Molecular tools and approaches to guide cellular responses

Track Chair(s)

• OV

  Omid Veiseh

  Assistant Professor
  Rice University Department of Bioengineering, United States

Moderator(s)

• MO

  Madeleine Oudin

  Tufts University
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  Nicholas Lamson, PhD (he/him/his)

  Postdoctoral Associate
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Presentations:

• 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM PDT

  Synthetic Morphogenesis of Early Embryonic Development Potentiated by Substratum-Guided Artificial Signaling
  

  Presenting Author: Hannah Brien (she/her/hers) – Vanderbilt University

  Primary Investigator: Jonathan Brunger – Vanderbilt University
• 2:15 PM – 2:30 PM PDT

  Genetically encoded guidance of cell fate transitions via endoribonuclease mediated microRNA sensors of cell state
  

  Co-Author: Wenlong xu – MIT

  Co-Author: Shun Zhang – MIT

  Co-Author: Gregory Gundberg – MIT

  Co-Author: Zhengpeng Wan – MIT

  Presenting Author: Lei Wang, PhD (she/her/hers) – MIT

  Last Author: Ron Weiss – MIT
• 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM PDT

  Ultra-Fast Multiplexed Live Cell Imaging
  

  Presenting Author: Jina Ko, PhD – University of Pennsylvania
• 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM PDT

  Human iPSC-derived cerebral organoids to model microglial dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease
  

  Presenting Author: Madison Kuhn (she/her/hers) – Penn State University

  Last Author: Elizabeth Proctor (she/her/hers) – Penn State University
• 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM PDT

  Synthetic Ligand Microenvironments for Synthetic Notch Activation and Co-Differentiation
  

  Presenting Author: Tyler Hoffman – UCLA

  Co-Author: Mher Garibyan – USC

  Co-Author: Thijs Makaske – USC

  Co-Author: Nico Pedroncelli – UCLA

  Co-Author: Ricardo Espinosa Lima – UCLA

  Last Author: Leonardo Morsut – USC

  Primary Investigator: Song Li (he/him/his) – UCLA Department of Bioengineering
• 3:15 PM – 3:30 PM PDT

  Rationally engineered CRISPR/Cas systems as diagnostics and beyond
  

  Co-Author: Long Nguyen – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Santosh Rananaware – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Lilia Yang (she/her/hers) – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Nicolas Macaluso (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins University

  Presenting Author: Piyush K. Jain – University of Florida