Molecular engineering of cellular responses

Track Chair(s)

• OV

  Omid Veiseh

  Assistant Professor
  Rice University Department of Bioengineering, United States

Moderator(s)

• IH

  Isaac Hilton, PhD

  Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
  Rice University, United States
• 

  Taimoor Qazi

  Assistant Professor
  Purdue University, United States

Presentations:

• 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM PDT

  Temporally-controlled gene expression via small molecule-regulated self-replicating RNA for cancer immunotherapy
  

  Presenting Author: Parisa Yousefpour, PhD – MIT

  Co-Author: Ron Weiss – MIT

  Primary Investigator: Darrell Irvine – MIT
• 4:15 PM – 4:30 PM PDT

  Genomic REWRITE to Build Designer Class-I HLA Human iPSC Banks
  

  Presenting Author: David M. Truong, PhD (he/him/his) – New York University
• 4:30 PM – 4:45 PM PDT

  CRISPR Regulation of a Novel Gene, BLST, to Modulate Cellular Activity and Senescence
  

  Presenting Author: Christian Lewis, MS – University of Utah

  Co-Author: Hunter Levis, MS (he/him/his) – University of Utah

  Primary Investigator: Robby Bowles – University of Utah
• 4:45 PM – 5:00 PM PDT

  Synthetic intrinsically disordered protein fusion tags that enhance protein solubility
  

  Presenting Author: Yulia Shmidov, PhD (she/her/hers) – DUKE University

  Co-Author: Jonathan Su – Duke university

  Co-Author: Nicholas Tang – Duke university

  Last Author: Ashutosh Chilkoti, Ph.D. – Duke University
• 5:00 PM – 5:15 PM PDT

  Orthogonal inducible control of Cas13 circuits enables programmable RNA regulation in mammalian cells
  

  Presenting Author: YAGE DING (she/her/hers) – Boston University

  Co-Author: Cristina Tous – Boston University

  Co-Author: Jaehoon Choi – Boston University

  Co-Author: Jingyao Chen – Boston University

  Primary Investigator: Wilson Wong, PhD – Boston University
• 5:15 PM – 5:30 PM PDT

  Building synthetic cells performing calcium-triggered membrane fusion
  

  Presenting Author: Samuel J. Chen (he/him/his) – University of Michigan

  Co-Author: Yen-Yu Hsu – University of Michigan

  Co-Author: Julio Bernal-Chanchavac – Arizona State University

  Co-Author: Bineet Sharma – Rutgers University

  Co-Author: Hossein Moghimianavval – University of Michigan

  Primary Investigator: Nicholas Stephanopoulos – Arizona State University

  Last Author: Allen Liu – University of Michigan