Joanna Dahl
Biography
In the fall of 2016, Dr. Dahl joined the new Engineering Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston as an Assistant Professor. Her research program is in experimental biomechanics. Projects include measuring the stiffnesses of extracellular vesicles and cells with applications for cancer diagnostics and therapeutics, measuring multicellular spheroid biomechanics, developing viscoelastic measurement techniques using microfluidics, and investigating synthetic vesicle biophysics.
Area of Expertise
biomechanics, microfluidics, extracellular vesicles, cell spheroids
Degrees
PhD University of California, Berkeley
Mechanical Engineering, 2007 – 2013
Adviser: David Bogy
MS University of California, Berkeley
Mechanical Engineering, 2007 – 2009
Adviser: David Bogy
BS University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mechanical Engineering, 2003 – 2007
Professional Publications & Contributions
- M.H. Jeong, H. Im*, J.B. Dahl*. 2023. Non-contact microfluidic analysis of the stiffness of single large extracellular vesicles from IDH1-mutated glioblastoma cells. Advanced Materials Technologies 8(7):2201412.
- C. Rodriguez-Quijada and J.B. Dahl*. 2021. Non-contact microfluidic mechanical property measurements of single apoptotic bodies. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects 1865(4):129657.
- L. Guillou, J.B. Dahl, J.-M. G. Lin (co-first authors), A.I. Barakat, J. Husson, S.J. Muller, S. Kumar*. 2016. Measuring Cell Viscoelastic Properties Using a Microfluidic Extensional Flow Device. Biophysical Journal 111(9):2039–2050.
- J.B. Dahl, V. Narsimhan, B. Gouveia, S. Kumar, E. Shaqfeh, S.J. Muller*. 2016. Experimental Observation of the Asymmetric Instability of Intermediate-Reduced-Volume Vesicles in Extensional Flow. Soft Matter 12:3787–3796.
- J.B. Dahl, J.-M. Lin (co-first authors), S.J. Muller, S. Kumar*. 2015. Microfluidic Strategies for Understanding the Mechanics of Cells and Cell-Mimetic Systems. Annual Review of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 6:293–317.
Additional Information
Joanna B. Dahl, Ph.D., earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2007. She earned a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2013 under the supervision of Prof. David B. Bogy. During the pursuit of her doctorate, Dr. Dahl simulated the mechanics at the critical head-disk interface of a hard disk drive and provided product-level predictions of the performance for the emerging heat-assisted magnetic recording technology. From 2013-2015, Dr. Dahl served as an NSF postdoctoral research fellow under the mentorship of Profs. Susan J. Muller (Chemical Engineering) and Sanjay Kumar (Bioengineering) at the University of California, Berkeley. There she developed a microfluidic platform to quantitatively study the mechanics of microscale soft bodies.