October 14, 2025
Each year, the UVA Chemistry Department hosts a retreat at Kings Family Vineyard. 4th year graduate student Sahana had the honor of presenting her work developing a cytokine detection immunoassay for the entire department. Great job, Sahana!
September 19, 2025
For the Chemistry Colloquium series, Dr. Rebecca Pompano presented her seminar titled Analysis of Immunity Outside the Body Using Chemistry and Microfluidics to the Chemistry department. Great job, Dr. Pompano!
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”
April 30, 2025
Rachel received 2nd place for the presentation of her work developing a tissue-engineered model of the blood-brain barrier at the Fodzar symposium for neuroscience distinguished majors. Congrats, Rachel!
April 10, 2024
Tiffany presented her work studying the impacts of fluid flow on a lymph node slice at a symposium for distinguished majors in chemistry.
April 10, 2025
November 21, 2024
October 13-17, 2024
The Pompano Lab had a great time in Seattle this year! Everyone enjoyed catching up with old colleagues and meeting new people. Here were the talk titles:
Tochi: Mitigating reactive oxygen species production and increasing gel porosity improves cell viability and spreading in photocrosslinked gelatin-thiol hydrogels
Sophie: A 3D-printed multi-organ-on-chip platform to model brain-immune interactions in neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration
Katerina: Breast cancer cells chemotact to specific regions of lymph node in an ex vivo model of lymph node metastasis
Jon: Building a microphysiological model of the human lymph node follicle border zone
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