7C: Stimuli-Responsive Biomaterials 1

Date: Saturday, March 28, 2026
Time: 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM

Description

Materials that respond to environmental stimuli, such as heat, light, pH, or biological signals, provide unique tools for environmentally-responsive and/or temporal changes in biomaterial properties over time. This session will focus on materials, including hybrid materials, that can be stimulated with a variety of physiological and external stimuli to achieve desired outcomes. Research related to the use of stimuli-responsive materials that respond to endogenous or exogenous signals to (1) trigger drug delivery, (2) study and control the cellular response to microenvironmental changes, and/or (3) drive tissue regeneration and disease treatment is of particular interest.

Moderators:

Mary Beth Monroe
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Texas A&M University

  • 8:00 AM. 356. Active nano-crumpled topographies for long-term antibacterial protection.Mohammad Asadi Tokmedash1, Jouha Min1 1University of Michigan

  • 8:15 AM. 357. Minimal syntactic elements order the stimuli-responsive phase behavior of novel intrinsically disordered proteins.Maria Camila Giraldo-Castaño, B.S.1, Mariell Pascual, B.S.1, Spencer Hayes, M.S.1, Felipe Quiroz, PhD2, Shuo-Lin Weng, B.S.3, Jeetain Mittal, PhD3 1Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University, 2Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, 3Texas A&M University

  • 8:30 AM. 358. Bioluminescent Hydrogel Sensors Enable Rapid and Continuous Monitoring of Cytokines.Kayle Riley, M.S.E1, Jaselyn Porter1, Nandita Boddu1, Maria Coronel, PhD1 1University of Michigan

  • 8:45 AM. 359. Dual Stage Addition and Photo Crosslinked Hydrogels for Use in Geometrically Tunable Blood Shunts.Akari Seiner, MS1, Elisabeth Posthill, MS1, Lindsay Hager, MS1, Amy Throckmorton, Ph.D.1, Christopher Rodell, Ph.D.1 1Drexel University

  • 9:00 AM. 360. Development of Photoacoustic Nanosensor for the Detection of Granzyme B in Response to Natural Killer Cell Immunotherapy.Brendan Barlow1, Tasneem Mukarrama2, Anika Kulkarni1, Ana Sandoval-Castellanos, PhD2, Myeongsoo Kim3, Robert Canter, M.D.2, Jinhwan Kim, Ph.D.4 1University of California Davis, 2UC Davis, 3Georgia Institute of Technology, 4UC Davis Health, University of California, Davis

  • 9:15 AM. 361. Boolean Logic-based Controlled Release of Therapeutic Proteins from Biomaterials.Cole Deforest, PhD1 1University of Washington

  • 9:30 AM. 362. An N-glycosylation consensus sequence fusion domain drives supramolecular assembly of protein biomaterials.Eric Hill, MS1, Stephen Michel1, Ryan Clark, BS1, Ayumi Shigemoto, PhD1, Natasha Sequeira, BS1, Benjamin Keselowsky, PhD1, Gregory Hudalla, PhD1 1University of Florida

  • 9:45 AM. 363. Combatting MRSA: A Degradable Thiol-ene Platform for pH-Activated Release of Doxycycline.Chipo Chapusha1, Nicholas McGowan1, Paige Smith1, Anthony Hasley1, Mary Carr1, Mary Marquart, PhD1, Jared Cobb2, Amol Janorkar, PhD1 1University of Mississippi Medical Center, 2US Army Corps of Engineers