Printable Schedule with Abstracts
We have an exciting lineup of confirmed speakers.
8:30-9:00 Registration, light breakfast
9:00-9:30 Pinar Zorlutuna (University of Notre Dame)-Beyond Cellular Aging: Interdependence and Cooperative Effects in Failing Tissues
9:30-10:00 Qiong Yang (University of Michigan)-From molecules to development: understanding how biological oscillators function and coordinate
10:00-10:30 Adilson Motter (Northwestern)-Pattern formation driven by the converse of symmetry breaking
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 Neda Bagheri (Northwestern)-Prediction and analysis of emergent dynamics in heterogeneous cell populations
11:30-12:00 Esther Gomez (Penn State)-Mechanobiology of epithelial-myofibroblast transition
12:00-12:30 Megan McClean (University of Wisconsin)-Elucidating principles of biological signal processing using microfluidic and optogenetic tools
12:30-1:30 LUNCH – Provided in Jordan Hall Reading Room
1:30-2:00 Robert Woods (University of Michigan)- Transmission dynamics and resistance evolution in Enterococcus faecium in the hospital setting
2:00-2:30 Rebecca Smith (University of Illinois)- Disease Modeling on the Slow Side
2:30-3:15 Lightning talks
3:15-3:30 Coffee break
3:30-4:00 Yann Dufour (Michigan State University)-Evolution, function, and control of non-genetic phenotypic diversity in bacterial populations
4:00-4:30 Erol Akcay (University of Pennsylvania)- Social inheritance and its consequences in animal societies
4:30-5:00 Casim Sarkar (University of Minnesota)-Analysis and engineering of cellular decision making
5:00-6:00 Poster Session
| Name | Title | |
| 1 | Aylin Acun | A Tissue Engineered Model of Aging |
| 2 | Brittni Bertolet | Modeling methane emissions with methanogen community traits |
| 3 | Uryan Isik Can | Muscle Cell-Based Electronics |
| 4 | Jianxu Chen | Combining Fully Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Networks for 3D Biomedical Image Segmentation |
| 5 | Nicholas Contento | Electrically modulated intercellular calcium waves in the Drosophila wing imaginal disc |
| 6 | Paulina Eberts | Extension of Non-destructive 3D Immunostaining to Paraffin Embedded Tissues |
| 7 | Zhaleh Ghaemi | Atomistic and cell simulations of U1 spliceosomal particle |
| 8 | Kelsey Hallinen | Cooperation and Spatial Architecture in E. faecalis Biofilms |
| 9 | Francisco Huizar | Analysis of calcium-mediated signaling cross-talk during wound healing and tissue growth |
| 10 | Jamison Jangula | Sub-cellular Element Modelling of Cytokineses in Epithelial Cells |
| 11 | Erin Jonasson | Reconsidering the concept of critical concentration as it applies to microtubules and other steady-state polymers |
| 12 | Shaunasee Kocen | Myocardium-on-Chip with Real Time miRNA Detection |
| 13 | Alyssa Lesko | Adenomatous Polyposis Coli regulates cell motility through C-terminal interactions with the cytoskeleton |
| 14 | Maria Cristina Miranda Vergara | Distinguishable Roles for Epithelial and Stromal MMP3 During Breast Cancer |
| 15 | Cody Narciso | A regulated environment for micro-organs defines conditions for stimulating intercellular Ca2+ waves in epithelia |
| 16 | Dung Trung Nguyen | Investigating the effects of substrate stiffness on contractile force generation and propagation of myocardial cells |
| 17 | Rachel Oidtman | Disentangling the relative roles of importation and weather in driving interannual variation in dengue epidemics in Guangzhou, China |
| 18 | Joseph R. Peterson | Parametric Studies of Metabolic Cooperativity in Escherichia coli Colonies |
| 19 | Matthew Pharris | A Rule-based Model of the Ca2+/Calmodulin-dependent Protein Kinase II |
| 20 | Owen Puls | Examining the Nature of Mitotic Wave Synchronization through Numerical Methods |
| 21 | Vanessa Rivera-Quiñones | Evolutionary Branching in Disease Dynamics |
| 22 | Jared Scripture | Using computational models to study treadmilling behavior of microtubules and other steady-state polymers |
| 23 | Dharsan Soundarrajan | Dynamics of Calcium Waves in epithelial networks in Drosophila wing imaginal disc |
| 24 | Julien Varennes | Emergent versus Individual-based Multicellular Chemotaxis |
| 25 | Qinfeng Wu | Hedgehog signaling modulates intercellular calcium waves through an incoherent feed-forwared loop in the wing disc |
| 26 | Yueh-Fu Wu | Investigating the impact of the environment on the rate of evolutionary adaptation in vitro and in silico |
| 27 | Xiaoshan Yue | 3D Hydrogel Microwell Arrays with Tunable S:ffness and Encapsulated Adipocytes as a Tumor Microenvironment Model for Studying Breast Cancer |
| 28 | Yide Zhang | Super-Sensitivity and Super-Resolution Multiphoton Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy |