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While you're in Philadelphia for BMES 2019, stop by our booth in the exhibition hall and our reception on Friday, October 18, 2019 at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown - Salon D. 

Here is a list of the posters and presentations presented by The University of Texas at Austin faculty and students at the 2019 BMES Meeting on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Please join us at one of our presentations or visit us at our booth to learn more about our programs.

Posters & Presentations

Thursday, October 17, 2019—Presentations

8:45 AM – 9:00 AM | Room 121C
Cadherin-11 Blockade Exacerbates Neointima Formation Following Vascular Injury
M. Bersi, T. Huffstater, V. Le, A. Baker, W. Merryman.

1:45 P M – 2:00 PM | Room 120B
Comprehensive Analysis of CD8+ T Cells Responding to Basal Cell and Squamous Cell Carcinomas
A. Schonnesen, P. Parker, K. Ma, M. Lewis, N. Jiang.

2:30 PM – 2:45 PM | Room 120A
Commonly Used Thiol-Containing Antioxidants Reduce Cardiac Differentiation and Alter Gene Expression Ratios of Sarcomeric Isoforms
N. Momtahan, C. Tu, J. Zoldan.

3:45 PM – 4:00 PM | Room 125
Non-invasive Assessment of Stroke Risk in Pediatric Cerebrovascular Disease
S. Hossain, Z. Starosolski, T. Sanders, M. Wu, M. Hsu, D. Milewicz,
A. Annapragada.

5:00 PM – 5:15 PM | Room 122B
Studying JNK2 oligomers in live cells using a 3D single-molecule tracking technique
Y. Chen, T. Kaoud, Y. Chang, T. Nguyen, Y. Kuo, Y. Liu, S. Hong, K. Dalby, T. Yeh.

Thursday, October 17, 2019—Posters

P-Th-133
Quantifying The 3D Mechanical Tractions Of The Aortic Heart Valve Interstitial Cell
A. Khang, E. Lejeune, J. Sansom, N. West, M. Sacks.

P-Th-320
In Vivo Modulation of Dendritic Cells by a Dual Nanogel System for Immunotherapeutic Treatments
D. Huang, A. Wagner, N. Peppas.

P-Th-321
Manipulating Macrophage Phenotype Through Nanoparticle Engineering
J. Widman, K. Dhada, D. Hernandez, L. Suggs.

P-Th-353
Fiber Optic Microneedle Device for Co-delivery of Drug and Laser Energy
F. Akhter, J. Mehta, F. Bass, B. Griffin, A. Harb, M. Canelas, C. Rylander, R. Hood.

P-Th-366
Nanoparticles for Dual Chemotherapy and Photothermal Therapy of Cancer
N. Heshmati Aghda, J. Tunnell, T. Betancourt.

P-Th-399
Hypoxia, Desmoplasia and Metabolic Activity Mediated Chemoresistance of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
A. Ozkan, T. Yankeelov, M. Rylander.

P-Th-692
Optical Sensing of Dry-Eye Biomarkers in Pooled Human Tears Using Hydrogel-Coated Gold Nanoshells
M. Wechsler, J. Dang, S. Simmonds, K. Bahrami, N. Peppas.

P-Th-751
The Microstructural-Mechanical Relationship of Ovine Tricuspid Valve Leaflets
W. Meador, M. Mathur, M. Malinowski, T. Jazwiec, T. Timek, M. Rausch.

P-Th-756
Mechanics of the Normal Tricuspid Valve Complex: An Investigation in Sheep
M. Mathur, W. Meador, M. Malinowski, T. Jazwiec, T. Timek, M. Rausch.

P-Th-757
Hydrogel Injection Modulation of Local 3D Myocardium Structure and Mechanical Behavior
D. Li, R. Avazmohammadi, C. Rodell, S. Merchant, T. Kawamura, E. Hsu, J. Burdick, J. Gorman, R. Gorman, M. Sacks.

P-Th-761
Quantifying the Vasculogenic Potential of iPSC-derived Endothelial Progenitors in Collagen Hydrogels
C. Crosby, J. Zoldan.

P-Th-816
Image-Based Estimation of Valve Leaflet Deformations in Patients with Normal and Bicuspid Aortic Valves
B. Rego, S. Potter, A. Pouch, R. Gorman, M. Sacks.

P-Th-868
Assessing metastatic potential of cancer cells based on transmembrane receptor dynamics
Y. Liu, C. Chou, A. Horning, M. Kim, R. Vasisht, B. Lieberman, Y. Kuo, P. Ang, C. Liu, E. Perillo, Y. Chen, K. Blocher, H. Horng, Y. Chen, D. Nguyen, T. Yankeelov, A. Dunn, M. Hung, C. Chen, T. Yeh.

P-Th-936
Phenotypic Dynamics of Therapy-Induced Drug Resistance in Cancer: an Integrated Modeling Approach
K. Johnson, W. Mo, G. Howard, A. Al'Khafaji, E. Brenner, D. Morgan, R. Durrett, A. Brock.

P-Th-938
Towards Modeling of Tumor Cell Growth via FRET-guided Glucose Dynamics
J. Yang, J. Virostko, D. Hormuth, T. Davis, T. Yankeelov.

P-Th-940
A Computational-experimental Model To Predict The Response Of Glioma Cells To Radiotherapy
J. Liu, D. Hormuth, M. Mckenna, T. Davis, J. Yang, T. Yankeelov.

Friday, October 18, 2019—Presentations

1:30 PM – 1:45 PM | Room 126A
Patient Specific Modeling of Left Ventricle with Mitral Valve: Insights into the Role of Ischemic Regurgitation Induced by Myocardial Infarction
H. Liu, A. Aly, A. Pouch, J. Gorman, R. Gorman, M. Sacks.

2:00 PM – 2:15 PM | Room 121A
Measuring DNA hybridization kinetics in live cells using 3D single-molecule tracking method
Y. Chen, Y. Chang, T. Nguyen, C. Liu, Y. Kuo, Y. Liu, S. Hong, P. Ren, T. Yeh.

2:30 PM – 2:45 PM | Room 126A
Image-Based Simulation of Mitral Valve Repair Surgery for Predicting Patient-Specific Outcomes
H. Narang, A. Khalighi, B. Rego, R. Gorman, J. Gorman, M. Sacks.

4:15 PM – 4:30 PM | Room 118C
The Effect Of Astrocyte Phenotype Enrichment On Axonal Growth Of Motor Neurons and V2a Interneurons
S. Vardhan, S. Sakiyama-Elbert.

4:15 PM – 4:30 PM | Room 121C
Towards Chemotherapy Treatment Planning with Hepatocellular Carcinoma-on-a-chip (HCCoC)
A. Ozkan, T. Yankeelov, M. Rylander.

Friday, October 18, 2019—Posters

P-Fri-28
Role of Cell Concentration on Viscoelasticity of Gelatin-Based Bioinks
R. Schwartz, M. Malpica, R. Avaz, G. Thompson, A. Miri.

P-Fri-71
Quantitative Models of Hydrogel Scaffold Network Structure for Regenerative Medicine
N. Richbourg, N. Peppas.

P-Fri-291
Digital receptor occupancy assay in quantifying on- and off-target binding affinities of therapeutic antibodies
C. Chou, Y. Liu, P. Huang, P. Tsou, C. Chen, H. Lee, Y. Wang, J. Hsu, J. Lee, Y. Chen, T. Yankeelov, J. Kameoka, T. Yeh, M. Hung.

P-Fri-298
A pH-responsive Nanomatryoshka Designed to Detect Anti-inflammatory Macrophages
D. Hernandez, L. Suggs.

P-Fri-541
A Robust Longitudinal Co-Culture Of Obligate Anaerobic Gut Microbiome With Human Intestinal Epithelium
A. Wu, W. Shin, M. Massidda, C. Foster, N. Thomas, Y. Ju, J. Kim, H. Kim.

P-Fri-542
Control of Human Intestinal Morphogenesis by a Transepithelial Gradient of Wnt Antagonist Dickkopf-1 and Flow-dependent Induction of Frizzled-9 Receptor in a Human Gut-on-a-chip
W. Shin, H. Kim.

P-Fri-598
Chemotherapy-Directed Changes in Clonal Abundance Within a Breast Cancer Cell Population Quantified by Expressed gRNA Barcodes
T. Haideri, G. Howard, R. Durrett, A. Brock.

P-Fri-644
Appearance Counseling Needs of Breast Reconstruction Patients
K. Nicklaus, M. Bordes, D. Chopra, G. Reece, S. Hanson, M. Markey.

P-Fri-694
Fabrication of Multi-cellular Spheroids for Demonstrating the Intercellular Crosstalk Using a 3D Bioprinting Technology
Y. Park, U. Yong, S. Das, W. Shin, S. Kwon, H. Kim, J. Jang.

P-Fri-748
Temporal Impact of Substrate Anisotropy on Differentiating Cardiomyocyte Alignment and Functionality
A. Allen, N. Momtahan, C. Crosby, J. Zoldan.

P-Fri-959
Continuous Long-term Tracking of Neuronal Ensembles with Ultraflexible Electrode Arrays
H. Zhu, X. Li, Z. Zhao, X. Wei, F. He, L. Luan, N. Tran, C. Xie.

P-Fri-960
Bridging large-scale neural recordings and nearly-cortex-wide optical acquisitions
X. Li, Z. Zhao, H. Zhu, F. He, A. Wells, L. Luan, C. Xie.

P-Fri-974
Multimodal Investigation of ICMS Enabled By Tissue-Integrated, Ultraflexible Neural Electrodes
A. Wells, F. He, X. Li, H. Zhu, C. Xie, L. Luan.

Saturday, October 19, 2019—Presentations

8:30 AM – 8:45AM | Room 121A
Effects of Transcranial Infrared Laser Stimulation on Short-Term Memory of Veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study
V. V Nair, S. Pandey, C. B Jones, D. M Brecht, F. Woon, F. Gonzalez-Lima, R. Gatchel, F. Tian.

8:30 AM – 8:45AM | Room 120A
A Multiscale Model of Cardiac Remodeling under Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: From Organ to Titin
R. Avaz, E. Mendiola, R. Dixon, M. Sacks.

8:30 AM – 9:00 AM | Room 115B
Biomedical Engineering Undergraduates’ Post-Graduation Plans
A. Patrick.

2:00 PM – 2:15 PM | Room 120A
Mitral Valve Remodeling After Myocardial Infarction: Tissue and Cellular Adaptation to Altered Stresses
B. Rego, D. Howsmon, S. Ayoub, A. Khaligi, E. Castillero, G. Ferrari, R. Gorman, J. Gorman, III, M. Sacks.

3:45 PM – 4:00 PM | Room 126A
A Patient-Specific Investigation of 3D Plaque Shape as a Predictor of Plaque Rupture
S. Hossain, M. Johnson, T. Sanders, T. Hughes.

Saturday, October 19, 2019—Posters

P-Sat-16
Automatic Generation of Cancer Research Abstracts, AI vs Journal Articles
D. Okeremi, H. Zhu, L. Luan.

P-Sat-18
Shape Analysis of the Right Ventricle
C. Villarreal, H. Narang, A. Tandon, M. Sacks.

P-Sat-94
Investigating Synthetic Hydrogels in Bone Marrow-On-Chip Devices
F. Martinez, D. Ghoshal, K. Roy.

P-Sat-119
Optimizing Photopolymerizable Bioinks for Vascularization of Engrafted Tissues
S. Simmonds, C. O'Connor, B. Grigoryan, D. Sazer, J. Miller, K. Stevens.

P-Sat-181
Effects of Cyclic Mechanical Stretch on MDA-MB-231 Breast Cancer Cell Behavior
J. Mudloff, D. Chavarria, A. Baker.

P-Sat-192
A Physical Multiscale Model to Understand Fiber-Specific Remodeling of Myofibers and the Extracellular Matrix in the Hypertensive Heart
E. Mendiola, R. Avaz, F. Sachse, M. Sacks.

P-Sat-253
Development of an Algorithmic Imaging-Based Dental Pulp Vitality Test
S. Bi, L. Martinez, J. Bequette, A. Peitzsch, W. D'Angelo.

P-Sat-264
Association Between Visual Cortex Activity and Field of Vision in Rats
M. Hall, H. Zhu.

P-Sat-276
Automated Identification of Tumor Microenvironment Cell Populations in a Preclinical Model of HER2+ Breast Cancer
S. Mounho, A. Syed, M. Bloom, A. Sorace, T. Yankeelov.

P-Sat-284
Assessing Cellular Metabolism Using 2-Photon Imaging And Cancer Spheroids
J. George, T. Nguyen, Y. Liu, D. Nguyen, T. Yeh.

P-Sat-288
Evaluating Sparsifying Operators in Compressive Sensing with Optical Coherence Tomography
A. Oommen, B. Tayebi, A. Bowden.

P-Sat-335
Saliency Maps of Images of Facial Disfigurements from Head and Neck Cancer
M. Cook, K. Nicklaus, M. Bordes, J. Liu, J. Engelmann, D. Chopra, G. Reece, S. Hanson, M . Markey.

P-Sat-343
What Is "Dr. Google" Showing Patients About Breast Reconstruction?
K. Sachdev, K. Nicklaus, J. Liu, D. Chopra, A. Hoffman, G. Reece, S. Hanson, M. Markey.

P-Sat-411
Highly Functional CMV-Specific TCRs as a Model System to Investigate Cancer-Specific TCRs
A. Xia, A. Schonnesen, C. Williams, N. Jiang.

P-Sat-431
Formation and Measurement of Ras Y32 Mutant's Role in GTP Hydrolysis
J. Heard, D. Landry, E. Novelli, L. Webb.

P-Sat-456
Molecular Mechanisms of Membrane Curvature Sensing by a Disordered Protein
A. Thatte.

P-Sat-541
Screening of Polymeric Gels As A Means Of Controlling Local Skin Delivery
S. Blanchard, P. Martins, H. Smyth.

P-Sat-545
Connectosomes for Direct Delivery of siRNA into the Cytoplasm
J. Ni, C. Zhao, J. Stachowiak, P. Milner.

P-Sat-559
Evaluation of Gallium Maltolate as an Antimicrobial Agent for Chronic Wounds
J. McCune, T. Buie, Z. Lan, E. Cosgriff-Hernandez.

P-Sat-570
Evaluating Nanoparticle Penetration In Tumor Spheroids
R. Bandyopadhyay, J. Widman, L. Suggs.

P-Sat-589
Evaluating Cellular Lethality for Treatment of Melanoma by Photothermal Therapy
J. Chen, S. Torres Hurtado, N. Heshmati, T. Betancourt, J. Tunnell.

P-Sat-591
NanoCluster Beacons Design by High-Throughput Screening and Machine Learning Classification
O. Zhao, Y. Kuo, T. Nguyen, J. Mathews, Y. Chen, Y. Liu, T. Yeh.

P-Sat-611
Sonification of Infrared Neural Inhibition
M. Nguyen, J. Ford, E. Jansen.

P-Sat-762
Formation of Spheroids to Measure Vascular Sprouting in Induced Pluripotent Stem-Cell Derived Endothelial Cells
B. Ashok, B. Macklin, S. Gerecht.

P-Sat-767
Pharmacological Inhibition of REST in Glioblastoma
M. Haraguchi, C. Li, L. Kukreja, S. Ezhilan, Y. Zhang, J. Kuo.

P-Sat-733
Multiscale Modeling of Valve Interstitial Cells in a Three-Dimensional Hydrogel Environment
N. West, E. Lejeune, A. Khang, M. Sacks.

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