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Matthew Curtis, PhD
CBC Scholar: Class of 2010
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, UIC, Advisor: Brenda Russell
Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher, PI: Brenda Russell, Department of Physiology, UIC
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RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Matt successfully defended his thesis work on May 19, 2011, a culmination of a project that detailed engineered physical cues and their ability to affect the growth and contraction of cardiac muscle cells in a three dimensional (3D) culture environment.
PUBLICATIONS:
Curtis MW, Budyn E, Desai TA, Samarel AM, Russell B. Microdomain heterogeneity in 3D affects the mechanics of neonatal cardiac myocyte contraction. Biomech Model Mechanobiol. 2012 Mar 11. [Epub ahead of print] (PubMed)
Curtis MW, Russell B. Micromechanical regulation in cardiac myocytes and fibroblasts: implications for tissue remodeling. Pflugers Arch. 2011 Jul;462(1):105-17. (PubMed)
Curtis MW, Sharma S, Desai TA, Russell B. Hypertrophy, gene expression, and beating of neonatal cardiac myocytes are affected by microdomain heterogeneity in 3D.Biomed Microdevices. 2010 Dec;12(6):1073-85. (PubMed)
Russell B, Curtis MW, Koshman YE, Samarel AM. Mechanical stress-induced sarcomere assembly for cardiac muscle growth in length and width. J Mol Cell Cardiol. 2010 May;48(5):817-23. (PubMed)
Curtis MW, Russell B. Cardiac tissue engineering.J Cardiovasc Nurs. 2009 Mar-Apr;24(2):87-92. Review. (PubMed)
AWARDS AND SERVICE:
CBC Scholar 2010-2011
Volunteer Judge, 61st Annual Chicago Student Science Fair, March 2011
Guest Judge (Undergraduate Life Sciences), University of Illinois Student Research Forum, April 2011.
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