Biomolecular Engineering for Cell and Tissue Engineering

Session Co-Chairs:

• Debra Auguste, City College of New York
• Cliff Wang, Stanford University

Invited Speakers:

• David Schaffer, University of California, Berkeley: Molecular Elucidation and Engineering of the Stem Cell Fate Decisions
• Denis Wirtz, Johns Hopkins University

Oral Presentations:

• Jeremy Lakey, Newcastle University: Getting Life From the Black Death; Re-Engineering a Yersinia Pestis Virulence Factor Into a Cell Culture Hydrogel
• Matthew Lazzara, University of Pennsylvania: Imbalanced Oncogenic Signaling Initiated by Constitutively Active Mutants of EGFR