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.
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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!
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!
NanoSTAR Mixer Poster Presentation
Jacob recently presented a poster at the nanoSTAR undergraduate/faculty mixer event on UVA grounds. His poster was entitled "Assessing the Viability and Functionality of Murine Lymph Node Slices" and highlighted his great work over last summer and this past year.
More information about the nanoSTAR institute can be found on our "Affiliations" page
CSS Symposium
Recently one of our undergrads, Drake Dixon, has presented his summer research to the members of the College Science Scholars Program. He talked about the work he has done on immunometabolism. For more information about the CSS program click the link below:
http://sciencescholars.clas.virginia.edu
Off to Microtas!
Professor Pompano is on her way to Gyeongju South Korea to the Microtas conference! She will be presenting on the device that has been designed and extensively characterized by Dr. Ashley Ross and Jacob Woodroof. We wish her safe travels and hope she brings back some new techniques to try! Click on the image to see more about the conference in general
Thanks to VCU Chem & Life Sci Engineering!
Prof. Pompano visited Virginia Commonwealth University's Chemical and Life Science Engineering department yesterday, presented our work on lymph node stimulation, and had a series of stimulating conversations with the researchers there. Many thanks to Dr. Christina Tang for the invitation!
