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Thank you for making SB3C2022 a success!

We had 692 attendees and an excellent program!

We look forward to seeing you at the next SB3C conference at the Grand Hyatt in Vail, Colorado!

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Student Paper Competition Results

BS Level:

Title Name Affiliation
Biofluid and Cardiovascular Mechanics
1st Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Alignment on Micropattern Alters Glucose Metabolism Yusuf Mastoor University of Maryland
Runner-up The Role of Actin Corralling in the Formation of Cell-Cell Adhesions Payton J Thomas University of Utah
Runner-up 4D Flow MRI Comparison of Surgical Grafts for Correction of Pulmonary Artery Aneurysms: A Case Study Tea Cohen Stanford University
Runner-up Estimation of Flow Data from Angiographic Time Series Noah Stevens University of Michigan
Device, Design, Tissue/Cell Engineering
1st Open-Source System For Real-Time Functional Assessment Of Engineered Multicellular Filtration Barriers Tess Fallon Columbia University
Runner-up Establishing An Optimized Annuloplasty Ring Type Using In Vivo and Ex Vivo Biomechanical Analyses Katelynne Berland Georgia Institute of Technology
Runner-up In Vitro Human Lung Fibroblast-To-Myofibroblast Transition From Profibrotic Growth Factor Stimulation Catherine Sano University of Virginia
Solid mechanics
1st Effect of Development Slow Elongation in Driving Hierarchical Collagen Fiber Formation in Engineered Tissues Kelly Ott Virginia Commonwealth University
Runner-up The Effect Of Pregnancy On Mechanical Injury Criteria In Murine Uterosacral Ligaments Catalina Bastias University of Colorado Boulder
Runner-up Physiochemical Mechanisms Of Bone Dissolution Play A Significant Role In Regulating Bone Composition And Function In Acidosis Margaret Easson University of Connecticut Health Center
Runner-up Exercise Therapy Does Not Alter Kinematic Repeatability In Individuals With Rotator Cuff Tears When Reaching Behind The Back Rachel McLoughlin Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh

MS Level:

Title Name Affiliation
Solid and Biofluid Mechanics of Cardiovascular, Lung, and Soft Tissues
1st Layer-Specific Aortic Aneurysm Biomechanics Suggest Relationship Between Medial Stiffness and Interfacial Strength in Patients with Bicuspid Aortic Valve Louise Neave University of Calgary
Runner-up Spectral Analysis Of Kinetic Energy In A Healthy Aorta David Buchner University of Stuttgart
Runner-up Phosphorylation Patterns Of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Receptor-2 And Angiogenesis Are Driven By Biomechanical Forces Bronte Miller University of Alabama
Musculoskeletal and Cardiovascular Mechanics, Tissue Engineering, and Biosensors
1st Development Of A Continuum Damage Model To Predict Accumulation Of Sub-failure Damage In Tendons Alexandra Allan University of Utah
Runner-up Non-Muscle Myosins are Critical Regulators of Skeletal and Connective Tissue Formation Mary Kate Evans University of Pennsylvania
Runner-up Disc Geometry Measurement Methods Alter Reported Compressive Mechanics By Up To 65% Shiyin Lim University of California Berkeley

PhD Level:

Title Name Affiliation
Biofluid Mechanics and Cardiovascular Imaging
1st Patient-Specific Finite Element Modeling to Predict Clinical Risks of Percutaneous Pulmonary Valve Implantation Carly Donahue University of Minnesota
Runner-up Computational Modeling Of Cryoballoon Ablation For Pulmonary Vein Isolation Tejas Patel Michigan State University
Runner-up Radiomics Features On Contrast-enhanced And Non-enhanced MRI Are Associated With Intracranial Aneurysmal Risk Sricharan Veeturi University at Buffalo
Tendon, Ligament, and Joint
1st Elastic Strength and its Relation to Mineral Density in Juvenile Equine Bones of the Lower Limb Sara Moshage University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Runner-up Mechanical and Structural Changes due to Tendon Overload in a Rat Model of Synergist Ablation Ellen Bloom University of Delaware
Runner-up Partial ACL Injury Location Impacts Biomechanics and Tissue Remodeling in a Skeletally Immature Porcine Model Danielle Howe North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tissue Engineering, Remodeling, and Emerging Areas
1st Cervical Material Remodeling in Pregnancy Using a Nonhuman Primate Model Shuyang Fang Columbia University
Runner-up Epithelial Fluid Secretion and Luminal Pressure Regulate the Patterns of Proliferation that Sculpt the Developing Bronchial Tree Shelby Mohr-Allen University of Texas at Dallas
Runner-up Patterns Of Tissue Stiffness Correlate With Distributions Of Proliferation And Yap Activity Along The Embryonic Ureteric Tree Somdutta Chakraborty The University of Texas at Dallas
Cardiovascular Solid Mechanics
1st Post-Stretch Behavior of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells Depends on Strain-rate and Actomyosin Interactions Samuel Boland University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
Runner-up A 3D Computational Model Of Aortic Valve Interstitial Cell Contractile Behavior Within A PEG Hydrogel Medium Alex Khang The University of Texas at Austin
Runner-up Tricuspid Valve Annulus Mechanics And Geometry In Newborns With Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome Colton Ross University of Oklahoma
Orthopaedic Bioengineering and Mechanotherapeutics
1st Mechanotherapeutics To Modulate The Foreign Body Response Niamh Ward National University of Ireland, Galway
Runner-up Large Animal Model of Meniscus Injury and Repair Shows Chondroprotection and Partially Restores Joint Kinematics as Measured via MRI Kyle Meadows University of Delaware
Runner-up Hyaluronan, PRG4, And Cytokine Production in Synoviocytes Is Sensitive To Cyclic Strain Magnitude Meghana Pendyala Rensslaer Polytechnic Institute
Biosensors, Brain, and Injury
1st APOE E4 Genotype Decreases Barrier Function and Glucose Uptake in Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells Callie Weber University of Maryland
Runner-up Progressive Mechanical and Structural Changes in Anterior Cerebral Arteries with Alzheimer’s Disease Xiaozhu Liu Boston University
Runner-up Comparison Of Oscillatory Deformation Patterns Excited In The Human Brain In Vivo By Harmonic And Impulsive Skull Motion Jordan Escarcega Washington University in St. Louis