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BME Students' Accomplishments - Spring 2018

May 9, 2018
Celinda Kofron

Bethany Almeida presented at Providence WE Local.

Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses Presenters

Ben Wilks (back right) completed

Dean Beresford, Berke Buyukkucak, Gian Ignacio, Professor Kofron, Professor Tripathi, Ileana Pirozzi, Neel Sodha, and Celina Hsieh celebrate the Johns Hopkins Healthcare Design Competition win.

Dean Beresford, Owen Leary, Professor Kofron, Professor Tripathi, Rohan Rastogi, and Zakir Tahiry celebrate the NEBEC win.

Justin Lee, Claire Sise, Zachary Neronha, Luke Morales, and Professor Kofron visit Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ.

Adil Akif

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Alexander Lo

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Congratulations to our BME undergraduates, Master's candidates, and PhD students and candidates on their many accomplishments this semester!

Undergraduate Honors Theses:

  • Zahra Ahmed (Advisor: Vicki Colvin): A Living Filter: Engineered Microbes for the Removal of Arsenic from Water and Beverages
  • Adil Akif (Advisor: Jonghwan Lee): Novel Doppler OCT Clutter Rejection with Algorithm Optimizations
  • Elizabeth Bixler (Advisor: Eric Darling): Effect of Cell Cycle on Surface Marker Expression in Adipose-Derived Stem Cells
  • Mark Hays (Advisor: Leigh Hochberg): Task Context Related Changes in Motor Cortical Networks in People with Tetraplegia Using an Intracortical Brain-Computer Interface
  • Celina Hsieh (Advisor: Christopher de Graffenried): Optimizing HaloTag Labeling in Trypanosoma brucei
  • Gian Christian Ignacio (Advisor: Kareen Coulombe): Wet-Spun Carbon Nanotube Encapsulated Microfibers for Cardiac Tissue Repair
  • Amelia Khoo (Advisor: Kareen Coulombe): Inducing Vascular Growth into Patterned Engineered Cardiac Tissue In Vivo
  • Justin Lee (Advisor: Braden Fleming): Comparing Histological Predictors of ACL Healing to MRI Derived T2* Relaxometry in Repaired Ligaments at Early Healing Stages
  • Dana Leichter (Advisor: Joseph Crisco): Weight-Bearing Sensor for Stander Therapy Technology and Market Assessment
  • Keenan Line (Advisor: Eric Darling): Osteodifferentiation and Growth Patterns of Adipose-Derived Stem Cells Can Be Controlled Using PDMS Microstructures
  • Alexander Lo (Advisor: John Simeral): Preliminary Longitudinal Analysis of Neural Units as Recorded by a Multielectrode Array
  • Matthew Lo (Advisor: Braden Fleming): The Functional Role of Lubricin in Preventing Fibrosis in the Knee Joint
  • Lilibeth Martinez (Advisor: Anubhav Tripathi): Exploring Novel Methods of DNA Fragmentation and Determination of Genomic DNA Quality
  • Anthony Minnah (Advisor: Christopher Born): An Analysis of the Antimicrobial Effects of a Silver-doped TiO2-PDMS Coating on MDR A. baumannii and Vancomycin Resistant E. faecalis on Orthopaedic Biomaterials
  • Luke Morales (Advisor: Ian Wong): Nanocomposite Alginate-Graphene Oxide Hydrogels as Antifouling and Actuating Materials
  • Ileana Pirozzi (Advisor: Anubhav Tripathi): Design and Development of Microfluidic Technologies for Rare Cell and Single-Cell Isolation and Analysis
  • Claire Sise (Joseph Crisco): Effects of Musculoskeletal Simulation and Coordinate System Definition on Determining Intact Wrist Mechanical Properties
  • Mikayla Tinus (Jonghwan Lee): The Search for Early Retinal Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease in the Mouse Model

 

ScM Theses:

  • Christina Andrews (Advisor: Christian Franck): A Biophysical Analysis of Neutrophil Force Generation in a Biochemical Environment
  • Cameron Baptista (Advisor: Edith Mathiowitz): Developments Toward the Characterization and Quantification of Pressure-Temperature Induced Mesophases in Non-Mesogenic Thermoplastic Polymers
  • Kabisa Baughen (Advisor: David Durfee): Design and Development of a Novel Neonatal Transilluminator
  • Shannon Crowley (Advisor: Jonghwan Lee): Optical coherence tomography of cortical tissue in pilocarpine treated rats as a model for temporal lobe epilepsy
  • Chinedu Irofuala (Advisor: Kareen Coulombe): Cardiac Differentiation Potential is Modulated by Genetic Background: Implications for Personalized Medicine
  • Hanyang (Luke) Liu (Advisor: Anita Shukla): Auranofin Releasing Antibacterial and Antibiofilm Polyurethane Intravascular Catheter Coatings
  • Maximillian Lowndes (Advisor: Wael Assad): Method and Application of Behavioral Closed-Loop DBS in Nonhuman Primates
  • Japheth Omonira (Advisor: Gerard Nau): Disruption of yfjD Gene in Francisella tularensis
  • Maria Paredes (Advisor: Kareen Coulombe): Utilizing geometric cues for hiPSC-cardiomyocytes maturation on 2D patterned surfaces for regenerative medicine
  • Deanna Steuber (Advisor: Edith Mathiowitz): Polymer-Drug Matrix Construction for Transvaginal Drug Delivery
  • Sarah Syrop (Advisor: David Borton): System for Chronic In-Vitro Neural Cell Culture Recordings and Data Transmission
  • Yinong Wang (Advisor: David Borton): Decoding hindlimb kinematics from primate motor cortex using long short-term memory recurrent neural networks
  • Patrick Zhang (Advisor: I. Neil Sarkar): Exploring the Potential of Direct-To-Consumer Genomic Test Data for Predicting Adverse Drug Events

 

PhD theses:

  • Rafael Gonzalez-Cruz (Advisor: Eric Darling): Analysis of Cellular Mechanical Properties and Nuclear Lamin Proteins as Biomarkers for Whole-Cell Mechanophenotyping of Adipose-Derived Stem Cells
  • Elizabeth A. Leary (Advisor: Jeffrey Morgan):  Advancing the use of 3D Spheroids for Quantitative, Live-Cell, Fluorescence Microscopy in a High-Throughput Format
  • Manisha K. Shah (Advisor: Eric Darling):  Role of Mechanophenotype in Cell-Substrate Interactions
  • Lei Zhang (Advisor: Anubhav Tripathi): Molecular Diagnostics using Biosynthetic Engineering and Microfluidics Design

 

Abstracts and Presentations:

  • Manisha K. Shah, Elizabeth A. Leary, Jeffrey R. Morgan, and Eric M. Darling. Incorporation of Cell Mimicking Microparticles into a 3D Tumor Model of Melanoma. Poster Presentation: Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Conference; January 2-6, 2018: Key Largo, FL.
  • Bardiya Akhbari, Amy M. Morton, Douglas C. Moore, Arnold-Peter C. Weiss, and Joseph J. Crisco. CT-Generated Implant Models for Biplane Videoradiographic Analysis of Total Wrist Arthroplasty. Oral Presentation: Orthopaedic Research Society; March 10-13, 2018; New Orleans, LA.
  • Bardiya Akhbari, Deborah E. Kenney, Kerry A. Ebert,  Amy L. Ladd, Arnold-Peter C. Weiss, Douglas C. Moore, and Joseph J. Crisco. Decreased Passive Retroposition on with Progression of Thumb Carpometacarpal Joint Osteoarthritis. Poster Presentation: Orthopaedic Research Society; March 10-13, 2018; New Orleans, LA.
  • Flannery SW, Fleming EN, Karamchedu NP, Behnke AL, Beveridge JE, Proffen BL, Sieker JT, Murray MM, Fleming BC. Assessing meniscus integrity post-ACL repair with MRI T2* relaxometry. Poster Presentation: Orthopaedic Research Society; March 10-13, 2018; New Orleans, LA.
  • Patrick Zhang and Indra Sarkar. Exploring the potential of direct-to-consumer genetic test data for predicting adverse drug events. Oral Presentation: AMIA 2018 Informatics Summit; March 12-15, 2018; San Francisco, CA.
  • Zahra Ahmed, Lilibeth Martinez, Joshua Daniel, Lucy Yip, Amber Buhagiar, and Ian Michelow. Malaria detection by Force Analysis through Exploitation of Erythrocyte Deformability. Poster Presentation: 44th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference; March 28-30; Philadelphia, PA.
  • Owen Leary, Zakir Tahiry, Rohan Rastogi, Noah Trac, Shane Lee, and Wael Asaad. Polymeric Electrode Placement Catheter Design with Steel Inserts For Peel-Away Removal in Deep Brain Stimulation. Poster Presentation: 44th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference; March 28-30; Philadelphia, PA.
  • Alexander Lo, Matthew Lo, Claire Sise, Luke Morales, Justin Lee, Matthew Borges, Franklin Tarke. Low-Cost Prosthetic Knee for Amputees in Developing Countries. Poster Presentation: 44th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference; March 28-30; Philadelphia, PA.
  • Julia Lee, Collin Polucha, and Jonghwan Lee. Cellular Viability Imaging with DLS-OCT. Poster Presentation: OSA Biophotonics Congress: Biomedical Optics; April 3-6, 2018; Hollywood, FL.
  • Noel Vera-Gonzalez and Anita Shukla. Combating Fungal Infections Using Responsive Hydrogels for Drug Delivery. Oral Presentation: 2018 Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting and Exposition; April 11-14, 2018; Atlanta, GA.
  • Shashank Shukla, Joseph Favata, Anubhav Tripathi, Sina Shahbazmohamadi, and Anita Shukla. Evaluation of Gellan Hydrogel Mictostructure and Drug Release Kinetics. Poster Presentation: 2018 Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting and Exposition; April 11-14, 2018; Atlanta, GA.
  • Alessia Battigelli, Bethany Almeida, and Anita Shukla. Clicking Mesenchymal Stem Cells on Hydrogel Surfaces: Towards Applications in Wound Healing. Poster Presentation: 2018 Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting and Exposition; April 11-14, 2018; Atlanta, GA.
  • Bethany Almeida and Anita Shukla. Influencing the physical and chemical microenvironment to control mesenchymal stem cell differentiation. Poster and Oral Presentation: Providence WE Local; April 20-21, 2018; Providence, RI.

 

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