PhD Student
Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
My name is Sam Halvorsen and I am a mechanical engineering PhD student at Boston University. My research seeks to link the mechanical and structural changes in the cerebrovasculature. I mechanically characterize cerebral arteries using biaxial inflation-extension testing and examine their structures using multiphoton imaging and histological staining to view the organization and relative abundance of the structural proteins elastin and collagen.
Thursday, October 12, 2023
1:00 PM – 1:15 PM PDT