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Last updated: 10.21.19.Sunday, October 27 7:30 AM - 12:00 PM Registration 8:00 AM - 8:50 AM Morning Coffee 8:50 AM - 8:55 AM Welcome Remarks 8:55 AM - 9:40 AM Regenerative Engineering: The New Field Keynote Speaker - Cato Laurencin, University of Connecticut 9:40 AM - 12:10 PM Session 1 - Regenerative Engineering Session Chair: Ed Botchwey, Georgia Institute of Technology 9:40 AM - 10:10 AM Manipulating Immune Cells for Tissue (Re)Generation Invited Speaker: Erika Moore, University of Florida 10:10 AM - 10:40 AM Enabling Regenerative Medicine Invited Speaker: Guillermo Ameer, Northwestern University 10:40 AM - 11:10 AM Coffee Break 11:10 AM - 11:25 AM Effects of Synthetic Nanoparticle Antibodies (SNAbs) on Immunomodulation of Traumatic Bone Injuries Clinton Smith, Georgia Institute of Technology 11:25 AM - 11:40 AM A Novel Fibrous Collagen Scaffold for Patterning Vascular Development and Regenerating the Myocardium Alicia Minor, Brown University 11:40 AM - 11:55 AM Regenerative Engineering of the Nail: The Development of a Novel Nano-Based Matrix Aundrya Montgomery, UConn Health 11:55 AM - 12:10 PM Diffusion-Based Modeling and Drug Delivery of Gasotransmitters from Electrospun Scaffolds Kenyatta Washington, UConn Health 12:10 PM - 1:40 PM Lunch 1:40 PM - 2:25 PM Translating Our Discoveries to Propel Science Forward: Why Academia, Government, and Industry must Partner to Succeed Keynote Speaker - Cherie Butts, Biogen 2:25 PM - 3:55 PM Session 2 - Health and Medical Applications 1 Session Chair: Manu Platt, Georgia Institute of Technology 2:25 PM - 2:55 PM Invited Speaker: Valerie Odero-Marah, Clark Atlanta University 2:55 PM - 3:25 PM Invited Speaker: Stefan France, Georgia Institute of Technology 3:25 PM - 3:40 PM Molecular Components and Trafficking of ARRDC1-Mediated Microvesicles(ARMMs) Joseph Beyene, Harvard University 3:40 PM - 3:55 PM Development of a Lift-Off Intradermal Cancer Vaccine Release System Using Electrostatic Assembly Samantha Fletcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3:55 PM - 4:25 PM Coffee Break 4:25 PM - 5:55 PM Session 3 - Health and Medical Applications 2 Session Chair: Manu Platt, Georgia Institute of Technology 4:25 PM - 4:55 PM Invited Speaker: Curtis Henry, Emory University 4:55 PM - 5:10 PM Increased Hypercoagulation Markers in a Humanized Sickle Cell Mouse Model Caused By Activated Cathepsin-Mediated Fibrinogenolysis Simone Douglas, Georgia Institute of Technology 5:10 PM - 5:25 PM Engineering Modular Components of an Osteochondral Implant Howard W.T. Matthew, Wayne State University 5:25 PM - 5:40 PM A New Approach to Regenerative Cartilage Tissue Engineering Using Smart-Sensitive Nutraceutical Hydrogels Juana Mendenhall, Morehouse College 5:40 PM - 5:55 PM Engineering Nano-Delivery for Diagnosis and Restoration of Disrupted Brain Endothelium Post Blast-Induced Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Edidiong Inyang, University of Texas Arlington Monday, October 28 7:30 AM - 12:00 PM Registration 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Morning Coffee 8:30 AM - 9:15 AM Keynote Speaker - Kristala Prather, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 9:15 AM - 10:45 PM Session 4 - Metabolic Engineering and Synthetic Biology Session Chair: Karmella Haynes, Emory University 9:15 AM - 9:45 AM Invited Speaker: Kevin Solomon, Purdue University 9:45 AM - 10:15 AM Mating Disruption: The New Standard for Insect Control Invited Speaker: Weslee Glenn, Provivi, Inc. 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM We Stress Bacteria out: Dynamic Responses of Bacteria to Fluid, Nanoparticle, and Antibiotic Stress A-Andrew Jones, Northeastern University 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM Controlling metastasis and immune signaling in breast cancer cells with epigenetic engineering Karmella Haynes, Emory University 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM Coffee Break 11:15 AM - 12:15 PM Session 5 - DNA Synthesis, Genome Design and Editing Session Chair: Karmella Haynes, Emory University 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM High-Throughput Cell Programming with Software, Automation and Next Generation Sequencing Technologies Invited Speaker: Aimable Habimana, Ginkgo Bioworks 11:45 AM - 12:00 PM Design, Synthesis, and Characterization of DNA Origami for the Detection of Biomolecules Jaimie Marie Stewart, California Institute of Technology 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM Cancer Cells Possess Different Isotopic Enrichment Reginald Little, Stillman College 12:15 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM Multiplexed Microanalytical Biosensor Systems Keynote Speaker - Anthony Guiseppi-Elie, Texas A&M University 2:15 PM - 4:15 PM Session 6 - Microbiome and Immunoengineering Session Chair: Elebeoba May, NSF 2:15 PM - 2:45 PM Multifunctional Nanoculture Systems for Studying Microbial Dynamics Invited Speaker: Tagbo H.R. Niepa, University of Pittsburgh 2:45 PM - 3:15 PM Coffee Break 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM Invited Speaker: The PTS System and Vibrio Cholerae Biofilms: Analysis, Control, and Applications Patrick Ymele-Leki, Howard University 3:45 PM - 4:00 PM Dual oxidase1/Lactoperoxidase Antimicrobial System Deplays Anti-Viral Effects in Cell-Free and Cell-Based in Vitro and Ameliorate Survival In Vivo during Influenza Demba Sarr, University of Georgia 4:00 PM - 4:15 PM Quantifying the Host-Pathogen Interface - A Multiscale Perspective on Infection, Immunomodulation, and Disease Elebeoba May, University of Houston 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM Session 7 - Mathematical and Computational Modeling Session Chair: Cranos Williams, North Carolina State University 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM Modeling and Predicting the Behaviors of Cytoskeletal Networks Invited Speaker: Julio Belmonte, North Carolina State University 4:45 PM - 5:00 PM Varying PLGA and Peg Oligomer Extension Reveals Favorable Protein/Polymer Interactions Critical to Drug Loading of PLGA-Peg Nanoparticles Christopher Nyambura, University of Washington 5:00 PM - 5:15 PM Towards Real-Time in Vitro cell Culture Monitoring: Detecting Changes in LN-18 Glial Cell Morphology Using a Supervised Machine Learning Approach Jordon Gilmore, Clemson University 5:15 PM - 5:45 PM Rapid Fire Poster Talks Session Chair: Elisa Franco, University of California, Los Angeles 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM Poster Session (link to list poster presenters) Tuesday, October 29 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM Registration 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Morning Coffee 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM Session 8 - Bioengineering and Our Community Session Chair: Karmella Haynes, Emory University 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM Invited Speaker: Temeika Fairley, Centers for Disease Control 9:15 AM - 9:30 AM Valorization of Some Solid Environmental Wastes for Treating Liquid Waste: The Closed Switch John Unuofin, Tshwane University of Technology 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Panel - Funding Biotech Panel Chair: Elebeoba May, NSF Panel Members: Norbert Tavares (Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative), Tony Dickherber (NIH), Elebeoba May (NSF) 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Coffee Break 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Panel - Career Advancement Panel Chair: Karmella Haynes, Emory University Panel Members: Erika Jefferson (BWISE), Mitsue M. Wiggs (Meyerhoff Scholars Program), Jahari Soward (ACS Georgia) 12:00 PM - 12:15 PM Closing Remarks