The Myers lab had an excellent start to the summer with Camilo, Daniella, Abby, Serena, Echo, and Adriana presenting their research at the annual SB3C conference in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin!
Camilo presented his recent work on viscoelastic modeling during his podium talk titled “A Reactive Viscoelastic Model of the Rhesus Macaque Cervix to Quantify Cervical Remodeling” in the Reproductive Biomechanics session. Daniella’s talk, “Photosensitizer – Mediated Low Level Light Exposure Alters the Nonpregnant and Pregnant Human Cervix Tissue”, sparked conversation surrounding potential treatments of Preterm Birth. In the computational modeling session, Abby presented her talk on “The Mechanical Loading of the Murine Uterus and Cervix in Early Pregnancy”, which led to future project ideas with the other members of the LEAP team!
In the poster session, Serena presented her research poster, “MRC2 is Necessary for Typical Cervical Remodeling in Rodent Pregnancy”, and Echo presented her poster, “Spatially Mapping the Time Dependent Material Properties of the Nonhuman Primate Cervix Through Gestation”. Both posters received great feedback and sparked interesting and thoughtful conversation with attendees.
Adriana was a finalist in the undergraduate poster competition and did a fantastic job sharing her work on “In Silico Models of In-Vivo Cervical Stiffness Measurements for Improving Preterm Birth Prediction”.
Other conference highlights included meeting with LEAP collaborators over dinner, a celebratory dinner in Lake Geneva with a huge Columbia crew, and of course enjoying the music at the yearly BEDRock concert!! We already can’t wait for next year!
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