Deniz Aksel

I’m a graduate student in the Harvard Biophysics Program. Originally from Istanbul Turkey, I spent my undergraduate years at MIT, where I studied Biological Engineering. During that time, I worked in the Synthetic Neurobiology Lab, building a robot for image-guided, automated patch clamping of cultured cells. In the Ramanathan Lab, I am developing tools for spatiotemporal control of developmental signaling pathways, and studying the interactions between cell fate and spatial reorganization during tissue morphogenesis.