Illinois presenter lineup for the BMES 2021 Annual Meeting

10/5/2021 Huan Song

The Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting is one of the biggest meetings of the minds in the field. View this year’s lineup which features University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professors, undergraduate and graduate students, as well as summer and high school researchers who were mentored by Illinois faculty.

Written by Huan Song

The Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting is one of the biggest meetings of the minds in the field. View this year’s lineup which features University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professors, undergraduate and graduate students, as well as summer and high school researchers who were mentored by Illinois faculty. Follow along in real-time on our Instagram Stories as bioengineering Ph.D. candidate Yi Wen connects with presenters in person! 

Speaker Sessions 

Thursday, October 7, 2021

Presenter: Tori Barnhouse, Ph.D. candidate
Title: Formation of a Primary Murine Perivascular Model to Study Hematopoietic Stem Cells In Vitro
Track: Biomaterials
Theme: Biomaterials Scaffold 1
Session Time: 8:00 am - 8:30 am EST

Presenter: Madison Seefeld, REU student
Title: Spatial Mapping of Nanoparticle Confinement in Living Cells
Theme: Photoacoustic and Ultrasound Imaging
Room Assignment: Crystal G1
Time: 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm EST
 
Presenter: Shreya Ghosh, postdoctoral researcher 
Title: Point-of-Care Detection of Nucleic Acid Using a Portable Photonic Resonator Absorption Microscope
Track: Nano and Micro Technologies
Theme: Nano and Micro Technologies Virtual I
Room Assignment: Virtual 
Time: 9:00 pm EST

Friday, October 8, 2021

Presenter: Ishita Jain, Ph.D. candidate
Title: Microenvironmental Control of Liver Stellate Cells Epigenetics and Fibrogenic Phenotypes
Track: Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering 
Theme: Genomic and Epigenetic Bioengineering
Room Assignment: Grand 8B
Time: 8:00 am - 9:30 am EST

Presenter: Samantha Zambuto, Ph.D. candidate
Title: Biomaterial Tools for Modeling the Endometrium and Trophoblast Invasion 
Track: Women’s Health
Theme: Modelling of Female Organs/Diseases 
Room Assignment: Crystal KL
Time: 8:00 am - 9:30 am EST

Presenter: Amy Lee, bioengineering undergraduate student
Title: Disruption of MUC5B Expression Leads to Chaotic Mucus Flow
Track: Biomedical Image and Instrumentation
Theme: Deep learning and Artificial Intelligence in Radiology
Room Assignment: Crystal G1
Session Time: 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm EST

Presenter: Jennifer Potts, REU student
Title: Multi-Class COVID-19 Classification using CT Images with Deep-Learning
Track: Biomedical Image and Instrumentation
Theme: Deep learning and Artificial Intelligence in Radiology
Room Assignment: Crystal G1
Time: 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm EST

Saturday, October 9, 2021

Presenter: Holly Golecki, bioengineering professor
Title: Development and Implementation of an Undergraduate Soft Robotics Mentored Research Program
Track: BME Education
Theme: Biomedical Engineering Education Summit I
Room Assignment: Grand 8A
Time: 8:00 am - 9:30 am EST

Presenter: Nantao Li, Ph.D. candidate
Title: Photonic Resonator Interferometric Scattering Microscopy
Track: Optical Imaging I
Room Assignment: Crystal G1
Time: 1:45 pm - 2:45 am EST

Presenter: Janice Baek, Ph.D. candidate
Title: Spatial Analysis of EGFR Expression in Breast Cancer Tissue
Track: Cancer Technologies
Theme: Cancer Technologies Virtual III
Room Assignment: Virtual
Time: 9:00 pm EST
 

Poster Presentations

Virtual (available on-demand throughout the event and for 30 days post-conference)

Presenter: Olivia Campos Coiado, bioengineering and Carle Illinois College of Medicine professor and Kanesha Overton, medical student
Title: Developing Compassion in a Medical-Engineering Curriculum through Problem Based Learning Sessions
Track: Biomedical Engineering Education
 
Presenter: Yoon Jeong, Ph.D. candidate
Title: Long-term Cultivation of Three dimensional (3D) Cellular Spheroid Using A Universal Plate Platform
Track: Cancer Technologies
 
Presenter: Vasiliki (Aliki) Kolliopoulos, Ph.D. candidate  
Title: Isolating the Effects of Amnion and Chorion Soluble Factors and Matrix on hMSC Osteogenic Response
Track: Biomaterials
Theme: Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine
 
Presenter: Katherine Koprowski, undergraduate student 
Title: Electrical Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Virus in VTM Using a Graphene-Field Effect Transistor
Track: Nano and Micro Technologies   
 
Presenter: Jongwon Lim, Ph.D. candidate
Title: Rapid Isothermal Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Saliva Using Point-Of-Care System
Track: Technologies for Emerging Infectious Diseases
Theme: COVID diagnostic

Presenter: Yanyu Xiong, Ph.D. candidate
Title: Photonic Crystal Enhanced Quantum Dots for Digital-resolution Single-base Selectivity miRNA Sensing
Track: Nano and Micro Technologies

Presenter: Bin Zhao, postdoctoral researcher
Title: Digital Detection of Small RNAs by DNA Toehold Probe-based Photonic Resonator Absorption Microscopy
Track: Nano and Micro Technologies

Thursday, October 7, 2021

Presenter: Maha Alafeef, Ph.D. candidate
Title: Nanosensor-Based Hyperspectral Mapping for the Detection of SARS-CoV-2 with Yoctomole Sensitivity
Room Assignment: Exhibit Hall 
Poster Hall Assignment Number: 96
Time: 9:30 am - 10:30 am EST
 
Presenter: George Funkenbusch, REU student
Title: Computationally Modelling Discrete Frequency Infrared Microscopy Systems
Room Assignment: Exhibit Hall 
Poster Hall Assignment Number: 20
Time: 9:30 am - 10:30 am EST
 
Presenter: Congnyu Che, Ph.D. candidate
Title: Accelerated Digital Biodetection Using Magneto-Plasmonic Nanoparticle-Coupled Photonic Resonator Absorption Microscopy
Room Assignment: Exhibit Hall 
Poster Hall Assignment Number: 71
Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST
 
Presenter: Yi Wen, Ph.D. candidate
Title: Epigenetic Editing to Revert PFOA Induced Epigenetic Toxicity
Room Assignment: Exhibit Hall 
Poster Hall Assignment Number: 107
Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST

Friday, October 8, 2021

Presenters: Thomas Tran, Phil Liang, Nathan Chung, Dev Patel, Gabby Brunner, professor Holly Golecki
Title: Improving Interactivity During COVID19: A Soft-Robotic Hand Utilizing Computer Vision and Pneumatics
Room Assignment: Exhibit Hall
Poster Hall Assignment Number: 77
Time: 9:30 am - 10:20 am EST
 
Presenter: Indrajit Srivastava, postdoctoral researcher
Title: Molecular Phenotyping of Tumor Metastasis at Single-Laser-Excitation using Biomimetic Nanoparticles
Track: Cancer Technologies 
Theme: Molecular Profiling in Cancer
Room Assignment: Exhibit Hall
Poster Hall Assignment Number: 13
Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST
 
Presenter: Yi Wen, Ph.D. candidate
Title: Hyperspectral Imaging of Multifunctional Oxygenated Particles for Targeted Drug Delivery
Room Assignment: Exhibit Hall 
Poster Hall Assignment Number: 116
Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST

Saturday, October 9, 2021

Presenter: Yiyang Lu, Ph.D. candidate
Title: Screening for Gene Expression Fluctuations Reveals Novel Latency Promoting Agents of HIV
Room Assignment: Exhibit Hall
Time: 9:30 am - 10:30 am EST
 
Presenter: Emma Tumbleson, REU student 
Title: Regional Comparison of Lipids in the Rat Brain using Multimodal Imaging Data
Room Assignment: Exhibit Hall
Poster Hall Assignment Number: 25
Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST

Presenter: Victoria Kriuchkovskaia, Ph.D. candidate
Title: Gelatin Hydrogel to Benchmark Patterns of Glioblastoma Invasion and Chemotherapeutic Resistance
Track: Cancer Technologies
Theme: Engineered Cancer Models for In Vitro Studies
Room Assignment: 103
Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST

Special Events

Thursday, October 7, 2021

Celebration of Minorities in BME Luncheon 
Bioengineering at Illinois is the official sponsor of this event. Professor Olivia Campos Coiado will be leading a virtual session about wellness during the luncheon. 
Room Assignment: Royal & virtual
Time: 11:30 am - 12:30 pm EST

Q&A with Chapter Leaders, Make Your Chapter Thrive 
Panelist: Taylor Willis, president of the undergraduate student chapter of BMES  
Room Assignment: Canary 1-4
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST

High School Poster Expo Competition Presentations
Authors: Theodore Varona, Finley Odar, Adia Radecka, Alyssa Bradshaw, Steve Nystrom, Holly Golecki
Title: Development of Biometrics Enabled Wearable Device (Smart Vest
Room Assignment: Cypress Foyer 
Time: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm EST

Friday, October 8, 2021

Biomedical Engineering Education Virtual Summit II
Professor Marci Pool will serve as the Session Chair 
Room Assignment: Virtual 
Time: 9:00 pm EST


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This story was published October 5, 2021.