7:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Registration |
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM | Morning Coffee |
8:30 AM - 9:15 AM | DNA Damage & Repair Is Modulated By Extracellular Matrix, Contractility, and Motility -- Affecting Cell Cycle in Development and Genome Variation in Cancer Keynote Speaker - Dennis Discher, University of Pennsylvania |
9:15 AM - 12:15 PM | Session 5: Mechanobiology |
9:15 AM - 9:45 AM | Invited Speaker - Celeste Nelson, Princeton University |
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM | Cell-Matrix Interactions in Cancer and Fibrosis: Multiscale Chemo-Mechanical Models Invited Speaker - Vivek Shenoy, University of Pennsylvania |
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM | Coffee Break |
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM | Transcriptional feedback control of motility and morphogenesis Invited Speaker - Joel Boerckel, University of Pennsylvania |
11:15 AM - 11:30 AM | Elucidating the Interplay between Matrix Remodeling and Breast Cancer Progression Using Dynamic Light Scattering Microrheology Audrey W. Zhu, Stanford University |
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | Cancer Derived Extracellular Vesicles Generated at Physiological Stiffnesses Impact the Formation of Metastasis Alexandra Sneider, Johns Hopkins University |
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM | Confinement Induces Nuclear Volume Expansion and Blebbing By Triggering RhoA-Mediated Nuclear Influx Emily Wisniewski, Johns Hopkins University |
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM | Cell Sensing and Decision-Making in Confinement: The Role of TRPM7 in a Tug of War between Hydraulic Pressure and Cross-Sectional Area Runchen Zhao, Johns Hopkins University |
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM | Networking Lunch - Lunch on your own |
1:45 PM - 2:45 PM | Session 6: Biomolecular Engineering (II) |
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM | Emerin Is Required for Cell Shape, F-Actin Organization, Fibronectin Production and Stretch-Induced Polarity in Fetal Lung Fibroblasts Qianru Jin, Johns Hopkins University |
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM | Engineering Functionalized Virus like Particles for Circulating Tumor Cell Enumeration James R Swartz, Stanford University |
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM | Simultaneous Bim Expression and Mcl-1 Silencing I Combination with Dasatinib for Improved Therapy of Ph+ Leukemia Margaret Lugin, University of California, Irvine |
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM | Protein a-Inspired Supramolecular Engineering of Co-Assembling Immunofibers for Effective Purification of Monoclonal Antibodies Yi Li, Johns Hopkins University |
2:45 PM - 3:15 PM | Coffee Break |
3:15 PM - 5:30 PM | Session 7: Translational Medicine (II) |
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM | Translation of Nanotech-Enabled Pharmaceuticals Invited Speaker - Justin Hanes, Johns Hopkins University |
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM | Evolution of a Modular, Multi-Functional Targeted Delivery Nanoparticle James R Swartz, Stanford University |
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM | Statistical Classification of Dynamic Bacterial Growth with Sub-Inhibitory Concentrations of Nanoparticles A-Andrew Jones, Northeastern University |
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM | Supramolecular Engineering of a Reverse Bolaamphiphile for Controlled Release of paclitaxel By MMP Rami Chakroun, Johns Hopkins University |
4:30 PM - 4:45 PM | A Microfluidic Assay for the Quantification of the Metastatic Propensity of Breast Cancer Specimens Christopher L. Yankaskas, Johns Hopkins University |
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM | 3D-Printed Self-Adaptive Right Ventricle-to-Pulmonary Artery Conduits with Growth Potential Sung Hoon Kang, Johns Hopkins University |
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Invited Speaker - Andre Palmer, Ohio State University |
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM | Poster Session + Reception |