Professional Preparation:

Professional Appointments

Acting Department Head, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota. 2006-7
Visiting Scientist, Department of Anatomy, University of Cambridge. 2004
Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, 2004
Research Associate, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA. 2003
Visiting Scientist, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, 2003
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 1999
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Michigan Technological University, 1995-1999

Selected Publications

Nahmias Y. and D. J. Odde, "Micropatterning of hepatic-endothelial sinusoid-like structures by laser-guided direct writing," Nature Protocols, 1, 2288-2296 (2007).

Gardner, M.K., and Odde, D.J., "Asymmetric Division: Motor Persistence Pays Off," Current Biology, 16, R1021-1023 (2006).

Gardner M, D. J. Odde, and K. Bloom, "Hypothesis testing via integrated computer modeling and digital fluorescence microscopy," METHODS, 41, 231-237 (2006).

Meyers J*, Craig J*, and D. J. Odde, "Potential for control of signaling pathways via cell size and shape," Current Biology, 16, 1685-1693 (2006). *denotes authors contributed equally.

Gardner, M.K. and D. J. Odde, "Modeling kinetochore motility in mitosis," Current Opinion in Cell Biology, 18, 639-647 (2006).br>
Pearson C*, Gardner M*, Paliulis L, Salmon ED, D. J. Odde, K. Bloom, "Measuring nanometer scale gradients in spindle microtubule dynamics using model convolution microscopy," Molecular Biology of the Cell, 17, 4069-4079 (2006). *denotes authors contributed equally.

Shimogawa, M.M., Graczyk, B., Gardner, M.K., Francis, S.E., White, E.A., Ess, M., Molk, J.N., Ruse, C., Niessen, S., Yates, J.R., 3rd, Muller, E.G., Bloom, K., Odde, D.J., and T.N. Davis, "Mps1 phosphorylation of dam1 couples kinetochores to microtubule plus ends at metaphase," Current Biology, 16, 1489-1501 (2006).

Nahmias, Y. K., R. Schwartz, W.-S. Hu, C. M. Verfaillie and D. J. Odde ,"Establishment of liver-like tissue in vitro via endothelium-mediated hepatocyte recruitment." Tissue Engineering, 12, 1627-1638 (2006).

DeSilva MN, Paulsen J, Renn MJ, and D. J. Odde, "Two-step cell patterning on planar and complex curved surfaces by precision spraying of polymers," Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 93, 919-927 (2006).