Dr. Mason Dean
Mason Dean is a Biologist in the Department of Biomaterials at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, with degrees in Marine Biology and Zoology, and a deep curiosity in »form-function« relationships, how an animal’s anatomy shapes its interactions with its environment.
His current work in the structure, mechanics and materials of fish bone and cartilage allows him to combine his background in Zoology and Comparative Anatomy with his interests in illustration and 3D digital visualization.
He is an Associate Investigator in the Project Material Form Function, collaborating closely with John Nyakatura and others within the »Tessellated Materials Systems« setting.
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Department of Biomaterials
Research Campus Golm
Am Muehlenberg 1
14424 Potsdam
@MasonDeanLab
Articles
Chaumel, J., Schotte, M., Bizzarro, J. J., Zaslansky, P., Fratzl, P., Baum, D., Dean, M. N. 2020. »Co-aligned chondrocytes: Zonal morphological variation and structured arrangement of cell lacunae in tessellated cartilage.« Bone, 134, 115264. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bone.2020.115264
Baum, D., Weaver, J. C., Zlotnikov, I., Knötel, D., Tomholt, L., Dean, M. N. 2019. »High-Throughput Segmentation of Tiled Biological Structures using Random-Walk Distance Transforms.« Integrative and Comparative Biology, 59, (6): 1700-1712. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icz117
Campbell, R. A., Dean, M. N. 2019. »Adaptation and Evolution of Biological Materials.« Integrative and Comparative Biology, 59, (6): 1629-1635. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icz134
Hosny, A., Dilley, J. D., Kelil, T., Mathur, M., Dean, M. N., Weaver, J. C., Ripley, B. 2019. »Pre-procedural fit-testing of TAVR valves using parametric modeling and 3D printing.« Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography, 13, (1): 21-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcct.2018.09.007
Ofer, L., Dean, M. N., Zaslansky, P., Kult, S., Shwartz, Y., Zaretsky, J., Griess-Fishheimer, S., Monsonego-Ornan, E., Zelzer, E., Shahar, R. 2019. »A novel nonosteocytic regulatory mechanism of bone modeling.« PLOS Biology, 17, (2): e3000140. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000140
Seidel, R., Roschger, A., Li, L., Bizzarro, J. J., Zhang, Q., Yin, J., Yang, T., Weaver, J. C., Fratzl, P., Roschger, P., Dean, M. N. 2019. »Mechanical properties of stingray tesserae: High-resolution correlative analysis of mineral density and indentation moduli in tessellated cartilage.« Acta Biomaterialia, 96, 421-435. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actbio.2019.06.038
Hosny, A., Keating, S. J., Dilley, J. D., Ripley, B., Kelil, T., Pieper, S., Kolb, D., Bader, C., Pobloth, A., Griffin, M., Nezafat, R., Duda, G., Chiocca, E. A., Stone, J. R., Michaelson, J. S., Dean, M. N., Oxman, N., Weaver, J. C. 2018. »From Improved Diagnostics to Presurgical Planning: High-Resolution Functionally Graded Multimaterial 3D Printing of Biomedical Tomographic Data Sets.« 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing, 5, (2): 103-113. https://doi.org/10.1089/3dp.2017.0140