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Author:

Khandare, Sujata

Title:

Mechanical response of tendons to common therapies and the effects of tendon injury progression

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Dry needling
Focused ultrasound
Tendon
Mechanical properties
Mechanical testing
Rotator cuff
Computational model
Glenohumeral joint
Muscle activation
Force couple
Tear severity
Rotator cuff tear

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Committee Members:

Stephen Piazza, Outside Unit & Field Member
Spencer Szczesny, Major Field Member
Meghan Vidt, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Julianna Simon, Major Field Member
Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Ponnaluri, Sailahari Venkatasri

Title:

Evaluation of Accelerated Wear Tester Fluid Mechanics on Transcatheter Aortic Valve Motion

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Accelerated Wear Tester
Transcatheter Heart Valves
Particle Image Velocimetry

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Committee Members:

Peter Butler, Major Field Member
Keefe Manning, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Robert Campbell, Outside Unit & Field Member
Francesco Costanzo, Major Field Member
Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Berntsen, Lisa

Title:

Tissue Engineering Strategies for Regeneration of the Tendon-Bone Interface

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Tissue Engineering
Tendon
Bone
Enthesis
miRNA
Osteogenesis
Cell Sheets

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Committee Members:

Justin Brown, Major Field Member
Xiaojun Lian, Major Field Member
Jian Yang, Major Field Member
Daniel Hayes, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair
Julianna Simon, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Celik, Nazmiye

Title:

Post-Transcriptional Modification to Modulate Complex Heterotypic Progenitor Differentiation on 3D Bioprinted Cartilage and Pre-Vascularized Bone

Graduate Program:

Engineering Science and Mechanics (PHD)

Keywords:

microRNA
BONE
VASCULARIZATION
TISSUE ENGINEERING
CELL DIFFERENTIATION
CELLULAR AGGREGATES
BIOMATERIALS
OSTEOGENIC FORMATION

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Committee Members:

Ibrahim Ozbolat, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daniel Hayes, Co-Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Gregory Lewis, Major Field Member
Albert Segall, Program Head/Chair
Sulin Zhang, Major Field Member
Dipanjan Pan, Outside Unit & Field Member

Author:

Haviland, Zachary

Title:

Lignin impairs Cel7A degradation of cellulose by impeding enzyme movement and not by acting as a sink

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

cellulose
lignin
Cel7A
single-molecule microscopy
biofuel

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Committee Members:

William O Hancock, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Justin R Pritchard, Committee Member
Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair
Howard M Salis, Committee Member

Author:

Raich, Emma

Title:

A Study of the Effect of an Elevated Beat Rate in the Left Side of the 12cc Penn State Pediatric Total Artificial Heart

Graduate Program:

Biomedical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

total artificial heart
pediatric
mechanical circulatory support devices
particle image velocimetry
elevated beat rate
cardiovascular fluid dynamics
thrombosis
wall shear rate

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Committee Members:

Keefe B Manning, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Justin Lee Brown, Committee Member
Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair
William Joseph Weiss, Committee Member

Author:

Paniagua Guerra, Luis

Title:

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS INVESTIGATION OF HEAT TRANSFER IN SOLVATED PLASMONIC NANOPARTICLES

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Molecular Dynamics
Nanoscale Heat Transfer
Gold Nanoparticles
Self-Assembled Monolayers
Solid-Liquid Interfaces

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Committee Members:

Bladimir Ramos Alvarado, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Adri van Duin, Major Field Member
Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Daniel Hayes, Outside Unit & Field Member
Linxiao Zhu, Major Field Member

Author:

Leighow, Scott

Title:

Forecasting and Forward Engineering Anticancer Drug Resistance

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering (PHD)

Keywords:

cancer
drug resistance
systems biology
synthetic biology
stochastic modeling
gene therapy

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Committee Members:

David Kennedy, Outside Unit & Field Member
Xiaojun Lian, Major Field Member
Justin Pritchard, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair
William Hancock, Major Field Member

Author:

Han, Feng

Title:

INVESTIGATE THE ROLE OF GLOBAL BRAIN ACTIVITY IN NEURODEGENERATION AND AGING

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging
global brain activity
global signal
glymphatic system
amyloid-β
cross-hierarchy difference
Alzheimer's disease
cerebrospinal fluid
Parkinson’s disease
healthy aging
the coupling between the global brain and the cerebrospinal fluid fMRI signals

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Committee Members:

Xiao Liu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Nanyin Zhang, Major Field Member
Michele Diaz, Major Field Member
Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair
Xuemei Huang, Outside Unit & Field Member
Xiang Zhang, Outside Field Member

Author:

Peterson, Benjamin

Title:

Structure-Function Changes in Late Stages of Tendon Development and its Sensitivity to Musculoskeletal Activity

Graduate Program:

Bioengineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Tendon
Tendon Development
Multiscale Mechanics

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Committee Members:

Esther Gomez, Major Field Member
Claire Thomas, Outside Unit & Field Member
Spencer Szczesny, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Paula Murphy, Special Member
Gregory Lewis, Major Field Member
Daniel Hayes, Program Head/Chair