First Bioengineering Graduate Student Symposium a success
Held April 29, 2017, this event showcased the department’s cutting-edge research while promoting future research collaborations. Nearly half of the department’s 75 graduate students were selected to present their work either through a talk or poster presentation. Yi Zhang, a graduate student in Professor Jun Song’s Computational Biology group, won the Symposium’s Best Poster Award for her work on identifying causal genetic variants for breast cancer.
Mohammad Zahid, a graduate student in Assistant Professor Andrew Smith’s group, won the Best Presentation Award for his work on evaluating mechanisms of cytoplasmic delivery of nanoparticles through single-quantum dot tracking. Zahid also received a 2016 Teaching Excellence Fellowship award.
Other graduate students who were presented with awards included:
Yanfen Li, 2016 Teaching Excellence Fellow & 2017 Graduate Student Leadership Award
Parinaz Fathi, 2017 Teaching Excellence Fellow
Walden Li, 2017 Teaching Excellence Fellow
Olivia Cangellaris, 2017 Teaching Excellence Fellow
Ian Berg, 2016 Teaching Excellence Fellow
Welcome to the first-annual Bioengineering Graduate Student Symposium, which is a full day of events that showcase the research of our outstanding graduate students. Nearly half of our students were selected to present their work today either through a talk or a poster presentation. We hope today’s presentations will foster future collaborations among our students and faculty. We will present awards for the best oral and poster presentations, as well as a few other select department-related honors at the conclusion of today’s program.
1st Annual Bioengineering Graduate Student Symposium Agenda
April 29, 2017 | Beckman Institute | 405 N. Mathews in Urbana
| 8:30 a.m. | Registration coffee and refreshments Beckman Institute auditorium (1st floor, west end of building) |
| 9:00 a.m. – 9:40 a.m. | Opening remarks Rashid Bashir, Grainger Distinguished Chair and BioE Department Head King Li, Inaugural Dean of the Carle Illinois College of MedicineBeckman auditorium |
| 9:45 a.m. | Oral presentations session 1 Guillermo Monroy, “Characterizing otitis media with optical coherence tomography for improved diagnosis and treatment with machine learning.” Mohammed Zahid, “Evaluating mechanisms of cytoplasmic delivery of nanoparticles through single-quantum dot tracking.” Pin-Chieh Huang, “Magnetomotive optical coherence elastography as a tool for magnetic hyperthermia dosimetry.”Beckman auditorium |
| 10:45 a.m. | Break |
| 11:00 a.m. | Oral presentations session 2 Beckman auditoriumJungeun Won, “Pneumatic low coherence interferometry as a quantitative middle ear diagnostic tool.” Saumya Tiwari, “Systems pathology applied to colorectal carcinoma with infrared spectroscopic imaging.” Yanfen Li, “Role of HDAC4 as mechanosensor in fibroblasts.” |
| 12:00 p.m. | Networking lunch (for graduate students and faculty judges only) 1005 Beckman |
| 1:00 p.m. | Graduate student poster session Poster list Beckman 1st floor atrium |
| 2:00 p.m. | Oral presentations session 3 Beckman auditoriumOlivia Cangellaris, “Enhancing hippocampal neuron alignment with a self-rolled-up 3D microtube array.” Elena Maria Zannoni, “Design study for MRC-SPECT-II: a new generation of MR-compatible SPECT system based on compound-eye gamma cameras.” Jamila Hedhli, “Multimodal assessment of mesenchymal stem cell therapy for diabetic vascular complications.” Jacob Berger, “A microfabricated immunosensor based on an electrical differential counter for the selective detection of IL-6.” |
| 3:20 p.m. | Break |
| 3:40 p.m. | Oral presentations session 4 Beckman auditoriumParinaz Fathi, “Characterization of polycaprolactone-polydioxanone composites for use in 3D-printed bioresorbable stents.” Chen Liao, “An Integrative Circuit-Host Modeling Framework for Synthetic Biology.” Sixian You, “Label-free molecular histopathology by programmable supercontinuum pulses.” Christian Konopka, “The use of a novel multimodal nanoparticle for in vivo assessment of the receptor for advanced glycation end products in prostate cancer.” |
| 5:00 p.m. | Awards ceremony Beckman auditorium |
The first-annual Graduate Student Symposium was organized by the GradBMES committee:
- Yanfen Li, co-director
- Mark Gryka, co-director
- Si (Stacie) Chen, conference coordinator
- Cameron Lee, speaker coordinator
- Lauren Grant, secretary
- Gelson Pagan, treasurer
- Karin Jensen, faculty advisor
- Krista Smith, staff advisor
Special additional thanks to the following people for helping with the event:
- Department of Bioengineering staff
- Engineering IT Web team
- Beckman Institute staff
- Laura Schmitt, Bioengineering communications
- James Vattano, College of Engineering communications