Biomechanics In Cell and Tissue Engineering

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Session Chair(s)

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  Jason  Szafron, PhD (he/him/his)

  Assistant Professor
  Carnegie Mellon University
• 

  Olivia Boerman, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
  Bucknell University
  Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, United States

Track Chair(s)

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  Jeffrey Jacot, PhD (he/him/his)

  Associate professor
  University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
  Aurora, Colorado, United States
• 

  Hossein Tavana, PhD (he/him/his)

  Department Chair/ Professor
  University of Akron, Ohio, United States

Presentations:

• 12:30 PM – 12:45 PM EST

  Dynamic Tensile Loading Improves Engineered Tendon Formation
  

  Presenting Author: Thomas Jenkins, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – Houston Methodist Research Institute

  Co-Author: Kylee Darden – Indiana University School of Medicine

  Co-Author: Behnam Pourdeyhimi, Ph.D. – Wilson College of Textiles, North Carolina State University

  Primary Investigator: Dianne Little, DVM PhD DACVS (she/her/hers) – Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University
• 12:45 PM – 1:00 PM EST

  Mechanical characterization and microneedle puncture criteria for ex vivo bacterial biofilm infected porcine skin tissue
  

  Presenting Author: Alec McCall, BSE (he/him/his) – Brown University

  Co-Author: Christopher J. Shin, Sc.B. (he/him/his) – Disease Biophysics Group at Harvard University

  Co-Author: Akshay Pakhare – Brown University

  Co-Author: Zhaowei Jiang, MS (she/her/hers) – Brown University

  Co-Author: Pradeep Guduru – Brown University

  Primary Investigator: Anita Shukla, PhD (she/her/hers) – Brown University
• 1:00 PM – 1:15 PM EST

  Mechanical regulation of membrane potential in Non-excitable cell
  

  Presenting Author: Zhuoxu Ge, MA (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Qin Ni – Johns Hopkins University

  Primary Investigator: Sean Sun – Johns Hopkins University
• 1:15 PM – 1:30 PM EST

  Substrate stiffness regulates the junction phenotypes and cell stiffness in tricellular regions in an iPSC-derived BBB model
  

  Presenting Author: Li Yan, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland

  Co-Author: Udit Gupta – University of Maryland, College Park - Fischell Department of Bioengineering

  Primary Investigator: Kimberly Stroka, PhD – University of Maryland
• 1:30 PM – 1:45 PM EST

  BALANCING COMPETING EFFECTS OF TISSUE GROWTH AND CYTOSKELETAL REGULATION DURING ORGANOGENESIS
  

  Presenting Author: Jeremiah Zartman, PhD – University of Notre Dame

  Co-Author: Nilay Kumar – University of Notre Dame

  Co-Author: Jennifer Ambriz – University of California at Riverside

  Co-Author: Kevin Tsai – University of California at Riverside

  Co-Author: Mayesha Sahir Mim, MS – University of Notre Dame

  Co-Author: Marycruz Flores-Flores – University of Notre Dame

  Co-Author: Weitao Chen – University of California at Riverside

  Co-Author: Mark Alber – University of California at Riverside
• 1:45 PM – 2:00 PM EST

  Biomechanical evaluation of swelling copolymeric bone anchor in vivo
  

  Presenting Author: Mehrangiz Taheri, PhD (she/her/hers) – Drexel University

  Co-Author: Madeline Boyes – University of Pennsylvania

  Co-Author: Moein Taghvaei, PhD – Drexel University

  Co-Author: Amirreza Sadighi – Drexel University

  Co-Author: Delaney Oeth – University of Pennsylvania

  Co-Author: Ahmad R. Najafi – Drexel University

  Co-Author: Thomas P. Schaer, VMD – University of Pennsylvania

  Primary Investigator: Sorin Siegler, PhD (he/him/his) – Drexel University