Biomechanics In Cell and Tissue Engineering

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)

• 

  Katherine Young, MS, PhD

  Postdoctoral Fellow
  Rice University
  Houston, Texas, United States
• 

  Xiangyu Gong, PhD

  Research Scientist
  Stony Brook University, United States

Presentations:

• 4:30 PM - 4:45 PM PDT

  Validating Cell Deformation Response Across Timescales of Seven Orders of Magnitude using Atomic Force Microscopy and Microfluidic Deformability Cytometry
  

  Presenting Author: Sheng-You Chen – Georgia Institute of Technology

  Primary Investigator: Todd Sulchek – Georgia Institute of Technology
• 4:45 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

  Indirect Measurement of Cell Loading in Hydrogel Bioinks During Handling and Preparation of 3D Models
  

  Presenting Author: Swaprakash Yogeshwaran, Doctoral Candidate – New Jersey Institute of Technology

  Primary Investigator: Amir K. K. Miri – New Jersey Institute of Technology

  Co-Author: Ayda Pormoustafa

  Co-Author: Leila Donyaparastlivari – New Jersey Institute of Technology

  Co-Author: Vidhi Patel – New Jersey Institute of Technology

  Co-Author: Alexander Buffone, Jr. – New Jersey Institute of Technology

  Co-Author: Rajarshi Chattaraj – New Jersey Institute of Technology
• 5:00 PM - 5:15 PM PDT

  The Mechanofiltration Assay: A New Technique to Study Bacterial Biomechanics at High Throughput
  

  Presenting Author: Kelsey DeFrates, PhD – University of CA, San Francisco

  Co-Author: Gissell Jimenez – University of CA, San Francisco

  Last Author: Christopher Hernandez, PhD – University of CA, San Francisco

  Primary Investigator: Christopher Hernandez, PhD – University of CA, San Francisco
• 5:15 PM - 5:30 PM PDT

  A human lung alveolus chip enables modeling ventilator-associated pneumonia for rapid therapeutic discovery in vitro
  

  Presenting Author: Yuncheng Man, PhD – Boston Children's Hospital

  Primary Investigator: Yuncheng Man, PhD – Boston Children's Hospital

  Co-Author: Yunhao Zhai – Wyss Institute

  Co-Author: Aakanksha Gulati – Wyss Institute

  Co-Author: Jie Ji – Wyss Institute

  Co-Author: Haiqing Bai – XellarBio

  Co-Author: Amanda Jiang – Boston Children's Hospital

  Co-Author: Chaitra Belgur – Wyss Institute

  Last Author: Donald Ingber – Wyss Institute
• 5:30 PM - 5:45 PM PDT

  Using a Ventilator-on-a-Chip Device to Examine the Effect of Cyclic-Stretch Frequency on Barrier Disruption
  

  Presenting Author: Skylar Trent – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Jon Fritz, MS – The Ohio State University

  Co-Author: Joshua Englert, MD – The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

  Co-Author: Samir Ghadiali, BMES Fellow – The Ohio State University

  Primary Investigator: Samir Ghadiali, BMES Fellow – The Ohio State University
• 5:45 PM - 6:00 PM PDT

  Characterization of Corneal Epithelium Health Using the Mechanical Properties of the Corneal Epithelial Glycocalyx
  

  Presenting Author: Nemea Courelli – University of California, Santa Barbara

  Co-Author: Ahmed Al Kindi – University of California, Santa Barbara

  Primary Investigator: Angela Pitenis – University of California, Santa Barbara