Subgroup Chair: Priscilla Hwang, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

Symposium Day and Time:  Saturday, 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM EST

Symposium Room:  Room 201C  

Business Meeting:  3:30 PM - 3:40 PM EST

1:30 PM Opening Remarks

1:32 PM Award for Exceptional Contributions to Biophysics & Bioengineering Awardee Talk

2:10 PM Lance Kam, Columbia University, USA
Engineering T Cells Through 3D Mechanosensing and Deep Learning 

2:35 PM Sanjeevi Sivasankar, University of California, Davis, USA
Desmosomes Under Tension: From Protein Conformational Change to Junctional Crosstalk 

3:00 PM Michelle Digman, University of California, Irvine, USA
An Integrated Bioluminescent Phasor Microscopy Platform for Multiplexed BRET Imaging 

3:25 PM Break

3:30 PM Business Meeting

3:40 PM Student/Postdoc Talk 1

3:55 PM Student/Postdoc Talk 2

4:10 PM Chris Highley, University of Virginia, USA
Engineering Dynamic Fiber-Based Biomaterials to Better Mimic Physiological Environments for Tissue Growth and Regeneration 

4:35 PM Anotnoio D'amore, Ri.MED Foundation, Italy
Biomimicry in Tissue Engineering

5:00 PM John Slater, University of Delaware, USA
Investigating the Influence of Physical and Chemical Premetastatic Niche Properties on Metastatic Breast Cancer Progression Using Engineered Hydrogels

5:25 PM Closing Remarks