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Jordan Cloyd

Undergraduate Student in Biology
University of Pennsylvania

HOMETOWN
Redwood City, CA

EDUCATION
BA, Biology, University of Pennsylvania 2006
Candidate for M.D., University of California, San Francisco 2010


AREAS OF SPECIAL INTERESTS
Jordan has previously spent time investigating the effects on nucleotomy on sheep motion segment behavior as well as contributed to graduate student projects on confined compression of nucleus pulposus. He is currently interested in the role of elastin in the annulus fibrosus.

PUBLICATIONS

1. Johannessen W, Cloyd JM, Vresilovic EJ, OConnell GD, Elliott DM. Trans-Endplate Nucleotomy Increases Deformation and Creep Response in Axial Loading. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, In Review

CONFERENCE PAPERS

1. Johannessen W, Vresilovic EJ, Mills JR, Cloyd JM, Guerin HL, Elliott DM. Effect of Nucleotomy on Tension-Compression Behavior of the Intervertebral Disc. Transactions of the Orthopaedic Research Society, Paper Number 1585, 2005.