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Graduate Student Fellowships 2007/2008
Rebecca Taylor
Mechanical Engineering
Professors E. Kuhl and B. Pruitt |
Rebecca is developing both microfabricated and macro-scale electromechanical systems for both electrical and mechanical stimulation and monitoring of stem cell-based cardiac tissue constructs. Her research aims to utilize these systems for 1) characterization of stem cell differentiation to cardiac myocytes in response to electrical and mechanical stimulation 2) constitutive modeling of coupled electromechanical behavior of cardiac myocytes, and 3) the development of continuum mechanics based predictive models of tissue growth. |
