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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Summary Sentence: Stacie Gutowski and Song Seto presenting
Full Summary: The Graduate and Post-Doc (GaP) Seminar Series is a weekly event of research presentations by two graduate students or post-docs conducting bio-related research. The series is organized and sponsored by the Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB) with additional support from the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering. It is held every Wednesday at 12:00pm in IBB 1128 and refreshments are provided. If your research group or department would like to present at future seminars, please contact Manu Platt, PhD.
GaP Seminar SeriesStacie Gutowski - Advisor, Andres Garcia, PhD
"Polymeric Coatings to Reduce Inflammation to Neural Electrodes"
Neuroprosthetic devices have the potential to restore functionality to patients with injuries and diseases that affect brain function and signaling to the body. We are engineering polymeric coatings for neural electrodes to reduce inflammation in the surrounding tissue environment. Testing includes both in vitro and in vivo components to observe the effect of these coatings on the tissue response to chronically implanted electrodes.
Song Seto - Advisor, Johnna Temenoff, PhD
"Cathepsin Activity During Tendon Overuse in a Rat Model"
In order to design appropriate treatments for rotator cuff tendinopathy, cell-mediated events that occur during tissue degeneration need to be studied. Using a rat running model of tendon overuse, we studied cathepsin activity using multiplex zymography during 8 weeks of overuse activity. Higher cathepsin activity in overused tendons indicates that these proteases play an important role in tendon degeneration.
