Daniel Conway is a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Ohio State University and a member of the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center. The Conway research group studies how mechanical forces regulate cellular and tissue homeostasis, with a focus on epithelial cell biology. As part of this research, we develop fluorescent-based biosensors to directly measure mechanical forces across specific proteins. Current cell mechanics projects include understanding how mechanical forces at cell-cell adhesions (adherens junctions and desmosomes), the nuclear LINC complex (nesprin, SUN, and lamin proteins), as well as the cytoskeleton, regulate fundamental biological processes.