July 17, 2025
Posts filed under Conferences
Sahana wins 1st Place Poster at SIVB in Norfolk, VA
Sahana won 1st place for her poster and Lightening Talk titled “Developing a Cell-linked Sandwich Immunoassay to Visualize the Spatial Distribution of Cytokines in Ex Vivo Lymph Node Slices”
At the same conference, Erin gave an oral presentation titled “Towards modeling the vaccine drainage pathways using ex vivo lymph node slices in an organ-on-chip device”
Sahana, Erin, Glory, Tiffany, and Morgan present posters at Immunology Research Day
November 21, 2024
Dr. Pompano and Erin at MicroTAS in Montreal!
October 13-17, 2024
Professor Pompano and Parris Present at Pittcon!
Parris Anbaei and Prof. Pompano travelled to Philadelphia for the first in-person Pittcon since 2020. We had a great time catching up with colleagues, and getting feedback on our research after two invited talks. Prof. Pompano presented in a symposium organized by lab alumna, Prof. Ashley Ross (Univ. Cincinnati), and Parris presented in a session organized by Sally Gowers from the Boutelle lab (Imperial College, UK).
Pompano Lab at MicroTAS 2022
The Pompano Lab had a great time at MicroTAS 2022, held in China, October 23-27, 2022. We attended virtually and were very proud of Sophie Cook's midnight oral presentation, and Hannah Musgrove's poster on Monday. Prof. Pompano was the Co-Chair of the Weekend Workshop series, a series of eight tutorial workshops with approximately 24 speakers from around the world. These were a pleasure to see go off smoothly, and the participants learned so much from our experts.
Prof. Pompano Chairs the inaugural Immunoengineering GRC
Prof. Pompano was honored to Co-Chair the meeting with co-chair Bali Pulendran and vice chairs Susan N. Thomas and Madhav Dhodapkar. Tochi and Katerina both presented their research in posters. This was great time and opportunity to connect with this growing community!
Dr. Pompano presents keynote at MRS symposium
MRS 2020: On December 2, 2020, Dr. Pompano presented one of two live keynote talks in the symposium, “Biomaterials for Studying and Controlling the Immune System,” organized by Evan Scott, Kara Spiller, Eric Appel, and Derfogail Delcassian. The talk was followed by a thought-provoking panel discussion on the role of biomaterials in directing immunity, particularly for COVID-19 vaccination and against autoimmune diseases, with Joel Collier, Ben Keselowsky, Lonnie Shea, Ankur Singh, and Chris Jewell.
Presentations at MicroTAS and BMES
The Pompano lab was out in force at the virtual MicroTAS 2020, with the majority of the group attending. PhD student Sophie Cook presented her poster on a modular micro-culture system with a novel media pump. Prof. Pompano presented in the pre-conference workshop on Organs-on-Chip, with a tutorial on incorporating tissue and immune functions into microphysiological systems. Plus she had fun as a poster judge!
The next week, PhD student Megan Catterton presented a virtual on-demand talk at virtual BMES 2020. She spoke on her and undergraduate Tim Freeman’s work measuring diffusion through inflamed lymph nodes.
Congrats to everyone for their involvement! We look forward to returning to these conferences in person next year.
CMBE 2020 in Puerto Rico
Dr. Pompano traveled to beautiful Puerto Rico to present our lab’s work on micropatterned 3D cultures at CMBE 2020. This conference featured a fascinating mix of chemical and molecular analysis and engineering, and new and old friends.
