Materials Day
Location: FedEx Institute of Technology Lobby, Methodist Presentation Theater
Registration and Check-in: 8:00 AM – 8:30 AM
Breakfast: 8:00 AM – 8:45 AM
Opening Remarks: 8:30–8:45 AM
Morning Session: Oral Presentations (Physics and Chemistry of Nanomaterials):
8:45 – 12:00 noon
Lunch at Methodist Lobby FIT: 12:00 noon-1:10 PM
Afternoon Session: Oral Presentations (Biomaterials and Bioengineering):
1:15 PM – 4:00 PM
Poster Presentation and Refreshment: 3:30 -5:00 PM
Biomedical students involved in the event:
Adeline Nordmore: (Biomedical Engineering, UofM)
Mechanical Characterization of Touch Spun Manuka Honey Infused Small-Diameter Vascular
Grafts
Rabeta Yeasmin: (Biomedical Engineering, UofM)
Decanoyl-modified electrospun chitosan membranes loaded with 2-decenoic acid analogs
inhibit S. Aureus
Andi Tubbs: (Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering):
Electrospun Acylated Chitosan Templates Loaded with Berberine HCl Provide Controlled
Release for Anti-inflammatory Therapeutics”.
Elizabeth A Matlock Buchanan (Undergraduate, Biomedical Engineering, UofM)
Polyethylene (PE) Immersion in Royal Jelly's 10-Hydroxy-2-decenoic-acid (10-H2DA)
Imparts Potential Antimicrobial Properties
Michelle Maggie Lee (Undergradduate, Biomedical Engineering, UofM)
Electrospun Chitosan Membranes Loaded with Bupivacaine and Cis-2-Decenoic Acid Reduce
Bacterial Load in Contaminated Burn Wounds
Alex Bryan (Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering, UofM)
The role of material surface in heavy metal accumulation
Blake Robinson (Biomedical Engineering, UofM)
In vitro characterization of cross linked electrospun chitosan-copolymer membranes
for skin wound Healing
Simon Prazak (Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering, UofM)
Reinforced composite collagen hydrogel as a model for the purposes of vascular tissue
reconstruction
Ezzuddin Abuhussein (Biomedical Engineering, UofM)
A Novel Method for the Acylation of Electrospun Chitosan Nanofibers Using an Antimicrobial
Fatty Acid
Pavel Qualadize (Biomedical Engineering, UofM)
A Bioactive Chitosan-Xylan Composite Loaded With and Delivering Naturally Occurring
Fatty Acids to Control Infection
Mitchell Taylor (Biomedical Engineering, UofM)
Single Vesicle Surface Protein Profiling and Machine Learning-Based Dual Image Analysis
for Breast Cancer Detection.
Martina Dubakova (Laboratory of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, Institute of
Physiology, Czech Academy of Sciences)
Nanocrystalline diamond-coated Ti6Al4V implants functionalized with BMP-7 promote
extracellular matrix mineralization and faster osseointegration