Best Undergraduate Poster:

Artury Ramirez Award Image
Artury Ramirez Award Image

 

 

Artury Ramirez, UC Merced

 

"Determining if the Curvature of Nanocellulose Paper can Enhance the Yield of Giant Polymersomes"

Janae Gayle Award Image
Janae Gayle Award Image

 

 

Janae Gayle, UC Santa Barbara

 

"Data Analysis Using Sarcgraph Provides Insight on the Effects of Spermidine on Doxorubicin-treated Stem-cell Derived Cardiomyocytes"

Best Graduate/Post-Doc Poster:

Abhishek Sharma Award Image
Abhishek Sharma Award Image

 

 

Abhishek Sharma, UC Santa Barbara

 

"Determining the independent contributions of ECM stiffness, stress relaxation and collagen fiber density to malignant phenotypes in breast cancer"

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Bijie Bai Image

 

 

 

Bijie Bai, UC Los Angeles

 

"Deep learning-enabled virtual immunohistochemical (IHC)

staining of label-free breast tissue sections"

Christian Burns Award Image
Christian Burns Award Image

 

 

Christian Burns, UC Merced

 

"Von Hippel-Lindau Deletion in Osteocytes Disrupts Immune System Development and Vasculature Functionality in the Bone Marrow"

Best Graduate/Post-Doc Talk:

Cheavar Blair Award Image
Cheavar Blair Award Image

 

 

Dr. Cheavar Blair, UC Santa Barbara

 

"The polyamine spermidine enhances the contractile force of µ-patterned single-cell stem-cell-derived cardiomyocytes post doxorubicin treatment"

Conary Meyer Award Image
Conary Meyer Award Image

 

 

Conary Meyer, UC Davis

 

"Rapid and Predictive Membrane Protein Synthesis ex vivo"

Shu Chien Early Career Jury Awards:

Prof. Randy Carney 

Biomedical Engineering, UC Davis

"Surface enhanced Raman scattering of extracellular vesicles: a new toolbox for clinical diagnostics"

https://carneylab.ucdavis.edu/

 

Prof. Siddarth Dey

Biological Engineering, UC Santa Barbara

"Developing integrated single-cell epigenome and transcriptome sequencing technologies to study early mammalian development"

http://deylab.com/

 

Shu Chien Early Career Award:

Prof. Daniela Valdez-Jasso

Bioengineering, UC San Diego

"From the pulmonary arteries to the right heart: a multi-scale approach to understanding pulmonary arterial hypertension"

http://dvj.ucsd.edu/

Shu Chien Award Winners(Prof. Randy Carney, Prof. Siddarth Dey, and Prof. Daniela Valdez-Jasso) Image