Graduate students, faculty and staff represent department at BMES Annual Meeting

Penn State undergraduate Virginia Gonzalez presenting her poster to others attending BMES.

The Penn State Department of Biomedical Engineering was amply represented during the Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting October 7-10, in Tampa, FL.

Among those in attendance were nine bioengineering graduate students, primary and joint-appointed faculty from the department, and biomedical engineering staff.

Nineteen poster presentations were given in association with the University, as well as eight platform presentations.

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The full list of Penn State contributors  and topics are below.

Professors Justin Brown (left) and Will Hancock discuss the Penn State biomedical engineering program with an interested visitor.

Poster Presentations:

1. Continuous and Pulsatile Pediatric Ventricular Assist Device Hemodynamics with a Viscoelastic Blood Model
   B. Good¹, S. Deutsch¹, K. Manning^{1, 2}
   1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
   2 Department of Surgery, Penn State Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA, USA

2. Integrins Involved in Sensing and Adhering to Electrospun Nanofibers
   D. Bowers, J. Brown
   Department of Biomedical Engineering

3. Cell-Cell and Cell-Matrix Adhesion Regulate TGF 1- Induced Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition
   J. O’Connor, E. Gomez
   Departments of Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering

4. Non-lipid Amphiphiles Modulate Forces at Focal Adhesions
   S. Son, G. Moroney, P. Butler
   Department of Biomedical Engineering

5. Conducting Polymer-Encapsulated Microspheres for Improved Electrical Performance of Bioelectronics
   M. Antensteiner¹, F. Fallahianbijan², M. Khorrami1, M. Abidian^1,2,3
   Departments of 1 Materials Science and Engineering, 2 Chemical Engineering, 3 Bioengineering

6. Transport Activity of Multidrug Efflux Pump, P-glycoprotein, in Giant Liposomes
   S. Park¹, Y.Kang¹, S. Majd^1,2
   1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, 2 Engineering Science and Mechanics

7. A simple, tunable acoustofluidic pump via oscillating sharp-edge for cells delivery
   P. Huang, N. Nama, Z. Mao, P. Li, T. Huang
   Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics

8. Mechanotransmission in a Multicomponent, Multicell Model of the Endothelium
   M. Dabaghmeshin¹, P. Jalali¹, P. Butler², J. Tarbell³
   1 School of Technology, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
   2 Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, the Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA.
   3 Dept. of Biomedical Eng., The City College of New York, NY,USA

9. Nanoparticle Delivery of a Hydrophobic and Highly Toxic Metal Chelator to Cancer Cells
   Y. Kang¹, C. Kuo², S. Majd^1,2
   1 Department of Biomedical Engineering
   2 Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics

10. Fabrication and Characterization of Hydro­gel-Filled Nanoliposomes for Intracellular Delivery
    E. VanArsdale¹, S. Majd^1,2
    Departments of 1 Bioengineering and 2 Engineering Sciences & Mechanics

11. The Role of Cell Mechanics and Morphology in Nanoparticle Uptake
    P. Fattahi¹, S. Zhang^1,2, J. Brown¹, P. Butler¹
    1 Department of Biomedical Engineering and
    2 Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics

12. The Effects of Bioconjugation of Calcium Phosphosilicate Nanoparticles on the Delivery to Circulating Breast Cancer Cells
    V. Gonzalez¹, K. Hughes¹, L . Harter¹, O. Pinto², X. Tang³, C. Dong¹, J. Adair^1,2,4
    1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, 2 Department of Material Science and Engineering, 3 Department of Chemistry, and 4 Department of Pharmacology

13. The Use of Hierarchically Layered Biodegradable Tissue Scaffold For Wound Healing
    S. Kalaba, Z. Xie, J. Yang
    Department of Biomedical Engineering

14. Polymeric Nanoparticles as Dual-Imaging Probes for Cancer Management
    J. Menon^1,2, P. Jadeja^1,2, P. Tambe^1,2, D. Thakore^1,2, D. Nguyen^1,2, S. Zhang³, M. Takahashi³, J. Yang⁴, K. Nguyen^1,2
    1 Bioengineering Department, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA 76019
    2 Graduate Biomedical Engineering Program, The UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA 75390
    3  Advanced Imaging Research Center, The UT South­western Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA 75390
    4 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA 16802

15. Understanding Substrate Mediated Signaling Mechanisms to Augment Tendon Regeneration
    B. Banik, J. Brown
    Department of Biomedical Engineering

16. Synthesis and Characterization of Superporous Hydrogels
    J. Coyne, X. Zhang, Y. Wang
    Department of Biomedical Engineering

17. Preparation and Optimization of Brain Giloma Spheroid Models
    D. Kim², Y. Kang¹, S. Majd^1,3
    1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, 2 Department of Chemical Engineering, 3 Engineering Science and Mechanics

18. Formation of Alginate Microparticles for Cell Encapsulation Via Electrospraying
    A. Simonson, X. Ma, Y. Wang
    Department of Biomedical Engineering

19. The Effects of a Fiber Density on Adherens Junctions and Localization of - Catenin
    R. Wolfe, B.Brown, J. Brown
    Department of Biomedical Engineering

Platform Presenters:

1. Intrinsically electroactive biodegradable photolumines­cent elastomers for nerve regeneration
   D. Shan, J. Yang
   Department of Biomedical Engineering, Materials Research Institute, The Huck Institutes of The Life Sciences

2. Fabrication of Novel Citric Acid Based Biodegradable Polymer/Pearl Powder Orthopedic Composites
   

   E. Gerhard, M. Ferraro, J. Yang
   Department of Biomedical Engineering

3. Programmable release of multiple growth factors from aptamer-functionalized hydrogels for Angiogenesis
   

   Y. Wang¹, M. Battig¹, X. Zhang¹, L. Duan², G. Fong²
   1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
   2 Center for Vascular Biology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT

4. MEMS Device Integrated with Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes for Virus Capture and Detection
   Y. Yeh, S. Zheng
   Department of Biomedical Engineering

5. An acoustofluidic device for liquefying human sputum samples on-chip
   P. Huang, L. Ren, S. Li, T. Huang
   Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics

6. Direct Measurement of Kinesin-1 Mechanochemistry Using High Resolution Single-Molecular Microscopy
   K. Mickolajczyk^1,2, J. Andrecka³, J. Ortega-Arroyo³, P. Kukura³, W. Hancock^1,2
   1 Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
   2 Interdisciplinary Graduate Degree Program in Bioengineering, The Pennsylvania State University
   3 Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QZ, UK.

7. An ultrahigh throughput cell sorter using standing surface acoustic waves (SSAW)
   L. Ren, Y. Chen, P. Li, Z. Mao, J. Rufo, P. Huang, F. Guo, T. Huang
   Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics

8. Tunable chemical stimulator for studying cellular response to stimuli via oscillating sharp-edges
   P. Huang, C. Chan, P. Li, T. Huang
   Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics