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