Mechnoimmunobiology

Track Chair(s)

• 

  Elizabeth Wayne, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Assistant Professor
  Carnegie Mellon University, United States
• JW

  John Wilson, Ph.D.

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

  Kathryn Miller-Jensen

  Associate Professor
  Yale University, United States

Moderator(s)

• 

  Karin Wang

  Assistant Professor
  Temple University, United States
• 

  Dana Reinemann, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Assistant Professor
  University of Mississippi
  Batesville, Mississippi, United States

Presentations:

• 12:30 PM – 1:00 PM PDT

  Leveraging blood mechanics to drug the immune system
  

  Keynote Speaker: Omolola Eniola-Adefeso, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Michigan
• 1:00 PM – 1:15 PM PDT

  Breast cancer cells chemotact to specific regions of lymph node in an ex vivo model of lymph node metastasis
  

  Presenting Author: Katsiarina Morgaenko, MS (she/her/hers) – University of Virginia

  Co-Author: Jennifer Munson – Virginia Tech

  Co-Author: Melanie R. Rutkowski – University of Virginia

  Primary Investigator: Rebecca Pompano, PhD – University of Virginia
• 1:15 PM – 1:30 PM PDT

  Deciphering Macrophage Mechano-Activation in Pulmonary Fibrosis for Targeted Anti-Fibrosis Therapies
  

  Presenting Author: Ying Xu, PhD candidate (she/her/hers) – University at Buffalo

  Primary Investigator: Ruogang Zhao – University at Buffalo
• 1:30 PM – 1:45 PM PDT

  Monocytes use protrusive forces to generate migration paths in viscoelastic collagen-based extracellular matrices
  

  Presenting Author: Kolade Adebowale, PhD (he/him/his) – Harvard University

  Co-Author: Byunghang Ha, PhD (he/him/his) – Stanford University

  Co-Author: Aashrith Saraswathibhatla – Stanford University

  Co-Author: Dhiraj Indana – Stanford University

  Co-Author: Medeea Popescu – Stanford University

  Co-Author: Sally Demirdjian – Stanford University

  Co-Author: Roarke Kamber – UCSF

  Co-Author: Jin Yang – UT Austin

  Co-Author: Christian Franck – UW Madison

  Co-Author: Michael Bassik – Stanford University

  Co-Author: Paul Bollyky – Stanford University

  Primary Investigator: Ovijit Chaudhuri – Stanford University
• 1:45 PM – 2:00 PM PDT

  Leveraging T cell mechanotransduction for enhanced and sustained ex vivo activation
  

  Presenting Author: Nicole S. Sarna (she/her/hers) – Vanderbilt University

  Co-Author: Shanay H. Desai (he/him/his) – Vanderbilt University

  Primary Investigator: Michael R. King (he/him/his) – Vanderbilt University