12th Annual Biomedical Engineering

Student Research Symposium

Friday, April 23rd  8:30am ? 5:30 pm

BME Lecture Hall MR5 Room 1041

 

8:30                Welcome                                                             

 

8:45        Michael Smith, Ph.D.:                                         

E-selectin- and Chemokine-Induced Neutrophil Arrest

 

 9:05       Wesley Gilson:                                                                     

High Resolution Myocardial Tissue Tracking in Post-Infarct Knockout Mice

 

9:25        Chris Bachmann:                                                             

MAdCAM-1 Targeted Microbubbles:  A novel non-invasive tool for evaluating intestinal inflammation

   

9:45        Susan Cao                                                                                        

New Mathematical Analysis of Fetal Heart Rate

   

10:05     Jeffrey DiVietro                                                                

Modulation of Leukocyte Adhesion in Shear Flow by Soluble and Immobilized Chemokines: A Vascular Stop Sign?

   

10:25     Break

 

10:35     Eric Park

Leukocyte Dependency for Platelet Accumulation on Vascular Endothelium in Inflammation Induced Venous Thrombosis

   

10:55                Francesco Viola                                                                   

Imaging Viscoelastic Properties of the Vitreous Body with Acoustic Radiation Force

 

11:15     James Wang

                Hyperpolarized Xenon and Magnetic Resonance Imaging

 

11:35     Nitin Jain                                                                                        

Pathway Discovery from Gene Expression Data with Low Number of Replicates

                                               

11:55     Lunch                                                                   

 

 

 

1:00        Mary Santy

Design and Development of a Reliable, Low Cost Acoustic Radiation Force Based Mechanical Characterization System

   

1:15        Colin Choi

Mechanical and Biochemical Stimuli Induced Actin-mediated Endothelial Response

 

1:30        Xiefan Lin

Fabrication of Nanoscale Metallic Regions on Anodic Alumina for Selective Adhesion of Biologic Molecules

   

1:45        Chris Sica                                                                        

Correction for Concomitant Gradient Field Effects in MRI

 

2:00        Michael Fuller                                                                     

The Sonic Window: A Low Cost, Pocket-Sized Ultrasound Imaging Device

 

2:15        Break

 

2:25        Rosalind Mott                                                                      

Structural Dynamics in Endothelial Cells and the Effects of Shear Stress: From Cytoskeleton to Adhesions to Matrix 

   

2:40        Bin Guo

The Tail of Myosin Reduces Actin Filament Velocity in the in vitro Motility Assay

 

2:55        Bob Hong

                Experimental and Theoretical Study of Intracellular Calcium Dynamics in    
                  Neurophysiology and Neurodegeneration

   

3:10        Elizabeth Phan

                 Interferon-g Gene Deletion Does Not Impact Lesion Development in the

ApoE-/- Mouse Carotid Injury Model                                                       

   

3:25        Betsy Chesnutt

Autoperfused Flow Chamber Reveals Chemokine-Mediated Arrest of Murine Monocytes on a P-selectin/VCAM-1 Substrate

   

3:40        Break

 

3:50        Scott Lucas                                                                    

Viscoelastic Characterization of Cervical Spinal Ligaments

 

 

4:05        Meghan Nickerson                                                               

Transforming Growth Factor-ß Signaling in Microvascular Remodeling                         

                               

4:20        Florent Sureau                                                                   

Volumetric Displacement-Encoded MRI in the Mouse Heart

 

4:35                Margaret Kramer                                                

Sonorheometry: Validation and Investigation of a Novel Means of Characterizing Coagulation

 

4:50        Mami Taniuchi                                                                               

Role of Hyperglycemia and Retinal Oxygen Consumption in the Pathogenesis of Diabetic Retinopathy

   

5:10        Otis & Mary Updike Award