Cancer Migration and Metastasis

Session Chair(s)

• 

  Alexander Buffone, Jr., PhD (he/him/his)

  Assistant Professor
  New Jersey Institute of Technology
  Newark, New Jersey, United States
• SB

  Samagya Banskota

  Boston University
  Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Track Chair(s)

• EP

  Erica Pratt, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
  Boston University
  Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• MO

  Madeleine Oudin

  Tufts University

Presentations:

• 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM EST

  Developing Collagen-Binding Integrin Knockdown Cell Lines for 3D Breast Cancer Spheroid Migration Models
  

  Presenting Author: Jordan Miner (she/her/hers) – University of Maine

  Co-Author: Joseph Raite – University of Maine

  Co-Author: Andre Khalil, BS, MS, PhD – University of Maine

  Primary Investigator: Karissa Tilbury, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Maine
• 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM EST

  Glioblastoma transcriptomic changes in migratory subpopulations at tumor-brain interface
  

  Presenting Author: Talia Sanazzaro, MEng – University of Texas at Austin

  Co-Author: Michael Cotner, MS in Engineering – The University of Texas at Austin

  Co-Author: Daylin Morgan – The University of Texas at Austin

  Co-Author: Amy Brock – The University of Texas at Austin

  Primary Investigator: Stephanie Seidlits, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Texas at Austin
• 9:15 AM – 9:30 AM EST

  Long-Term Effects of Exposure to Elevated Extracellular Fluid Viscosity on Cell Motility and Metastasis
  

  Presenting Author: Anindya Sen (he/him/his) – JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

  Co-Author: Ines Godet – Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

  Co-Author: Debanik Choudhury – Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Kaustav Bera, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Colorado Boulder

  Co-Author: Bhawana Agarwal (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Daniele Gilkes, PhD – Johns Hopkins University

  Primary Investigator: Konstantinos Konstantopoulos, PhD (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins University
• 9:30 AM – 9:45 AM EST

  The Role of Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition in the Cell Cycle Control of Invasion
  

  Presenting Author: Elizaveta Belova, MSc – Temple University

  Primary Investigator: Bojana Gligorijevic, PhD (she/her/hers) – Temple University
• 9:45 AM – 10:00 AM EST

  Breast Cancer Clusters Generate Greater Matrix Deformation in Aligned Fibers During Collective Migration
  

  Presenting Author: Jessanne Y. Lichtenberg, MS (she/her/hers) – Virginia Commonwealth University

  Co-Author: Corinne Leonard (she/her/hers) – Virginia Commonwealth University

  Primary Investigator: Priscilla Hwang, PhD – Virginia Commonwealth University