Bioengineering and Toxicology Seminar Academic Year 2017-18

Fall 2017

Oct 6, 2017 - 12:00 PM 32-155

nChip: Screening Synthetic Ecologies

Examining Tumor-infiltrating T Cell Responses Following Immunotherapy

Oct 13, 2017 - 12:00 PM 32-155

Untargeted Blood Metabolomics for Disease Diagnosis–Difficulties and Opportunities

Treatment-modulated Antigens: A Quantitative Approach to Identify Changes in MHC Peptide Repertoires

Oct 20, 2017 - 12:00 PM 32-155

Using Metabolic Responses to Antibiotics to Rationally Design Drug Combinations

Studying Evolution with Robotic PACE

Oct 27, 2017 - 12:00 PM 32-155

Collagen Anchoring of Immunotherapeutic Agents

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

Nov 3, 2017 - 12:00 PM 32-155

Methods to Isolate Tumor-Specific Antibodies Induced by Immunotherapy

An Unbiased Determination of pMHC Repertoires for Improved Antigen Prediction

Nov 17, 2017 - 12:00 PM 32-155

Disrupting an Oncofetal Feedback Loop Through Small Molecule Screening

Investigating the Mechanism of Anti-fibrotic Molecules for Rational Biomaterial Design

Dec 1, 2017 - 12:00 PM 32-155

Nanolayer Surface Coatings for Programmable Gene Delivery in Cranial Bone Repair

Nanoparticle Delivery of Innate Immune Activating Cancer Immunotherapy

Dec 8, 2017 - 12:00 PM 32-155

Toward Building Liver: Exploring the Role of Cell-cell Interactions in Hepatic Ensembles

Developing Tools to Enable Production of Genetic Pathways in Gut Bacteria

Spring 2018

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

Colors, Smells, and Gels Without Cells: Low Cost Education Kits

Aspiration Changes Relationships Between Aerodigestive Microbiomes

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

Genome-scale Transcription Factor Screen for Neural Differentiation

A CRISPRi Screen to Identify Combination Therapies for Improved Treatment of Ovarian Cancer

Feb 23, 2018 - 12:00 PM 32-155

Genome Editing With CRISPR-Cas12a

Phosphotyrosine Signaling in Alzheimer’s Disease

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

Designer RiPPs: Engineering a New Source of Small Molecules

Design of Silica Structures Using Post-translationally Modified Peptides From Diatoms

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

Understanding and Mitigating the Effects of Limited Transcriptional Resources in Mammalian Cells

Colonization Dynamics of E. faecalis in Implanted Research Macaques Over a Multi-year Period

Mar 23, 2018 - 12:00 PM 32-155

Using Yeast to Clean Contaminated Waters

Engineering Physiologically Relevant In Vitro Liver Models

Apr 6, 2018 - 12:00 PM 32-155

Charge Optimized Nanocarriers Provide Targeted, Sustained Delivery of Drugs to Cartilage

Targeting FOXA1 to Reprogram Aberrant Hormone Receptors

Apr 13, 2018 - 12:00 PM 32-155

Physical Expansion of a Nematode Enables Whole-organism In Situ Analysis With Nanoscale Resolution

Toward Chromatin Conformation Imaging: Two Approaches for In Situ Genomics

Apr 20, 2018 - 12:00 PM 32-155

Identifying Cell-cell Communication in the Tumor Microenvironment Using Single-cell RNA-sequencing

Tumor/Macrophage Crosstalk in Ovarian Cancer Kinase Inhibitor Resistance

Apr 27, 2018 - 12:00 PM 32-155

Antibody Engineering for Greater Mechanistic Understanding and Improved Therapeutic Efficacy of Cetuximab

Engineered Synthetic Biomaterials for Vascularized 3D In Vitro Models

May 4, 2018 - 12:00 PM 32-155

Tough Hydrogel-based Capsules for Multilayered, Tunable Containment of Engineered Organisms

Multi-input Cell-free Synthetic Biology Diagnostics

May 11, 2018 - 12:00 PM 32-155

Engineering Single Domain Antibody-based CAR T Cells for the Treatment of Solid Tumors

Gastric Resident Devices for Large Dose Drug Delivery