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Rebecca Taylor
Graduate Student
rebeccat (at) stanford (dot) edu
Microsystems and Computational Biomechanics Groups
Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Research Description
I work to develop both microfabricated and macro-scale electromechanical systems for both electrical and mechanical stimulation and monitoring of stem cell-based cardiac tissue constructs. My research aims to utilize these systems for 1) characterization of stem cell differentiation to cardiac myocytes in response to electrical and mechanical stimulation 2) constitutive modeling of coupled electromechanical behavior of cardiac myocytes, and 3) the development of continuum mechanics based predictive models of tissue growth.
This research is advised by Ellen Kuhl from the Mechanics and Computation Group in Mechanical Engineering, Beth Pruitt from the Microsystems Group in Mechanical Engineering and Dr. Christopher Zarins from the Vascular Tissue Laboratory at Clark.
Degrees
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, 2008
B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University, 2001
Honors and Awards
Stanford Biox Fellowship, 2007
Stanford Graduate Fellowship, 2007 (offered and declined)
Hobbies and Interests
Illustration, animation, paper models, human creativity