Stem Cells in Tissue Engineering and Disease Modeling

Moderator(s)

• JX

  Jingwei Xie

  Professor
  University of Nebraska Medical Center
  Omaha, Nebraska, United States
• AB

  Abhinav Bhushan

  Associate Professor
  Illinois Institute of Technology
  Chicago, Illinois, United States

Keynote Speaker(s)

• 

  Feng Zhao, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Professor of Biomedical Engineering
  Texas A & M University, United States

Presentations:

• 12:30 PM – 12:45 PM PDT

  Perfusability of pre-vascularized human mesenchymal stem cell sheets recapitulating features of native capillary network
  

  Presenting Author: Feng Zhao, PhD (she/her/hers) – Texas A & M University
• 12:45 PM – 1:00 PM PDT

  Characterizing the roles of dysferlin deficiency in function and polarization of human induced pluripotent stem cell derived macrophages
  

  Presenting Author: Amber Detwiler (she/her/hers) – Duke University

  Co-Author: Alastair Khodabukus, PhD – Duke University

  Primary Investigator: Nenad Bursac, PhD – Duke University
• 1:00 PM – 1:15 PM PDT

  Collagen Mineralization and Breast Cancer-Derived Factors Synergistically Regulate Mesenchymal Stem Cell Phenotype in Bone Metastatic Niches
  

  Presenting Author: Nicole Sempertegui (she/her/hers) – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Yiwei Yan (she/her/hers) – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Matthew Whitman – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Siyoung Choi – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Lara A. Estroff, PhD (she/her/hers) – Cornell University

  Primary Investigator: Claudia Fischbach, PhD – Cornell University
• 1:15 PM – 1:30 PM PDT

  Strategies of cell maintenance for efficient differentiation of induced pluripotent stem cells
  

  Presenting Author: Hui Huang (she/her/hers) – State University of New York, Binghamton

  Co-Author: Sha Jin (she/her/hers) – Binghamton University

  Co-Author: Kaiming Ye, PhD (he/him/his) – Binghamton University
• 1:30 PM – 1:45 PM PDT

  Bioengineered iPSC-derived models of human bone marrow for studies of systemic injury and disease
  

  Presenting Author: Daniel N. Tavakol – Columbia University

  Co-Author: Pamela Graney – Columbia University

  Co-Author: Ilaria Baldassarri – Columbia University

  Co-Author: Siyu He – Columbia University

  Co-Author: Maria Samaritano – Columbia University

  Co-Author: Richard Zhuang – Columbia University

  Co-Author: Jessie Brown – Columbia University

  Co-Author: Kam Leong, B.S., Ph.D. – Columbia University

  Co-Author: Elham Azizi – Columbia University

  Co-Author: Teresa Palomero – Columbia University

  Co-Author: Adolfo Ferrando – Columbia University

  Co-Author: Karen Hirschi – University of Virginia

  Primary Investigator: Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, PhD – Columbia University
• 1:45 PM – 2:00 PM PDT

  Optimizing lymphatic endothelial differentiation using metabolic pathway and machine learning
  

  Presenting Author: Donghyun P. Jeong, B.S. – University of Notre Dame

  Co-Author: Sanjoy Saha, MS (he/him/his) – University of Notre Dame

  Co-Author: Maksym Zarodniuk – University of Notre Dame

  Primary Investigator: Donny Hanjaya-Putra – University of Notre Dame