Natural and Bioinspired Biomaterials

Track Chair(s)

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  Janeta Zoldan

  Associate Professor
  The University of Texas at Austin, United States
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  MK Sewell-Loftin

  Assistant Professor
  University of Alabama Birmingham, Alabama, United States
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  Ryan Stowers

  Assistant Professor
  UC Santa Barbara, United States
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  Ester Kwon, PhD

  Associate Professor
  University of California, San Diego, California, United States

Session Chair(s)

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  Greg Harris, PhD

  University of Cincinnati, United States
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  Ali Salifu

  Assistant Professor
  Boston College
  Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States

Presentations:

• 4:30 PM - 4:45 PM PDT

  Design and evaluation of SymClot, a synthetic platelet for hemostasis and tissue repair
  

  Invited Speaker: Ashley C. Brown – North Carolina State University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 4:45 PM - 5:00 PM PDT

  Nanotopographic Regulation of Cellular Senescence Biomarkers in Mammalian Cells
  

  Presenting Author: Amarnath Singam, PhD – UNLV

  Co-Author: Deok-Ho Kim – Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Tatsuya Matsubara, PhD – Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Isaac Berk

  Co-Author: Calvinique Lee

  Co-Author: Jihoon Lee

  Co-Author: Jeremy Cho

  Last Author: Seungman Park – UNLV

  Primary Investigator: Seungman Park – UNLV
• 5:00 PM - 5:15 PM PDT

  Tunable Keratin Biomaterial Carriers for Recombinant Human Bone Morphogenetic Protein 2 Delivery and Bone Regeneration in a Rat Non-Union Model
  

  Presenting Author: Justin Saul, PhD – Miami University

  Primary Investigator: Justin Saul, PhD – Miami University

  Co-Author: Judy Bohnert – University of Cincinnati

  Co-Author: Molly O'Brien, CCP – Cincinnati Children's Hospital

  Co-Author: Saif Alnuaimi – Tawam Hospital

  Co-Author: Troy Carnwath – Carolinas Medical Center

  Co-Author: Quinn Dunivan – University of Cincinnati

  Co-Author: Douglas W. Coffin, Ph.D. – Miami University

  Last Author: Thomas Smith, Ph.D. – Wake Forest University School of Medicine
• 5:15 PM - 5:30 PM PDT

  Bio-Inspired Underwater Adhesion for Soft Substrates
  

  Presenting Author: Ziliang Kang, PhD – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Last Author: Giovanni Traverso – MIT
• 5:30 PM - 5:45 PM PDT

  Sweet Corn Phytoglycogen as a Lyoprotectant for Dry-State Protein Storage
  

  Presenting Author: Junha Park, MS – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Susan Kim Boehlein – University of Florida

  Primary Investigator: Gregory Hudalla – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Marcio Resende – University of Florida
• 5:45 PM - 6:00 PM PDT

  Cellular Nanoparticles Treat Coronavirus Infection in Vivo
  

  Presenting Author: Yiyan Yu – University of California San Diego

  Primary Investigator: Liangfang Zhang – University of California San Diego

  Co-Author: Daniela Silva-Ayala

  Co-Author: Zhidong Zhou

  Co-Author: Yifei Peng

  Co-Author: Ronnie Fang

  Co-Author: Weiwei Gao

  Co-Author: Anthony Griffiths