Ian Schneider

Title(s):

Associate Professor

Office

2035 Sweeney
618 Bissell Rd.
Ames, IA 50011-1098

Information

 Professional Affiliations

  • American Institute of Chemical Engineers
  • Biomedical Engineering Society
  • The American Society for Cell Biology
  • Americal Society for Matrix Biology

Institutional Service

  • Professor-in-charge, Biomedical Engineering Program, Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Education

  • Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University, 2005
  • M.S. Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University, 2002
  • B.S. Chemical Engineering, Iowa State University, 2000

Interest Areas

    • Cellular and molecular mechanobiology
    • Biomaterials to control cell function in wound healing, immune response and cancer.
    • Mechanically regulated drug release
    • Aptamer development
    • DNA origami

Links

Dr. Ian Schneider Research Group Page 

Publications

  • Niraula, G, Foroozandehfar, A, Namanda, FR, Schneider, IC, Aligned collagen fibers drive distinct traction force signatures to regulate contact guidance, bioRxiv, 2025.04. 22.650031 (2025)
  • Foroozandehfar, A, Tohidi, S, Siddiqui, SA, Namanda, NR, Forrester, M, Cochran, EW, Schneider, IC, Branched and Linear F-actin Networks Control Directional Migration Switching Behavior on Aligned Collagen Fibrils, bioRxiv, 2025.01. 03.631234 (2025)
  • Ostrowski, Z, Price, T, Zhang, J, Kaufmann, T, Judka, N, Gardner, T, Thatcher, M, Miller, E, Mesyk, L, Koep, A, Melvin, AT, Ren, J, Schneider, IC, Leveraging crosslinker diffusion to template stiffness gradients in alginate hydrogels, bioRxiv, 2024.06. 26.599742 (2024)
  • Koep, A, Masud, N, Van’t Hul, J, Stanley, C, Nilsen-Hamilton, M, Sarkar, A, Schneider, IC, Design and assembly of a cargo-agnostic hollow two-lidded DNA box for drug delivery, bioRxiv, 2024.03. 27.586853 (2024)
  • Veettil Unnikandam, SR, Hwang, D, Correia, J, Bartlett, MD and Schneider, IC, Cancer cell migration in collagen-hyaluronan composite extracellular matrices, Acta Biomaterialia 130: 183-198 (2021)
  • Nuhn, JAM, Perez, AM and Schneider, IC, Contact guidance diversity in rotationally aligned collagen matrices, Acta Biomaterialia, 66, 248-257 (2018).
  • Wang J and Schneider IC, Myosin Phosphorylation on Stress Fibers Predicts Contact Guidance Behavior across Diverse Breast Cancer Cells, Biomaterials, 120, 81-93 (2017).
  • Wang J, Petefish J, Hillier A, Schneider IC, Epitaxially Grown Collagen Fibers Reveal Diversity in Contact Guidance Behavior among Cancer Cells, Langmuir, 31, 307-344 (2015).
  • Haage A and Schneider IC, Cellular Contractility and Extracellular Matrix Stiffness Regulate Matrix Metalloproteinase Activity in Pancreatic Cancer Cells, The FASEB J., 8, 3589-3599 (2014).
  • Lara Rodriguez L and Schneider IC, Directed Cell Migration in Multi-cue Environments, Integr. Biol., 5, 1306-1323 (2013).
  • Gardel ML, Schneider IC, Aratyn-Schaus Y and Waterman C, Mechanical Integration of Actin and Adhesion Dynamics in Cell Migration, Ann. Rev. of Cell and Dev. Biol., 26, 315-333 (2010).

Primary Strategic Research Area

Engineered Medicine

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