8C: Engineering Cells and Their Microenvironments SIG
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Date: Saturday, March 28, 2026
Time: 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM

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:

Brian Kwee, Ph.D
Assistatn Professor | Biomedical Engineering
University of Delaware

Julianne Holloway
Associate Professor | School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy
Arizona State University

  • 10:30 AM. 415. Controlled Delivery of Polyester of Alpha Ketoglutarate to Enhance BMP2-Mediated Bone Repair.Margaret Dugoni, MS1, Elizabeth Zars Fisher, MS2, Emily Mahadevan, MS1, Xiaodong Li, MS2, Madhan Mohan Chandra Sekhar Jaggarapu, PhD3, Jennifer J Westendorf, PhD2, Abhinav Acharya, PhD3, Julianne L Holloway, PhD1 1Arizona State University, 2Mayo Clinic, 3Case Western Reserve University

  • 10:45 AM. 416. Behavior of engineered adipose-derived stem cells in mineralized collagen-glycosaminoglycan scaffolds.Jaejung Kim1, Dhyanesh Baskaran1, Hua Wang1, Brendan Harley2 1University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

  • 11:00 AM. 417. Neural Stem Cell Expansion in Granular Scaffold Reveals Porosity-Dependent Viability.Jonathan Florian, B.S.1, Remington Martinez, B.S.1, Chris Highley, Ph.D.1, Kyle Lampe, PhD1 1University of Virginia

  • 11:15 . 418. Patient Specific Colloidal Fibrillar Composites to Augment Equine Distal Limb Wound Healing.Sanika Pandit1, Adrienne Ward2, Shannon Connard3, Alexa Kuyvenhoven2, Anastasia Sheridan-Muñana2, Lauren Schnabel2, Ashley Brown, PhD4 1NC State, 2NC State University, 3Cornell University, 4North Carolina State University

  • 11:30 PM. 419. Topographic Priming Imprints Migratory Memory for Navigating Discontinuous Cues in Heterogeneous Extracellular Matrix.Poorya Esmaili Bambizi1, mehran mansouri, PhD1, Vinay Abhyankar, PhD1 1Rochester Institute of Technology

  • 11:45 PM. 420. A Simple, High-Accuracy Patterning Technique to Investigate Interfacial Guidance of Collective Migration.Dinindu De Silva1, Vinay Abhyankar, PhD1, Poorya Esmaili Bambizi1, Indranil M. Joshi, PhD1, Sami Farajollahi1 1Rochester Institute of Technology

  • 12:00 PM. 421. Viscosity-Tuned Transfection and Optimized Lipid Nanoparticles Enable DNA Delivery to Suspension T Cells.Jingyao Ma, M.S.1, Yining Zhu, PhD1, Junru Liao1, Milun Jain1, Wu Han Toh1, Leonardo Cheng1, Hai-Quan Mao, PhD1 1Johns Hopkins University

  • 12:15 PM. 422. Hematopoietic Stem Cell Aging in a Bone Marrow-Mimetic Model.Truc Dinh1, Charlotte Stevens1, Dallin Jacobs2, Nathan Bribiesca2, Aidan Gilchrist, Ph.D.2, Connor George1 1University of California, Davis, 2Univeristy of California, Davis