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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Overview

Beth L. Pruitt is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research encompasses multiple intersecting fields including Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Medicine, and Engineering. The scientist's work spans several specialized subfields such as Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, and Surgery.

The main research topics covered by this scientist involve Cellular Mechanics and Interactions, 3D Printing in Biomedical Research, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies, Pluripotent Stem Cells Research, Microfluidic and Bio-sensing Technologies, and Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications.

Frequent journals and publication venues for Beth L. Pruitt include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biophysical Journal
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
  • Biomedical Engineering Education

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Beth L. Pruitt are:

  • Controlled phage therapy by photothermal ablation of specific bacterial species using gold nanorods targeted by chimeric phages, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy β-cardiac myosin mutation (P710R) leads to hypercontractility by disrupting super relaxed state, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Increased tissue stiffness triggers contractile dysfunction and telomere shortening in dystrophic cardiomyocytes, 2021, Stem Cell Reports
  • Silencing of MYH7 ameliorates disease phenotypes in human iPSC-cardiomyocytes, 2020, Physiological Genomics
  • Mechanobiology Assays with Applications in Cardiomyocyte Biology and Cardiotoxicity, 2020, Advanced Healthcare Materials

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Beth L. Pruitt include:

  • Liam P. Dow
  • Orlando Chirikian
  • Kerry V. Lane
  • Gaspard Pardon
  • Cheavar A. Blair

In 2015, Beth L. Pruitt was recognized as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Best Publications

  • Review: Semiconductor Piezoresistance for Microsystems

    A.A. Barlian;W.-T. Park;J.R. Mallon;A.J. Rastegar

  • Mechanical strain induces E-cadherin–dependent Yap1 and β-catenin activation to drive cell cycle entry

    Blair W. Benham-Pyle;Beth L. Pruitt;Beth L. Pruitt;W. James Nelson

  • Contractility of single cardiomyocytes differentiated from pluripotent stem cells depends on physiological shape and substrate stiffness

    Alexandre J. S. Ribeiro;Yen-Sin Ang;Ji-Dong Fu;Renee N. Rivas

  • Tuning the Range of Polyacrylamide Gel Stiffness for Mechanobiology Applications

    Aleksandra K. Denisin;Beth L. Pruitt;Beth L. Pruitt

  • Mechanotransduction: use the force(s)

    Ewa K. Paluch;Celeste M. Nelson;Nicolas Biais;Ben Fabry

  • Effects of Substrate Mechanics on Contractility of Cardiomyocytes Generated from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

    Laurie B. Hazeltine;Chelsey S. Simmons;Max R. Salick;Xiaojun Lian

  • Artificial dirt: microfluidic substrates for nematode neurobiology and behavior.

    Shawn R Lockery;Kristy J Lawton;Joseph C Doll;Serge Faumont

  • Analysis of nematode mechanics by piezoresistive displacement clamp

    Sung-Jin Park;Miriam B. Goodman;Beth L. Pruitt

  • SU-8 MEMS Fabry-Perot pressure sensor

    G.C. Hill;R. Melamud;F.E. Declercq;A.A. Davenport

  • Distilling complexity to advance cardiac tissue engineering

    Brenda M. Ogle;Nenad Bursac;Ibrahim Domian;Ngan F. Huang;Ngan F. Huang

  • The Yin-Yang of Rigidity Sensing: How Forces and Mechanical Properties Regulate the Cellular Response to Materials

    Ingmar Schoen;Beth L. Pruitt;Viola Vogel

  • DEG/ENaC but Not TRP Channels Are the Major Mechanoelectrical Transduction Channels in a C. elegans Nociceptor

    Shana L. Geffeney;Juan G. Cueva;Dominique A. Glauser;Joseph C. Doll

  • Controlled phage therapy by photothermal ablation of specific bacterial species using gold nanorods targeted by chimeric phages

    Huan Peng;Raymond E Borg;Liam P Dow;Beth L Pruitt

  • Spatially Resolved Study of Backscattering in the Quantum Spin Hall State

    Markus König;Markus König;Matthias Baenninger;Matthias Baenninger;Andrei G. F. Garcia;Nahid Harjee

  • Single Molecule Force Measurements in Living Cells Reveal a Minimally Tensioned Integrin State.

    Alice C. Chang;Armen H. Mekhdjian;Masatoshi Morimatsu;Aleksandra Kirillovna Denisin

  • Multi-Imaging Method to Assay the Contractile Mechanical Output of Micropatterned Human iPSC-Derived Cardiac Myocytes.

    Alexandre J.S. Ribeiro;Olivier Schwab;Mohammad A. Mandegar;Yen-Sin Ang

  • Design and characterization of microfabricated piezoresistive floating element-based shear stress sensors

    A. Alvin Barlian;Sung-Jin Park;Vikram Mukundan;Beth L. Pruitt

  • Piezoresistor design and applications

    Joseph C Doll;Beth L Pruitt

  • Design optimization of piezoresistive cantilevers for force sensing in air and water

    Joseph C. Doll;Sung-Jin Park;Beth L. Pruitt

  • Mechano-Transduction: From Molecules to Tissues

    Beth L. Pruitt;Alexander R. Dunn;William I. Weis;W. James Nelson

  • Aluminum nitride on titanium for CMOS compatible piezoelectric transducers

    Joseph C Doll;Bryan C Petzold;Biju Ninan;Ravi Mullapudi

Frequent Co-Authors

Miriam B. Goodman
Miriam B. Goodman Stanford University
W. James Nelson
W. James Nelson Stanford University
Joseph C. Wu
Joseph C. Wu Stanford University
Daniel Bernstein
Daniel Bernstein Stanford University
Euan A. Ashley
Euan A. Ashley Stanford University
Deepak Srivastava
Deepak Srivastava King's College London
Matthew A. Hopcroft
Matthew A. Hopcroft University of California, Berkeley
William I. Weis
William I. Weis Stanford University
Ngan F. Huang
Ngan F. Huang Cardiovascular Institute of the South
Thomas W. Kenny
Thomas W. Kenny Stanford University

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