Session 2
Presenters – Link to Session 2 Abstracts
Biomaterials / Drug Delivery – Biomechanics / Mechanobiology – Synthetic-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