Full Schedule

Evangelia Bellas & Elizabeth Wayne
Theme of Day: Renewal

Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez - University of Texas-Austin
reConnecting Bioengineering to the Community Through Patient-Forward Design

Hua Wang - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Self-Adjuvanting α-Helical Polypeptide Simultaneously Delivers Neoantigen mRNAs and Activates Dendritic Cells to Eradicate Tumor 

Bin Jiang - Northwestern
Surface-Engineered Mitochondria Transplantation for the Treatment of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

Joyce Chen - The University of Chicago
Optogenetically Induced Mitochondria-Carrying Extracellular Vesicles for Transplantation and Temporal Analysis in Live Cells

Duy Nguyen - Moffitt Cancer Center, USF
Matrix-Borne Resilience: The Mechanics of Tumor Survival Under Stress

Sathish Ramakrishnan - Yale
Supercharged Extracellular Vesicles for direct Plasma Membrane Reprogramming of Undruggable Membrane Proteins 

Zihan Ling - CMU
Chemoselective Characterization of New ECM Deposition in Bioengineered Tumor Tissues 

Brendan Harley - University of Illinois
reEVALUATING

Jina Ko - U of Penn
Dynamic Transcriptomic Monitoring via Nanowire-Based Live Cell Profiling

Jose L. McFaline-Figueroa - Columbia
Decoding Context-Dependent Gene Function using Scalable Single-Cell Technologies  

Sambeeta Das - U of Delaware
Spatiotemporal Control of Stem Cell Differentiation using Cellular Microrobots

Ivana Parker - U of Florida
Predictive Modeling for Bacterial Vaginosis in a Tanzanian Cohort of Women Living with HIV

Jacopo Ferruzi - UT Dallas
Physical Hallmarks of Early Onset Colorectal Cancer: From Stiffening to Altered Epithelial Proliferation

Sho Wantabe - Rice U
Monitoring in vivo transcription with synthetic serum markers

Erika Moore - U of Maryland
Sex Determines Differences in Macrophage Function in Response to Hormonal and Secretomic Stimuli

Abhishek Sharma - UC Santa Barbara
Extracellular matrix cues combine to generate diverse phenotypes

Abhinaba Banerjee - UC San Diego
Adhesion Plasticity and Paracrine "Education" Shape the Invasive Trajectory of Glioblastoma (GBM)

Scavenger Hunt: Get carried away on a guided adventure through local attractions. Activity that you can do with other conference goers or as a family excursion. Designed by Alex Puig Cruz a Temple University Biology major from Puerto Rico. (Friends and Family are welcome!)

Unconference II: You Create the Agenda! Have something you want to talk or vent about? Write it on a post card and see who else wants to join your discussion. Session inspired by Google SciFoo style meetings. Meet at the registration booth.

Evangelia Bellas & Elizabeth Wayne

Beth Pruitt - UC Santa Barbara

Rob Mauck - University of Pennsylvania
reFOCUSING 

Jay Patel - Emory
Directing the Interplay Between Cell Contractility and TGF-B3 for Functional Cartilage Repair 

Su Chin Heo - U Penn
Machine Learning-Guided Single-Epigenetic Dynamics Predict Nanoscale Chromatin Remodeling 

Karin Wang - Temple U
Mechanoregulation of Cell Migration Dynamics During Wound Closure 

Mohammed Fallahi-Sichani -U Virginia
AP-1 co-regulatory network organizes discrete, heterogeneous, and reconfigurable cell states 

Tamara Rossy - MIT
Enhancing the maturity of human iPSC-derived skeletal muscle 

Chris Hernandez - University of California -SF
reINVENTING

Meenal Datta - Notre Dame
Mechano-Immunology of Macrophages: On Earth and in Space

Leslie Chan - Georgia Institute of Technology
Ingestible molecular probes for non-invasive monitoring of microbiome drug metabolism  

Huiliang Wang - University of Texas-Austin
H-bonded organic frameworks as ultrasound-programmable delivery platform  

Karina Nakayama - Oregon Health & Science University
Treatment of Injury Associated Anemia with Intravenous Iron Regulates Bone Healing and Fatigue after Orthopaedic Trauma

Santiago Correa - Columbia
Probiotic Extracellular Vesicles as Scalable Building Blocks for Regenerative Hydrogels 

Jongwon Lim - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
CRISPR-Cascade OR-gated assay for direct pathogen detection

David Gazzo - Notre Dame
Uncovering Piezo--SERCA Interactions for Mechanical Ca2+ Regulation - (Notre Dame)

Connor Devine - U Penn
Medium-scale, One-Day Assembly of Oligo Pools into Functional T Cell Receptor cDNA  

Farnaz Naeemikia - Penn State
Toward Smarter Cell Therapies: Autonomous and Reversible Switch

Moderator: Kareem Azab & Elizabeth Wayne

From Idea to Industry: Navigating the Path from Lab to Market

Sponsored by Cellatrix

Jenny Robinson - University of Washington
reDEFINING : Hormones, Healing, and the Future of Sports Medicine  

Michelle Teplensky - Boston U
Modulating Antigen Intracellular Processing to Bias Adaptive Immunity

Elizabeth Wayne-University of Washington
Optimization of monocyte and monocyte-derived macrophage incorporation into human airway organoids

Mark Kuei-Chun Wang - Arizona State University
Harnessing Monocyte-Mimetic Nanoparticles for Targeted Theranostics in Atherosclerosis

Yunzhi Peter Yang - Stanford
Breaking Boundaries: Hybrid Bioprinting Across Seven Orders of Mechanical Magnitude

Xun Wang - MIT/MGH
Engineering A 3D Human Brain to Study Mechanical Mechanisms in Alzheimer's Disease

Ariella Shikanov - University of Michigan
Resilience: Scientific Flexibility as a Catalyst for Women’s Health Innovation 

Jennifer Young -  National University of Singapore 
Spatial mechanomics uncovers the regulation of extracellular matrix mechanics in ovarian aging dysfunction

Ana Porras - University of Florida
TMAO, a gut metabolite, induces valve cell activation and extracellular matrix production through PERK-dependent endoplasmic reticulum stress in a quiescent in vitro model 

Mark Mondrinos - Tulane
Sex-specific microphysiological models of diabetic retinopathy and lung cancer for investigating sex hormone effects on pathophysiology and treatment response

Grace Spillers/Brisa Pena - CU Denver
Engineering an In Vitro Exercise Model to Probe Mechanobiological Adaptations in Cardiac Fibroblasts

Audrey McCarthy/Tejal Desai - Brown
EGFR-Targeted Lipid Nanoparticles for Enhanced Endometrial Uptake In Vitro

Anthony Fung - Yale
Multi-modal Senotyping of Immune Cells During Aging - Anthony Fung

María del C Ramos-Álamo - U Puerto Rico
Deep Learning Image Profiling as Morphological Markers - María del C Ramos-Álamo et al. (U Puerto Rico)

Yansong Peng - Cornell
Normalizing tumor lymphatic drainage potentiates immunotherapy

(Moderators: Kevin Alicea-Torres, Ana Maria Porras, Evangelia Bellas)

Science Communication for All

Welcome & Introduction: Welcome: Evangelia Bellas & Elizabeth Wayne, Introduction: Jenny Jiang
Presentation of Junior Travel Awards: Wendy Liu
Introduction to Shu Chien Award: Jenny Jiang
Shu Chien Achievement Award: David Mooney - Harvard & Wyss

Alis Balayan/ Adam Engler - UCSD
Obesity Alters Adipogenic Regulation in Human Skeletal Muscle

Kevin Alicea-Torres - UPR Humacao
REconnecting Cancer Research to People: A Story of Science, Community, and Reimagination

Dake Hao - University of California-Davis
Engineering the fetal environment for treatment of spina bifida bone defect

Pilar de la Puente - Sanford Research, University of South Dakota Medical
Mimicking physiologically relevant environments in patient-derived tumor-immune tunable models to target immunologically cold high-grade serous tumors

Juhi Samal -  University of Alabama-Birmingham
Microglial Glycan Remodeling: Cellular and Mitochondrial Mechanisms in Aging and Stroke

Thunyapat Silpsamrit/Caleb Bashor - Rice
Synthetic manipulation of mammalian secretory phenotypes for augmented bioproduction and neuroendocrine-like regulated secretory function

Charles Park - Harvard
Macrophage as a Platform for Tumor-Infiltrating Immunotherapy

Jianping Fu - U of Michigan 

Kelly Vazquez - Wheaton College
Mechanoregulation of β-Cell Function: Linking Mechanical Cues to Oscillatory Dynamics, Cytoskeletal Remodeling, and Functional Markers

Renita Horton - U of Houston
Investigating the Role of Inflammation in Autoimmune Mediated Cardiovascular Disease