Many Pompano Lab members attended the 2026 Microphysiological Systems World Summit in DC!
Highlights include Djuro’s oral presentation titled, “Developing a modernized T cell dependent antigen response assay using a lymph node microphysiological system,” and poster presentations from Saweetha, Erin, Parastoo, and Lauren.
October 16-17, 2025
4th year graduate students Sahana and Erin attended and presented posters at the Midwestern Universities Analytical Chemistry Conference (MUACC) 2025 at UNC Chapel Hill. Erin was one of two people who received the top prize for her poster entitled “Towards Modeling Vaccine Drainage Using Ex Vivo Lymph Node Slices in a Microfluidic Device.”
July 17, 2025
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”
November 21, 2024
October 13-17, 2024
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).
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 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!
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.
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