Cancer Technologies - Poster Session B

Presentations:

• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  Combining iterative indirect immunofluorescence imaging with artificial intelligence profiling software to characterize the Pericyte-to-Fibroblast Transition in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma
  

  Presenting Author: Solomon M. Fernandez – California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

  Co-Author: Scott Skalak – University of Virginia

  Co-Author: Anthony C. Bruce, MS – University of Virginia Biomedical Engineering Department

  Co-Author: Sara J. Adair, MS – University of Virginia

  Co-Author: Kareem El-Ghazawi – University of Virginia Biomedical Engineering Department

  Co-Author: Trevor Cardinal, PhD – California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

  Co-Author: Todd W. Bauer, MD (he/him/his) – University of Virginia

  Co-Author: Matthew J. Lazzara – University of Virginia

  Primary Investigator: Shayn M. Peirce, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Virginia
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  Examining location-specific invasive patterns: linking interstitial fluid and vasculature in glioblastoma
  

  Presenting Author: Cora Carman - Esparza (she/her/hers) – Virginia Tech

  Co-Author: Katie Degen – Fralin Biomedical Resarch Institute
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  Conditionally-Activatable Fusogenic Liposomes for Targeted Cytosolic Delivery of Granzyme B
  

  Presenting Author: Ananth P. Shyamal (he/him/his) – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Co-Author: Qian Zhong – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Co-Author: Heather Fleming – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Primary Investigator: Sangeeta Bhatia – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  Engineering a Tunable Composite Hydrogel to Investigate Matrix Stiffness-Mediated Breast Tumor Cell Invasion
  

  Presenting Author: Anju Rana Magar (she/her/hers) – The university of Akron

  Primary Investigator: Hossein Tavana, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Akron
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  Defining whether cancer cell motility can predict tumor morphology
  

  Presenting Author: Carolina Trenado-Yuste, PhD (she/her/hers) – Princeton University

  Co-Author: Samhita P. Banavar, PhD (she/her/hers) – Princeton University

  Primary Investigator: Celeste M. Nelson, PhD (she/her/hers) – Princeton University
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  Exploiting therapy response dynamics to overcome fibroblast-mediated drug resistance in HER2+ breast cancer
  

  Presenting Author: Matthew Poskus (he/him/his) – University of Pittsburgh, Bioengineering

  Co-Author: Thomas McDonald – Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

  Last Author: Ioannis Zervantonakis, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Pittsburgh, Bioengineering
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  Humanized microfluidic platform to interrogate the modulation of primary tumor on pre-metastatic niche angiogenesis
  

  Presenting Author: Luna Zhang (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota

  Primary Investigator: David K. Wood, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Minnesota
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  CSRP1 knockdown modulates spheroid cell invasion in human lung cancer cell line H1299
  

  Presenting Author: Emily Nhan (she/her/hers) – University of California Irvine

  Co-Author: Ashley Urrutia Avila – University of California Irvine

  Last Author: Timothy Downing – University of California, Irvine

  Primary Investigator: Michelle Digman – University of California Irvine
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  Detection of pancreatic cancer using mitochondrial abundance from tumor-derived extracellular vesicles
  

  Presenting Author: Alfred Akinlalu (he/him/his) – University of Denver

  Primary Investigator: Dali Sun (he/him/his) – University of Denver
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  Exploring the role of the obesity-associated extracellular matrix in local breast cancer progression
  

  Presenting Author: Malika Sekhri – University Of Oklahoma
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  Detection of Exosomal Thomsen-Friedenreich Glycoantigen for Prostate Cancer Diagnosis
  

  Presenting Author: Erin Piegza (she/her/hers) – University at Buffalo

  Co-Author: Yafei Su, BS – University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

  Co-Author: Kate Rittenhouse-Olson – University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

  Co-Author: Grace K Dy – Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

  Primary Investigator: Yun Wu, PhD (she/her/hers) – University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  Engineering Targeted Nanoparticles to Combat Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
  

  Presenting Author: Chitran Roy Chowdhury, MS (he/him/his) – University of Delaware

  Primary Investigator: Emily S. Day, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Delaware
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  Engineering the 3D Melanoma Tumor Microenvironment In Vitro Using Extracellular Matrix Enhanced Spheroids
  

  Presenting Author: Ireolu K. Orenuga (she/her/hers) – National Cancer Institute

  Co-Author: Michael Buckenmeyer, PhD – National Cancer Institute

  Co-Author: Elizabeth A. Brooks – National Cancer Institute

  Co-Author: Madison Taylor – National Cancer Institute

  Primary Investigator: Matthew T. Wolf, PhD (he/him/his) – National Cancer Institute

  Co-Author: Jane Brown – National Cancer Institute
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  Development of a 3D-Printed Millifluidic Device to Study How Bacteria Alters the 3D Migration of Breast Cancer Cells
  

  Presenting Author: Riley Collins, Undergraduate Researcher – Clemson University

  Presenting Author: Kathleen R. Doran – Clemson University

  Primary Investigator: Adam Melvin, PhD (he/him/his) – Clemson University
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  Engineering Hydrogels to Investigate the Role of Hyaluronic Acid on Natural Killer Cell Functions
  

  Presenting Author: Suzanne Lightsey, BS – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Madison N. Temples, PhD (she/her/hers) – AstraZeneca

  Co-Author: Gabriella K. Flinn, MS (she/her/hers) – University of Florida

  Co-Author: Benjamin Kaufman – Vanderbilt University

  Primary Investigator: Blanka Sharma (she/her/hers) – University of Florida
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  Enhancing Cancer Vaccine Efficacy Through T Memory Stem Cell Induction
  

  Presenting Author: Mohammad Mahdi Hasani-Sadrabadi, PhD (he/him/his) – Cornell University

  Primary Investigator: Song Li, PhD (he/him/his) – UCLA
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  Characterizing the Release Rate of Ethanol from Polymer-Assisted Ethanol Ablation
  

  Presenting Author: Peter Shin – Mueller Lab

  Co-Author: Jeffrey Yang (he/him/his) – University of Maryland, College Park

  Primary Investigator: Jenna Mueller, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  Evaluating Biophysical Patterns of Glioblastoma-Mediated Matrix Invasion of Microglia Using Microengineered Models
  

  Presenting Author: Chia-Wen Chang, PhD – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Co-Author: Andrew Steelman – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Primary Investigator: Brendan A.C Harley, Sc.D. (he/him/his) – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  Gene Expression of 3D PEG-Based Tumor Model Reveals Correlation with In Vivo Models
  

  Presenting Author: Suzanne Lightsey, BS – University of Florida

  Primary Investigator: Blanka Sharma (she/her/hers) – University of Florida
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  Determining the role of adhesome protein signaling in lung cancer metastasis
  

  Presenting Author: Ashley Urrutia Avila – University of California Irvine

  Primary Investigator: Michelle Digman – University of California Irvine

  Last Author: Timothy Downing – University of California, Irvine
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  Drug-induced Golgi Fragmentation and Sex-Specific Gene Expression Differences in Melanoma
  

  Presenting Author: Iylan N. Howson (she/her/hers) – North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

  Co-Author: Shay Ladd – University of Virginia

  Primary Investigator: Sepideh Dolatchahi, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Virginia
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  Evaluating the distribution and chemical agent retention of LASEIT: a novel ablative combination therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma
  

  Presenting Author: Eva S. Landeta (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland Bioengineering

  Co-Author: Jeffrey Yang (he/him/his) – University of Maryland, College Park

  Co-Author: Kathryn McNaughton – Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA

  Co-Author: Chen-Hua Ma – University of Maryland

  Co-Author: Kassa Tizale – University of Maryland

  Co-Author: Huang Chiao Huang – Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA, Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA

  Primary Investigator: Jenna Mueller, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Maryland
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  Development of a noninvasive device for the quantitative characterization of melanoma in situ
  

  Presenting Author: Ella Holtermann (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins University

  Presenting Author: Sabahat Rahman (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Stephanie Anyanwu, BS (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Ethan Chang (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Brendon Young – Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Tina Tian (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Smriti Srikanth – Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

  Co-Author: Sharanya Parvathaneni – Johns Hopkins University '24

  Last Author: Elizabeth Logsdon – Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Luo Gu, PhD – Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Vito Rebecca – Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  Effects of Heparan Sulfate Modulation on Breast Cancer Cell MDA-MB-231 Adhesion and Transmigration across an in vitro Blood-Brain Barrier
  

  Presenting Author: Bingmei Fu, PhD (she/her/hers) – The City College of New York

  Primary Investigator: Yunfei Li (he/him/his) – The City College of New York

  Co-Author: David Shteyman (he/him/his) – The City College of New York

  Co-Author: Afaf Ulay (she/her/hers) – The City College of New York
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  Hybrid membrane-coated nanoparticles for multi-cellular targeting in the tumor microenvironment
  

  Co-Author: Mackenzie A. Scully (she/her/hers) – University of Delaware

  Presenting Author: Emily S. Day, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Delaware
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  Co-culture between ER+ breast cancer and bacteria using a 3D printed platform to recreate the tumor microbiome.
  

  Presenting Author: Addison Schaaf – Clemson University

  Primary Investigator: Adam Melvin, PhD (he/him/his) – Clemson University

  Co-Author: Riley Osbourn (she/her/hers) – Clemson University

  Presenting Author: Krista M. Surprenant (she/her/hers) – Clemson University
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  Elliptical Dichroism Spectrometer for Cancer Detection
  

  Presenting Author: Tommy Gao (he/him/his) – University of Denver, KIHA

  Last Author: Aaron Bauer – North Dakota State University

  Primary Investigator: Dali Sun (he/him/his) – University of Denver
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  Identification of highly potent oncolytic peptides NF27 via structure-activity relationship analysis
  

  Presenting Author: Natsuki Furukawa, MS (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Alex R. Chao – Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Wendy Yang – Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Akash Patil – Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Adam C. Mirando, PhD – Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Niranjan B. Pandey, PhD – Johns Hopkins University

  Primary Investigator: Aleksander S. Popel, PhD – Johns Hopkins University
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  Elucidating the Role of Mechanical Stimuli from the Tumor Microenvironment on Acral Melanoma Development, Progression, and Invasion
  

  Presenting Author: Zerin Mahzabin Khan, PhD (she/her/hers) – Harvard University

  Primary Investigator: Michael Mak – Stony Brook University

  Co-Author: Alejandro Rossello Martinez – Yale University
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  Creating a Multi-Modal CAR-NK-92 Cell Therapy Platform through LNP-mediated mRNA Delivery and Metabolic Glycoengineering
  

  Presenting Author: Sridatta V. Teerdhala – University of Pennsylvania

  Co-Author: Marshall S. Padilla, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania

  Primary Investigator: Michael J. Mitchell (he/him/his) – Mitchell Lab, University of Pennsylvania
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  Developing a 3D Model of Bone Metastasis of Breast Cancer
  

  Presenting Author: Prasiddha Guragain, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Akron

  Primary Investigator: Hossein Tavana, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Akron
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  Determining the influence of loading density on the tumor cell targeting and signaling inhibition capabilities of antibody nanoconjugates
  

  Presenting Author: George C. Kramarenko, MS (he/him/his) – University of Delaware Biomedical Engineering

  Primary Investigator: Emily S. Day, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Delaware
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  Fabrication of Microvessels in High Swelling Synthetic Hydrogels
  

  Presenting Author: Rishabh Singh (he/him/his) – Slater Lab, University of Delaware

  Last Author: John H. Slater, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Delaware
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  Exploring Heterogenous Cancer-Immune Cell Dynamics with Tumor-on-Chip Models
  

  Presenting Author: Anastasia Shostak (she/they) – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Co-Author: Rana Abbed – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Primary Investigator: Susan Leggett, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  Engineered Breast Cancer Models with Age-Mimetic ECM for Drug Screening
  

  Presenting Author: Jun Yang – University of Notre Dame

  Presenting Author: Lauren Hawthorne (she/her/hers) – University of Notre Dame

  Co-Author: Gokhan Bahcecioglu – University of Notre Dame

  Co-Author: Aktar Ali (he/him/his) – University of Notre Dame

  Co-Author: Brian Blagg – University of Notre Dame

  Primary Investigator: Pinar Zorlutuna – University of Notre Dame
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  Extracellular matrix stiffness increases chromosome loss and genetic variation in cancer spheroids
  

  Presenting Author: Alişya Anlaş, PhD – University of Pennsylvania

  Co-Author: Brandon Hayes – University of Pennsylvania

  Co-Author: Markus T. Sprenger (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania

  Co-Author: Mai Wang – University of Pennsylvania

  Co-Author: Steven Phan – University of Pennsylvania

  Primary Investigator: Dennis Discher, PhD – Biophysical Eng'g Labs, University of Pennsylvania
• 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM EST

  Developing a 3D In Vitro Bone Niche for Evaluating the Interactions of Osteoblasts and Metastatic Breast Cancer Cells
  

  Presenting Author: Weitong Chen, Doctor of Philosophy (he/him/his) – Department of Small Animal Medicine & Surgery, University of Georgia

  Co-Author: Ammad Farooq – College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences, University of Georgia

  Co-Author: Caroline Coggin – Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia

  Co-Author: Arjun Kotapalli – 4School of Chemical, Materials, and Biomedical Engineering, University of Georgia

  Co-Author: Dawson Templin – Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia

  Co-Author: Didier Dreau, PhD – Department of Biological Sciences, UNC Charlotte

  Presenting Author: Timothy Burg – Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Georgia

  Last Author: Karen Burg – University of Georgia

  Co-Author: Julian Peteghem