Engineered Immune Models

Track Chair(s)

• 

  Elizabeth Wayne, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Assistant Professor
  Carnegie Mellon University, United States
• JW

  John Wilson

  Associate Professor
  Vanderbilt University
  Nashville, Tennessee, United States
• KM

  Kathryn Miller-Jensen

  Associate Professor
  Yale University, United States

Moderator(s)

• 

  Kolade Adebowale, PhD (he/him/his)

  Postdoctoral Fellow
  Harvard University
  Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
• AA

  Abhinav Acharya

Presentations:

• 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM PDT

  On-chip human lymph node stromal network for evaluating dendritic cell and T-cell trafficking
  

  Presenting Author: Brian Kwee, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Delaware

  Co-Author: Adovi Akue – U.S. Food and Drug Administration

  Last Author: Kyung Sung, PhD (she/her/hers) – FDA
• 4:15 PM – 4:30 PM PDT

  Multi-niche human bone marrow-on-a-chip for plasma cell survival and differentiation
  

  Presenting Author: Liana Kramer, PhD (they/them/theirs) – Georgia Institute of Technology

  Co-Author: Zhonghao Dai (he/him/his) – Georgia Institute of Technology

  Co-Author: Delta Ghoshal – Georgia Institute of Technology

  Primary Investigator: Ankur Singh – Georgia Insitute of Technology

  Last Author: Krishnendu Roy – Georgia Institute of Technology
• 4:30 PM – 4:45 PM PDT

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

  Presenting Author: Jonathan Zatorski – University of Virginia

  Co-Author: Abhinav Arneja – University of Virginia

  Co-Author: Tochukwu Ozulumba – University of Virginia

  Co-Author: Jennifer Hammel, PhD (she/her/hers) – Virginia Tech

  Co-Author: Thomas Braciale, MD, PhD – University of Virginia

  Co-Author: Jennifer Munson, PhD (she/her/hers) – Virginia Tech

  Co-Author: Chance J. Luckey – University of Virginia

  Primary Investigator: Rebecca Pompano – University of Virginia
• 4:45 PM – 5:00 PM PDT

  Engineering human organoids for modeling aging and Alzheimer’s disease
  

  Presenting Author: Feng Guo, PhD – Indiana University Bloomington
• 5:00 PM – 5:15 PM PDT

  Engineering the Hypoxic Immunologically Cold High-grade Serous Ovarian Carcinoma Microenvironment as a therapeutic target
  

  Presenting Author: Pilar de la Puente, PhD (she/her/hers) – Sanford Research / University of South Dakota School of Medicine

  Co-Author: Simona Plesselova, PhD (she/her/hers) – Sanford Research
• 5:15 PM – 5:30 PM PDT

  Developing in vitro Gastric Tumor Models from Mechanically Tunable Extracellular Matrix Hydrogels to Evaluate the Biophysical Properties of Immune Cell Therapy in Solid Tumors
  

  Last Author: Joseph Kinsella – McGill University

  Co-Author: Salvador Flores-Torres – McGill University

  Co-Author: Omar Peza-Chavez – McGill University

  Presenting Author: Lucas A. Pardo (he/him/his) – McGill University