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
Chiou, A. E., Liu, C., Moreno-Jiménez, I., Tang, T., Wagermaier, W., Dean, M. N., Fischbach, C., Fratzl, P. 2021. »Breast cancer–secreted factors perturb murine bone growth in regions prone to metastasis.« Science Advances, 7, (12): eabf2283. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abf2283
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
Jayasankar, A., Seidel, R., Hosny, A., Weaver, J., Fratzl, P., Chen, J., Dean, M. 2020. »Multi-scale modeling and mechanical performance characterization of stingray skeleton-inspired tessellations.« Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 138, 103906. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2020.103906
Schotte, M., Chaumel, J., Dean, M. N., Baum, D. 2020. »Image analysis pipeline for segmentation of a biological porosity network, the lacuno-canalicular system in stingray tesserae.« MethodsX, 7, 100905. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2020.100905
Seidel, R., Blumer, M., Chaumel, J., Amini, S., Dean, M. N. 2020. »Endoskeletal mineralization in chimaera and a comparative guide to tessellated cartilage in chondrichthyan fishes (sharks, rays and chimaera).« Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 17, (171): 20200474. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2020.0474
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
Events & Workshops
De Visscher, E., Dean, M., Beyer, B., Cruz, M. Matters of Activity Lecture Series UCL London. Colloquium. UCL London. Virtual. 11 December 2020 - 12 January 2021.
Teaching & Courses
Sauer, C., Guiducci, L., Razghandi, K., Kycia, A. Scaling Nature (2) – Fibers, Muscles & Bones. Design Research Studio. With contributions by Peter Fratzl, Mason Dean, John A. Nyakatura, Iva Rešetar and Mareike Stoll. weißensee school of art and design berlin. 15 October 2019 - 11 February 2020. https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/1142/moa-design-studio-scaling-nature-2-fibers-muscles-bones, https://kh-berlin.de/projekt-detail/Project/detail/scaling-nature-2-fibers-muscles-bones-3102.html
Podcasts & Videos
Rasehorn, F., Zwick, C., Petruschat, J., Dean, M., Yang, B., Rosenthal, N., Nyakatura, J. A., Van Le, M.-L. Tessellated Material Systems - A workflow towards designing surfaces with distinct kinematic properties. Video. 4 minutes, 24 February 2021. https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/524787023