8C: Engineering Cells and Their Microenvironments SIG 2

Date: Saturday, April 12, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Room: BLVD A
Session Type: General Session

Description

The Engineering Cells & Their Microenvironments Special Interest Group focuses on technologies and approaches at the single-cell level and the engineering of cellular microenvironments. This includes designing dynamic cues within biomaterials to regulate cell signaling and stem cell fate, as well as advancing stem cell manufacturing and differentiation, immunoengineering, and biomaterials for cell-based detection and diagnosis.

Moderators:

Janeta Zoldan, University of Texas
Kyle Lampe, University of Virginia
Silviya Zustiak, Saint Louis University

Objectives

  • 10:30 AM. 386. Development of a Gelatin-based Hypoxic Perivascular Niche to Model the Bone Marrow.Gunnar Thompson, B.S.1, Victoria Barnhouse, PhD1, Sydney Bierman, B.S.1, Brendan Harley, ScD1, Kristopher Kilian, PhD2 1University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2University of New South Wales

  • 10:45 AM. 387. Hydrogel Facilitated Immune-Cancer Cell Co-culture Tumor Microenvironments.Vanshika Singh, PhD1, Muhammad Raisul Abedin2, Jordan Yaron, PhD1, Kaushal Rege, PhD1, Trishita Chowdhury1 1Arizona State University, 2Adipo Therapeutics

  • 11:00 AM. 388. Hydrogels with both dynamic and static RGD have increased adhesion formation and cell spreading.Abolfazl Moghaddam, MS1, E. Thomas Pashuck, PhD1 1Lehigh University

  • 11:15 AM. 389. Magnetic control of biomimetic multiscale ligand dynamics for stem cell regulation.Sunhong Min1, Heemin Kang1 1Korea University

  • 11:30 AM. 390. Modulating 4D Cell Function via Grayscale Spatiotemporal Biomaterial Customization.Ryan Brady1, Ryan Francis1, Jeremy Filteau, PhD1, Irina Kopyeva, PhD1, Cole DeForest, PhD1 1University of Washington

  • 11:45 AM. 391. Synthetic Regulation of Cell Signaling within Engineered Microenvironments to Control Vascularization.Mai Ngo, PhD1 1University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • 12:00 PM. 392. Tri-Directional Interactions between Cells, Hydrogels, and Nascent ECM Govern Cell Fate.Yu-Chung (Joshua) Liu, M.S.1, Eleanor Plaster1, Avinava Roy, M.S.E1, Matthew Tan, Ph.D.1, Pamela Duran, PhD1, Gabriel Walters, BS1, Carlos Aguilar, PhD1, Claudia Loebel, M.D., Ph.D.1 1University of Michigan

  • 12:15 PM. 393. Tuning hydrogel cell scaffolds by varying secondary structure of peptoid crosslinkers.Aldaly Pineda-Hernandez1, David Castilla-Casadiego, PhD1, Logan Morton, PhD2, Adrianne Rosales, PhD3 1The University of Texas at Austin, 2Tufts University, 3University of Texas at Austin