Illinois presenter lineup for the BMES 2021 Annual Meeting
10/5/2021
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