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2012 UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium Results
This past weekend, from June 21st to June 23rd, bioengineering students and faculty congregated at UC Berkeley to build a stronger state-wide community in the pursuit of knowledge. The Department of Bioengineering at UCLA is proud of its participants, and would like to extend a congratulations to all UCLA faculty and students who attended and participated.
A special congratulations to winners Jessica Schlosser, winner of Best Poster in Biomaterials/Drug Delivery, and Ken Lin, winner of Best Oral Presentation in Biomaterials/Drug Delivery. Schlosser and Lin are members of the Kasko Lab Group.
Oral Presentation Series Participants:
In Biomechanics / Mechanobiology
- Deformability Cytometry: Leukocyte Mechanical Phenotyping, Daniel R. Gossett, UC Los Angeles
- Inducing biofilm formation in Staphylococcus epidermidis clinical isolates using fluid flow in a microfluidic shear array, Westbrook M. Weaver, UC Los Angeles
In Imaging
- Optofluidic Microscopy and Tomography on a Chip, Serhan O. Isikman, UC Los Angeles
- Crowd-sourced Games Toward Distributed Medical Image Analysis and Tele-Diagnosis, Sam Mavandadi, UC Los Angeles
Molecular, Cell and Tissue Engineering
- Microenvironmental influence on gradient sensing in neural cell cultures, Anja Kunze, UC Los Angeles
Biomaterials / Drug Delivery
- Featured Speaker: Controlled release of therapeutics and cells from hydrogel depots using light, Andrea Kasko, Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, UC Los Angeles
- Targeting Prostate Cancer Using Nanoparticles Decorated with the A11 Minibody, Kristine M. Mayle, UC Los Angeles
- Synthesis of hyperbranched mannose polymers, Ken Lin, UC Los Angeles (Winner of Best Oral Presentation)
Synthetic Biology / Systems Biology / Computational Biology / Genomics
- Search of optimal drug combinations using an engineering feedback control scheme, Xianting Ding, UC Los Angeles
- Web App BioInterface Simulator of Human Thyroid Hormone Feedback System Dynamics, Simon X. Han, UC Los Angeles
- COMBOS: A Web App for Computing Global Identifiability Properties of Nonlinear Dynamic Systems Biology Models, Joe DiStefano III, UC Los Angeles,
BioMEMS / Instrumentation
- Enhancing the Detection Limit of a Protein Lateral-Flow Immunoassay using Aqueos Two-Phase Micellar Systems, Ricky Chiu, UC Los Angeles
- Quantum-dot based sandwich immunoassay for sensitive detection of Escherichia coli on a cell-phone, Uzair Sikora, UC Los Angeles
- Control of interparticle spacing using structured microfluidic channels, Dianne Pulido, UC Los Angeles
Molecular, Cell and Tissue Engineering
- Microenvironmental influence on gradient sensing in neural cell cultures, Anja Kunze, UC Los Angeles
Poster Presentation Series Participants
In BioMEMS / Instrumentation
- Highspeed solution exchange in an artificial bilayer system for high-throughput screening of drugs targeting ion channels, Shiv Acharya, UC Los Angeles
- Programming Fluid Flow in Microchannels Using Microstructure, Hamed Amini, UC Los Angeles
- High‐throughput, Ultrafast Solution Exchange Around Cells and Particles via Inertial Microfluidics, Jaideep S. Dudani, UC Los Angeles
- Isolation of Rare Circulating Tumor Cells From Blood Using Microscale Fluid Vortices, Derek E. Go, UC Los Angeles
- Digital Readout Platform for Water-in-oil Droplet Immunoassays Running on a Cell-Phone for Point of Care Viral Load Sensing, Patrick A. Sandoz, UC Los Angeles
Imaging
- Integration of Lensfree On-Chip Fluorescent Imaging with Lens-based Microscopy toward High- throughput Rare-cell Analysis, Ahmet F. Coskun, UC Los Angeles
- Giga-Pixel Lensfree Computational Microscopy On a Chip, Alon Greenbaum, UC Los Angeles
- Cell-phone based Rapid-Diagnostic-Test Reader Platform for Spatio-temporal Mapping of Diseases, Onur Mudanyali, UC Los Angeles
- High-throughput Color Imaging on a Chip Using Sparse Signal Recovery, Ikbal Sencan, UC Los Angeles
- Synthetic Biology / Systems Biology / Computational Biology / Genomics Analysis and Validation of a Multi-Scale Cerebral Blood Flow Model, Mark J Connolly, UC Los Angeles
- A Thyroid Hormone Dynamics Simulator for Optimizing Treatment of Congenital Hypothyroidism (CH) in Newborn Babies, King Chung Ho, UC Los Angeles
Biomaterials / Drug Delivery
- Targeted Delivery of Drug‐Loaded Nanoparticles with a Transferrin Variant, Ricky Y.T. Chiu, UC Los Angeles
- Investigation of a Dynamic Biomimetic Apatite Nanoparticle Delivery System for Targeted Non-viral Gene Transfection, Debobrato Das, UC Los Angeles
- Doxorubicin Loading in Novel Block Copolypeptide Vesicles, Garrett Mosley, UC Los Angeles
- Delivery of Small and Large Molecules From A Hydrogel Via Light, Jessica L. Schlosser, UC Los Angeles (Winner of Best Poster Presentation)
- Microstructure of a Collagen Scaffold, Argus Sun, UC Los Angeles
- LABEL-FREE BIOMECHANICAL SINGLE CELL MICROFLUIDIC MEASUREMENTS FOR DIAGNOSIS OF CANCER STEM CELLS IN PATIENT TISSUES, Michael Masterman-Smith, UC Los Angeles
- Massively Parallel Polarization and Analysis of Single Cell Behavior under Magnetic Nanoparticle- mediated Mechanical Tension, Peter Tseng, UC Los Angeles
Master’s or Undergraduate Capstone Projects
- Q-Path: A Flow Through High-Throughput Quantitative Histology Platform, Andrew Tan, UC Los Angeles
