8C: Engineered Biomaterials for Neural Applications

Timeslot: Saturday, April 22, 2023 - 10:15am to 12:15pm
Room: Silver Pearl 3

  • 10:15 AM. 399. SHIELD Hydrogels Allow for Long-Term Survival and Integration of Human Cortical Neurons into a Chronic Adult Cervical Spinal Cord Injury. Vanessa Doulames, PhD, Meghan Hefferon, Riley Suhar, PhD, Neil Baugh, Theo Palmer, PhD, Sarah Heilshorn, PhD, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

  • 10:30 AM 400. Analysis of Lipid Nanoparticle Formulations in a Mouse Model of Traumatic Brain Injury. Katelyn Miyasaki, BS, Lauren Waggoner, Ester Kwon, PhD, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.

  • 10:45 AM 401. DNA-Inspired Electrically Conductive Nanocoating for Intracortical Microelectrode Stimulation and Recording. Ian Sands, Alpaslan Ersoz, PhD, Wuxia Zhang, Libo Zhou, Will Linthicum, Bryan Huey, Martin Han, Yupeng Chen, Sabato Santaniello, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA, Department of Materials and Science Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA.

  • 11:00 AM 402. Cell Specific Spatially Resolved, Multi-Omic Analysis of Intracortical Microelectrode-Tissue Interface. Lindsey Druschel, Sydney Song, Jacob Conard, Jeffrey Capadona, PhD, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA, Advanced Platform Technology Center, Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA.

  • 11:15 AM 403. Multichannel Bridge Implantation and Neural Stem Cell Transplantation to Facilitate Axonal Regeneration, Myelination, and Connectivity After Spinal Cord Injury. Usha Nekanti, Pooja Sakthivel, Atena Zahedi, Rebecca Nishi, Dana Creasman, Xiaoxiao Lin, Zhiling Guo, Xiangmin Xu, Lonnie Shea2, Brian Cummings, Aileen Anderson. University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA, University of Michigan,, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

  • 11:30 AM 404. TGF-β1 and PCL Nanofibers to Enhance Schwann Cell Migration. Yang Hu, PhD Candidate, Yin Mei Chan, PhD Candidate, Alan Zhang, Matthew Becker, Rebecca Willits, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.

  • 11:45 AM 405 Design of Cell-Adhesive Guest-Host Hydrogels for Neural Tissue Engineering. Gregory Jensen, Sarah Stabenfeldt, PhD, Julianne Holloway, PhD, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.

  • 12:00 PM 406 Glioma-Derived Matrices to Probe Stromal-Matrix Interactions in the Brain Tumor Microenvironment. Chase Cornelison, PhD, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA.