Technical Program
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Sunday, March 19 | ||
| 1:00 PM | 6:00 PM | Registration |
| 4:00 PM | 4:15 PM | Introductory remarks |
| 4:15 PM | 5:00 PM | Invited Speaker: What’s in Your Blood? - Stephen Quake, Stanford University |
| 5:00 PM | 5:45 PM | Invited Speaker: Recombinant oleosin as a functional surfactant - Daniel A. Hammer, University of Pennsylvania |
| 5:45 PM | 6:45 PM | Reception |
Monday, March 20 | ||
| 8:00 AM | 12:00 PM | Registration |
| 8:30 AM | 9:00 AM | Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM | 9:45 AM | Invited Speaker: Molecular Engineering of New Drug Therapies - Patrick Stayton, University of Washington |
| 9:45 AM | 10:30 AM | Invited Speaker: Mechanics of Membrane Interfaces: Physical Regulation of Cell-Cell Communication - Daniel A. Fletcher, UC Berkeley |
| 10:30 AM | 11:00 AM | Break |
| 11:00 AM | 12:20 PM | Session 1: Microfluidics |
| 11:00 AM | 11:20 AM | Ultra-High Throughput Microfluidic Single-Cell Culture and Analysis - Savas Tay, University of Chicago |
| 11:20 AM | 11:40 AM | Agent-Based Modeling to Investigate the Effect of Electric Field on Chemotherapeutics Delivery into a Tumor - Maryam Moarefian, Virginia Tech |
| 11:40 AM | 12:00 PM | Microfluidic Platform for White Blood Cell Enrichment and Collection - Prerna Chandna, Institute of Technology |
| 12:00 PM | 12:20 PM | A Microfluidic Oscillatory Rheometer to Measure Viscoelastic Properties of Cancer Cells - Junghyun Kim, University of California at Berkeley |
| 12:20 PM | 1:45 PM | Lunch |
| 1:45 PM | 2:30 PM | Invited speaker: Antibody Microarrays for Point of Care Detection from a Single Drop of Blood - Ashutosh Chilkoti, Duke University |
| 2:30 PM | 6:00 PM | Session 2: Biomolecular Engineering I |
| 2:30 PM | 2:50 PM | Controlled Biomolecule Release from a Liposomal Nanocarrier Modulated with Pulsed NIR Light - JeongEun Shin, University of Minnesota |
| 2:50 PM | 3:10 PM | Enhancing Enzyme Catalysis with Rationally-Designed Enzyme-DNA Nanostructures - Ian Wheeldon, UC Riverside |
| 3:10 PM | 3:30 PM | Rational Design of Charged Peptides That Self-Assemble into Robust Nanofibers As Immune-Functional Scaffolds and Drug Delivery Gels - Hangyu Zhang, University of Washington |
| 3:30 PM | 3:50 PM | Coating a Wide Range of 1-, 2- & 3D DNA Templates and Assisting Molecular Assembly of DNA Origami with a Protein Polymer Fused to a DNA Binding Domain - A. Hernandez-Garcia, Wageningen University |
| 3:50 PM | 4:20 PM | Break |
| 4:20 PM | 4:40 PM | Direct Selection of RNA Aptamers for Fluorescence Enhancement - Michael Gotrik, Stanford University |
| 4:40 PM | 5:00 PM | Self-Assembly of ssDNA-Amphiphiles into DNA Nanotubes with Controlled Diameters and Lengths - Huihui Kuang, University of Minnesota |
| 5:00 PM | 5:20 PM | ssDNA Nanotubes Targeting Glioblastoma Multiforme - Efrosini Kokkoli, University of Minnesota |
| 5:20 PM | 5:40 PM | Aptamer Micelles Targeting Cancer Cells Expressing a Novel Chemokine, Michael Harris - University of Minnesota |
| 5:40 PM | 6:00 PM | Conditional siRNA Production in Mammalian Cell Lysate - Lisa M. Hochrein, California Institute of Technology |
Tuesday, March 21 | ||
| 8:00 AM | 12:00 PM | Registration |
| 8:30 AM | 9:00 AM | Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM | 9:45 AM | Invited Speaker: Genome and Epigenome Editing for Gene Therapy and Cell Programming - Charles Gersbach, Duke University |
| 9:45 AM | 10:30 AM | Invited Speaker: How to hit HIV where it hurts - Arup Chakraborty, MIT |
| 10:30 AM | 11:00 AM | Break |
| 11:00 AM | 12:45 PM | Session 3: Soft Matter/ Tissus Engineering & Synthetic biology |
| 11:00 AM | 11:20 AM | Antimicrobial Probiotics Eliminate Salmonella Enterica in Poultry - Yiannis N. Kaznessis, University of Minnesota |
| 11:20 AM | 11:40 AM | Carbon-Nanotube Embedded Polymer Scaffold for Cardiovascular Applications - Gina Vimbela, California State University Long Beach |
| 11:40 AM | 12:25 PM | Invited Talk: Therapeutic Strategies Via CRISPR-Cas: New Approaches and New Challenges - Prashant Mali, UC San Diego |
| 12:25 PM | 1:45 PM | Lunch |
| 1:45 PM | 2:30 PM | Invited speaker: Engineering Immunity Against Cancer Via Hitchhiking Therapeutics - Darrell Irvine, MIT |
| 2:30 PM | 5:20 PM | Session 4: Immuno-Engineering |
| 2:30 PM | 2:50 PM | Modular Peptide Amphiphile Micelles Improve an Antibody-Mediated Immune Response to Group a Streptococcus - John C. Barrett, University of Chicago |
| 2:50 PM | 3:10 PM | CAR-Engineered T Cell Therapy for B Cell Malignancies and Beyond - Pin Wang, University of Southern California |
| 3:10 PM | 3:30 PM | Development of a Spherical Nucleic Acid Vaccine Against Triple Negative Breast Cancer - Lisa Cole, Northwestern University |
| 3:30 PM | 4:00 PM | Break |
| 4:00 PM | 4:20 PM | Immunogenomic Engineering of a Plug-and-(dis)Play Hybridoma Platform for Protein Expression and Directed Evolution - Sai T. Reddy, ETH Zürich |
| 4:20 PM | 4:40 PM | Fine Epitope Signature of HIV-1 Antibody Neutralization Breath at the CD4 Binding Site - Hao D. Cheng, Dartmouth College |
| 4:40 PM | 5:00 PM | In Vivo Targeting of Gut-Homing T Cells with a Dual-Functional Antibody Conjugated to Lipid-Polymer Hybrid Nanocarriers for HIV Treatment - Shijie Cao, University of Washington |
| 5:00 PM | 5:20 PM | Exploring the Impact of Local Ligand Flexibility on B Lymphocyte Signaling Via a Platform DNA Origami Nanostructure - Christopher R. Ohio State University |
| 5:20 PM | 7:20 PM | Poster Session |
Wednesday, March 22 | ||
| 8:00 AM | 12:00 PM | Registration |
| 8:30 AM | 9:00 AM | Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM | 9:45 AM | Invited Speaker: Resolving Protein Synthesis in Space and Time - David Tirrell, Caltech |
| 9:45 AM | 10:30 AM | Invited Speaker: Repurposing Ribosomes for Synthetic Biology - Michael Jewett, Northwestern University |
| 10:30 AM | 11:00 AM | Break |
| 11:00 AM | 12:15 PM | Session 5: Biomolecular Engineering II |
| 11:00 AM | 11:20 AM | Supramolecular Engineering of Drugs - Honggang Cui, Johns Hopkins University |
| 11:20 AM | 11:40 AM | Enzyme-Cleavable Amphiphiles for Enhanced Intracellular Delivery - Handan Acar, University of Chicago |
| 11:40 AM | 12:00 PM | Fabricating and Actuating DNA Origami Mechanisms - Alexander E. Marras, Ohio State University |
| 12:00 PM | 12:15 PM | Closing remarks and Awards |