Beth Pruitt

Professor

Mechanical Engineering

Biological Engineering

Biomolecular Science and Engineering

UC Santa Barbara

Research Focus Areas

Biologically-Enabled Materials

Research Interests

Professor Pruitt's interests lie at the intersection of mechanobiology, microfabrication, engineering and science. Her lab specializes in engineering microsystems and biointerfaces for quantitative mechanobiology.

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ICB Supported Publications

Spontaneous and Induced Oscillations in Confined Epithelia

Toshi Parmar, Liam P. Dow, Beth L. Pruitt, M. Cristina Marchetti

arXiv, 2024

10.48550/arXiv.2408.02806

Cyclic stretch regulates epithelial cell migration in a frequency dependent manner via vinculin recruitment to cell-cell contacts

Dow, L. P., Surace, S., Morozov, K., Kennedy, R., & Pruitt, B. L.

bioRxiv, 2023

10.1101/2023.08.19.553915

Engineering tools for quantifying and manipulating forces in epithelia

Liam P. Dow, Toshi Parmar, M. Cristina Marchetti, Beth L. Pruit

Biophysics Reviews, 2023

10.1063/5.0142537