Session 4
Presenters – Link to Session 4 Abstracts
BioMEMS / Instrumentation – Molecular, Cell and Tissue Engineering – Synthetic-Systems-Computational Biology / Genomics
BioMEMS / Instrumentation
Featured Speaker:
Miniature Biosensors for Local Analysis of Cell Function
Alex Revzin
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, UC Davis
Selected Speakers:
A Carbohydrate-Responsive Polymer for Charge-Based Sensing
Alexander Wollenberg, UC Santa Cruz
Genetic Detection of H1N1 Influenza Virus via Microfluidic Electrochemical Quantitative Reverse- Transcription Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification
Kuangwen Hsieh, UC Santa Barbara
Ophthalmologist-on-a-Chip: Fully Integrated Microfluidic Tear Osmolality and Protein Biomarker Quantification for Dry Eye Stratification
Kelly Karns, UC Berkeley
Bioinspired Interfaces for Detection and Identification of Bacteria in Blood
Vicente Nuñez, UC Riverside
Control of interparticle spacing using structured microfluidic channels
Dianne Pulido, UC Los Angeles
Electrophysiology-Activated Cell Sorting: A label-free, functional cell purification strategy for regenerative medicine.
Frank B. Myers, UC Berkeley
Molecular, Cell and Tissue Engineering
Featured Speaker:
Emergent behaviors in 3D epithelial tissues prepared by programmed assembly
Zev Gartner
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, UC San Francisco
Selected Speakers:
Stencil Patterning Improves Robustness in Pluripotent Stem Cell Expansion and Cardiomyocyte Differentiation
Jason S. Silver, UC Berkeley
Biomimetic Scaffolds for Enhanced Dural Regeneration
John Eng, UC Berkeley
Interaction Affinity Determination of SUMO E1 Heterodimer Aos1/Uba2 and intermediates of activation cascade by Quantitative FRET Analysis
Ling Jiang, UC Riverside
Remineralization of Decellularized Bone Collagen Matrix for Use as a Novel Structural Biomaterial
Matthew Soicher, UC Davis
Cell Line and Stage-Specific Optimization for Enhanced Endothelial Differentiation of Mouse and Human Embryonic Stem Cells
William S. Turner, UC Merced
Lower Seeding Density Increases Functionality of Self-Assembled Meniscus-Shaped Fibrocartilage
Timothy Yeh, UC Davis
Synthetic Biology / Systems Biology / Computational Biology / Genomics
Featured Speaker:
Engineered Gene Circuits: From Oscillators to Synchronized Clocks and Biopixels
Jeff Hasty
Professor, Departments of Molecular Biology and Bioengineering, UC San Diego
Selected Speakers:
Programming Cells with Synthetic RNA Regulatory Elements
Lei Qi, UC Berkeley
The role of Zinc and Calcium ions in MMP-14 and TIMP-2 Association
Zied Gaieb, UC Riverside
Web App BioInterface Simulator of Human Thyroid Hormone Feedback System Dynamics
Simon X. Han, UC Los Angeles
COMBOS: A Web App for Computing Global Identifiability Properties of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems Biology Models
Joe DiStefano III, UC Los Angeles,
Engineering Robust Control of Two-Component System Phosphotransfer Using Modular Scaffolds
Weston R. Whitaker, UC Berkeley
Sparse linear modeling of next-generation mRNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) data for isoform discovery and abundance estimation
Jingyi (Jessica) Li, UC Berkeley