Congratulations to Dr. Myers and Taylor!

Congratulations to Dr. Myers and Taylor Chaintreuil for receiving awards at the Commencement ceremony this past Monday. Dr. Myers received the Edward and Carole Kim Award for Faculty Involvement. This award is given to an exemplary faculty member who is not only an outstanding teacher but also displays a special, personal commitment to students. Taylor, who just recently graduated from the school of engineering, received the George Vincent Wendell Memorial Medal. This award is given to a student, chosen by their class and the faculty of the Columbia Engineering school, who best reflects the ideals of character, scholarship, and service. Congratulations to them both and good luck to Taylor at her new job at Boeing!

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Cervical Tissue Remodeling During Pregnancy

Our paper entitled “Interstitial growth and remodeling of biological tissues: Tissue composition as state variables” reviews the latest literature of cervical tissue remodeling during pregnancy and details a constitutive remodeling framework for evoling tissue properties based on the evolution of the tissue’s microstructure. This paper was co-authored by Gerard Ateshian and is available online.

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Society of Gynecologic Investigation 2013 Meeting

The Myers lab presented two posters at this years SGI meeting in Orlando Florida. Both posters presented our investigation into the correlation between cervical mechanical strength and collagen crosslink density during cervical remodeling. Here, Kyoko explains her methodology to determine the swelling characteristics of the cervix during pregnancy.

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Experimental Permeability Measurements – Manuscript Online

Our manuscript detailing the direct measurment of hydraulic permeaility of human cervix tissue is now online at the ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering website. See details below:

Direct Measurement of the Permeability of Human Cervical Tissue

J. Biomech. Eng. 135, 21023 (2013)

http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.4023380

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Eli Presents Poster at SURF Symposium

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Eli and Kyoko developed new methods to mechanically test uterine tissue to understand its function during pregnancy. Congratulations to Eli for an excellent research poster at this year’s Columbia University Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) poster session at the Low Library.

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Welcome Ash!

Our lab would like to welcome a new PhD student to Columbia and the Department of Mechanical Engineering – Ashutosh Giri. Ash comes to us from the University of Pittsburgh and Adelphi University. This semester he will be TAing the Introduction to Mechanical Engineering Course with Prof. Myers.

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Google Scholar Profile

Please see our Publications page for links to open access PDFs of a majority of our articles.  Also please check out our new Google Scholar profile for a comprehensive list of articles and conference proceedings.

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