Cancer Mechanobiology

Session Chair(s)

• SS

  Stephanie Seidlits, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Associate Professor
  University of Texas at Austin, United States
• OA

  Omokolade Adebowale

  UCSD

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:

• 2:30 PM – 2:45 PM EST

  Dynamic Interstitial Fluid Flow Alters Breast Cancer Cells and Osteocytes in Bone Metastasis
  

  Invited Speaker: Maureen Lynch, PhD – University of Colorado Boulder

  Co-Author: Shreya Venkatesh – University of Colorado

  Co-Author: Corrin Bowman, MS – University of Colorado

  Co-Author: Antonio Salcido-Alcantar – University of Colorado

  Co-Author: Elaine Goldman – University of Colorado

  Co-Author: Andrea Ordonez – University of Colorado

  Co-Author: Jian Tay, PhD – University of Colorado

  Co-Author: Edward Chuong, PhD – University of Colorado

  Co-Author: William Thompson, PhD – Indiana University Indianapolis
• 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM EST

  High-Throughput Method to Investigate Tumor Cell and Primary Cell Mechanotransduction Under Physiological Shear Stress
  

  Presenting Author: Abigail Fabiano – Vanderbilt University

  Co-Author: Spencer Robbins – Columbia University

  Co-Author: Schyler Rowland – Vanderbilt University

  Co-Author: Samantha Knoblauch – Vanderbilt University

  Last Author: Jenna Dombroski, PhD – Vanderbilt University

  Primary Investigator: Michael King – Rice University
• 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM EST

  Mechano-dependent regulation of alternative splicing machinery in cancer
  

  Presenting Author: Juliette Gouhier (she/her/hers) – Universite Laval

  Co-Author: Martial Millet – Universite Laval

  Co-Author: Gabriel Khelifi – Universite Laval

  Co-Author: Samer Hussein – Universite Laval

  Primary Investigator: Francois Bordeleau, PhD (he/him/his) – Universite Laval
• 3:15 PM – 3:30 PM EST

  Mitotic progression under confinement drives heritable loss of chromosomes
  

  Presenting Author: Steven Phan – University of Pennsylvania

  Last Author: Guilherme Nader, PhD (he/him/his) – Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

  Primary Investigator: Dennis Discher, PhD – Biophysical Eng'g Labs, University of Pennsylvania
• 3:30 PM – 3:45 PM EST

  Oncogenic KRAS Mutations Drive Unique Mechanotransduction Response to Peristalsis in Colorectal Cancer Cells
  

  Presenting Author: Abbie J. Clevenger, PhD – Texas A&M University Biomedical Engineering Department

  Co-Author: Claudia Collier – Texas A&M University Biomedical Engineering

  Co-Author: John Paul M. Gorley – Texas A&M University Biomedical Engineering

  Co-Author: Maygan McFarlin – Texas A&M University Biomedical Engineering

  Primary Investigator: Shreya A. Raghavan, MSE, PhD (she/her/hers) – Texas A&M University
• 3:45 PM – 4:00 PM EST

  Unveiling Novel Migration Dynamics of Acini Following Apical-Out Eversion in 3D Gels
  

  Presenting Author: Hailee Patel, MS (she/her/hers) – Texas A&M University

  Co-Author: Richard Dickinson, PhD – University of Florida, Gainesville

  Primary Investigator: Tanmay Lele – Texas A&M University