2023
November
12th Annual Pruitt Research Day, Gainesville, FL
Ph.D. student Nikolaos Pipis presented a poster on his research “Unlocking the potential of Nucleic Acid Collagen Complexes: Tunability and Biomaterial Characterization” at the 12th Annual Pruitt Research Day.
October
biomedical Engineering Society annual meeting 2023 (bmes), seattle, wa
Nikolaos Pipis and Justin Silberman represented the Allen Lab at the BMES 2023 Annual Meeting. They presented oral talks of their work in the “Biomaterials: Regenerative Medicine and Biomechanics” session.
March
12TH ANNUAL UF BIOMATERIALS DAY, “Differentiating scientists”, GAINESVILLE, FL
Nikolaos Pipis represented the Allen Lab at the student organized UF-SFB Biomaterials Day Symposium. He presented a poster of his work on “DNA as a tunable building block for nucleic acid-collagen complex (NACC) hydrogel systems“.
2019
December
2019 Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine International Society – Americas (TERMIS-AM) Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL
Bryan James represented the Allen Lab at the TERMIS-AM Annual Meeting. He presented a poster of his work on, “A Decoupled Multi-Stimulus Bioreactor for Studying Complex Chemo-Mechanical Microenvironments In Vitro“.
October
2019 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
Bryan James represented the Allen Lab at the 2019 BMES Annual Meeting. He presented a poster of his work on, “A Decoupled Multi-Stimulus Bioreactor for Studying Complex Chemo-Mechanical Microenvironments In Vitro“.
April
2019 Society for Biomaterials (SFB) Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA
Bryan James represented the Allen Lab at the 2019 SFB Annual Meeting. He presented a poster of his work on, “A Decoupled Multi-Stimulus Bioreactor for Studying Complex Chemo-Mechanical Microenvironments In Vitro“. Additionally, Bryan competed as part of the UF SFB Student Chapter in the SFB Biomaterials Education Challenge for which he won 1st place for his poster, “Osseous biomaterials: When your bone needs help healing”. For 1st place, the UF SFB Student Chapter received an award of $1,500.
March
8th Annual UF Biomaterials Day, Gainesville, FL
Nicolas Montoya represented the Allen Lab at the student organized Biomaterials Day Symposium. He presented a poster of his work on, “A Decoupled Multi-Stimulus Bioreactor for Studying Complex Chemo-Mechanical Microenvironments In Vitro“. Bryan James was one of the organizers of the event with the other UF SFB Student Chapter elected board members.
2018
October
2018 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA
Bryan James represented the Allen Lab at the 2018 BMES national conference. He presented a poster of his work on “Spatial Command of PDMS Optical and Mechanical Properties by Controlled Diffusion-Reaction Processes”.
June
2018 CTSI Training and Pilot Award Research Day, Gainesville, FL
Graduate student Krista Dulany participated in the CTSI Training and Pilot Award Research Day to present the research planned for her CTSI Pilot Trainee Award on the “Investigation of Free Radical Scavenging Nanocomposite Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Regeneration” where she will study the effects of free radical scavenging scaffolds on Human Osteoblast cells placed under oxidative stress as well as a preliminary in-vivo biocompatibility study.
April
Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting 2018, Atlanta, GA
The entire Allen Lab attended SFB 2018 held in Atlanta, GA. Graduate students Allison Goins and Krista Dulany presented research posters on their current work, Engineering Blood Vessels through Dynamic Culture of Biomimetic Scaffolds and Fabrication of a Free Radical Scavenging Nanocomposite for Bone Tissue Regeneration, respectively. Krista was also selected to give a Rapid Fire Presentation on her research. Dr. Allen co-organized a symposium entitled “Biomaterials for Regenerative Engineering Application.”
2017
April
Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting 2017, Minneapolis, MN
Undergraduate student, Taylor Repetto, presented her poster on a novel tri-component polymeric electrospun scaffold for vascular tissue engineering at SFB’s Annual meeting.
March
UF Society for Biomaterials Biomaterials Day 2017, Gainesville, FL
Ph.D. Candidate, Krista Dulany, and Undergraduate student, Taylor Repetto, present posters on their research at UF Society for Biomaterials Biomaterials Day 2017.
1st Annual Diversity Graduate Research Symposium, Gainesville, FL
Ph.D. Candidates, Allison Goins and Krista Dulany, present posters on their research at the Diversity Graduate Symposium. Allison presented her research on fabricating electrospun scaffolds for wound healing and Krista Dulany presented her work on the fabrication of a free radical scavenging nanocomposite scaffold for bone regeneration.
2016
November
5th Annual Pruitt Research Day, Gainesville, FL
Ph.D. candidate, Allison Goins presented a poster on her research on electrospun scaffolds for wound healing and Pruitt Research Day.
October
American Society for Space and Gravitational Research (ASGSR), Cleveland, OH
Biomedical Engineering Society Conference, Minneapolis, MN
Students Allison Goins and Vidhya Ramaswamy represent the Allen Lab at BMES with posters. Allison was also selected to give a podium talk on her work with wound dressings.
April
Institute for Cell & Tissue Science and Engineering Symposium, Gainesville, FL
Students Elliott Dirr, Allison Goins, and Vidhya Ramaswamy present their posters at the first annual ICTSE Symposium.
2015
October
Biomedical Engineering Society Conference, Tampa, FL
Students Elliott Dirr and Vidhya Ramaswamy present their work at BMES.
2014
October
Biomedical Engineering Society Conference, San Antonio, TX
Vidhya Ramaswamy gives a talk at BMES as well as presents a poster.
