Tony B. Travel Award - Poster Presenters

All Tony B. Travel Award poster presentations will take place in the Poster Theater (#555) within the Exhibition on Monday, February 27, from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

Thank you to Bristol Myers Squibb, the SLAS2023 Tony B. Travel Award sponsor.

Fatemeh Ahmadi, M.Sc. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University            
An automated and on-demand single-cell microfluidic platform for monoclonal antibody discovery               
Assay Development and Screening   

Shanna Marie Alonzo, North Carolina A&T State University      
Iodinated Polymer Growth for X-ray Imaging Contrast Agent Optimization       
Advances in Bioanalytics and Biomarkers          

Pilar Ayuda-Duran, Oslo University Hospital           
Once in a blue moon: Refining the search for synergizing drug combinations      
Assay Development and Screening     

Jessica Beskid, M.S. Student, Next Advance, Inc.           
Checkit®Go: Validate the Accuracy of your Liquid Handlers by Transforming your Sample Solution to a Test Solution 
Automation Technologies        

Anna-Lena Bolender, M.Sc. Biology, Roche Diagnostics GmbH
Workstation for High-throughput Antibody Labeling (WHALE) Accelerating lead identification and optimization in ADME
Assay Development and Screening

Winston Chiu, KU Leuven             
Development and optimization of an automated in vitro antiviral screening assay against live Rabies virus using the Caps-It system              
Assay Development and Screening   

Erica Clements, M.S., GlaxoSmithKline               
Delivering high-throughput lipid transfection capabilities for arrayed based CRISPR screens     
Assay Development and Screening            

Erlyn Clermont   
The Effects of mTOR inhibitors on Tuberous Sclerosis Patients    
Precision Medicine and Diagnostics    

Adriana Coll De Pena, M.S., Brown University
High Throughput Microfluidic Purity Assessment Method for Gene Therapies
Advances in Bioanalytics and Biomarkers

Hannah Combs, The University of Akron               
A Quantitative Study of Surfactant Instillation in a Three-Dimensional Bioengineered Lung Model of Neonates               
Micro- and Nano-Technologies 

Ben David, University of Michigan
A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Pooled Oligonucleotide Design
Data Science and AI

Paulo Felipe Estrela, Universidade Federal de Goiás    
Centrifugal analytical device for point-of-care molecular diagnosis of monkeypox by loop-mediated isothermal amplification 
Precision Medicine and Diagnostics   

Ramisa Fariha, M.Sc., Brown University     
An in-depth Analysis on Different Classes of Antidepressants Quantification from Human Serum using LC-MS/MS  
Assay Development and Screening           

Florencia Fernandez, YPF Tecnología (Y-TEC) S.A. / CONICET              
Microbial biofilm alarm system for industry and laboratory environments     
Automation Technologies 

Ramakrishna Gummadi, Ph.D. Student, Andhra University          
Fabrication of lipidic nanocarriers for targeting triple negative breast cancer    
Micro- and Nano-Technologies 

Pim De Haan, University of Groningen           
Stereolithographic Immobilized Enzyme Reactors              
Micro- and Nano-Technologies    

Robert Hanes, Ph.D., Oslo University Hospital           
Screenwerk: a modular tool for the design and analysis of drug combination screens       
Data Science and AI 

Nate Hoxie, NIH/NCATS          
Rapid Automated Reaction Optimization with the Open Port Sampling Interface           
Assay Development and Screening 

Sunghyun Ki, Incheon National University            
Microcapsule-based digital analysis for rapid and accurate diagnostics          
Precision Medicine and Diagnostics 

Kim Krieg, Fraunhofer ITMP Hamburg, Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology
Modeling cancer metastasis formation in secondary organs using human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC)-derived niche models for preclinical drug discovery             
Cellular Technologies                       

Sant Kumar, Ph.D., ETH Zurich, Switzerland         
evotron – Automated Framework for High-throughput Culture, Sampling and Optogenetic Feedback Control    
Automation Technologies         

Kecheng Lei, Ph.D., Emory University            
Drug Repurposing via ultra-High Throughput 3D Spheroids Screening in the Minipig Spinal Cord Glioma Model         
Precision Medicine and Diagnostics 

Li-Hsin Li, M.Sc., KU Leuven Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Institute, Laboratory of Virology, Antiviral Drug, and Vaccine Research      
Identification of the Broad-Spectrum Hits on the Virus RGB Palette   
Assay Development and Screening  

Samuel Little, Concordia University            
An automated platform for engineering primary human T-cells with digital microfluidics      
Cellular Technologies      

Belen Cortes Llanos, Ph.D., Duke University
Embedded-microstructures arrays for single-cell sorting and collection of lymphocytes following HIV latency reactivation
Assay Development and Screening

Christina Mavreas, Fraunhofer IPA
Do-it-yourself kit for laboratory automation using the example of a media exchange for an organoid culture
Automation Technologies

Habdias Silva Neto, Federal University of Minas Gerais            
3D-printed electrochemical platform with multi-purpose carbon black sensing electrodes  
Micro- and Nano-Technologies 

Sezin Nicklas, Ph.D., GlaxoSmithKline               
Development and Deployment of an Electroporation-based High Throughput Arrayed Genetic Screening Platform 
Assay Development and Screening 

David Nippa, M.Sc., LMU Munich / Roche  
Enabling late-stage drug diversification by high-throughput experimentation with geometric deep learning      
Data Science and AI 

Olivia M. Ott, University of California San Diego and Brown University         
An Automated Next-Generation Sequencing Library Preparation Platform with Integrated Liquid Handling and Capillary Tube PCR               
Automation Technologies  

Kenny Ouyang, Emory University               
A versatile multiplexed TR-FRET assay for detection of SMAD4-SMAD3-DNA complex and high-throughput chemical probe discovery 
Assay Development and Screening  

Michael Parappilly, Oregon Health & Science University         
Circulating neoplastic-immune hybrid cells predict metastatic progression in uveal melanoma   
Advances in Bioanalytics and Biomarkers    

Kemilly Pinheiro, Universidade Federal De Goias              
Determination of naphthenic acids in produced water by using microchip electrophoresis with integrated contactless conductivity detection    
Assay Development and Screening  

Padmaja Rai, Senior Research Fellow, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad            
Silicon and hydrogen sulfide interplay induced alleviation of copper oxide nanoparticles (CuO NPs) phytotoxicity in Oryza sativa seedlings  
Micro- and Nano-Technologies 

Danielly Rocha, Federal University of Goi
Disposable ecofriendly electrochemical immunosensor for fast detection of SARS-CoV-2               
Assay Development and Screening    

Osheen Sharma, Ph.D. Student, Karolinska Institutet        
Artificial intelligence for rapid biological interpretation of high content screens  
Data Science and AI    

Zachary Sitte, Graduate Student-Chemistry            
Supported Gel Slabs: A promising method for generating tumor-like structures and screening toxicants in a 3D environment 
Assay Development and Screening

Lucas Sousa, University of Buenos Aires       
A dual-detection paper-based device used to detect salivary biomarkers for clinical diagnosis in point-of-care settings  
Assay Development and Screening 

Leyllanne Souza, Graduate Program in Chemistry (PPGQ), Federal University of Alagoas, University of the South and Southeast of Pará  
Miniaturized plastic sensor based on carbon electrodes modified with titanium-cobalt dioxide for electrochemical detection of amoxicillin  
Micro- and Nano-Technologies 

Nikini Subawickrama and Mallika Widanaarachchige, Engineering and Technology Department, Southeast Missouri State University  
Attachment and Growth of PC12 Neural Cells in Presence of Highly Water Dispersible Boron Nitride Nanotubes           
Micro- and Nano-Technologies  

Andy Tay, Ph.D., National University of Singapore
Dynamic magneto-stiffening and -softening of extracellular matrix for drug screening
Cellular Technologies

Anh Truong, National University of Singapore
Prioritize or Not? Pinpointing Clinically Actionable Drug Combinations against SARS-CoV-2 using IDentif.AI Platform
Data Science and AI  

Vinodkumar Ugale, MPharm, Ph.D., R. C. Patel Institute of Pharmaceutical and Research      
Development of novel subunit-selective NMDA receptor antagonists for the treatment of refractory epilepsy           
Assay Development and Screening  

Peter Wang, National University of Singapore       
Harnessing WisDM Green, an AI-derived Platform, to Design and Prioritize Compound Combinations for Plant Yield Enhancement 
Data Science and AI    

Qining Wang, University of California, Los Angeles    
Cloud-based Digital Microfluidics Ecosystem  
Automation Technologies          

Riley Whalen, Oregon Health & Science University         
Ultra-high content analyses of circulating and solid tumor cells  
Precision Medicine and Diagnostics          

 

Meghan Wyatt, University of Connecticut        
Triple Reporter Jurkats: A versatile platform to screen for immune-modulating small molecules            
Assay Development and Screening      

Ming Yao, Ph.D., University of Washington        
Picoliter Thin Layer Chromatography (pTLC) to Assay Lipid Signaling in Single Cells        
Micro- and Nano-Technologies