Keynote Speaker
What Does It Take To Move the Needle In Image-Based Biological Discovery?
Eric Betzig, Ph.D. , UC Berkeley, HHMI, 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Eric Betzig is a Professor of Molecular and Cell biology, the Eugene D. Commins Presidential Chair in Experimental Physics, a Senior Fellow at the Janelia Research Campus, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. His Ph.D. thesis at Cornell University and subsequent work at AT&T Bell Labs involved the development of near-field optics – an early form of super-resolution microscopy. He left academia in 1995 to work in the machine tool industry, but returned ten years later when he and friend, Harald Hess, built the first super-resolution single molecule localization microscope in Harald’s living room. For this work, he is a co-recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Today, he continues to develop new imaging tools to aid in biological discovery, including correlative super-resolution fluorescence and electron microscopy, 4D dynamic imaging of living systems with non-diffracting light sheets, and adaptive optical microscopy to recover optimal imaging performance deep within aberrating multicellular specimens.
Invited Speaker
A nature-guided approach for engineering in vivo delivery
Prashant Mali, Ph.D., UCSD,
Professor
Invited Speaker
Two-photon Intravital Microscopy of the Native Thymus
Joel Spencer, Ph.D., UCM,
Associate Professor
Shu Chien Speaker
Engineering pathways models emphasize downstream proteins for understanding clinical outcomes
Jennifer Wilson, Ph.D., UCLA,
Assistant Professor
Shu Chien Speaker
Enhancing the detection sensitivity of CRISPR-based biosensors via site-specific Cas12-crRNA crosslinking
Juhong Chen, Ph.D., UCR,
Assistant Professor
- Selected Speakers
- Regenerative Medicine, Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials (Session Chair: Prof. Marley Dewey, UCSB)
- Adam Farsheed, Salk Institute: 3D Printing of Self-Assembling Nanofibrous Multidomain Peptide Hydrogels
- Lily Shang, UCLA: Mechanobiology-Informed Vaccine Platforms: Integrating YAP/TAZ and Piezo1 Pathways to Enhance Immune Responses
- Biomolecular Engineering (Session Chair: Carrie Mills, UCSB)
- Gurneet Sangha, UCI: Piezo1 Stimulates Nitric Oxide Synthase Phosphorylation in Red Blood Cells via Protein Kinase C with Increased Activity in Diabetes
- So Youn Lee, UCD: Evaluation of sulfated dextran-coated iron oxide nanoparticles as site-localizing anticoagulants
- Biomechanics and Mechanobiology (Session Chair: Prof. Chung-Hao Lee, UCR)
- Marissa Gionet-Gonzalez, UCSB: Engineering viscoelastic hydrogels for cardiomyocyte culture
- Elliot Botvinick, UCI: Stromal Cell Identity Affects Perivascular ECM stiffness and Regulates Capillary Morphogenesis in a 3D fibrin Model
- Neuro, Cardiovascular, and Organ System Engineering (Session Chair: Prof. Victor Rodgers, UCR)
- Sara Marmarchinia, UCI: A Non-Invasive Closed-Loop System for Personalized Hypertension Management via Median Nerve Electrostimulation
- Peixiang He, UCSD: Engineering Sonogenetic EchoBack-CAR T cells
- Imaging and Diagnostics (Session Chair: Prof. Fanny Chapelin, UCSD)
- Gyeo-Re Han, UCLA: Deep learning-enhanced chemiluminescence vertical flow assay for high-sensitivity troponin testing
- Kofi Agyeman, USC: Interictal Activity Mapping and Effects of Epileptogenic-foci Resection and Responsive Neurostimulation in the Human Brain
- Synthetic, Systems, and Computational Biology (Session Chair: Prof. Mohamad Abedi, UCLA)
- Cayden Williamson, UCLA: Hollow-shelled microparticles for high-throughput picking of natural product-producing yeast colonies using flow cytometry
- Ofelya Baghdasaryan, UCD: Cyborg Bacteria as Living Organelles for Mammalian Cells Augmentation
- Regenerative Medicine, Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials (Session Chair: Prof. Marley Dewey, UCSB)
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