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Elaine L. Lee
	Graduate Student DEGREE: MS in Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 2009 BS in Bioengineering, Rice University, 2006 CURRENT RESEARCH: Mechanical cues and gene regulation to direct differentiation of embryonic stem cells to cardiomyocytes. CONTACT: elaine (dot) lee (at) case (dot) edu
Elaine has great interests in matters of the heart. She was originally an English major at Rice University, but first became interested in cardiovascular research after a copy editing job at her undergraduate school newspaper led her to a technical editing internship at the Texas Heart Institute. She has also helped edit an introductory bioengineering textbook. As a result of all that experience, she usually gets the marvelous job of editing the CDMC lab manuscripts and grants. In her "free time" between editing and research, she enjoys swing dancing, knitting, and photography. She also served as the President-Elect of the BME Graduate Student Association (GSA) for 2008-09 and as the Social Chair for the 2007-08 BME GSA.
POSTERS & PRESENTATIONS: Lee EL and von Recum HA. Cell Culture Platform for Mechanical Conditioning and Nondamaging Cellular Detachment. Presentation given by American Heart Association (AHA) President David Rosenbaum at the AHA Great Rivers Affiliate Board Meeting, August 20, 2009. Lee EL and von Recum HA. Cell Culture Platform for Mechanical Conditioning and Nondamaging Cellular Detachment. Poster presentation at the Regenerative Medicine and Adult Stem Cell Therapy (MSC 2009) Conference (Cleveland, OH), August 17-19, 2009. Lee EL and von Recum HA. Elastic Surfaces for Cell Detachment Using a pNIPAAm Copolymer. Platform presentation at the Central Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society (CERMACS) 2009 (Cleveland, OH), May 20-23, 2009. Lee EL and von Recum HA. Design for a Cell Conditioning Platform With Non-damaging Cell Detachment Capability. Poster presentation at the Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting (San Antonio, TX), April 22-25, 2009. Lee EL and von Recum HA. Cell Culture Platform for Mechanical Conditioning and Nondamaging Cellular Detachment. Poster presentation at the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) 2008 Annual Fall Meeting (St. Louis, MO), October 2008.

PUBLICATIONS: Gupta V, Barzilla JE, Mendez JS, Stephens EH, Lee EL, Collard CD, Laucirica R, Weigel PH, Grande-Allen KJ. Abundance and location of proteoglycans and hyaluronan within normal and myxomatous mitral valves. Cardiovasc Pathol, accepted, 2008. Blevins TL, Peterson SB, Lee EL, Bailey AM, Frederick JD, Huynh TN, Gupta V, Grande-Allen KJ. Mitral valvular interstitial cells demonstrate regional, adhesional, and synthetic heterogeneity. Cells Tissues Organs. 2008;187:113-22. Blevins TL, Bailey A, Lee EL, Gupta V, Grande-Allen KJ. Regional heterogeneity of porcine mitral valve interstitial cells. Hilton Head, SC. Abstract. March 2006.

FUNDING: 2008-2010 American Heart Association Pre-doctoral Fellowship -- Great Rivers Affiliate

PREVIOUS LABS: Grande-Allen Lab Ogletree Lab in conjunction with the Baylor College of Medicine Summer Medical and Research Training (SMART) Program Cullen Cardiovascular Research Laboratories under Ralph Metcalfe, PhD, Billy Cohn, MD, and O.H. Frazier, MD