Immunoengineering cellular responses

Track Chair(s)

• OV

  Omid Veiseh, PhD

  Professor
  Rice University, United States

Moderator(s)

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  Michael Mitchell (he/him/his)

  Associate Professor of Bioengineering
  Mitchell Lab, University of Pennsylvania, United States
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  Marian Ackun-Farmmer, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Postdoctoral Researcher/Incoming Assistant Professor
  University of Maryland/Georgia Institute of Technology
  Hyattsville, Maryland, United States

Presentations:

• 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM PDT

  Dynamic behavior of lymphocytes within the light zone of germinal centers
  

  Presenting Author: Chanhong Min (he/him/his) – Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Nikita Sivakumar – Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Kibaek Choe, PhD – School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University

  Co-Author: Wendy Béguelin, PhD (she/her/hers) – Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Weil Cornell Medicine

  Primary Investigator: Jude M. Phillip, PhD (he/him/his) – Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
• 4:15 PM – 4:30 PM PDT

  Biophysical signatures of macrophage activation by cytokines or through Fc receptors
  

  Presenting Author: Lawrence J. Dooling, PhD (he/him/his) – Univ Houston / University of Pennsylvania

  Co-Author: Jason C. Andrechak – University of Pennsylvana

  Co-Author: Tristan Marchena – University of Pennsylvania

  Primary Investigator: Dennis Discher, PhD – Biophysical Eng'g Labs, University of Pennsylvania
• 4:30 PM – 4:45 PM PDT

  CARTIA: a functional screening platform for engineering the next generation of CAR T-cells against hypoxic solid tumors
  

  Presenting Author: Cem Kilic, MS (he/him/his) – Univeristy of Southern California

  Co-Author: Jeong Oh (he/him/his) – University of Southern California

  Co-Author: Tianze Guo (he/him/his) – University of Southern California

  Primary Investigator: Keyue Shen – USC
• 4:45 PM – 5:00 PM PDT

  DNA-gated Cytometry for Scarless Isolation of Antigen-specific T cells
  

  Presenting Author: Aaron Silva, B.S.E – Georgia Institute of Technology

  Co-Author: Fang-Yi Su, PhD (she/her/hers) – Georgia Institute of Technology

  Co-Author: Isaac LeCompte – Georgia Tech

  Co-Author: Shreyas Dahotre – Obsidian Therapeutics

  Primary Investigator: Gabriel Kwong, PhD – Georgia Institute of Technology
• 5:00 PM – 5:15 PM PDT

  Immortalization of primary resting T cells by CRISPR/dCas9-based epigenetic modifiers and transcriptional activators
  

  Presenting Author: Siping Huang, PhD (she/her/hers) – City University of HongKong

  Last Author: Hiu Wai Raymond LAM – City University of HongKong

  Co-Author: Cia-Hin Lau – City University of HongKong
• 5:15 PM – 5:30 PM PDT

  Dissecting mechanisms of epitope recognition using engineered B cells
  

  Presenting Author: Jessica Kuppan – Washington University in St. Louis

  Last Author: Michael Vahey – Washington University in St. Louis