Session 2

Presenters – Link to Session 2 Abstracts
Biomaterials / Drug DeliveryBiomechanics / MechanobiologySynthetic-Systems-Computational Biology

Biomaterials / Drug Delivery

Featured Speaker:

Controlled release of therapeutics and cells from hydrogel depots using light
Andrea Kasko
Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, UC Los Angeles

Selected Speakers:

Intestinal Permeability Increase During Ischemia Is Reduced By Enteral Serine Protease Inhibitors Angd and Cyclokapron
Angelina E. Altshuler,
UC San Diego

Bioinspired Electrets for Solar Energy Conversion
Srigokul Upadhyayula, UC Riverside

Windows to the Brain: Novel Concept for Providing Non-invasive, Chronic Access to Brain for Laser-Based Brain Tumor Diagnostics and Therapeutics
Yasaman Damestani,
UC Riverside

Targeting Prostate Cancer Using Nanoparticles Decorated with the A11 Minibody
Kristine M. Mayle, UC Los Angeles

Planar Microdevices Facilitate Transport of High Molecular Weight Therapeutics Across Retinal Epithelium
Jennifer S. Wade,
UC San Francisco

Aptamer Functionalized Surface for Selective Capture of CD4 T cells
Qing Zhou,
UC Davis


 

Biomechanics / Mechanobiology

Featured Speaker:

More than a ‘feeling’: how cell mechanotransduction regulates stem cell lineage
Adam Engler
Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, UC San Diego

Selected Speakers:

Load-mediated mechanical strains at a ligament-bone interface in vertebrates
Sunita Ho, UC San Francisco

Shear stress modulates RAGE-mediated inflammation in a model of diabetes-induced metabolic stress
Justin Sherrod DeVerse,
UC Davis

Adult Cell Reprogramming and the Microenvironment
Timothy L. Downing,
UC Berkeley

Mouse Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Endothelial Cells Align on ‘Wrinkled’ Topography
Rachel Hatano, UC Merced

Assessing Conservation of Human Heart Failure Mechanisms in Drosophila melanogaster
Gaurav Kaushik,
UC San Diego

Inducing biofilm formation in Staphylococcus epidermidis clinical isolates using fluid flow in a microfluidic shear array
Westbrook M. Weaver,
UC Los Angeles


 

Synthetic Biology / Systems Biology / Computational Biology / Genomics

Featured Speaker:

How nature engineers enzymes for new functions
Patsy Babbitt
Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences, UCSF

Selected Speakers:

Molecular analysis of the interaction between Staphylococcus aureus protein Sbi and immune system protein C3d
Wilson Rodriguez,
UC Riverside

Ultrasensitive Detection of Tuberculosis and Fungi Pathogens in Clinical Samples Using Modified Commercial ELISA with 4 Orders Higher Sensitivity
Abhinav P Acharya,
UC Berkeley

Mimicking the Second Secret of Life: Designing Artificial Cooperative Receptors
Anna J. Simon,
UC Santa Barbara

Search of optimal drug combinations using an engineering feedback control scheme
Xianting Ding,
UC Los Angeles

Genetically engineering cellular mechanobiology
Joanna L. MacKay,
UC Berkeley

Dissecting a complex chemical stress: chemogenomic profiling of Zymomonas mobilis in plant hydrolysates and 37 components                
Jeffrey M. Skerker, UC Berkeley