Brown students and researchers presented 6 oral presentations and 15 posters at the annual BMES conference.

Oral Presentations:

• Developmental Biomimicry for Maturation of Engineered Human Cardiac Tissue   C. Rupert, K. Coulombe. 
• Flow Induced Liposome Rupture into a Lipid Bilayer on Solid Surfaces using QCM-D   C. Bailey, A. Tripathi, A. Shukla. 
• Intra-Cartilage Delivery of RNA Therapeutics via Nanopiece to Treat Osteoarthritis   Y. Chen, H. Yu, B. Vorrius, H. Fenniri, T. Webster, Q. Chen.
• Combating Candida albicans: Aspartic Protease-Triggered Hydrogels for Drug Delivery   N. Vera-Gonzalez, A. Shukla.
• Investigating Cholera Toxin Infection During Pregnancy Using an In Vitro Placental Model   T. Puranik, C. Bailey, A. Shukla.
• Rapid Workflow For Cancer Cell Genomics   A. Snider, A. Tripathi.

Poster Presentations:

• Superparamagnetic Magnetite Nanocrystal Clusters Enable Sensitive Biomarker Detection   L. Zhang, S. Tong, Q. Zhang, V. Colvin, G. Bao.
• Optimizing Magnetic Fluid Heating by Tuning the Magnetic Relaxation through Ordered Clustering   S. Tong, Q. Zhang, L. Zhang, V. Colvin, G. Bao.
• 3D Traction Generation Measured from Neutrophils Confined to Micropatterned Stripes   L. Hazlett, M. Patel, M. Harman, J. Reichner, C. Franck.
• Alterations in Adhesion: Critical Step in Developing Chemoresistant Ovarian Cancer   D. Ghosh, C. Mejia Pena, M. Dawson.
• A Stationary Microfluidic Approach to Circulating Tumor Cell Isolation from Whole Blood   I. Pirozzi, A. Snider, A. Tripathi.
• Biophysical Creep Conditioning of Engineered Human iPSC-derived Cardiac Tissue   T. Wallace, D. Ruiz, K. Coulombe.
• Processing of Fixed and Stored Adipose-Derived Stem Cells for Quantitative Protein Array Assays   J. Sadick, A. Parsons, E. Darling.
• Role Of Cross-talk Between PDGF And TGF- 1 Signaling In Controling Mesenchymal Stem Cell Migration   D. Ghosh, M. Dawson.
• Multiscale Modeling of Thrombus Biomechanics in Aortic Dissections   A. Yazdani.
• Sacrificial Fiber Patterning to Induce Vascularization and Inosculation in hiPSC-Derived Cardiac Tissues   R. Kant, K. Coulombe.
• Mean Deformation Metrics of Chemotactic Neutrophils Confined in 3D Collagen Matrices   M. Harman, L. Hazlett, J. Reichner, C. Franck.
• Synthesis and Characterization of a Magnetically Active 19F Molecular Beacon   M. Dempsey, H. Marble, T. Shen, N. Fawzi, E. Darling.
• Therapeutic Hypothermia Effects on Caspase-3 and Calpastatin Expression after Injury in a 3D in vitro TBI Model.   M. Scimone, P. Hopkins, H. Cramer, J. Estrada, C. Franck.
• Nitric Oxide-Based Modulation of Cell Binding   K. Williams, B. Leitmann, K. Homeyer, M. Goudie, H. Handa, L. Mortensen.
• A Three-Dimensional Neural Spheroid Model For Studying Ischemic Stroke   T. Pullinger, L. Kramer, S. Zambuto, M. Buonanno, V. Cox, L. Livi, A. Washington, D. Hoffman-Kim.