Alejandro Gupta

Former Research Associate

Degrees & Affiliations

BS, Biological Engineering - MIT

Background & Interests

Biography

Alejandro joined the Shalek and Manalis Labs as a research technician in the spring of 2017. He received his B.S. in Biological Engineering with a minor in Literature from MIT in 2015. His work aims to couple suspended microchannel resonator technology and single-cell RNA-sequencing to study the heterogeneity in drug response of clinical cancer samples. Outside of lab, Alejandro enjoys narrative arts, drawing, and hot pot.

Publications

Optofluidic real-time cell sorter for longitudinal CTC studies in mouse models of cancer

Hamza B. et al.,
PNAS,
2019

Linking single-cell measurements of mass, growth rate, and gene expression

Kimmerling R.J. et al.,
Genome Biology,
2018