubkin, “Mechanics of mesenchymal contribution to clefting force in branching morphogenesis” Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology 7(5):417-26 (2008)
4. Sharon R. Lubkin, “Developmental biology: branching morphogenesis” in Complex Systems Science in BioMedicine, T. S. Deisboeck, J. Y. Kresh, and T. B. Kepler, eds., Springer pp. 357-374 (2006)
5. J. D. Murray, J. Cook, R. Tyson, S. R. Lubkin, “Spatial Pattern Formation in Biology: I. Dermal Wound Healing II. Bacterial Patterns” Journal of the Franklin Institute, 335B(2):303- 332 (1998)
6. T. L. Jackson, S. R. Lubkin, N. O. Siemers, D. E. Kerr, P. D. Senter, and J. D. Murray, “Mathematical and Experimental Analysis of Localization of Anti-Tumour Antibody-Enzyme Conjugates” British Journal of Cancer 80(11):1747-1753 (1999)
7. Sharon R. Lubkin and Xiaohai Wan, “Optimizing detection of tissue anisotropy by fluorescence recovery after photobleaching” Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 68(8):1873-1891 (2006)
8. Sharon R. Lubkin, Sarah E. Funk, and E. Helene Sage, “Quantifying vasculature: New measures applied to arterial trees in the quail chorioallantoic membrane”, J Theoretical Medicine, 6(3):173-180 (2005)
9. Rolf A. Brekken, Pauli Puolakkainen, Gail Workman, David Graves, Sharon R. Lubkin, & E. Helene Sage, “Enhanced growth of tumors in SPARC-null mice is associated with changes in the extracellular matrix” J Clinical Investigation 111:487-495 (2003)
10. Y. Nakanishi, Y. Hieda, W. V. Cardoso, S. R. Lubkin, and C. W. Daniel, “Epithelial Branching”, Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, Nature Publishing Group/Macmillan (2001) [ Related link ]
11. S. R. Lubkin and Z. Li, “Force and Deformation on Branching Rudiments: Cleaving Between Hypotheses” Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 1(1):5-16 (2002) [first article in first issue of journal]
12. S. R. Lubkin and T. Jackson, “Multiphase Mechanics of Capsule Formation in Tumors” J Biomech Eng 124: 237-243 (2002)
13. R. Tyson, S. R. Lubkin, and J. D. Murray, “A Minimal Mechanism of Bacterial Pattern Formation” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 266:299-304 (1999)
14. D. Manoussaki, S. R. Lubkin, R. B. Vernon, and J. D. Murray, “A Mechanical Model for the Formation of Vascular Networks in Vitro” Acta Biotheoretica 44: 271-282 (1996)

Date of Last Modification: 10/29/2009

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