Purdue Center for Musculoskeletal Engineering (PCME) Inaugural Summit Agenda
March 11, 2026
Indiana Historical Society (parking entrance on New York St.)
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 9:00 a.m. | Arrival, Breakfast, Networking |
| 10:00 a.m. | Opening Remarks |
| 10:20 a.m. | Break and Rapid Fire set-up |
| 10:30 a.m. | Rapid Fire Presentations |
| 12:00 p.m. | Working Lunch |
| 1:30 p.m. | Group Report Out |
| 1:50 p.m. | Closing Remarks |
| 2:00 p.m. | Relocate to Indiana University School of Medicine (Emerson Hall, Room 304) |
| 3:00 p.m. | Lynda Bonewald Distinguished Speaker: Tamara Alliston, Scientific Director of NIAMS |
| 4:00 p.m. | Group Photo |
| 4:30 p.m. | Reception |
Rapid Fire Agenda
| Start Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 10:30 a.m. | Chien-Chi Lin | Dynamic hydrogels for New Approach Methodologies. |
| 10:35 a.m. | Natasha Jaiswal | Divergent AKT Signaling Mechanisms Regulate GLUT4 Translocation and Glucose Uptake in Skeletal-Muscle and Adipose Tissue |
| 10:40 a.m. | Glynn Gallaway (PhD Student. Thomas Siegmund) | Multiscale Bone Biomechanics |
| 10:45 a.m. | Eric Gutierrez (PhD student, Chad Carroll) | Non-invasive Imaging Methods to Study Tendon Physiology in Humans |
| 10:50 a.m. | Uma Sankar | Reining in CaMKK2: Unlocking a Novel Strategy to Halt Osteoarthritis and Preserve Joint Homeostasis |
| 10:55 a.m. | Jie Chen | Optimal level of vibrational force stimulation to accelerate orthodontic tooth movement |
| 11:00 a.m. | Gabriel Harris (PhD student, Marxa Figueiredo) | Investigating the Potential of Nano-encapsulated Therapeutics to Induce Bone Repair in Rheumatoid Arthritis |
| 11:05 a.m. | Joseph Bustamante (PhD Student, Joseph Wallace) | Collateral bone complications of systemic disease and treatments |
| 11:10 a.m. | Satyajit Ambike | Lab to Life: A Behavioral Biomechanics Approach to Human Movement and Motor Control |
| 11:15 a.m. | Jesus Hermida | The Architecture of Failure: Inside the Equine Proximal Sesamoid Bone |
| 11:20 a.m. | Sarah Cloft (Postdoc, Darrin Karcher) | Opportunities in poultry skeletal systems |
| 11:25 a.m. | Deva Chan | Musculoskeletal Research and Innovation Lab |
| 11:30 a.m. | Ivan Alonsas (PhD student, Tim Gavin) | Look Who’s Talking: The good and bad of cell-to-cell communication in skeletal muscle |
| 11:35 a.m. | Subah Mohseu (PhD Student, Rachel Surowiec) | Multi-Region Segmentation and Feature Analysis of HR-pQCT Imaging for Osteoporosis Classification |
| 11:40 a.m. | Karthik Ramani | Embodied Intelligence in the Musculoskeletal System: From Measurement to Adaptive Support |
| 11:45 a.m. | Olivia White (PhD Student, Joseph Wallace) | Exploring the skeletal impacts of alcohol use disorder (AUD) and type 2 diabetes (T2D) in a combined murine model |
| 11:50 a.m. | Lilian Plotkin | Understanding sexual dimorphism in the skeleton |