{"id":2390,"date":"2012-10-17T07:16:32","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T07:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/?p=2390"},"modified":"2019-05-02T07:17:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T07:17:12","slug":"speakers-confirmed-for-oct-24-inbt-student-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/speakers-confirmed-for-oct-24-inbt-student-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Speakers confirmed for Oct. 24 INBT student symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ip-content\">\n<p>Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology, Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence and Physical Science-Oncology Center are hosting a mini-symposium highlighting current research in these entities on\u00a0Wednesday, October 24 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Clipper Room of Shriver Hall on the Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University. In addition to student presenters, the symposium features a faculty expert speaker and invited guest lectures from the National Institutes of Health program managers for both the CCNEs and the PS-OCs.<\/p>\n<div>Confirmed speakers include:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>10:00 am \u2013 10:20 am\u00a0Zachary Gagnon, assistant prof. of chemical and biomolecular engineering: \u201cNonlinear electrokinetics at microfluidic liquid\/liquid interfaces<\/li>\n<li>10:20 am \u2013 10:40 am\u00a0Laura Ensign: Mucus-penetrating particles for vaginal drug delivery (CCNE)<\/li>\n<li>10:40 am \u2013 11:00 am Wei-Chien Hung: alpha4-tail-mediated Rac1 and RhoA-myosin II in optimizing 2D versus confined migration (PS-OC)<\/li>\n<li>11:00 am \u2013 11:20 am Iwen Wu: An adipose-derived biomaterial for soft tissue reconstruction (INBT)<\/li>\n<li>11:20 am \u2013 11:50 pm Sean Hanlon:\u00a0NCI Physical Science\u2013Oncology Centers (PS-OC) Program, bringing a new perspective to cancer research<\/li>\n<li>11:50 am \u2013 1:00 pm Break\/Lunch<\/li>\n<li>1:00 pm \u2013 1:30 pm David Weitz: Drop-based microfluidics: Biology one picoliter at a time (INBT)<\/li>\n<li>1:30 pm -2:00 pm\u00a0Sara S. Hook, projects manager for the Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer program within the Center for Strategic Scientific Initiatives (CSSI) at the National Cancer Institute<\/li>\n<li>2:00 pm \u2013 2:20 pm Break<\/li>\n<li>2:20 pm \u2013 2:40 pm Phrabha Raman: A microfluidic device to measure traction forces during confined cancer cell migration towards chemoattractant (PS-OC)<\/li>\n<li>2:40 pm \u2013 3:00 pm Allison Chambliss: Single-cell epigenetics to retain cell morphology (PS-OC)<\/li>\n<li>3:00 pm \u2013 3:20 pm Sravanti Kusuma: Tissue engineering approaches to study blood vessel growth (PS-OC)<\/li>\n<li>3:20 pm \u2013 3:40 pm Benjamin Lin: Using synthetic spatial signaling perturbations to probe directed cell migration (INBT)<\/li>\n<li>3:40 pm \u2013 4:00 pm Stephany Tzeng: Cancer-specific gene delivery to liver cell cultures using synthetic poly(beta-amino esters) (INBT)<\/li>\n<li>4:00 \u2013 4:15 pm\u00a0Brian Keeley: An epigenetic approach to assessing specificity and sensitivity of DNA methylation (CCNE)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The symposium talks are free and open to the Hopkins community as space allows.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Story by: INBT<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology, Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence and Physical Science-Oncology Center are hosting a mini-symposium highlighting current research in these entities on\u00a0Wednesday, October 24 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Clipper Room of Shriver Hall on the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2391,"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions\/2391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inbt.jhu.edu\/psoc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}