Tumor Microenvironment

Track Chair(s)

• 

  Jan Lammerding, PhD (he/him/his)

  Professor
  Cornell University
  Ithaca, New York, United States
• JW

  Jessica Winter

  Professor
  The Ohio State University, United States

Moderator(s)

• WM

  Walter L. Murfee

  ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
  University of Florida, United States
• CW

  Catherine Whittington

  Assistant Professor
  Worcester Polytechnic Institute, United States

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM – 8:15 AM PDT

  Elucidating the Effects of TAM Receptors in Tumor-Immune Cell Crosstalk
  

  Presenting Author: Anisha Datta (she/her/hers) – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Primary Investigator: Douglas Lauffenburger – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 8:15 AM – 8:30 AM PDT

  Biophysical Properties of Hyaluronic Acid Differentially Regulate Breast Cancer Invasion In Single Cells vs. Spheroids
  

  Presenting Author: Brittany Schutrum (she/her/hers) – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Adrian Shimpi – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Matthew Tan – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Meg McFetridge – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Santosh Balakrishnan – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Daniel Rivera – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Steven Adie – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Chris Schaffer – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Nozomi Nishimura – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Matthew Paszek – Cornell University

  Primary Investigator: Claudia Fischbach – Cornell University
• 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM PDT

  The role of hypertrophic adipocytes in breast cancer progression
  

  Presenting Author: Garrett F. Beeghly, MS (he/him/his) – Cornell University

  Co-Author: Dong Wang – Yale University

  Co-Author: Yitong Zheng – Yale University

  Co-Author: Neil Iyengar – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

  Co-Author: Corey O'Hern – Yale University

  Primary Investigator: Claudia Fischbach – Cornell University
• 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM PDT

  Mitochondrial Transfer of Cancer Associated Fibroblast Increases Breast Cancer Invasion
  

  Presenting Author: Emily D. Berestesky, BS (she/her/hers) – Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

  Co-Author: Kayla F. Goliwas, PhD (she/her/hers) – Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

  Co-Author: Jian Zhang, PhD (he/him/his) – Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

  Co-Author: Sarah Libring, PhD (she/her/hers) – Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

  Co-Author: Shayan Gholizadeh, PhD (he/him/his) – Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

  Co-Author: Samantha S. Schwager, PhD (she/her/hers) – Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

  Co-Author: Andra R. Frost, MD (she/her/hers) – Department of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

  Co-Author: Thomas Gaborski, PhD – Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY

  Last Author: Cynthia Reinhart-King, PhD (she/her/hers) – Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
• 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM PDT

  Investigating the Role of Collagen-Binding Integrins in 3D Breast Cancer Spheroid Migration Models
  

  Presenting Author: Jordan N. Miner (she/her/hers) – University of Maine

  Co-Author: Zoe Vittum – University of Maine

  Co-Author: Peter Brooks – MaineHealth Institute for Research

  Co-Author: Andre Khalil – University of Maine

  Co-Author: Karissa Tilbury – University of Maine
• 9:15 AM – 9:30 AM PDT

  Investigating the combined effects of matrix stiffness and pancreatic-adipose crosstalk in directing pancreatic cancer initiation and progression
  

  Presenting Author: Athenia E. Jones (she/her/hers) – Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  Primary Investigator: Catherine F. Whittington – Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  Co-Author: Gianluca Panza – Worcester Polytechnic Institute