Jeff Burmeister
Dr. Burmeister is Director of Bioengineering and Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department. He received B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Delaware and a Ph.D. from Duke University in Biomedical Engineering. He joined the University of the Pacific in 2002 following a Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellowship at The University of Georgia. Dr. Burmeister also has industrial experience both as a mechanical engineer and a biomedical engineer. His interests focus on biomaterials and engineering education. In his free time he enjoys hiking, skiing and snowboarding.
Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC., 1995
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE., 1988
Biomaterials
Material Science
Tissue Engineering
Biomaterials
Cell adhesion
Wound healing
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Burmeister, J.S., McKinney, V.Z., Reichert, W.M. and Truskey, G.A. (1999). Role of endothelial cell-substrate contact area and fibronectin-receptor affinity on cell adhesion to HEMA/EMA copolymers. J. Biomed. Mater. Res., 47, 577-584.
Burmeister, J.S., Olivier, L.A., Reichert, W.M. and Truskey, G.A. (1998). Application of total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy to study cell adhesion to biomaterials. Biomaterials, 19, 307-325.
Burmeister, J.S., Vrany, J., Reichert, W.M. and Truskey, G.A. (1996). Effect of fibronectin amount and conformation on the strength of endothelial cell adhesion to HEMA/EMA copolymers. J. Biomed. Mater. Res., 30, 13-22.
Burmeister, J.S., Truskey, G.A., Yarbrough, J.L. and Reichert, W.M. (1994). Imaging of cell/substrate contacts on polymers by total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy. Biotechnol. Prog., 10, 26-31.
Burmeister, J.S., Truskey, G.A. and Reichert, W.M. (1994). Quantitative analysis of variable angle total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (VA-TIRFM) of cell/substrate contacts. J. Microsc., 173, Pt. 1, 39-51.
