Multicellular Engineered Living Systems

Moderator(s)

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  Mehdi Jorfi, PhD

  Faculty of Neurology
  Harvard Medical School
  Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States
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  Yi Zheng

  Assistant Professor
  Syracuse University
  Syracuse, New York, United States

Keynote Speaker(s)

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  Martin Trapecar

  Assistant Professor
  Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
  St. Petersburg, Florida, United States

Presentations:

• 12:30 PM – 12:45 PM PDT

  Reconstructing Multiorgan Human Physiology for the Studies of Systemic Immunity
  

  Presenting Author: Martin Trapecar – Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
• 12:45 PM – 1:00 PM PDT

  Infiltrating CD8+ T cells exacerbate Alzheimer’s disease pathology in a human neuroimmune axis model
  

  Presenting Author: Mehdi Jorfi, PhD – Harvard Medical School

  Co-Author: Joseph Park – Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

  Co-Author: Clare K. Hall – Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

  Co-Author: Chih-Chung Jerry Lin – Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

  Co-Author: Meng Chen – Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

  Co-Author: Daniel Irimia – Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

  Co-Author: Doo Yeon Kim – Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

  Last Author: Rudolph E. Tanzi – Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
• 1:00 PM – 1:15 PM PDT

  Exercise training differentially impacts brain microvascular endothelial cell function in individuals with the APOE ε3 versus ε4 genotype
  

  Presenting Author: Callie M. Weber (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland, Fischell Department of Bioengineering

  Co-Author: Gabriel Pena – University of Maryland, Department of Kinesiology

  Co-Author: Sophia M. Zic (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland, Fischell Department of Bioengineering

  Co-Author: Jerome C. Smith – University of Maryland, Department of Kinesiology

  Last Author: Alisa Clyne, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland, College Park
• 1:15 PM – 1:30 PM PDT

  Spatially Guided Construction of Multilayered Epidermal Models Recapturing Structural Hierarchy and Cell-Cell Junctions
  

  Presenting Author: Haiwei Zhai (he/him/his) – University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  Co-Author: Xiaowei Jin – University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  Primary Investigator: Ruiguo Yang – University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  Last Author: Fanben Meng – University of Nebraksa-Lincoln
• 1:30 PM – 1:45 PM PDT

  Amyloid beta peptides (Aβ) from Alzheimer's disease neuronal secretome induce endothelial activation in a human cerebral microvessel model
  

  Co-Author: Yu Jung Shin (she/her/hers) – University of Washington

  Presenting Author: Kira M. Evitts (she/her/hers) – University of Washington

  Co-Author: Solhee Jin (she/her/hers) – University of Washington

  Co-Author: Caitlin Howard (she/her/hers) – University of Washington

  Co-Author: Margaret Sharp-Milgrom (she/her/hers) – University of Washington

  Co-Author: Tiara Schwarze-Taufiq – University of Washington

  Co-Author: Chizuru Kinoshita (she/her/hers) – University of Washington

  Co-Author: Jessica Young (she/her/hers) – University of Washington

  Last Author: Ying Zheng (she/her/hers) – University of Washington
• 1:45 PM – 2:00 PM PDT

  Activating Synthetic Notch Receptors by a Micropatterned Surface for Spatial Control of Differentiation
  

  Presenting Author: Mher Garibyan – University of Southern California

  Co-Author: Tyler Hoffman, PhD – University of California, Los Angeles

  Co-Author: Nathan Cho – USC

  Co-Author: Alex March – USC

  Co-Author: Grace True – USC

  Primary Investigator: Megan McCain – Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering

  Last Author: Leonardo Morsut – University of Southern California