#acl BethFord:read,write All:read ##master-page:HomepageTemplate #format wiki == Jeffrey G. Jacot == Assistant Professor of Bioengineering[[BR]] Rice University, Houston, TX[[BR]] Assistant Professor of Surgery[[BR]] Division of Congenital Heart Surgery[[BR]] Texas Children's Hospital[[BR]] Baylor College of Medicine[[BR]] Postdoctoral Scholar in Bioengineering, UCSD 2005-2008[[BR]] PhD in Biomedical Engineering, Boston University (2005)[[BR]] BS in Chemical Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder (1994) Email: [[MailTo(jjacot AT SPAMFREE ucsd DOT edu)]] '''Peer Reviewed Publications[[BR]]''' '''Jacot JG''', McCulloch AD & Omens JH. Control of the Functional Maturation of Neonatal Rat Cardiac Myocytes by Substrate Stiffness. Biophysical Journal. In Press (2008).[[BR]] '''Jacot JG''' & Wong JY. Endothelial injury induces vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation in highly localized regions of a direct contact co-culture system. Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics. Accepted (2008).[[BR]] Leach, JB, Brown, XQ, '''Jacot, JG''', !DiMilla, PA, Wong, JY. Neurite outgrowth and branching of PC12 cells on very soft substrates sharply decreases below a threshold of substrate rigidity. Journal of Neural Engineering. 4:26-34. (2007)[[BR]] Owens, CD, Wake, N, '''Jacot, JG''', Gerhard-Herman, M, Belkin, M, Creager, MA, Conte, MS. Early biomechanical changes in lower extremity vein grafts – Distinct temporal phases of remodeling and wall stiffness. Journal of Vascular Surgery. 44(4):740-6. (2006).[[BR]] '''Jacot, JG''', Dianis, S, Schnall, J, Wong, JY. A simple microindentation technique for mapping the microscale compliance of soft hydrated materials and tissues. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research. 79(3):485-94. (2006).[[BR]] '''Jacot, JG''', Abdullah, I, Belkin, M, Gerhard-Herman, M, Gaccione, P, Polak, JF, Donaldson, MC, Whittemore, AD, Conte, MS. Early adaptation of human lower extremity vein grafts: Wall stiffness changes accompany geometric remodeling. Journal of Vascular Surgery. 39:547 (2004). [attachment:Jacot_BPS_2007.ppt Presentation at the Biophysical Society Meeting March 5, 2007, Baltimore, MD] ... ---- CategoryHomepage