September 14-15, 2023
La Jolla, CA, USA
September 14-15, 2023
La Jolla, CA, USA
| Wednesday, September 13, 2023 | |
| 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. | Registration Set-Up |
| 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. | Exhibitor Set-Up |
| 8:00 – 9:00 p.m. | Exhibitor Registration Open |
| Thursday, September 14, 2023 | |
| 7:00 – 8:30 a.m. | Exhibitor Set-Up |
| 8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. | Registration Open |
| 8:30 – 9:00 a.m. | Welcome Breakfast in Exhibition |
| 9:00 – 9:15 a.m. | Welcome and Opening Remarks |
| 9:15 – 10:00 a.m. | Opening Keynote Address: Dino Di Carlo, Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles |
| 10:00 – 10:15 a.m. | Coffee Break in Exhibition |
| 10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Session 1: Next Generation Miniaturization Technologies Select-to-Screen: Proximity-Driven In-Gel Encoded Library Synthesis and Screening – Brian Paegel, Ph.D. (University of California Irvine) A Tale About Shoaling Bio-inspired Materials: Enabling High-Throughput Automated 3D Cell Culture – Amir Nasajpour, Ph.D. (Twister Bioscience) A Microfluidic DNA-encoded Library Approach to Enable Phenotypic Screening for Small Molecule Direct Degraders of Proteins – Anastasia Velentza (Plexium) |
| 11:50 – 12:00 p.m. | Technology Snapshot | Sponsored by Boston Micro Fabrication |
| 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. | Lunch in Exhibition | Sponsored by: Egnyte |
| 1:00 – 1:30 p.m. | Poster Presentations in Exhibition A Microfluidic Platform for Transfecting Primary Cells in Personalized Medicine – Hyun Woo Sung, B.Sc. (Johns Hopkins University) Contour Analysis to Quantify Tumor Cell Invasion in Organ-on-Chip Models – Elizabeth Elton, B.Sc. (Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine) Elevating & Automating Cell and Extracellular Vesicle Purification with Digital Magnetic Sorting – Coleman Murray, Ph.D. (Ferrologix, Inc.) Hydrodynamic Manipulation of Living Cells in Newtonian and non-Newtonian solutions: Insights for Device Design – Takayuki Suzuki (Johns Hopkins University) |
| 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. |
Session 2: Microfluidics |
| 3:10 – 3:20 p.m. | Technology Snapshot | Sponsored by Egnyte |
| 3:20 – 3:45 p.m. | Coffee Break in Exhibition |
| 3:45 – 5:15 p.m. | Session 3: Advances in Organ-on-Chip Platforms Use of An In-Vitro Gut-on-Chip System to Investigate the Effect of X-Ray Irradiation on the Human GI Tract and Gut Microbiome – Nicole Sherwood, B.S. (University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix) What Can Spheroids Do for You? Exploring the Fine Balance Between Throughput and Physiological Relevance – Madhu Nag, M.B.S., Ph.D. (InSphero) Using the LumeNEXT Platform to Create Complex Microphysiological Systems of Cancer and Infectious Disease – Sheena Kerr, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison) |
| 5:15 – 6:30 p.m. | Networking Reception (Attendees and Road Show Participants) |
| 6:30 – 7:15 p.m. | Career Panel Discussion: Your Future in Life Sciences: Are you Ready for What's Next? Moderated by Sammy Datwani (Synthego) Presenters: Coleman Murray (Ferrologix) and Benjamin Yellen (Celldom) |
| Friday, September 15, 2023 | |
| 8:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Registration Open |
| 8:45 – 10:00 a.m. | Breakfast Roundtable Discussions:
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| 10:00 – 10:30 a.m. | Coffee Break in Exhibition |
| 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Session 4: Microscale Innovation for Translational Applications Microfluidic T Cell Engineering for Immunotherapies – Abe Lee, Ph.D. (University of California Irvine) Tissue Chip with Gravity-Driven Flow for Drug Efficacy and Toxicity Studies – Hossein Tavana, Ph.D. (University of Akron) Single-Cell Interactive Cytometry using Made-to-Order Droplet Ensembles – Russell Cole, Ph.D. (Scribe Biosciences) Multiparametric Analysis of Small Extracellular Vesicles Purified by a Rapid and Label-free Lab on a Chip Device – Leyla Esfandiari, Ph.D. (University of Cincinnati) From Prototype to Product: Pitfalls and Possibilities – Nancy Schoenbrunner, Ph.D. (AmplifiDx) |
| 12:10 – 1:00 p.m. | Lunch in Exhibition | Sponsored by: Boston Micro Fabrication |
| 12:30 – 1:00 p.m. | Posters in Exhibition Rapid Prototyping of Thermoplastic Microfluidic Devices with Multi-Height Features for Scalable Mass Production – Harrison Khoo, B.S., M.S.E. (Johns Hopkins University) Micro-scale Purification Platform – High-throughput Tool for BioPharma Manufacturing Investigations – Sushil Bhatia (Regeneron Pharmaceuticals) Streamlined Extracellular Vesicle Loading: Harnessing Protein-Specific Subpopulations Through Direct Electroporation – Corinna Torabi, B.S., M.S. (Johns Hopkins University) Towards the Development of a Robust High-Throughput Screening Platform for Immunomodulatory Therapies for Diabetic Foot Ulcer Treatment – Mirella Ejiugwo, B.Sc. (Honours), M.Sc. (Centre for Research in Medical Devices (CÚRAM), University of Galway, Ireland) |
| 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. | Exhibitor Dismantle |
| 1:00 – 2:20 p.m. |
Closing Keynote Address: Sumita Pennathur, Ph.D., |
| 2:20 p.m. | Closing Remarks |