Mechanobiology and Mechanotransduction in Orthopaedic Tissues

Session Chair(s)

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  Catherine Kuo, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Associate Professor
  University of Maryland
  College Park, Maryland, United States
• 

  Christopher Panebianco, PhD (he/him/his)

  IRACDA Postdoctoral Research Scholar
  University of Pennsylvania
  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Track Chair(s)

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  Hae Lin Jang

  Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
• AG

  Aaron Goldstein

  Virginia Tech

Presentations:

• 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM EST

  Mechanobiology of Tendon Development to Inform Adult Tendon Therapeutic Strategies
  

  Invited Speaker: Catherine K. Kuo, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland
• 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM EST

  Dynamic Tensile Loading Modulates Gene Expression Through Epigenetic Regulation in Tenocytes
  

  Presenting Author: Yuna Heo – University of Pennsylvania

  Co-Author: Yujia Zhang – University of Pennsylvania

  Co-Author: Yongho Bae, PhD (he/him/his) – University at Buffalo

  Primary Investigator: Su Chin Heo (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania, Departments of Bioengineering and Orthopaedic Surgery
• 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM EST

  Effects of Genetic Variability on Muscle Adaptation to Mechanical Unloading
  

  Presenting Author: Jessica Williamson (she/her/hers) – Virginia Commonwealth University

  Co-Author: Michael Friedman, PhD – Virginia Commonwealth University

  Co-Author: John McKean, II (he/him/his) – Virginia Commonwealth University

  Last Author: Henry Donahue, PhD – Virginia Commonwealth University

  Primary Investigator: Priscilla Hwang, PhD – Virginia Commonwealth University
• 9:15 AM – 9:30 AM EST

  Ex vivo recapitulation of bone mechanobiology in a bioengineered 3D lamellar bone organoid
  

  Co-Author: Yongkuk Park, PhD – Harvard Medical School / Brigham and Women's Hospital

  Co-Author: Hyejin Yoon, PhD – University of Massachusetts Amherst

  Presenting Author: Jungwoo Lee, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 9:30 AM – 9:45 AM EST

  Hypermotility Rescues Paralysis-Inhibited Embryonic Tendon Development in a Stage-Dependent Manner
  

  Presenting Author: Ivy Vien – University of Maryland

  Co-Author: Aniket Jana – University of Maryland

  Co-Author: Chia-Lung Wu, PhD – University of Rochester

  Primary Investigator: Catherine K. Kuo, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland
• 9:45 AM – 10:00 AM EST

  Maternal exercise enhances fetal bone development
  

  Presenting Author: Christopher J. Panebianco, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania

  Last Author: Joel Boerckel, Ph.D. – University of Pennsylvania

  Co-Author: Niamh Nowlan, PhD (she/her/hers) – University College Dublin

  Co-Author: Nathaniel Dyment, PhD