Bioengineering cellular models to study physiology

Track Chair(s)

• OV

  Omid Veiseh

  Assistant Professor
  Rice University Department of Bioengineering, United States

Moderator(s)

• MN

  Mehdi Nikkhah

  Associate Professor
  Arizona State University, United States
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  Erika Cyphert, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Postdoctoral Fellow
  Cornell University/University of California San Francisco
  San Francisco, California, United States

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM – 8:15 AM PDT

  Derivation of Human Primordial Germ Cell-Like Cells in an Embryonic-Like Culture
  

  Presenting Author: Yi Zheng, PhD (he/him/his) – Syracuse University

  Co-Author: Sajedeh Esfahani – University of Michigan

  Co-Author: Auriana Arabpour – University of California, Los Angeles

  Co-Author: Amander Clark – University of California, Los Angeles

  Co-Author: Jianping Fu – University of Michigan
• 8:15 AM – 8:30 AM PDT

  Modeling cell trapping and anomalous cell migration on viscoelastic substrates
  

  Presenting Author: Vivek Sharma (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania

  Co-Author: Ze Gong – University of Pennsylvania

  Co-Author: Kolade Adebowale, PhD (he/him/his) – Harvard University

  Primary Investigator: Ovijit Chaudhuri – Stanford University

  Primary Investigator: Vivek Shenoy – University of Pennsylvania
• 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM PDT

  Adhesion-independent migration of monocytes in viscoelastic collagen-based extracellular matrices.
  

  Presenting Author: Kolade Adebowale, PhD (he/him/his) – Harvard University

  Co-Author: Byunghang Ha, PhD (he/him/his) – Stanford University

  Co-Author: Aashrith Saraswathibhatla – Stanford University

  Co-Author: Dhiraj Indana – Stanford University

  Co-Author: Medeea Popescu – Stanford University

  Co-Author: Roarke Kamber – UCSF

  Co-Author: Jin Yang – UT Austin

  Co-Author: Christian Franck – UW Madison

  Co-Author: Michael Bassik – Stanford University

  Co-Author: Paul Bollyky – Stanford University

  Last Author: Ovijit Chaudhuri – Stanford University
• 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM PDT

  A Liver Extracellular Matrix Nanofiber Platform for the Functional Maturation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Human Hepatocytes
  

  Presenting Author: Yang Yuan, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Illinois Chicago

  Presenting Author: Liszt Y.C. Madruga – Colorado State University

  Co-Author: Matt J. Kipper – Colorado State University

  Primary Investigator: Salman R. Khetani (he/him/his) – University of Illinois Chicago
• 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM PDT

  Shining Light on Calcium-Mediated Morphogenesis: Forward Engineering Organ Development with Optogenetics and Mechanosensation
  

  Presenting Author: Mayesha Sahir Mim, PhD Candidate (she/her/hers) – University of Notre Dame

  Co-Author: Niay Kumar, Ph.D. – University of Notre Dame

  Primary Investigator: Jeremiah Zartman, Ph.D. – University of Notre Dame
• 9:15 AM – 9:30 AM PDT

  Human Fibroblasts from Patients with Airway Stenosis Have Unique, Targetable Signatures and Retain Transcriptional Memory
  

  Presenting Author: Daniel Ghaderi (he/him/his) – Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania; Division of Otolaryngology, Department of Surgery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

  Primary Investigator: Riccardo Gottardi – University of Pennsylvania

  Co-Author: Matthew Aronson – Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania; Division of Otolaryngology, Department of Surgery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia