Scott Delisle

Scott Delisle has had a varied work experience since 2012. Scott began as an Educational Researcher at Tufts University, where they worked on projects including developmental tendon-muscle interaction regarding MMPs, improvement of silk microneedle patch flexibility and material properties, electrical stimulation of cortical neurons in silk scaffolds, and designing of an applicator device for silk microneedle patches. Scott gained experience using various equipment and techniques including Western blots, cell culture, electrophysiological measurement and stimulation, AutoCAD, MATLAB, SolidWorks, 3D printing, silk device development, grant writing techniques, and giving project presentations. Scott then became a Research Assistant at Tufts University, where their primary research topics included microfluidics and their implications in ex vivo systems focusing on adipogenic growth, silk and alginate films and scaffolds, 3D microfluidic diffusion through gel, and adipogenic cell culture and cell differentiation. Scott gained experience using various equipment and techniques including centrifuges, scanning electron microscopy, confocal microscopy, bright field microscopy, syringe pumps, plasma sterilizers, water annealing, molding polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) devices, and adapting cell culture techniques to custom microfluidic devices. In 2014, they became an Intern at the Maine Medical Center Research Institute, where their primary research topics included use of silk scaffolds for renal cell carcinoma modeling, culture of 3D renal tubular aggregates, roles of WNT proteins in nephrogenesis, and kidney development. Scott gained experience using various equipment and techniques including PCR, gel electrophoresis, cell culture involving cellular aggregates on filters, histological sectioning, PAS staining, immunofluorescence, cell co-culture, and antibiotic resistant gene selection. In 2015, they became a Research Associate at Cocoon Biotech.

Scott Delisle attended Tufts University from 2011 to 2015, where they earned a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Biomedical/Medical Engineering, as well as a B.S. in English.