Symposium
Past Symposia
2025
Annual Retreat
Thursday, May 22, 2025
Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium
9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
8:30 a.m. Check in and continental breakfast
Keynote Speakers
Associate Professor Leila Deravi
Northeastern University
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
“Adaptive materials inspired by cephalopods”
Associate Professor Ben Rogers
Brandeis University
Program in Biological Physics
“Programming complex self-closing assembly”
Assistant Professor Rebecca Irwin
University of Rochester
Department of Biomedical Engineering
“Interplay of material mechanics and cellular mechanobiology”
Professor Danielle Tullman-Ercek
Northwestern University
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
“High-throughput engineering of protein-based materials”
2024
Advances in organoids and 3D Culture Models for In Vitro Disease Modeling and Drug Discovery
Monday, June 3, 2024
Goergen Hall, Sloan Auditorium
9 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.
8:30 a.m. Check in and continental breakfast
Keynote Speakers
Professor Benjamin Miller
University of Rochester
Department of Biomedical Engineering
“Opening new frontiers in biology via real-time, continuous monitoring of microphysiological systems”
Professor Vinay Abhyankar
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
Department of Biomedical Engineering
“Engineering the Tumor Microenvironment: A Little Stretch Goes a Long Way”
Professor Gretchen Mahler
Binghamton University, SUNY
Department of Biomedical Engineering
“Oxidative Low-Density Lipoprotein and Shear Induce Calcific Aortic Valve Disease on a Chip”
Associate Professor Samuel Herberg
Upstate Medical University, SUNY
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
“Investigating molecular mechanisms of outflow regulation using bioengineered 3D ECM hydrogels”
Travis Block
Et al BioCapital
UR Alumni
“Human-on-a-Chip?? Practical Considerations and Challenges for Microphysiological Systems”
2020-2023
Note: No symposia were held between 2020-2023 due to Covid-19 regulations and protocols.
2019
Frontiers in Materials Science for the 21st Century
Biologically Engineered Materials
Thursday, May 23, 2019
Georgen Hall, Sloan Auditorium
9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
8:30 a.m. Check in and continental breakfast
Keynote Speakers
Professor Iris V. Rivero
Rochester Institute of Technology
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
"Disruptive Medical Technologies: Additive Manufacturing for the Achievement of Personalized Treatments"
Dr. Filipe Natalio
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Kimmel Center for Archaeological Science
"Towards materials farming: where plant biology meets material sciences"
Professor Wil V. Srubar III
University of Colorado Boulder
Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
Materials Science and Engineering Program
"Building with Bacteria: Applications of Synthetic Biology to Architecture and Civil Engineering"
Dr. Lynn Rothschild
NASA
"Biomaterials for Space"
Professor Danielle Benoit
University of Rochester
Department of Biomedical Engineering
“‘Smart’ to Biomimetic Materials: Taking cues from nature to enable RNAi delivery”