Mechanotransduction Under Applied Forces

Track Chair(s)

• LT

  Luke (Lucas) Timmins, PhD

  Associate Professor
  Texas A&M University
  Houston, Texas, United States
• KM

  Kristen Mills

  Associate Professor
  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States

Session Chair(s)

• AA

  Ahmed Alshareef, n/a

  Assistant Professor
  Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of South Carolina, SC, US
  Columbia, South Carolina, United States
• YX

  Yuliang Xie

  Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Iowa, United States

Presentations:

• 3:45 PM - 4:00 PM PDT

  Mechanical Compression Promotes Pro-Aggressive Phenotypic Shifts in Vestibular Schwannoma
  

  Presenting Author: Han TN Nguyen, PhD – Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Ryan C. Brune – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Karpagam Palaniappan – Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Melanie Fisher – Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Kyle VanKoevering – Ohio State University

  Primary Investigator: Yin Ren – Ohio State University
• 4:00 PM - 4:15 PM PDT

  Mechanical stretch induced collective cell alignment
  

  Presenting Author: Xuechen Shi – University of Pennsylvania

  Primary Investigator: Xuechen Shi – University of Pennsylvania

  Last Author: Sulin Zhang – Pennsylvania State University
• 4:15 PM - 4:30 PM PDT

  Tension Anisotropy Induces Mechanical Memory and Long-term Activation of Fibroblasts
  

  Presenting Author: Farid Alisafaei, PhD – New Jersey Institute of Technology

  Co-Author: Delaram Shakiba – Johns Hopkins

  Co-Author: Mohammad Jafari – New Jersey Institute of Technology

  Primary Investigator: Guy Genin, PhD – Washington University in St Louis

  Co-Author: Yuan Hong
• 4:30 PM - 4:45 PM PDT

  Studying the effect of compressive solid stress on macrophage phenotype and function in the context of glioblastoma
  

  Presenting Author: Alice Burchett – University of Notre Dame

  Co-Author: Hao Chen – University of Notre Dame

  Co-Author: Scott S. Howard – University of Notre Dame

  Last Author: Meenal Datta – University of Notre Dame
• 4:45 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

  Effects of Fluid Shear Stress on Primary M2 Macrophage Functionality and Polarization
  

  Presenting Author: Natalie Curry – Rice University

  Primary Investigator: Michael King – Rice University

  Co-Author: Abigail Fabiano – Vanderbilt University
• 5:00 PM - 5:15 PM PDT

  Investigating Nuclear Mechanotransduction by Mapping Genome-wide Changes in Transcription and Chromatin Accessibility in Response to Mechanical Stretch
  

  Presenting Author: Julien Morival, PhD – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Anna Hazelwood – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Jacob Odell, PhD – Cornell University

  Primary Investigator: Jan Lammerding, PhD – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Ameen Haj Yahia – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Joseph Long, PhD

  Primary Investigator: John Lis, PhD – Cornell University