Oral Presentations [Speaker Underlined]

1. Gopal Agarwal,  Abiah Sam Sentic, Ethan McMillan, Sofia Reyes, Samantha Shumard, Kennedy Moes, Christine E. Schmidt. Injectable Hydrogel Derived from Decellularized Human Peripheral Nerve Mitigates Neuroinflammation at the Injured Spinal Cord Site. TERMIS-AM, Detroit, Michigan (November 2025). 

2. Gopal Agarwal, Allison Campbell, Arun Wanchoo, Jacob Fuhr, Prodip Bose, Gregory Hudalla, Benjamin Keselowsky, Christine E. Schmidt. Localized Delivery of Indoleamine-2,3-Dioxygenase (IDO) – Galectin 3 Fused Enzyme using Decellularized Sciatic Nerve for Spinal Cord Regeneration. BMES, San Diego, California (October 2025). 

3. Gopal Agarwal, Kennedy Moes, Christine E. Schmidt. Development and in vitro evaluation of biomimetic injectable hydrogels from decellularized human nerves for central nervous system regeneration. Society for Biomaterials, Chicago, Illinois (April 2025). 

4. Gopal Agarwal, Kennedy Moes, Christine E. Schmidt. Development and in vitro evaluation of biomimetic injectable hydrogels from decellularized human nerves for central nervous system regeneration. North Central Florida Society for Neuroscience Conference, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida (February 2025). 

5. Gopal Agarwal, Samantha Shumard, Olivia Osborne, Michaela Mertz, Jorge Santiago Mojica, Breana Aussec, Christine E. Schmidt. Decellularized porcine peripheral nerve-based injectable hydrogel for Schwann cell delivery. BMES, Baltimore, Maryland (October 2024). 

6. Gopal Agarwal, Allison Campbell, Arun Wanchoo, Jacob Fuhr, Steven Robin Blasini, Prodip Bose, Benjamin Keselowsky, Gregory Hudalla, Christine E. Schmidt. Localized delivery of Indoleamine2,3-dioxygenase (IDO)-Galectin 3 fused enzyme using decellularized rat sciatic nerve for axonal regeneration in injured rat spinal cord. BMES, Baltimore, Maryland (October 2024). 

7. Gopal Agarwal, Samantha Shumard, Olivia Osborne, Michaela Mertz, Jorge Santiago Mojica, Breana Aussec, Christine E. Schmidt. Decellularized and crosslinked porcine peripheral nerves derived hydrogel for neural tissue regeneration. BMES, Seattle, Washington (October 2023). 

Invited Talks [Speaker Underlined]

1. Gopal Agarwal. Peripheral Nerve–Derived Hydrogels to Modulate Glial Cell Activity and Promote Tissue Repair After Spinal Cord Injury. TERMIS-AM, Outstanding Postdoc Award Talk, Detroit, Michigan (October 2025) 

2. Gopal Agarwal. Bioinspired Regeneration: Harnessing Peripheral Nerve–Derived Hydrogels to Modulate Glial Cell Activity and Promote Tissue Repair After Spinal Cord Injury. Saint Luke Hospital Neurology Grand Round, Kansas City, Missouri (October 2025). 

3. Gopal Agarwal. Decellularized tissue-based injectable hydrogel for injured spinal cord regeneration. UF BME Seminar, Gainesville, Florida (September 2024). 

4. Gopal Agarwal. Decellularized scaffold-based injectable hydrogel for injured spinal cord regeneration. UF Biomaterial Day Symposium, Gainesville, Florida (March 2024). (Keynote speaker) .

5. Gopal Agarwal. Clinically relevant injectable formulations for injured spinal cord regeneration. SCI Retreat, organized by UF BREATHE, Gainesville, Florida  (December 2023). 

Poster Presentations [Presenter Underlined]

1. Gopal Agarwal, Chintan Chaudhary, Akshay Srivastava. “Supermacroporous affinity cryogel device for cell separation” at Indian Medical Device Industry Conference, held at Ahmedabad,  March 2017.

2. Gopal Agarwal, Amol Pople, Akshay Srivastava. “High Density collagen cryogel bridge for the regeneration of injured spinal cord “at NIPERA\CPSBT 2018 held at Gandhinagar, March 2018.

3. Silvy Mary Sebastian, Gopal Agarwal, Akshay Srivastava. “Drug loaded cryogel based punctalplug  for dry eye disease” at Emerging areas in biosciences and biomedical technologies (eBBT),held at  IIT Indore, Madhya Pradesh, January 2018.

4. Chintan Chaudhary, Gopal Agarwal, Akshay Srivastava. “Biofunctional Aligned Collagen Type-I Matrix for IVD Repair” at 14th National Conference and Technology Exhibition on IndianMedical Device and Plastic Disposables/Implant Industry 2017, held at Ahmedabad, March 2017.

5. Gopal Agarwal, Akshay Srivastava. “Electroconductive collagen hydrogel for spinal cord regeneration” at BioMET 2018, held at Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, July 2018.

6. Krishnapriya S., Gopal Agarwal, Akshay Srivastava. “Nanoparticle loaded collagen punctal plugsfor dry eye disease” at Indian Medical Device Industry Conference, held at Ahmedabad, September 2018 (Won 3 rd prize in Shushruta Innovation Award Category).

7. Gopal Agarwal, Govinda Kapusetti, Navin Kumar, Akshay Srivastava. “Electroconductive, ATP promoting and highly ordered amino functionalized graphene crosslinked collagen cryogels for neural tissue engineering” at International Conference on Neurological Disordersand Therapeutics held at NIPER- A, India, October 2019. (Won 3rd prize). 

8. Deanna Bousalis, Allison Campbell, Gopal Agarwal, Elisa Nieves, Michaela McCrary, Shruti Kolli, Young Hye Song, Christine E. Schmidt, “Technical Considerations and Recommendations for Assessment of Decellularized Tissues” at BMES, held at San Antiono, October 2022.

9. Gopal Agarwal, Allison Campbell, Arun Wanchoo, Jacob Fuhr, Steven Robin Blasini, Prodip Bose, Benjamin Keselowsky, Christine E. Schmidt. “Injectable and immunomodulatory hydrogels for  promoting axonal regeneration in injured spinal cord” at Society for Biomaterials held at San Diego, April 2023. 

10. Gopal Agarwal, Olivia Osborne, Michaela Mertz, Jorge Santiago Mojica, Breana Aussec, Christine E. Schmidt. “Decellularized porcine sciatic nerve-based hydrogels for tissue regeneration: Challenges and opportunities” at Society for Biomaterials held at San Diego, April 2023. 

11. Gopal Agarwal, Allison Campbell, Arun Wanchoo, Jacob Fuhr, Steven Robin Blasini, Prodip Bose, Benjamin Keselowsky, Christine E. Schmidt. “Localized delivery of Indoleamine-2-3-dioxygenase (IDO)-Galectin 3 fused enzyme using decellularized rat sciatic nerve for axonal regeneration in injured rat spinal cord” at BMES, held at Seattle, October 2023. 

12. Samantha Shumard, Gopal Agarwal, Steven Robles Blasini, Christine E. Schmidt. “Injectable Decellularized Porcine Peripheral Nerve Based Hydrogel for Schwann Cells Delivery in Injured Spinal Cord” at BMES, held at Seattle, October 2023.

13. Steven Robles Blasini, Gopal Agarwal, Christine E. Schmidt.” Developing Injectable Decellularized Scaffolds for Injured Spinal Cord Regeneration” at McNair Open House, held at UF, November 2023. 

14. Samantha Shumard, Gopal Agarwal, Steven Robles Blasini, Olivia Osborne, Michaela W. McCrary, Jorge Mojica Santiago, Breanna Ausec, Christine E. Schmidt. “Injectable Decellularized Porcine Peripheral Nerve Based Hydrogel for Schwann Cells Delivery in Injured Spinal Cord” at Undergraduate Research Symposium held at the University of Florida, November 2023. 

15. Kennedy Moes, Gopal Agarwal, Steven Robles Blasini, Christine E. Schmidt. "Humanized Injectable Hydrogel for Injured Spinal Cord Regeneration" at Center for Undergraduate Research Fall Symposium, November 2023.

 16. Kennedy Moes, Gopal Agarwal, Christine E. Schmidt. "Decellularized Peripheral Nerve Based Hydrogel for Injured Spinal Cord Regeneration" at Society for Biomaterials, Biomaterials Day, March 2024. 

17. Kennedy Moes, Gopal Agarwal, Christine E. Schmidt. "Decellularized Peripheral Nerve Based Hydrogel for Injured Spinal Cord Regeneration" at Engineering Research Symposium, April 2024 .

18. Gopal Agarwal,  Abiah Sam Sentic, Samantha Shumard, Kennedy Moes, Christine E. Schmidt. "Injectable Hydrogel Derived from Decellularized Human Peripheral Nerve Mitigates Neuroinflammation at the Injured Spinal Cord Site" at BMES, San Diego 2025.