June 2, 2015

SURVEY

AGENDA

PROCEEDINGS

Congratulations to trainees who won prizes!

From left: Marissa Scavuzzo (RU), Gautham Yepuri (HMRI), Samantha Paulsen (RU),
Danielle Wu (RU), and John Leach (BCM). Not pictured: Alexander Tatara (RU)

Stem Cell Category:
Trainee Speakership and Award: John Leach, Baylor College of Medicine
Hippo signaling deletion in heart failure reverses functional decline
Leach J, Heallen T, Zhang M, Rahmani M, Martin J

1st Place Poster Award: Marissa Scavuzzo, Baylor College of Medicine
Isl1 Directs Cell Fate Decisions in the Pancreas by Specifying Progenitor Cells Towards Different Endocrine Lineages
Scavuzzo MA, Yang D, Sharp R, Wamble K, Chmielowiec J, Mumcuyan N, Borowiak M

2nd Place Poster Award: Gautham Yepuri, Houston Methodist Research Institute
Proton Pump Inhibitors Impair Vascular Function By Accelerating Endothelial Senescence
Yepuri G, Sukhovershin R, Nazari-shafti TZ, Ghebremariam YT, Cooke JP

Tissue Engineering Category:
Trainee Speakership and Award: Samantha Paulsen, Rice University
3D printing vascularized tissues: Closing the loop between computational and experimental models
Paulsen SJ, Miller JS

1st Place Poster Award: Alexander Tatara, Rice University
Using the Body to Regrow the Body: In vivo Bioreactors for Craniofacial Tissue Engineering
Tatara AM, Shah SR, Lam J,  Demian N, Ho T, Shum J, Wong ME, Mikos AG

2nd Place Poster Award: Danielle Wu, Rice University
Building Salivary Cell Mini-Modules: A First Step Toward Reconstruction of the Human Salivary Gland
Wu D, Pradhan-Bhatt S, Cannon K, Chapela P, Hubka K, Harrington D, Ozdemir T, Zakheim D, Jia X, Witt RL, Farach-Carson MC