Final Program and Agenda

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Tuesday, January 2, 2024

2:00 – 8:00 PM	Registration and Badge Pick Up [Room: Lobby]
7:00 – 8:30 PM	CMBE Council Meeting (council members only) [Room: Madrigal]

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

7:00 AM – 12:10 PM	Registration and Badge Pick Up [Room: Lobby]
7:00 – 8:00 AM	Breakfast [Room: Plazoleta]
8:00 – 10:00 AM	Platform Session 1: Engineering and modeling of multiscale systems [Moderator: Ben Cosgrove] [Room: Preciosa]
8:00 AM	Welcome & Introduction Jenny Jiang & Ben Cosgrove
8:10 AM	Keynote Speaker Linda Griffith (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
8:50 AM	Invited Speaker Madeline Torres-Lugo (University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez)
9:20 AM	Invited Speaker Ravi Radhakrishnan (University of Pennsylvania)
9:50 AM	Graduate Student Poster Lightning Talks Alexandra Bermudez (University of California, Los Angeles) Ghiska Ramahdita (Washington University in St. Louis) Xaymara Rivera Gonzalez (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst) Shahab Chizari (University of Pennsylvania)
10:15 – 11:15 AM	Poster Session 1A [Room: Querube Ballroom] with coffee break
11:15 AM – 12:25 PM	Platform Session 2: Junior Faculty [Moderator: Ngan Huang] [Room: Preciosa]
11:15 AM	Junior Faculty Rising Star Award Daniel Cohen (Princeton University)
11:35 AM	Junior Faculty Rising Star Award Julea Vlassakis (Rice University)
11:55 AM	Selected Speaker Shreya Raghavan (Texas A&M University)
12:10 PM	Selected Speaker Erika Moore (University of Maryland)
12:30 – 5:00 PM	Afternoon Break
5:00 – 6:00 PM	Poster Session 1B [Room: Querube Ballroom] with refreshments
6:00 – 7:00 PM	Welcome Reception [Room: Boardwalk/Pool] Note: One drink ticket (beer, wine, soda) will be provided to each attendee. Additional drinks can be purchased with cash.

Thursday, January 4, 2024

7:00 – 11:15 AM	Registration and Badge Pick Up [Room: Lobby]
7:00 – 8:00 AM	Breakfast [Room: Plazoleta]
8:00 – 10:15 AM	Platform Session 3: Tools for analyzing transcriptional and signaling systems [Moderator: Jenny Jiang] [Room: Preciosa]
8:00 AM	Keynote Speaker Douglas Lauffenburger (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology)
8:40 AM	Invited Speaker Karmella Haynes (Emory University & Georgia Tech)
9:10 AM	Invited Speaker Aaron Streets (University of California, Berkeley)
9:40 AM	Selected Speaker Joshua Weinstein (University of Chicago)
9:55 AM	Graduate Student Poster Lightning Talks Ephraim Vázquez-Rosado (UT Health Sci. Ctr. at Houston) Callie Weber (University of Maryland) Madison Kane (University of California, San Diego) Eamonn McKenna (Queensland University of Technology)
10:15 – 11:15 AM	Poster Session 2A [Room: Querube Ballroom] with coffee break
11:15 AM – 12:35 PM	Platform Session 4: Junior Faculty [Moderator: Wendy Liu] [Room: Preciosa]
11:15 AM	Junior Faculty Rising Star Award Xiaojing Gao Stanford University
11:35 AM	Junior Faculty Rising Star Award David Myers (Emory University & Georgia Tech)
11:55 AM	Junior Faculty Rising Star Award Neil Lin (University of California, Los Angeles)
12:15 PM	Junior Faculty Rising Star Award Lingyan Shi (University of California, San Diego)
12:30 – 2:00 PM	Afternoon Break
2:00 – 3:30 PM	Workshop & Panel Discussion: Preparing the Future Cellular & Molecular Bioengineering Workforce [Room: Preciosa] with refreshments Speaker: Shalu Suri (Georgia Tech) Panelists: Madeline Torres-Lugo (University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez) Nicholas Peppas (University of Texas at Austin) Linda Griffith (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Louisa Normington (ARMI)
3:30 – 5:00 PM	Afternoon Break
5:00 – 6:00 PM	Poster Session 2B [Room: Querube Ballroom]
6:00 – 9:00 PM	Gala Dinner [Room: Preciosa] sponsored by the Eleftheria Foundation Welcome & Travel Awards: Wendy Liu, Jenny Jiang & Ben Cosgrove Introduction to CMBE 2025: Keyue Shen & Ngan Huang Introduction of Award Lectures: Leo Wan Shu Chien Achievement Award Nicholas Peppas (University of Texas at Austin) Chris Jacobs Award for Excellence in Leadership Michael King (Vanderbilt University) Note: One drink ticket (beer, wine, soda) will be provided to each attendee. Additional drinks can be purchased with cash.

Friday, January 5, 2024

7:00 – 11:15 AM	Registration and Badge Pick Up [Room: Lobby]
7:00 – 8:00 AM	Breakfast [Room: Plazoleta]
8:00 – 10:00 AM	Platform Session 5: Multiomic analysis of immune systems [Moderator: Dennis Discher] [Room: Preciosa]
8:00 AM	CMBE Momentum Award (sponsored by APL Bioengineering) Rong Fan (Yale University)
8:40 AM	Invited Speaker Kathryn Miller-Jensen (Yale University)
9:10 AM	Selected Speaker Jose McFaline-Figueroa (Columbia University)
9:25 AM	Selected Speaker Iwijn De Vlaminck (Cornell University)
9:40 AM	Graduate Student Poster Lightning Talks Hannah Gilbonio (Emory University & Georgia Tech) Matthew Aronson (University of Pennsylvania) Lauren Lisiewski (Columbia University)
10:00 – 11:00 AM	Poster Session 3A [Room: Querube Ballroom] with coffee break
11:00 AM – 12:20 PM	Platform Session 6: Junior Faculty [Moderator: Song Li] [Room: Preciosa]
11:00 AM	Junior Faculty Rising Star Award Xue Gao (Rice University)
11:20 AM	Junior Faculty Rising Star Award Donny Hanjaya-Putra (University of Notre Dame)
11:40 AM	Junior Faculty Rising Star Award Ioannis Zervantonakis (University of Pittsburgh)
12:00 PM	Junior Faculty Rising Star Award Rosalyn Abbott (Carnegie Mellon University)
12:30 – 2:00 PM	Networking Lunch with Leaders (invitation only) [Room: Plazoleta]
2:00 – 5:00 PM	Afternoon Break
5:00 – 6:00 PM	Poster Session 3B [Room: Querube Ballroom] with refreshments

Saturday, January 6, 2024

7:00 – 8:00 AM	Breakfast [Room: Plazoleta]
8:00 – 9:40 AM	Platform Session 7: Engineering molecular, cellular and tissue systems [Moderator: Guohao Dai] [Room: Preciosa]
8:00 AM	Keynote Speaker Jennifer Elisseeff (Johns Hopkins University)
8:40 AM	Invited Speaker Jamie Spangler (Johns Hopkins University)
9:10 AM	Junior Faculty Rising Star Award Jonathan Brunger (Vanderbilt University)
9:30 AM	Junior Faculty Rising Star Award Riccardo Gottardi (University of Pennsylvania)
9:50 AM	Selected Speaker Karin Wang (Temple University)
10:05 – 10:25 AM	Break with coffee
10:25 AM – 12:00 PM	Platform Session 8: Postdoctoral Travel Awardees [Moderator: Stephanie Seidlits] [Room: Preciosa]
11:00 AM	Postdoctoral Travel Award Kaitlin McCreery (Max Planck Inst. for Molecular Biomed.)
11:20 AM	Postdoctoral Travel Award Zongjie Wang (Northwestern University)
11:40 AM	Postdoctoral Travel Award Emmanuel Carrasquillo-Dones (University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez)
12:00 PM	Postdoctoral Travel Award Zhengpeng Wan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
12:00 PM	Postdoctoral Travel Award Gurneet Sangha (University of Maryland, College Park)
11:45 AM – 12:00 PM	Poster Awards & Closing Remarks Jenny Jiang & Ben Cosgrove

NIH Funding Acknowledgement:

Funding for this conference was made possible (in part) by award 1R13EB035466 from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the NIH; nor does mention by trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.