Bioengineering and Toxicology Seminar Academic Year 2018-19

Fall 2018

Sep 14, 2018 - 12:00 PM 32-155

Characterizing and Learning Equivalence Classes of Causal DAGs Under Interventions

Integrating CRISPR-based Diagnostics and Cell-free Synbio

Sep 21, 2018 - 12:00 PM 32-155

Engineering M13 Bacteriophage Platforms for Tumor Imaging and Therapy Applications

Salivary Mucins Suppress Virulence Traits of Cavity-causing Streptococcus Mutans

Sep 28, 2018 - 12:00 PM 32-155

Understanding Pathway Integration and Cell Fate Control After DNA Damage

CRISPR-SURF: Discovering Regulatory Elements by Deconvolution of CRISPR Tiling Screen Data

Oct 5, 2018 - 12:00 PM 32-155

Screening for Lethality: Discovering Adjuvant Targets Against Antibiotic Tolerant Bacteria

A DNA Origami Platform for RNA Tertiary Structure Elucidation

Oct 12, 2018 - 12:00 PM 32-155

Biolux Enables High-throughput Genome Mining for the Targeted Discovery of Novel Enzymes

Nanoparticle Based Stimulation of Yeast Cells for Biofuel Production

Oct 26, 2018 - 12:00 PM 32-155

A Bayesian Framework for High-throughput T Cell Receptor Pairing

Deep Phenotyping of ALS Patients Using Multi-modal Data

Nov 2, 2018 - 12:00 PM 32-155

Capturing Carbon: Development of Biological Materials for Capture and Conversion of Carbon Dioxide

Design of siRNA/DNA Nanoparticles for Multiplexed, Conditional Gene Silencing

Nov 9, 2018 - 12:00 PM 32-155

Developing New Ways to Activate cGAS-STING for Cancer Immunotherapy

Multiplexed Enrichment and Genomic Profiling of Peripheral Blood Cells on a Microfluidic Chip

Nov 16, 2018 - 12:00 PM 32-155

Engineering Plant-microbe Communication for Environmental Sensing

Interpreting Combinatorial Inputs with Synthetic Genetic Circuits

Nov 30, 2018 - 12:00 PM 32-155

Development of Repertoire-scale Methods to Decode Immune Recognition

Analysis of Alzheimer’s Disease-relevant Cell Signaling and Communication

Dec 7, 2018 - 12:00 PM 32-155

Characterizing Signaling Dynamics in Response to Environmental Pollutants

Constructing a Site-specific Kinetic Model of the EGFR Signaling Network

Dec 14, 2018 - 12:00 PM 32-155

An Interpretable Model of Cell Type-specific Chromatin Accessibility

DNA Sequence Design for Controlled Intermolecular Binding

Spring 2019

Feb 15, 2019 - 12:00 PM 32-155

An Unbiased Determination of Class II MHC Peptide Repertoires via Yeast-displayed Libraries

Massively Parallel Screening of Synthetic Microbial Communities

Feb 22, 2019 - 12:00 PM 32-155

A Quantitative Immunopeptidomic Platform for Identifying Treatment Associated Peptide Antigens

Mar 1, 2019 - 12:00 PM 32-155

Sensitizing Tolerant Bacteria to Beta-lactam Antibiotics

Collagen Anchoring of Intratumorally Administered Cytokines Safely Potentiates Cancer Immunotherapy

Mar 8, 2019 - 12:00 PM 32-155

Small Molecule Screening Against the Oncogenic Pluripotency Factor LIN28

Investigating the Role of MK2-regulated RNA Binding Proteins in Tumor Response to Genotoxic Therapy

Mar 22, 2019 - 12:00 PM 32-155

Nanolayered Surface Coatings for Programmable Gene Delivery in Cranial Bone Repair

Investigating T Cell Specificity in Anti-tumor Immune Responses

Apr 5, 2019 - 12:00 PM 32-155

Toward Building Liver: Engineering Solutions for Scalable Tissue Constructs

Designing Bacterial Therapeutics for Use in the Human Gut

Apr 12, 2019 - 12:00 PM 32-155

Investigating the Mechanism of Action of Anti-fibrotic Biomaterials

Immunotherapy Combinations to Augment STING Agonism in Metastatic Breast Cancer

Apr 19, 2019 - 12:00 PM 32-155

Development of Anti-human KLRB1 Antibodies for Cancer Immunotherapy

Evolving Quadruplet Decoding tRNAs Using Massively Parallel Directed Evolution