Research Summary

My lab aims to define the rules used by cells to self-organize into structurally ordered tissues, and to reveal how tissue structure guides the flow of chemical, mechanical, and electrical information between cells to coordinate collective decisions and behaviors. A better understanding of these processes will guide the development of new therapies for regenerative medicine and new strategies to block the progression of cancer. My lab’s multidisciplinary approach is uniquely suited to tackling these problems. We apply concepts and methods from chemistry, biology, and engineering, and develop new and enabling technologies when existing methods are insufficient for our experimental needs.

Research Funding

  • September 15, 2020 - June 30, 2025 - The physical and molecular mechanisms of intestinal villus morphogenesis and repair , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R01DK126376
  • May 1, 2020 - April 30, 2025 - Understanding breast cancer progression as a defect in the mechanics of tissue self-organization , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: U01CA244109
  • May 1, 2021 - April 30, 2024 - Universal Sample Multiplexing for Single Cell Analysis , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R33CA247744
  • September 20, 2019 - June 30, 2023 - MULTIseq: multiplexing massively parallel single cell transcriptional analysis across time, space, and conditions , Principal Investigator . Sponsor: NIH, Sponsor Award ID: R01GM135462

Education

University of California, Berkeley B.S. 1994-1999 Chemistry
Harvard University M.S. Ph.D. 1999-2004 Chemical Biology
University of California, Berkeley Postdoctoral 2005-2008 Chemical Biology

Honors & Awards

  • 2000
    National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
  • 2003
    Bristol-Myers Squibb Fellowship
  • 2003
    Harvard Merit Fellowship
  • 2005
    IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists
  • 2006
    Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow
  • 2008
    Sandler Opportunity Award
  • 2010
    Kimmel Scholar Award
  • 2010
    Era of Hope Scholar Award
  • 2013
    NIH New Innovator Award
  • 2017
    Named to first cohort of Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigators

Selected Publications

  1. Zwick RK, Kasparek P, Palikuqi B, Viragova S, Weichselbaum L, McGinnis CS, McKinley KL, Rathnayake A, Vaka D, Nguyen V, Trentesaux C, Reyes E, Gupta AR, Gartner ZJ, Locksley RM, Gardner JM, Itzkovitz S, Boffelli D, Klein OD. Epithelial zonation along the mouse and human small intestine defines five discrete metabolic domains. bioRxiv. 2023 Sep 22.  View on PubMed
  2. Reyes EA, Castillo-Azofeifa D, Rispal J, Wald T, Zwick RK, Palikuqi B, Mujukian A, Rabizadeh S, Gupta AR, Gardner JM, Boffelli D, Gartner ZJ, Klein OD. Epithelial TNF controls cell differentiation and CFTR activity to maintain intestinal mucin homeostasis. J Clin Invest. 2023 Aug 29.  View on PubMed
  3. Huycke TR, Miyazaki H, Häkkinen TJ, Srivastava V, Barruet E, McGinnis CS, Kalantari A, Cornwall-Scoones J, Vaka D, Zhu Q, Jo H, DeGrado WF, Thomson M, Garikipati K, Boffelli D, Klein OD, Gartner ZJ. Patterning and folding of intestinal villi by active mesenchymal dewetting. bioRxiv. 2023 Aug 15.  View on PubMed
  4. Srivastava V, Hu JL, Garbe JC, Veytsman B, Shalabi SF, Yllanes D, Thomson M, LaBarge MA, Huber G, Gartner ZJ. Configurational entropy is an intrinsic driver of tissue structural heterogeneity. bioRxiv. 2023 Jul 02.  View on PubMed
  5. Jiang J, Chen S, Tsou T, McGinnis CS, Khazaei T, Zhu Q, Park JH, Strazhnik IM, Hanna J, Chow ED, Sivak DA, Gartner ZJ, Thomson M. D-SPIN constructs gene regulatory network models from multiplexed scRNA-seq data revealing organizing principles of cellular perturbation response. bioRxiv. 2023 May 20.  View on PubMed
  6. Adler FR, Anderson ARA, Bhushan A, Bogdan P, Bravo-Cordero JJ, Brock A, Chen Y, Cukierman E, DelGiorno KE, Denis GV, Ferrall-Fairbanks MC, Gartner ZJ, Germain RN, Gordon DM, Hunter G, Jolly MK, Karacosta LG, Mythreye K, Katira P, Kulkarni RP, Kutys ML, Lander AD, Laughney AM, Levine H, Lou E, Lowenstein PR, Masters KS, Pe'er D, Peyton SR, Platt MO, Purvis JE, Quon G, Richer JK, Riddle NC, Rodriguez A, Snyder JC, Lee Szeto G, Tomlin CJ, Yanai I, Zervantonakis IK, Dueck H. Modeling collective cell behavior in cancer: Perspectives from an interdisciplinary conversation. Cell Syst. 2023 04 19; 14(4):252-257.  View on PubMed
  7. Zhu Q, Conrad DN, Gartner ZJ. deMULTIplex2: robust sample demultiplexing for scRNA-seq. bioRxiv. 2023 Apr 12.  View on PubMed
  8. Clark IC, Fontanez KM, Meltzer RH, Xue Y, Hayford C, May-Zhang A, D'Amato C, Osman A, Zhang JQ, Hettige P, Ishibashi JSA, Delley CL, Weisgerber DW, Replogle JM, Jost M, Phong KT, Kennedy VE, Peretz CAC, Kim EA, Song S, Karlon W, Weissman JS, Smith CC, Gartner ZJ, Abate AR. Microfluidics-free single-cell genomics with templated emulsification. Nat Biotechnol. 2023 Nov; 41(11):1557-1566.  View on PubMed
  9. Cabral KA, Srivastava V, Graham AJ, Coyle MC, Stashko C, Weaver V, Gartner ZJ. Programming the Self-Organization of Endothelial Cells into Perfusable Microvasculature. Tissue Eng Part A. 2023 02; 29(3-4):80-92.  View on PubMed
  10. Kwak M, Southard KM, Kim WR, Lin A, Kim NH, Gopalappa R, Lee HJ, An M, Choi SH, Jung Y, Noh K, Farlow J, Georgakopoulos A, Robakis NK, Kang MK, Kutys ML, Seo D, Kim HH, Kim YH, Cheon J, Gartner ZJ, Jun YW. Adherens junctions organize size-selective proteolytic hotspots critical for Notch signalling. Nat Cell Biol. 2022 Dec; 24(12):1739-1753.  View on PubMed
  11. Kummerlowe C, Mwakamui S, Hughes TK, Mulugeta N, Mudenda V, Besa E, Zyambo K, Shay JES, Fleming I, Vukovic M, Doran BA, Aicher TP, Wadsworth MH, Bramante JT, Uchida AM, Fardoos R, Asowata OE, Herbert N, Yilmaz ÖH, Kløverpris HN, Garber JJ, Ordovas-Montañes J, Gartner ZJ, Wallach T, Shalek AK, Kelly P. Single-cell profiling of environmental enteropathy reveals signatures of epithelial remodeling and immune activation. Sci Transl Med. 2022 08 31; 14(660):eabi8633.  View on PubMed
  12. Louis B, Tewary M, Bremer AW, Philippeos C, Negri VA, Zijl S, Gartner ZJ, Schaffer DV, Watt FM. A reductionist approach to determine the effect of cell-cell contact on human epidermal stem cell differentiation. Acta Biomater. 2022 09 15; 150:265-276.  View on PubMed
  13. Murrow LM, Weber RJ, Caruso JA, McGinnis CS, Phong K, Gascard P, Rabadam G, Borowsky AD, Desai TA, Thomson M, Tlsty T, Gartner ZJ. Mapping hormone-regulated cell-cell interaction networks in the human breast at single-cell resolution. Cell Syst. 2022 08 17; 13(8):644-664.e8.  View on PubMed
  14. Beck LE, Lee J, Coté C, Dunagin MC, Lukonin I, Salla N, Chang MK, Hughes AJ, Mornin JD, Gartner ZJ, Liberali P, Raj A. Systematically quantifying morphological features reveals constraints on organoid phenotypes. Cell Syst. 2022 07 20; 13(7):547-560.e3.  View on PubMed
  15. Yang D, Jones MG, Naranjo S, Rideout WM, Min KHJ, Ho R, Wu W, Replogle JM, Page JL, Quinn JJ, Horns F, Qiu X, Chen MZ, Freed-Pastor WA, McGinnis CS, Patterson DM, Gartner ZJ, Chow ED, Bivona TG, Chan MM, Yosef N, Jacks T, Weissman JS. Lineage tracing reveals the phylodynamics, plasticity, and paths of tumor evolution. Cell. 2022 05 26; 185(11):1905-1923.e25.  View on PubMed
  16. Su-Feher L, Rubin AN, Silberberg SN, Catta-Preta R, Lim KJ, Ypsilanti AR, Zdilar I, McGinnis CS, McKinsey GL, Rubino TE, Hawrylycz MJ, Thompson C, Gartner ZJ, Puelles L, Zeng H, Rubenstein JLR, Nord AS. Single cell enhancer activity distinguishes GABAergic and cholinergic lineages in embryonic mouse basal ganglia. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 04 12; 119(15):e2108760119.  View on PubMed
  17. Winkler J, Liu P, Phong K, Hinrichs JH, Ataii N, Williams K, Hadler-Olsen E, Samson S, Gartner ZJ, Fisher S, Werb Z. Bisphenol A replacement chemicals, BPF and BPS, induce protumorigenic changes in human mammary gland organoid morphology and proteome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 03 15; 119(11):e2115308119.  View on PubMed
  18. Adam Officer, Andre Dempsey, Farnaz Hasteh, Michal Slyper, Asa Segerstolpe, Joanna Klughammer, Judit Jane-Valbuena, Orit Rozenblatt-Rosen, Lyndsay Murrow, Zev Gartner, Aviv Regev, Christina Yau, Pablo Tamayo, Olivier Harismendy. Abstract P5-06-02: A gene expression meta-analysis identifies microenvironment differences in cellular composition and cell-cell interactions associated with breast cancer invasion. Cancer Research. 2022 Feb 15; 82(4_Supplement):p5-06-02-p5-06-02.  View on PubMed
  19. Huycke TR, Gartner ZJ. Setting boundaries for tissue patterning. Science. 2022 Jan 07; 375(6576):26-27.  View on PubMed
  20. Kim SC, Haliburton JR, Gartner ZJ, Abate AR. Single-Cell Protein Profiling by Microdroplet Barcoding and Next-Generation Sequencing. Methods Mol Biol. 2022; 2386:101-111.  View on PubMed

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