2023 Mechanobiology Symposium: Mechano-Immunology & Epigenetics

Описание: On April 4-5, 2023, the Center for Engineering MechanoBiology (CEMB) hosted the 5th Annual Mechanobiology Symposium: Mechano-Immunology and Epigenetics at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Click on the timestamps below to go directly to a speaker.

Day 1
00:00:00 Vivek Shenoy, CEMB Director, University of Pennsylvania,
Welcome Remarks
00:06:12 Verena Ruprecht, Group leader, Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona "Morphodynamic cell and tissue plasticity in the early embryo"
00:35:13 Vinayak, PhD student, Shenoy lab, University of Pennsylvania
“How does the microenvironment affect the chromatin arrangement: A polymer perspective”
00:50:18 Kun Do, PostBaccalaureate IRTA Fellow, Cartagena-Rivera lab, NIH
“Nanoscale viscoelastic surface characterization of T lymphocytes during formation of the immune synapse”
01:06:10 Guilherme Nader, Assistant Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania
“Compromised nuclear envelope integrity leads to tumor cell invasion”
01:34:51 Andrew Holle, Assistant Professor, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore
“Epigenetic state during and after confined migration”
02:02:22 Song Li, Chancellor’s Professor and Department Chair, Department of Bioengineering, Department of Medicine, UCLA
“Mechano-epigenetic engineering for cell reprogramming”
02:34:50 Postdoc Day Trainee Winner Presentation: Deepti Rana
"Aptamers for Dynamically Controlling Biomolecule Presentation in 3D"
02:45:50 Postdoc Day Trainee Winner Presentation: Niroshan Anandasivam
"It takes a village: the role of adhesion receptor interactions in T cell activation"
02:53:46 Matt Lang, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt
“Parsing mechanosensing through αβ, γδ and CAR T-Cell receptor constructs”
03:23:55 Alexia Caillier, Research Associate, Oakes lab, Loyola University Chicago
"T cells use integrin-dependent adhesion to migrate in complex environments"
03:37:43 Maeli Melotto, Professor, Molecular Biology of Plant-Microbe Interactions, UC Davis
“Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Stomatal Immunity”
04:08:53 Marco Fritzsche, Associate Professor and Rosalind Franklin Kennedy Trust Research Fellow, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford
“Mechanobiological control of T-cell activation”
04:39:41 Karen Xu, PhD student, Burdick and Mauck Labs, University of Pennsylvania
"Micro-phase separation and viscoelasticity mediate meniscus cell migration in hyaluronic acid hydrogels"

Day 2
04:58:27 Vivek Shenoy, Welcome Remarks
04:59:30 Yekaterina Miroshnikova, Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator and Acting Section Chief: Section on Nuclear Mechanotransduction and Cell Fate Dynamics, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, NIDDKD, NIH
“Nuclear mechanotransduction & stem cell fate regulation”
05:31:11 Franklin Staback Rodríguez, PhD student, Burkhardt lab, University of Pennsylvania/Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
"Cytoskeletal regulation of differential T cell chemotactic responses"
05:46:36 Lance Kam, Professor of Biomedical Engineering And Professor Of Medical Sciences, Columbia University
“T cell sensing of mechanotopography”
06:20:37 Adelin Barbacci, Researcher, French National Centre for Scientific Research, National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment
“Mechano-signaling triggered immunity contributes to plant defense against necrotrophic fungi”
06:44:40 Kwasi Adu-Berchie, Research Scientist, Wyss Institute, Harvard University
Matrix Viscoelasticity Regulates T Cell Phenotype
07:00:50 Claire Hivroz, Director of Research at the INSERM, and Team Leader, Institut Curie
“Forces in T cell activation”