Mechanics-Driven Brain Injury

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)

• CJ

  Curtis Johnson

  Associate Professor
  University of Delaware, United States
• 

  Morteza Seidi

  Assistant Professor
  University of Texas at San Antonio
  San Antonio, Texas, United States

Presentations:

• 2:00 PM - 2:15 PM PDT

  Full-Field Brain Strain Reconstruction from Sparse Displacement Data using Machine Learning
  

  Presenting Author: Andrew H. Chang – University of South Carolina

  Co-Author: Samuel Remedios – The Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Dzung Pham, n/a – Department of Radiology and Bioengineering, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, US

  Last Author: Ahmed Alshareef, n/a – Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of South Carolina, SC, US

  Primary Investigator: Ahmed Alshareef, n/a – Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of South Carolina, SC, US
• 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM PDT

  Accumulation of axonal damages from repeated stretches
  

  Presenting Author: Chaokai Zhang, PhD – Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  Last Author: Songbai Ji – Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  Primary Investigator: Songbai Ji – Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM PDT

  Pathological brain compression drives neuronal apoptosis, impairs synaptic activity, and promotes glial neuroinflammation in mice and humans
  

  Presenting Author: Maksym Zarodniuk, MSc – University of Notre Dame

  Co-Author: Anna Wenninger – University of Notre Dame

  Co-Author: Julian Najera, BS – University of Notre Dame

  Co-Author: Jihaeng Lee – University of Notre Dame

  Co-Author: Jack Markillie – University of Notre Dame

  Co-Author: Cameron MacKenzie – University of Notre Dame

  Co-Author: Bianca V. Batista – University of Notre Dame

  Co-Author: Megna Panchbhavi – University of Notre Dame

  Co-Author: R’nld Rumbach – University of Notre Dame

  Co-Author: Alice Burchett – University of Notre Dame

  Co-Author: Hailey Sallaberry – University of Notre Dame

  Co-Author: Bradley Smith – University of Notre Dame

  Primary Investigator: Meenal Datta – University of Notre Dame

  Last Author: Christopher Patzke – University of Notre Dame
• 2:45 PM - 3:00 PM PDT

  Learning and memory under mechanical tension in vitro
  

  Presenting Author: Ki Yun Lee – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Last Author: M. Taher A. Saif – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Primary Investigator: M. Taher A. Saif – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 3:00 PM - 3:15 PM PDT

  A Pipeline for Developing Population-Specific Axonal-Embedded Brain Finite Element Models
  

  Presenting Author: Bahram Jafari – University of Texas at San Antonio

  Co-Author: Amirhossein Bagherian Rekavandi, PhD – University of Texas at San Antonio

  Primary Investigator: Marzieh Memar, PhD – University of Texas at San Antonio
• 3:15 PM - 3:30 PM PDT

  In-vitro Stress Relaxation Response of Human Neonatal Peripheral Nerves
  

  Presenting Author: Kalyani Ghuge – Temple University

  Co-Author: Scott Kozin – Shriners Childrens Hospital

  Co-Author: Sriram Balasubramanian – School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems, Drexel University

  Co-Author: Anita Singh – Temple University

  Primary Investigator: Anita Singh – Temple University