Maura Belanger presented at the annual AAI conference held this year in Austin, Texas She presented her work on delivery of beads to lymph node slices. While there she saw some great talks and returned with a lot of new ideas for the lab. We look forward to the new insights and to following some of the scientific advancements coming out of this conference!
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Nanomedicine symposium at Virginia Tech
Meg, Andrew, and Prof. Pompano attended the "2nd inaugural" NanoSymposium on Engineered Health, held this year at VA Tech in Roanoke, VA. Meg and Andrew presented posters and Prof. Pompano gave a talk, and we heard lots of great science from researchers across the state.
Image credit: Dr. Jennifer Munson
Immuno-materials syposium @ MRS
Dr. Pompano and Jennifer Ortiz flew to Phoenix to present at MRS 2018 (Materials Research Society national meeting), in a special 2-day symposium on Immuno-modulatory biomaterials. The symposium was organized by Susan Thomas (GA Tech), Evan Scott (Northwestern), and Kara Spiller (Drexel). Such exciting science is being done in this area, led by a wonderful community of researchers -- we are excited to see the innovations to come.
Andrew presents at Pittcon
PhD student Andrew Kinman represented our lab at Pittcon this year in Orlando in late February. He presented his exciting recent work in the Sunday poster session at this national gathering of analytical chemists. Many thanks to those who offered feedback on his project, a microfluidic device for optimization of protein derivatization reactions. We look forward to publishing his work in a few months!
Pompano group at MicroTAS
We are proud that Meg Catterton and Sangjo Shim both presented posters to the international audience MicroTAS 2017 in Savannah, Georgia this year. Their work was well received. We enjoyed talking with fellow microfluidics researchers from all over the world, and catching up with former Ismaglov lab members!
Prof. Pompano speaks at Hartwell Annual Meeting
Dr. Pompano presented our lab's latest work at the annual meeting of The Hartwell Foundation, held at Duke University. It was great to meet with approximately forty researchers all conducting creative, cutting-edge research to help the children of the United States. Many thanks to The Hartwell Foundation for such a stimulating meeting.
The Pompano Lab at ACS
After a very productive summer of research the Pompano Lab went to the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Washington DC. We presented two posters, one of which was featured at SciMix!
Thanks to everyone at ACS and here is to another productive year!
Pompano lab at Immunology 2017
In May, The Pompano lab sent a delegation to the American Association of Immunologist's annual conference, Immunology 2017, in Washington DC. It was great to take in some cutting-edge immunology research! We presented three posters:
Maura Belanger: “Validation of murine lymph node slices as a viable and functional experimental platform.” Co-authors included Ashley, Andrew, and Ben (undergraduate). **Congratulations to Maura, who won a Student Travel Award for her poster!
Ashley Ross: “Diffusional analysis of cytokines in lymph node tissue on a microfluidic chip.”
Kristen Richey (undergraduate): "Bright blue fluorescent nanoparticles for live cell imaging by fluorescence microscopy." This was a collaboration with Meng Zhuang and Cassandra Fraser.
Look for the papers on these topics later this summer!
Pittcon in Chicago
Dr. Pompano and Ashley Ross had a successful trip to Pittcon 2017 in Chicago, IL earlier this month. Dr. Pompano co-hosted a symposium entitled "Microanalytical Techniques for Immunology" alongside Christopher Love (MIT), in the first immunology-focused session at Pittcon, to our knowlege. Ashley presented an oral presentation on her newest work, using a microfluidic method to quantify diffusion of cytokines through lymph node tissue. Look for the publication soon.
MicroTAS in Dublin!
Dr. Pompano and Dr. Ross both attended this year's MicroTAS conference in Dublin, Ireland! MicroTAS is a world-wide microfluidics conference where Dr. Ross presented on the local stimulation device.
Dr. Pompano took part in the outreach program.
Overall it was a great conference and we look forward to many more in the coming months!
