September 2020 Symposium
August 2020 Symposium
June 2020 Symposium: Understanding Immunology in MPS and M-CELS
uPS M-CELS Seminar Series at GT – Eric Parigoris from Shu Takayama’s Lab @ GT
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