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C.8.Departmental and Institutional Seminars

1. 
   UCSB, ME Department Seminar, Engineering Cells and Microsystems to Study Mechanobiology, November 2016
   
2. 
   Chalmers University, Gothenberg, Sweden, Mechanobiology: Microsystems for Pushing and Pulling on Life, September 2016
   
3. 
   Georgia Tech, BME Department, Engineering Cells and Microsystems to Study Mechanobiology, August, 2016
   
4. 
   Duke University, BME seminar, Engineering Cells and Microsystems to Study Mechanobiology, June 2016
   
5. 
   University of Washington, BME Department, Microtechnology for Quantitative Mechanobiology, May, 2016
   
6. 
   French-German Research Institute of Saint-Louis, St. Louis, FR, Multifunctional Integrated Sensors, June 2015
   
7. 
   University of Kentucky Cardiology Seminar, Mechanobiology of Human PSC-derived Cardiomyocytes, Apr 14, 2015
   
8. 
   Duke University, MEMS Department, Microtechnology for Quantitative Mechanobiology, Mar 17, 2015
   
9. 
   Invited speaker, BioX Symposium, Stanford, CA August 2014
   
10. 
    Carnegie Mellon University, ME seminar, Microtechnology for Quantitative Mechanobiology, Apr 25, 2014
    
11. 
    University of Michigan, joint MBSTP and NIMSA seminar, Tools for Quantitative Mechanobiology, Apr 7, 2014
    
12. 
    UC Riverside, ME seminar, MEMS and Mechanobiology, Apr 4, 2014
    
13. 
    UPenn ME Department Seminar, Microtechnology and Metrology for Mechanobiology, April 4, 2013
    
14. 
    INEB Biotechnology Seminar, Microsystems for Cardiovascular Mechanobiology, Porto, Portugal Dec. 7, 2012
    
15. 
    ETH Micro Nano Platform Seminar, Microtechnology, Metrology, and Mechanobiology, Zurich, Switzerland, Dec 3, 2012
    
16. 
    Institute for Microtechnology Seminar, EPFL Neuchatel, Microsystems and Mechanobiology, Sept 7, 2012
    
17. 
    Aan de Dommel Lecture at TU Eindhoven, Institute for Complex Molecular Systems, Microsystems and Force Probes for Biology, Eindhoven, Netherlands, June 13, 2012
    
18. 
    Invited speaker, Sandia National Laboratories Microtechnology Seminar, Albuquerque, NM, July 21, 2011.
    
19. 
    Invited speaker, UTokyo Microsystems seminar, Microsystems for Mechanobiology, July 8, 2010.
    
20. 
    University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, Seminar series on Engineering
    Neuroscience & Health, “MEMS, Mechanobiology, and Touch,” September 14, 2009.
    
21. 
    Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, ECE seminar, “MEMS for Mechanobiology”, October 16, 2009.
    
22. 
    Invited speaker at the Defense Science Research Council Annual Workshop, “MEMS for Mechanobiology,” July 17, 2009.
    
23. 
    Invited instructor GEM4 summer school, UIUC, “Small Scale Biomechanics Measurements,” June 2009.
    
24. 
    University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Department of Electrical Engineering Seminar, “Piezoresistors, force sensors, and touch receptors,” May 19, 2009.
    
25. 
    University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, Department of Mechanical Engineering Seminar, “ MEMS enabled Mechanobiology,” May 11, 2009.
    
26. 
    University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, Department of Bioengineering Seminar, “ MEMS for Mechanobiology,” April 19, 2009.
    
27. 
    MIT, Cambridge, MA, Microtechnologies Lab Seminar series, “Microsystems and Mechanotransduction,” March 3, 2009.
    
28. 
    Medtronic, Santa Rosa, CA, “Hypes and Promises of Nanotechnology for Tissue Engineering,” January 21, 2009.
    
29. 
    University of Wisconsin, Chemical and Biological Engineering Department Seminar, “MEMS-based characterization of mechanosensory responses,” December 2, 2008.
    
30. 
    6th U.S.A.-Korea Joint Symposium on MEMS and Bioengineering, University of California at Berkeley, “MEMS for MechanoBiology,” July 7-8, 2008.
    
31. 
    NSF Workshop, The Cell as a Machine, “Critical Issues and Challenges of Engineering Tissues from Cells,” December 20-21, 2007, Arlington, VA.
    
32. 
    UIUC, Mechanical Engineering Department Faculty Seminar, “Microsystems and the Study of Mechanotransduction,” October 2006
    
33. 
    BioX Talks in English, “Microsystems for the Study of Mechanotransduction,” July 2006
    
34. 
    Lehigh Bioengineering Faculty Seminar, “Microsystems for the Study of Mechanotransduction,” April 2006
    
35. 
    Stanford CIS Sensors seminar series, “Research overview,” May 2004
    
36. 
    Stanford CIS-Hitachi Workshop on Wireless Sensing Networks, “Opportunities for wireless MEMS sensing,” Oct 2003
    
37. 
    UCSB MEMS seminar, “MEMS at Stanford,” 2001
    

C.9.Research Support (including indirects)

Current Support

NIH R21 (PI: Pruitt, Co: Ashley/Bernstein/Spudich/Wu

Validating engineered hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes as model cells

$440,997, 5/2016-4/2018, Percent Effort: 9%

NIH 1 R01HL113006 Role: Consultant (PI: Wu, J)

Human induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Cardiovascular Disease Modeling.

$1,965,000, 05/01/2012 – 02/28/2017, Percent Effort: 4%
NIH 1 R01NS09209910 Role: Co-I (PI: Goodman)

Genetic and Physical Basis of Mechanical Neuroprotection

$1,091,320, 03/01/2015 – 02/29/2020, Percent Effort: 4%
NSF ECCS- 1542152, Role: Co-PI (PI: Kathryn Moler)

NNCI: Stanford University - SNSF, SNF, MAF, EMF

$1,100,000, 9/2015-8/31/2020, Percent Effort: 4%

Stanford Childrens Health Research Institute, Role: Co-PI (PI: Bernstein)

hiPSC-cardiomyocyte models of early onset heart disease

$200,000, 11/2015-10/2017
Stanford BioX Interdisciplinary Initiatives Award Role: Co-PI (PI: O’Brien)

A gut feeling: Mechanobiology of Drosophila Gut Renewal

$200,000, 1/2017-12/2018
Completed Support

NSF ECCS-1505547

Student Travel - 12th International Workshop on Nanomechanical Sensing (NMC2015)

$15,000, 8/2015-12/2016, Percent Effort: 0%

Stanford Woods EEAP Big Sensors Seed Grant, Role: PI (Co-I Tom Jaramillo)

Multifunctional sensors for the environment

$70,000, 12/2014-12/2015, Percent Effort: 0%

Stanford Child Health Research Institute, Role: Co-PI (PI Dan Bernstein)

iPSC- Derived Cardiomyocytes to Determine Mechanisms by Which β-Cardiac Myosin Mutations Cause Pediatric Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

$100,000, 9/2015-8/2016, Percent Effort: 0%

NSF EFRI MIKS 1136790, Emerging Frontiers in Research Innovation, Role: PI (Co-PIs: Dunn, Weis, Nelson)

Force Sensing and Remodeling by Cell-Cell Junctions in Multicellular Tissues

$2,000, 000, 10/2011-12/2016, Percent Effort: AY 2%

AHA (Role: Mentor)

Postdoctoral Fellowship (Trainee: Dr. Alexandre Ribeiro)

$90,000, 1/2013-12/2015
2 R01 EB006745-05 NIH, Role: Multi-PI grant with Miriam Goodman

Force Clamp Systems for Evaluation of Mechanotransduction

$2,025,937, 6/2011-5/2016, Percent Effort: Cal 15%

Stanford CVI Seed grant, Role: PI (Co-I Sean Wu)

Genetic Tracking and Functional Assessment of Atrial- and Ventricular-Specific Cardiomyocytes from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells

$20,000 9/2014-8/2014

ECS-0425914 NSF Center (PI: Zettl, UCB, Role: PI of Stanford subcontract)

Center for Integrated NanoSystems (COINS)

Subaward $76,500/year, Period: 9/2009-8/2014, Percent Effort: AY 0%, Summer 0%

PHY-0425897 NSF Center (PI: Moler)

Center for Probing the Nanoscale (CPN)

Subaward $75,000/year, Period: 9/2008-9/2014, Percent Effort: AY 0%, Summer 0%

Stanford Bio-X Seed grant, PI awarded jointly with Nelson (Biology) and Weis (Structural Biology)

$150,000, 2010-2012

NSF ECCS-0922648, Role: co-I (PI: Kathryn Moler)

MRI: Acquisition of a NanoSIMS

$2,296,630, 9/2009-8/2012

1 R01 EB006745-01A1 NIH, PI

Force Clamp Systems for Evaluation of Mechanotransduction

$970,930, 8/2007-5/2011, Percent Effort: Cal 20%

NIH-R21/R33 Nanotechnology, Co-I

Nanostructuring and Molecular Imaging of Engineered Cardiovascular Tissues

$731,916, Period: 9/2007 – 8/2009

$970,930, 8/2007-5/2011, Percent Effort: Cal 15%
RC1-00151-1 California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Co-I (PI: Zarins)

Tissue Engineering of a Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Based Cardiac Tissue Graft

$2,618,704, 7/2007 – 5/2011, Percent Effort: Cal 10%

09-1-2089 DARPA YFA, PI

MEMS-Based Water Quality Detection

$300,000 Period: 10/2009-9/2011, Percent Effort: AY 4%, Summer 10%

ECS-0449400, NSF-CAREER, PI

A Microsystems Approach to Cellular Manipulation and Interaction

$400,000 Period: 4/2005-3/2010, Percent Effort: AY 0%, Summer 33%

Stanford Bio-X Seed grant, co-I

Jointly with Prof. Bernstein (Pediatrics) and Prof. Yang (Cardiology)

$150,000, 2008-2010
ECCS-0708031NSF, Nanoscale Exploratory Research, PI

Coaxial Tip Piezoresistive Probes for Scanning Gate Microscopy

$130,000, Period: 8/2007 – 7/2008, Percent Effort: AY 1%, Summer 10%

ECS-0403769, NSF, Nanoscale Exploratory Research, PI
Processing & Characterization of Functionalized Polymers for MicroSystems.

$116,000, 7/01/2004 – 12/31/2006, Percent Effort: AY 0%, Summer 33%

ECS- 0503895, NSF, PI

MEMS Education Workshop.

$8000, 12/15/2004 – 5/31/2006, Percent Effort: AY 0%, Summer 0%

CTS-0428889, NSF-Sensors, PI

Shear stress measurement in liquid environments using MEMS sensor arrays

$384,000, 10/2004-9/2007 (no-cost ext of REU), Percent Effort: AY 1%, Summer 33%

Stanford Office of Technology and Licensing Seed Grant, Co-I

Jointly with Prof. Goodman (Molecular and Cellular Physiology)

$30,000, 2003-2004
Center for Integrated Systems Seed Grant

$120,000, 2004-2005

Research Mentoring and Commitment to a Developing a Diverse STEM Workforce. To date Pruitt has mentored 21 Ph.D. students (8 women, 3 URM), and 14 postdoctoral scholars (6 women) and these mentees have gone on to successful careers in academia, government, and industry. She has mentored more than 40 undergraduate research experiences including 26 women, 10 URMs, and 2 students with disabilities.