NEWS AND AWARDS

Ji Youn Lee’s poster presentation entitled “Micropatterned Co-Cultures for Directing Hepatic Differentiation of Embryonic Stem Cells“ was selected as a Presidential Poster of Distinction at the Liver Meeting in San Francisco, CA (Nov 2008).

Jun Yan won the second place award at the Annual Cancer Research Symposium 2008 for poster presentation entitled “Use of Microarraying and Microfabrication for Detection of Extracellular Metabolites” (Sept 2008)

Sunny Shah won the first place award at the UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium 2008. His poster presentation was entitled “Assembly of Micropatterned Co-Cultures on Conductive and Optically Transparent ITO Substrates” (July 2008)

Sunny Shah was awarded a highly competitive fellowship through the Designated Emphasis in Biotechnology at UC Davis.  The fellowship is going to provide for Sunny’s tuition and stipend for 1 year. (Oct 2008)

Prof. Giyoong Tae and a graduate student Mihye Kim joined our laboratory on a one year sabbatical leave from Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST).  Prof. Tae and Mihye are working on the development of heparin-based hydrogels for stem cell differentiation into hepatocytes. (Sept 2008)

David Dyer, an undergraduate researcher in our lab, has graduated and entered a graduate program in the Department of Bioengineering at UC Irvine. (Sept 2008)

He (James) Zhu graduated from our lab with Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering in August 2008 and entered medical school at UCSD.  

Presentations by Our Lab in 2008

American Institute of Chemical Engineering (AIChE), Philadelphia, PA, November

Zhu, H., Yan, J., Revzin A. Using Antibody-Modified Electrodes for Capture and Release of Cells.

Lee, J-Y., Tuleuova, N., Jones., C., Revzin A. Micropatterned Co-Cultures of Directing Hepatic Differentiation of Embryonic Stem Cells.

The Liver Meeting. San Francisco, CA. October 31 – November 4, 2008.

Tuleuova, N., An, C., Ramanculov, E., Yokobayashi, Y., and Revzin, A. Modulating Hepatic Gene Expression Using shRNA-Aptamer Construct.

J. Y. Lee, N. Tuleuova, E. M. Ramanculov, C. N. Jones, M. Zern, and A. Revzin. Micropatterned Co-Cultures for Directing Hepatic Differentiation of Embryonic Stem Cells.

The 12th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (MicroTAS). San Diego, California. October 12-16, 2008.

J. Yan, J. Y. Lee, S. Shah, A. Revzin. Cellular Micropatterns with Built-in Biosensors for Detection of Extracellular Metabolites.

S.S. Shah, JY. Lee, and A. Revzin. Creating Cellular Micropatterns by Switching Fouling Properties of Electroactive ITO Surfaces.

Biomedical Engineering Society Fall Meeting. St. Louis, MO. October 2-4, 2008.

Yan, J., Lee, J.Y., Revzin, A. Miniature Biosensors for Detection of Metabolites in Micropatterned Cell Cultures.

S. Shah, JY. Lee and A. Revzin. Assembly of Micropatterned Co-Cultures on Conductive and OpticallyTransparent ITO Substrates

Jones, C., Tuleuova, N., Ramanculov, E., Reddi, H., and Revzin, A. Cultivating Liver Cells on Growth Factor Microarrays.

Annual Cancer Symposium. Sacramento, CA. September 25-26, 2008.

Yan, J., Stybayeva, G., Zhu, H., Lee, JY., and Revzin A. Use of Microarraying and Microfabrication for Detection of Extracellular Metabolites.

UC Systemwide Bioengineering Symposium. Riverside, CA. June 20-22, 2008.

Tuleuova, N., An, C., Ramanculov, E., Yokobayashi, Y., and Revzin, A. Modulating Hepatic Gene Expression Using shRNA-Aptamer Construct.

Shah, S, Lee, JY, and Revzin, A. Assembly of Micropatterned Co-Cultures on Conductive and Optically Transparent ITO Substrates.

Stybayeva, G., Zhu, H., Macal, M., Ramanculov, E., George, M., Dandekar, S., and Revzin, A. Antibody Microarrays for Immunophenotyping and Cytokine Profiling of T-Cells.

213th Electrochemical Society Meeting. Phoenix, AZ. May 18-22, 2008.

Shah S, Zhu J, Yan J and Revzin A. Designing Electroactive Biointerface for Spatiotemporal Control of Cell Attachment and Release.

Materials Research Society Spring Meeting. San Francisco, CA. March 24-28, 2008.

Shah, S, Lee, JY, Verkhoturov S, Tuleouva, N, Revzin, A. Exercising Spatiotemporal Control of Cell Adhesion on Optically Transparent Microelectrodes.

Yan, J, Zhu, H, Sun, Y, Marcu, L, Revzin, A. Hydrogel Microstructures Serving a Dual Role of Sequestering Cells and Detecting Extracellular Metabolites.

Midwinter Conference of Immunologists. Pacific Grove, CA. January 26-29, 2008

Stybayeva, G., Zhu, H., Ramanculov, E., George, M., Dandekar, S., and Revzin, A. Micropatterned Co-Cultures of T-lymphocytes and Epithelial Cells As a Model of Mucosal Immune System.

Stybayeva, G., Zhu, H., Macal, M., Ramanculov, E., George, M., Dandekar, S., and Revzin, A. Antibody Microarray-Based Microfluidic System for Cell Immunophenotyping and Cytokine Profiling.