Jennifer Hammel (she/her/hers)

Graduate Research Assistant
Virginia Tech
Roanoke, Virginia, United States

Jennifer Hammel completed her B.S. in Bioengineering from Temple University in 2019 where she studied adipose tissue vascularization in the BellasFATLab. She is now working on her PhD in Biomedical Engineering in the Munson Lab at Virginia Tech, studying the impact of interstitial fluid flow on cell migration and function and immune-brain crosstalk in tissue engineered models.

Presentation(s):

• Measuring and mapping flow in lipedema: impact of adipose tissue dysfunction on interstitial fatty acid and fluid transport

  Thursday, October 12, 2023
  8:15 AM – 8:30 AM PDT

• Building a microphysiological model of the human lymph node follicle border zone

  Friday, October 13, 2023
  4:30 PM – 4:45 PM PDT

• A 3D-printed multi-organ-on-chip platform to model brain-immune interactions in neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration

  Saturday, October 14, 2023
  8:30 AM – 8:45 AM PDT