Poster Session 2
Poster Session 2 Abstracts
Biomaterials / Drug Delivery
Using real-time fluorescence measurements to monitor the structural dynamics of lipid nanocarriers during simulated gastric and intestinal digestion
Daniel A. Bricarello, UC Davis
Quantifying the Effects of Transient Cellular Characteristics Using a Novel Streaming Potential Method
Nicole Carvajal, UC Riverside
Targeted Delivery of Drug‐Loaded Nanoparticles with a Transferrin Variant
Ricky Y.T. Chiu, UC Los Angeles
In Vitro Evaluation of Novel Magnesium-Zinc-Strontium Alloys for Next-Generation Biodegradable Medical Implants
Aaron F. Cipriano, UC Riverside
Investigation of a Dynamic Biomimetic Apatite Nanoparticle Delivery System for Targeted Non-viral Gene Transfection
Debobrato Das, UC Los Angeles
Forming Stable, Multi-Component Peptide Amphiphile Micelles Targeted to Atherosclerotic Plaques
Laurie B. Drews, UC Berkeley
Function and viability of explantation of human islet alginate sheets following xenotransplantation
Jonathan R.T. Lakey, UC Irvine
Detecting Multiple Cell Secreted Proteins Using Aptasensors and Electrochemical Spectroscopy
Ying Liu, UC Davis
Co-Precipitation of Composite Magnetic Particles for Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering Applications
Jaclyn Lock, UC Riverside
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Peptide Self-Assembly Under Confinement
Cade B. Markegard, UC Irvine
Improving Survival Following Cerebral Edema Using a Hollow Fiber-Hydrogel Device
Devin W. McBride, UC Riverside
Doxorubicin Loading in Novel Block Copolypeptide Vesicles
Garrett Mosley, UC Los Angeles
Degradation of Magnesium Alloy Screws in Phosphate Buffered Saline for Orthopedic Applications
Tejas Patel, UC Riverside
Delivery of Small and Large Molecules From A Hydrogel Via Light
Jessica L. Schlosser, UC Los Angeles
Electrochemical peptide-based biosensors for detection of cell-secreted proteases
Dong-Sik Shin, UC Davis
Microstructure of a Collagen Scaffold
Argus Sun, UC Los Angeles
Integration of photoactivated membrane proton pump into silicon nanowire bio- nanoelectronic devices
Ramya Tunuguntla, UC Davis
Photoresponsive Dispersion and Acutation of Graphene‐Elastin Hybrid Materials
Eddie Wang, UC Berkeley
Thermal Stress of Supported Lipid Bilayer Induces Uniform Radius Tubules
Kimberly L. Weirich, UC Santa Barbara
Characterizing Phenotype of Hepatocytes Cultured on Heparin Hydrogels of Varying Stiffness
Jungmok You, UC Davis
Biomechanics / Mechanobiology
Trypsin And Mmp-9 Levels Increase In Plasma And Lung After Hemorrhagic Shock: Potential Mechanism For Membrane Receptor Damage
Angelina E. Altshuler, UC San Diego
A 3D Model of Reach Loads for Workstation Design
Matt Camilleri, UC Berkeley
Tumor cell motility is directed by fibrillar ECM architecture
Luke Cassereau, UC San Francisco
Isoform specific Contributions of Non muscle Myosin II to Viscoelastic Properties of Stress Fibers
Ching Wei Chang, UC Berkeley
Stress-Induced Whitening occurs in Demineralized Bone
Michael Hardisty, UC Irvine
CD44-based Adhesion and Mechanotransductive Signaling on Engineered Hyaluronic Acid Matrices
Yushan Kim, UC Berkeley
Computationally Evaluating Effects of Osteoconductive Bulking Agents on Stress Distribution in Reconstructed Mandible
Ryan Kozaka, UC Riverside
Experimentally Validated Computational Simulation of Lumbar Spine Intervertebral Disc Puncture
Kristen Lipscomb, UC Davis
Identification of a Mechanoresponsive Promoter Region in the Human Cartilage Oligomeric Matrix Protein Gene
Jeffrey C. Lu, UC Davis
LABEL-FREE BIOMECHANICAL SINGLE CELL MICROFLUIDIC MEASUREMENTS FOR DIAGNOSIS OF CANCER STEM CELLS IN PATIENT TISSUES
Michael Masterman-Smith, UC Los Angeles
Predicting the Crowded Protein Osmotic Pressure of Non-Interacting Binary Solutions
Harpal S. Sagoo, UC Riverside
On-axis vs. Off-axis Strength Behavior of Human Trabecular Bone
Arnav Sanyal, UC Berkeley
Detection of ischemia using osmotic pressure data of patient blood samples. A Computational approach
Noriko U. Sausman, UC Riverside
Synthesis of hyaluronic acid hydrogels for investigating the mechanobiology of glioblastoma multiforme
Gurshamnjot Singh, UC Berkeley
Massively Parallel Polarization and Analysis of Single Cell Behavior under Magnetic Nanoparticle- mediated Mechanical Tension
Peter Tseng, UC Los Angeles
Regulation of Growth Factor Dependent Tumor Cell Proliferation by ECM Mechanics
Vaibhavi Umesh, UC Berkeley
Effects of Tissue-level Ductility on Vertebral Bone Strength
Haisheng Yang, UC Berkeley
Molecular, Cell and Tissue Engineering
Enhancing Osteoconductivity of Fibrin Gels with Apatite‐Coated Polymer Microspheres
Bernard Y.K. Binder, UC Davis
The physicochemical rules governing bilayer self-organization in the human mammary epithelium
Alec Cerchiari, UC Berkeley
Intermittent hypoxia conditioning of in vitro vascularized fibrin gels
Seema M. Ehsan, UC Irvine
Oxygen sensing and control of engineered tissue
Seema M. Ehsan, UC Irvine
Self-Assembly of Peptide Amphiphiles Into Hydrogel Via Multiscale Simulations
Iris W. Fu, UC Irvine
3D cardiac microtissue derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells
Or Gadish, UC Berkeley
Myosin IIA deficient cells migrate without exerting traction force
Melissa Jorrisch, UC Davis
Analysis of maturing young porcine islet tissue by flow cytometry.
Jonathan R.T. Lakey, UC Irvine
Effects of cold storage duration on young porcine islet isolation and maturation.
Jonathan R.T. Lakey, UC Irvine
Recruitment of Endogenous Progenitor Cells for In Situ Regeneration of Blood Vessels
Benjamin Li‐Ping Lee, UC Berkeley
A Novel Quantitative Fӧrester Resonance Energy Transfer Assay for Protease Kinetics Determination
Yan Liu, UC Riverside
The Statistical Optimization of Bioactive Regimens for Engineering Biomimetic Fibrocartilage
Regina F. MacBarb, UC Davis
Development of High Sensitive FRET-based Assay to Study Protein-Protein Interactions in NEDD8 Conjugation Pathway
Harbani Kaur Malik-Chaudhry, UC Riverside
In vitro cardiac diseased tissue model generated from human induced pluripotent stem cells
Natalie C. Marks, UC Berkeley
Tailoring Biophysical Properties of Fibrin Gels to Promote Bone Formation with Co-Cultured Cells
Kaitlin Murphy, UC Davis,
Using Growth Factor-Encoded Surfaces to influence hepatic phenotype expression
Dipali G Patel, UC Davis
Engineering Polymer Scaffolds and Activated Nanosensors to Improve Molecular Cancer Diagnostics
Maha Rahim, UC Irvine
Tandem zyxin LIM sequences do not enhance the force sensitive accumulation
Amanda N. Steele, UC Davis
Fibroblast and Pre-Osteoblast Cellular Activity on Graded Polydimethylsiloxane
Caleb Tam, UC San Francisco
Exploring Tissue Architecture via Programmed Assembly: Organotypic, Heterotypic, and Multiscale
Michael Todhunter, UC San Francisco
Effect of Biaxial Mechanical Stimulation on Maturation of Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes.
David Tran, UC Irvine
Derivation and characterization of endothelial cell subpopulations from embryonic stem cells using serum-free conditions
Lian E. Wong, UC Merced
Master’s or Undergraduate Capstone Projects
Equine Lameness Monitoring: Sensor Insert for Soft-Ride Boot
Anahid Ebrahimi, UC Davis
Functional polyelectrolyte embedded in artificial nanochannel
Daniel Hwang, UC Santa Cruz
Microfluidic Immunomagnetic Escherichia coli Separation Using Shrink Induced Nano-magnetic Traps
Nazila Norouzi, UC Irvine
A Detachable, Magnetic Grasper for Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery (SILS TM)
Matthew Sander, UC Berkeley
Home Monitoring: Early Detection of Asthma Flares
Charvi Shetty, UC Berkeley
Protein Engineering of a Mesophilic DNA Polymerase For Increased Salt Tolerance in Nanopore DNA Sequencing.
Cleoma Spilman, UC Santa Cruz
Q-Path: A Flow Through High-Throughput Quantitative Histology Platform
Andrew Tan, UC Los Angeles