Angela Pannier

Angela Pannier.

Swarts Family Chair of Biological Systems Engineering,
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Biological Systems Engineering

368 Morrison Life Science Center
Lincoln, NE 68583
(402) 472-0896
apannier2@unl.edu
Faculty Profile

Pannier Lab

Google Scholar
Education
  • Ph.D., Biological Sciences, Northwestern University
  • M.S., Biological Systems Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • B.S., Biological Systems Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Research Interests
  • Nonviral Gene Delivery
  • Protein-Cell-Biomaterial Interactions
  • Tissue Engineering
  • Stem Cell Differentiation

Inventions/Patents
  • Pannier AK, Schubert M, Hofmann T, Kasputis TJ, Herzinger CM, Woollam JA. Method to obtain micrographs of transparent or semi-transparent specimens using anisotropy contrast. U.S. Patent No. 10,026,167. July 17, 2018.
  • Segura T, Shea LD, Pannier AK, Bengali Z, Jang JH, Chung P, and Anderson B. Controlled surface-associated delivery of genes and oligonucleotides. U.S. Patent No. 7,029,697. April 18, 2006.

Honors and Awards
  • Big Ten Academic Alliance Academic Leadership Program Fellow (2019-2020)
  • UNL College of Engineering Faculty Research and Creative Activity Award (2020)
  • UNL Gamma Sigma Delta Outstanding Researcher Award (2020)
  • UNL College of Engineering Holling Family Master Teacher Award (2019)
  • Presidential Early Career Award for Scientist and Engineers (PECASE, awarded in 2019 for 2017)
  • UNL Parents Association Teaching Award (2018)
  • National Institutes of Health Director’s New Innovator Award (2017)
  • UNL Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award (2017)
  • UNL College of Engineering Tau Beta Pi Distinguished Teaching Award (2017)
  • UNL Darrell W. Nelson Excellence in Graduate Student Advising Award (2016)

Professional Memberships
Selected Publications
  1. Kozisek T, Hamann A, Nguyen A, Miller M, Plautz S, Pannier AK. 2020. High-Throughput Screening of Clinically Approved Drugs that Primer Nonviral Gene Delivery to Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells (Epub ahead of print).
  2. Hamann A, Thomas AK, Kozisek T, Farris E, Lück S, Zhang Y, Pannier AK. 2020. Screening a chemically defined extracellular matrix mimetic substrate library to identify substrates that enhance substrate-mediated transfection. Experimental Biology and Medicine 245(7): 606-619.
  3. Walsh SC, Miles JR, Yao L, Broeckling CD, Rempel LA, Wright-Johnson EC, Pannier AK. 2020. Metabolic compounds within the porcine uterine environment are unique to type of conceptus present during the early stages of blastocyst elongation. Molecular Reproduction and Development 87(1):174-190.
  4. Hamann A, Nguyen A, Pannier AK. 2019. Nucleic acid delivery to mesenchymal stem cells: a review of nonviral delivery methods and applications. Journal of Biological Engineering. 13:7.
  5. Mantz A, Rosenthal A, Farris E, Kozisek T, Bittrich E, Nazari S, Schubert E, Schubert M, Stamm M, Uhlmann P, Pannier AK. 2019. Free polyethylenimine enhances substrate-mediated gene delivery on titanium substrates modified with RGD-functionalized poly(acrylic acid) brushes. Frontiers in Chemistry: Poly. Chemistry. 7:51.
  6. Mantz A and Pannier AK. 2019. Biomaterial substrate modifications that influence cell-material interactions to prime cellular responses to nonviral gene delivery. Experimental Biology and Medicine. 244(2):100-113.
  7. Hamann A, Broad K, Nguyen A, Pannier AK. 2019. Mechanisms of unprimed and dexamethasone-primed nonviral gene delivery to human mesenchymal stem cells. Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 116(2):427-443.
  8. Farris E, Heck K, Lampe AT, Brown DM, Ramer-Tait A, and Pannier AK. 2018. Oral non-viralgene delivery for applications in DNA vaccination and gene therapy. Current Opinion in Biomedical Engineering. 7:51-57
  9. Erickson AG, Laughlin TD, Romereim SM, Sargus-Patino CN, Pannier AK, Dudley AT. 2018. A tunable, three-dimensional in vitro culture model of growth plate cartilage using alginate hydrogel scaffolds. Tissue Engineering, Part A. 24(1-2): 94-105.
  10. Rosenthal A, Mantz A, Bittrich E, Schubert E, Schubert M, Stamm M, Pannier AK, Uhlmann P. 2018. Biofunctionalization of Titanium Substrates Using Nanoscale Polymer Brushes with Cell Adhesion Peptides. J Physical Chemistry: B. 122 (25): 6543-6550.