Tamas L. Nagy, Ph.D.

I am a Postdoctoral Scholar in Thomas A Rando’s group at UCLA working on muscle stem cell decision-making during regeneration. I am generally interested in how cellular collectives self-organize, how they break symmetry, and how they maintain homeostasis. I am particularly focused on how single cells “perceive” their neighbors and environment via signaling networks and how this perception manifests as tissue-scale behavior once many cells interact. My vision is that having a quantitative understanding of how cells make decisions in groups can help us understand how tissues break down in aging and disease.

During my PhD, I worked with Orion Weiner at UCSF on how immune cells manipulate their biophysical properties to enhance motility. Prior to that, I studied Applied Math and Chemistry as an undergraduate at the University of Kentucky.

I primarily use timelapse microscopy to watch living systems adapt and evolve dynamically. I love microscopes and the related software and hardware challenges and maintain several microscopy-related software projects primarily in Julia.