Celeste Yuqing Deng

Biography

Education and Training

• Bachelor, Biomedical Engineering
  Southern University of Science and Technology
• Ph.D, Mechanical Engineering
  Boston University

Publications

• Neutrophil migration in the lung is altered by alveolar collapse and stretch.

  Deng Y, Kang B, Shi L, Min C, Regan K, Hall JK, Kobayter A, Sajja N, Lutchen KR, Boley JW, Phillip JM, Suki B, Nia HT. bioRxiv 2026 May 13

  PMID: 42182363

• A large-scale balloon model of confluent cells validates stress inference from geometry.

  Hall JK, Deng Y, Kontodimas K, Nia H, Varelas X, Lutchen KR, Bates J, Suki B. NPJ Biol Phys Mech 2026

  PMID: 41523857

• Imaging the extracellular matrix structure and remodeling in healthy, fibrotic, and emphysematous human precision-cut lung slices.

  Deng Y, Hall JK, Wang Y, Kim JH, Bartolák-Suki E, Nia HT, Behrsing H, Lutchen KR, Krishnan R, Suki B. Respir Res 2025 Dec 22

  PMID: 41430670

• Bifurcation in the healing or fibrotic response in a network model of fibrosis: role of the initial injury structure.

  Israel E, Hall JK, Deng Y, Bates JHT, Suki B. Front Netw Physiol 2026

  PMID: 40786135

• Physiological mechanical forces accelerate the degradation of bovine lung collagen fibers by bacterial collagenase.

  Deng Y, Herrmann J, Wang Y, Nguyen M, Hall JK, Kim JH, Smith ML, Lutchen KR, Bartolák-Suki E, Suki B. Sci Rep 2024 11 22

  PMID: 39578499