Biomaterials in Biomechanical Investigations

Track Chair(s)

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  Janeta Zoldan

  Associate Professor
  The University of Texas at Austin, United States
• 

  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
• 

  Ester Kwon, PhD

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

Session Chair(s)

• BS

  Blanka Sharma

  P.I
  University of Florida, United States
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  Rahimeh Rasouli, PhD

  Postdoctoral fellow
  Dalhousie University
  Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Presentations:

• 8:30 AM - 8:45 AM PDT

  Quantification of Mechanical Stresses Within 3D Matrices Using Quantitative polarization Microscopy
  

  Presenting Author: Francois Bordeleau, PhD – Universite Laval

  Co-Author: Reza Alavi – Universite Laval

  Co-Author: Benjamin Trudel – Universite Laval

  Co-Author: Olivier Chancy – Universite Laval

  Co-Author: solange Landreville – Universite Laval

  Co-Author: Michele Desjardins

  Co-Author: Abdolhamid Akbarzadeh
• 8:45 AM - 9:00 AM PDT

  Shielded for Stability: Oxidant-Resistant Nickel and Cobalt Nanoparticles for Enhanced X-Ray Fluorescence Microscopy and In Vivo Biocompatibility
  

  Presenting Author: Anshika Nagar, Master of Science – Oregon State University

  Primary Investigator: Marilyn Mackiewicz – Oregon State University
• 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM PDT

  Analyte Accumulation in Hydrogel Microparticles - Fabricating the Perfect Particle
  

  Presenting Author: Alyssa Arnheim – UCLA

  Co-Author: Ian Morales – UCLA

  Primary Investigator: Dino Di Carlo – UCLA

  Co-Author: Andrew Tran – UCLA
• 9:15 AM - 9:30 AM PDT

  Light-triggered electromechanical feedback in a flexible cardiac polymeric interface
  

  Presenting Author: Yuyao Kuang, PhD Candidate – University of California, Irvine

  Primary Investigator: Herdeline Ann Ardona – University of California, Irvine
• 9:30 AM - 9:45 AM PDT

  Advancing Biomechanical Measurement and Self-Sensing Biomaterials with Mechanochemical Tools
  

  Presenting Author: Xiaocun Lu, PhD – Clarkson University

  Primary Investigator: Xiaocun Lu, PhD – Clarkson University
• 9:45 AM - 10:00 AM PDT

  Physiological buffer effects on the mechanical properties of a dynamic covalently crosslinked hydrogel
  

  Presenting Author: Daiyao Zhang – Stanford University

  Co-Author: Neil Baugh – Stanford University

  Last Author: Sarah C. Heilshorn – Stanford University

  Primary Investigator: Sarah C. Heilshorn – Stanford University