2020 Symposiums
2020 End of Year Symposium
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September 2020 Symposium: Self-Assembling Biobots: Biobots that Assemble and Swarm!
“Living Machines of the Future” – Professor Taher Saif , Faculty @ UIUC
“Design, Fabrication, and Control Considerations for Next Generation Biobots” – Jiaojiao Wang from Bashir Lab @ UIUC
August 2020 Symposium: M-CELS Specific Input, Processing, Actuation: Effect of Multiple Cell Types on Neural Processing and Muscle Function
“Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Approaches for Building Neuromuscular M-CELS: Should We Pick a Lane?” – Ritu Raman, PhD – Postdoctoral Fellow from Langer Lab @ MIT
“Building neuromuscular M-CELS: Are there other things to be considered?” – Eunkyung (Clare) Ko, PhD – Post Doctoral Research Associate from Kamm Lab @ MIT
July 2020 Symposium:
— No Virtual Research Symposium Held In July —
June 2020 Symposium: Understanding Immunology in MPS and M-CELS
“Crosstalk Between Immune Cells and Tissue Cells to Govern Microenvironment Pathophysiology” – Douglas A. Lauffenburger, PhD – Faculty @ MIT
“M-CELS Approaches for Recapitulating the Bone Marrow Microenvironment” – Samuel McCachren from Melissa Kemp’s Lab @ GT
May 2020 Symposium: Fun Things with Brain Organoids
“Convergence of engineering and analytical methods for improved brain organoids”– Austin Payne Passaro from Prof. Stice’s Lab @ UGA
“The Utility of Brain Organoids” – Amanda Weiss from Prof. Gillett’s Lab @ UIUC
“How to build a nervous system for biohybrid motile bots”– Onur Aydin from Prof. Saif’s Lab @ UIUC
“Assembloids arise!: Generating an ideal starting material for brain organoid-on-a-chip systems” – Seleipiri Charles from Prof. Lu’s Lab @ Georgia Tech
April 2020 Symposium: Future Biobots
“Moving Bio-Bots to the Future: Embracing variability”– Gelson Pagan from Bashir Lab @ UIUC
“Self-constructing biobots: mass-production of autonomous, motile, and programmable synthetic organisms of the future” – Gizem Gumuskaya from Levin Lab @ Tufts
“Engineering autonomous pump-bot with skeletal muscle” – Kai Yu Huang from Kong Lab @ UIUC
March 2020 Symposium: Translational Applications – Drug Screening, Disease Models, and Regenerative Medicine for Transplantation
“Harnessing hiPSC-derived Organoid Engraftment for Liver Regeneration“ – Prof. Valerie Gouon-Evans Faculty @ BU
“Potential in Improving Vascularization in Organoids for Transplantation“ – Jose Zamora @ UC-Merced
“In vitro Disease Models: Where do we stand?“ – Cynthia Hajal from Kamm Lab @ MIT
February 2020 Symposium: Single-Cell Analysis of Organoids
“Machine Learning as an Alternative for Analysis of Temporal Dynamics in Single Cell Sequencing“ – Jose Asencio from Weiss Lab @ MIT
“Future Directions to Improve Computational Specificity and Digital Staining of 3D Cellular Systems” – Mikhail Kandel from Popescu Lab @ UIUC
“Wolf Phase Tomography of Cells with Partially Coherent Light“ – Xi Chen from Popescu Lab @ UIUC
January 2020 Symposium: SynBio Approaches to Organoids
“Programming Multicellular Systems using Synthetic Biology” – Sebastian Palacios from Weiss Lab @ MIT
“Engineering Co-Emergence in Organoid Models” – Ivana Vasic from McDevitt Lab @ Gladstone
“Automated Frameworks for Spatial and Spatiotemporal Pattern Synthesis” – Noushin Mehdipour from Belta Lab @ BU