Neural & Glial Cell Engineering

Session Chair(s)

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  Bryan Pfister

  Professor and Chair
  New Jersey Institute of Technology, United States

Track Chair(s)

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  Alan Dorval, PhD

  Associate Professor
  University of Utah Biomedical Engineering
  Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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  Aysegul Gunduz, PhD

  Professor
  University of Florida, United States
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  Maribel Vazquez, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Professor of Biomedical Engineering
  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
  Piscataway, New Jersey, United States

Presentations:

• 12:30 PM – 12:45 PM EST

  Anti-mitotic signaling regulation to enhance cell grafting outcomes at CNS injuries
  

  Presenting Author: Honour Adewumi – Boston University

  Co-Author: Emily McCarthy – Boston University

  Primary Investigator: Timothy O'Shea – Boston University
• 12:45 PM – 1:00 PM EST

  Comparative Analysis of Apoptosis Following Traumatic Brain Injury in a Closed Head Controlled Impact Model
  

  Presenting Author: Jessica Wilkes, MS, PhD (she/her/hers) – Virginia Tech

  Co-Author: Michelle White – Cutlass Systems Engineering, LLC

  Co-Author: Susan F. Murphy, PhD – Virginia Tech

  Primary Investigator: Pamela VandeVord, PhD (she/her/hers) – Virginia Tech
• 1:00 PM – 1:15 PM EST

  Determining the Role of Notch Signaling in the Neuronal Cell Fate Decisions of the Atoh1-Lineage
  

  Presenting Author: Madison E. McLaren (she/her/hers) – Rice University

  Primary Investigator: Jessica Butts, PhD – Rice University
• 1:15 PM – 1:30 PM EST

  Neurotoxicity of Alzheimer’s Disease pathological proteins is differentiation agent-specific
  

  Presenting Author: Michael Kaven, MS (he/him/his) – University of South Carolina

  Co-Author: Nolan Foreman, M.S., MS (he/him/his) – IMCS Inc.

  Primary Investigator: Melissa A. Moss, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of South Carolina
• 1:30 PM – 1:45 PM EST

  Novel Lumbosacral Neural Crest Progenitor Differentiation for In Vitro Female Reproductive Tract Pain Modeling
  

  Presenting Author: Zhixin Liao – Tufts University

  Primary Investigator: Nisha Iyer, PhD (she/her/hers) – Tufts University
• 1:45 PM – 2:00 PM EST

  Primary cortical cell tri-culture to study effects of amyloid-beta on microglia function and neuroinflammation
  

  Presenting Author: Hyehyun Kim (she/her/hers) – University of California Davis

  Co-Author: Bryan Le – University of California, Davis

  Co-Author: Noah Goshi – University of California, Davis

  Co-Author: Kan Zhu – University of California, Davis

  Co-Author: Ana Cristina Grodzki, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of California, Davis

  Co-Author: Pamela Lein – University of California, Davis

  Co-Author: Min Zhao – University of California, Davis

  Primary Investigator: Erkin Seker, PhD – University of California, Davis