Naomi Handly

Naomi is passionate about bringing novel technology to bear to advance human health. Naomi was the 2nd employee at Octant and has built across all areas of the company including the OA program, building Octant HQ, Octant's multiplexed platform technology, OpenADMET, and more.

Naomi received her PhD from the University of California, San Diego under Roy Wollman quantifying how cells communicate with one another to determine their position in relation to a wound.

Outside of work you'll find Naomi spending time with her family and adopting her children's hobbies as her own.

Papers

Wound induced Ca2+ wave propagates through a simple Release and Diffusion mechanism. Mol. Biol. Cell. Handly LN, Wollman R. 2017. 28:1457-66.

Signal Transduction at the Single-Cell Level: Approaches to Study the Dynamic Nature of Signaling Networks. Handly LN, Yao J, Wollman R, J. Mol. Biol. 2016, 428: 3669-82.  

Paracrine communication maximizes cellular response fidelity in wound signaling. Handly LN; Pilko, A, Wollman R. eLife. 2015, 4:e09652.