Session 3

Presenters – Link to Session 3 Abstracts
Biomaterials / Drug Delivery – BioMEMS / Instrumentation – Imaging

Biomaterials / Drug Delivery

Featured Speaker:

Stem-Cell Protective Biomaterials to Improve Transplantation Viability
Sarah Heilshorn
Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Stanford University

Selected Speaker:

The Dorsal Window Model: An In-Vivo Test to Compare Alginate Micro Vs Macro Encapsulation in Islet Transplantation
Rahul Krishnan, UC Irvine

Synthesis of hyperbranched mannose polymers
Ken Lin,
UC Los Angeles

Single-cell Manipulation using Nanopipettes
Michelle M. Maalouf,
UC Santa Cruz

Potential Biodegradable Magnesium-based Ureteral Stents
James Tu, UC Riverside

Developing Tumor Targeting Bacteriophage by Controlling the Spacing of Ligands
Dong Shin Choi,
UC Berkeley

Improved Endothelial Proliferation and Migration on 500 nm Rationally Nanofabricated Titanium
Prashanthi Vandrangi,
UC Riverside


 

BioMEMS / Instrumentation

Featured Speaker:

Large-Scale Droplet Microfluidics: from Digital Biology to Targeted Therapy
Abe Lee
Professor and Chair, Department of Bioengineering, UC Irvine

Selected Speakers:

Titanium-Based, Fenestrated, In-Plane Microneedles for Passive Ocular Drug Delivery
Omid Khandan, UC Riverside

Shrink-Induced Rapid Production of Silica Nanostructures for Fluorescence-Enhancing Microarrays
Sophia Lin,
UC Irvine

Enhancing the Detection Limit of a Protein Lateral‐Flow Immunoassay Using Aqueous Two‐Phase Micellar Systems
Ricky Chiu, UC Los Angeles

Reconfigurable microfluidics with integrated aptasensors for sensitive detection of cell-secreted cytokines
Timothy Kwa,
UC Davis

Advancing Next-Generation Proteomics: A Polymer-patterned Microchamber Enables Integration of the Distinct Protein Separations Comprising Two-Dimensional Electrophoresis
Augusto M. Tentori,
UC Berkeley

Quantum-dot based sandwich immunoassay for sensitive detection of Escherichia coli on a cell-phone
Uzair Sikora, UC Los Angeles


 

Imaging

Featured Speaker:

Fast MRI
Shreyas Vasanawala
Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, Stanford University Medical School

Selected Speakers:

Combining Laser Ablation and FRET to Measure the Tension Distribution of Individual Stress Fiber Focal Adhesions
Ching
Wei Chang, UC Berkeley

Design, Implementation and Characterization of a Dedicated Breast CT Scanner
Peymon Gazi,
UC Davis

GPU accelerated multi-functional spectral-domain optical coherence tomography system at 1300nm
Yan Wang,
UC Riverside

Magnetic Particle Imaging for Safe Angiography
Patrick W. Goodwill, UC Berkeley

Crowd-sourced Games Toward Distributed Medical Image Analysis and Tele-Diagnosis
Sam Mavandadi,
UC Los Angeles

Optical Molecular Imaging for Detecting Changes in Extracellular pH in Oral Neoplasia
Zhen Luo, UC Davis