BME Senior Project Presentations

Event time: 
Monday, April 27, 2015 - 9:00am to Tuesday, April 28, 2015 - 4:30pm
Location: 
17 Hillhouse Building, Room 115 See map
Event description: 

MONDAY, April 27th:

8:30   Selen Uman (Jay Humphrey)  Two Models of Thoracic Aortic Dissections: Histological Consequences of diminished TGF-β signaling in TGFBRII model and of high-dose Angiotensin-II infusion in ApoE-/- model  

8:45   Kevin Vargas (Jay Humphrey)  Quantification of the change in soluble collagen production in unsorted aortic murine smooth muscle cells (SMCs) resulting from mechanical (6-12% cyclic stretch) and chemical (angiotensin-II) stimuli  

9:00   Clinton Wang (Jay Humphrey)  Interactions with Myosin and the Thin Filament may both contribute to the Role of MyBPC in Cardiac Contraction  

9:15   Young-Eun Hyun (Jay Humphrey)  Intraluminal Thrombus Formation and Progression in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms, an Investigation on Effects of Lesion Morphology and Hemodynamics  

9:30   Lauren Gardanier (Jay Humphrey/ Pramad Bonde)  Evaluation of a new Left Ventricular Assist Device  

9:45   Samantha Schumm (Jay Humphrey)   Passive tri-axial mechanical response of porcine descending thoracic aorta subjected to osmotic loading  

10:00  Brianna Chrisman (Stuart Campbell)  Multi-scale Computational Model to Study Cardiac Remodeling  

10:15   BREAK  

10:30   James Ting (Stuart Campbell)  Study of engineered heart tissues (EHTs)  

10:45  Courtney McEachon (Steve Tommassini)  Mechanism for mineral recovery in patients with XLH during pregnancy and lactation  

11:00   Andrea Torres (Steve Tommassini)  Predictor of patient risk for acetabular fracture

11:15  Yombe Fonkeu (Rong Fan)  Characterizing the single cell phenotypes of cancer cells through DNA-encoded protein profiling

 11:30 Kevin Boehm (Laura Niklason)  Bio-chemo-mechanical induction of human mesenchymal stem cells toward a pulmonary epithelial phenotype  with fate analysis by multiscale modeling  

 11:45 Elise Wilcox (Laura Niklason)  Matrix “zip code” characterization on rat lung slices using immunofluorscent staining  

12:00 Lunch (Provided)

12:45   Thomas Morley (Larry Staib/Joe Zinter)  Laparoscopic Hernia Repair Device  

1:00   Nimisha Ganesh (Larry Staib/Hitten Zaveri)   Investigating the relationship between brain electrophysiology and neurochemistry in patients with medically intractable epilepsy

1:15   Kathi Jindachomthong  (Fahmeed Hyder)  Investigating the Relationship between Tourette Syndrome and the Histidine Decarboxylase Gene using Diffusion Tensor Imaging of Oligodendrocytes

1:30   Selin Isguyen (Doug Rothman/ Richard Kibbey) Towards the study of 13C Glucose from MR Spectroscopy

1:45   Jeff March (Todd Constable)  Design of a Hand-Held MR Imaging System     

2:00   Victoria Chu  (Michael Choma)  Designing Smartphone Adaptable Phase Contrast Imaging Microscope  

2:15    Kevin Zhou (Michael Choma)  Fluid flow velocimetry using optical coherence tomography          

2:30   BREAK

2:45    Nafeesa Khan  (Kathryn Miller-Jensen)  Systems Biology  

3:00   Smita Shukla  (Kathryn Miller-Jensen)  Changes in Interferon Response of Progressed HeLa cells to VSV Infection

3:15   Katelyn Chan (Anjelica Gonzalez)  PremieBreathe: Developing a Low-Cost Humidified High Flow Nasal Cannula  

3:30   Ian Cook (Anjelica Gonzalez)  Studying the role of endothelial cells and pericytes in monocyte extravasation across post-capillary venules

3:45   Ilana Scandariato (Anjelica Gonzalez) Exploration of a solubilized ECM coating for implanted biomaterials  

4:00   Shalmoli Halder (Paul Van Tassel)  Nanofilm Biomaterials Project for creating rigid and bioactive nanofilms using surface shock technique  

         4:15   Weitao William Qiang  (Andre Levchenko)  Systems Biology

TUESDAY, April 28th:

8:30   Rajwant Majal (Themis Kyriakides)   Utilization of electrospinning techniques in order to mitigate the foreign body response and accelerate would healing 

8:45   Julie Chang (Themis Kyriakides)   Characterization of Keratinocyte and Fibroblast Migration on TSP-2 KO Extracellular Matrix 

9:00   Morgan Kiss (Tarek Fahmy)  Structural and Functional Stability of Formulations for Cancer Immunotherapy  

9:15   Andriana Lebid (Tarek Fahmy)  Optimizing nanolipogel particles for delivery of a Bruton tyrosine kinase essential for activation of B cells

9:30   Chanjuan Joyce Li (Tarek Fahmy)  Cell Culture Flow Device – Joint Senior Project

9:45   Brendan Shi (Tarek Fahmy)   Cell Culture Flow Device – Joint Senior Project

10:00  Andrew Qi (Tarek Fahmy)  Combined Losartan and IL-2 Delivery for Cancer Therapy  

10:15   BREAK  

10:30   Olufake Ogunmola (Tarek Fahmy) Development of Fe-Pt magnetic nanoparticles

10:45  Muneeb Mohideen (Mark Saltzman)  Novel Poly(lactone-co-hydroxyamino esters) as Dual Delivery Vectors for Gene Therapy

11:00  Sophia Urry Szymkowiak (Mark Saltzman)  Fabrication of siRNA-encapsulating PLGA nanoparticles for the prevention of herpes