Courtney just published her first first-author paper titled Bendable Osteochondral Allografts for Patellar Resurfacing: A Finite Element Analysis of Congruence. This paper discusses the potential to adapt patellar osteochondral allografts to conform to the recipient femur and uses FEBio to analyze this potential surgical intervention.
Congrats to CV & Kim for each giving a podium presentation at the 2022 Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering, and Biotransport Conference in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland.
CV presented their work on human wear titled "Frictional forces do not cause wear in human articular cartilage". Kim presented her work "Superficial zone chondrocytes can get compacted under physiological loading: a multiscale finite element analysis."
Both gave fantastic presentations which received a lot of interest from the audiences. The rest of SB3C was filled with other great presentations, networking, making friends,…
Courtney Petersen publishes article in the Journal of Visualized Experiments titled “A Friction Testing-Bioreactor Device for Study of Synovial Joint Biomechanics, Mechanobiology, and Physical Regulation.”
Abstract: In primary osteoarthritis (OA), normal 'wear and tear' associated with aging inhibits the ability of cartilage to sustain its load-bearing and lubrication functions, fostering a deleterious physical environment. The frictional interactions of articular cartilage and synovium may influence joint homeostasis through tissue level wear and cellular mechanotransduction. To study these…
This week Columbia campus welcomed back their graduates from 2020 and 2021 in addition to celebrating their 2022 graduates. MBL welcomed back Brandon to officially walk and celebrate his graduation! Congrats to Brandon and all the other graduates!
Courtney & Katie presented their work this weekend at the 48th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, hosted at our very own Columbia University! The weekend was packed with fantastic presentations centered around bioengineering, spending time with our cartilage fam, and networking with others in the northeast region.
This was Courtney's first in-person podium presentation! She presented her computational work on bendable osteochondral allografts: Bending and Shifting Osteochondral Patellar Allografts Improve Patellofemoral Joint Congruence.
Katie presented her poster on the…
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Slide 1: Katie, Kim, and Courtney in Tampa.
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Slide 2: Tweet the Tib returns!
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Slide 3: Enjoying the sun in Tampa Bay.
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Slide 4: Kim giving her podium presentation!
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Slide 5: Katie with Lianna at their poster
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Slide 6: Thank you, Jimi Cook and all the folks at TRLO for hosting us at dinner!
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Slide 7: Quick stop at Epcot before heading home
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Slide 8: Boat cruise with all the Columbia folks
Kim, Katie, and Courtney spent a week attending the Orthopaedic Research Society Annual Meeting in Tampa Bay, Florida. Highlights included, attending excellent conference sessions, meeting collaborators, networking with others in the field, connecting with MBL alumni, and of course Kim's podium presentation!
Kim presented on Raman spectroscopy of proteoglycan-depleted bovine cartilage for detection and quantification of pyridinium crosslinks. This work was done in collaboration with Chao Wang from the Vukelic group here at Columbia. Kim gave a fantastic talk!
On the week of June 14 - 18, Kim, CV, and Katie presented their recent work at the Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering, and Biotransport Conference. Like last year, the 2021 conference was held virtually.
Kim presented her work, Crosslinking of collagen across cartilage tears for improved interface strength., before a live Zoom audience. This was Kim's first conference presentation!
Katie and CV presented their work via a poster session. Katie's work, Altering surface curvature or patellar osteochondral allografts through subject-specific modification of subchondral…
Congrats to Jay Shim for starting a new job as an Application Support Engineer at Siemens!
Jay successfully defended his thesis titled "A Multiphasic-Fluid-Structure Interaction Formulation Based on Mixture Theory and Its Finite Element Implementation in FEBio." The last year of Jay's PhD has been remote due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but that didn't stop him from completing his thesis work and defending! Congrats Jay!
This month marks one year since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as a pandemic. One year ago, MBL packed up our desks and started working from home. Since then, Brandon graduated and began a postdoctoral position at Johns Hopkins University. At the same time, Jay has been hard at work preparing to defend his thesis in the upcoming months. Neither has been back to the lab since that day we packed up last March. None of us realized quite how long we would be gone! Katie, CV, Kim (and occasionally Courtney) have been back in the lab on a semi-regular basis since June…
After three months of working from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this week MBL began to welcome back limited in-person research. As a lab we will continue to exercise an abundance of caution by implementing strict social distancing, sanitizing, and mask-wearing protocols and will continue monitor the evolving situation. Thank you to all the healthcare workers, essential workers, scientists, and so many more who have been our heroes during this time.