Pompano lab at Immunology 2017

In May, The Pompano lab sent a delegation to the American Association of Immunologist's annual conference, Immunology 2017, in Washington DC.  It was great to take in some cutting-edge immunology research!  We presented three posters:

Maura Belanger:  “Validation of murine lymph node slices as a viable and functional experimental platform.”  Co-authors included Ashley, Andrew, and Ben (undergraduate).   **Congratulations to Maura, who won a Student Travel Award for her poster!

Ashley Ross: “Diffusional analysis of cytokines in lymph node tissue on a microfluidic chip.”

Kristen Richey (undergraduate):  "Bright blue fluorescent nanoparticles for live cell imaging by fluorescence microscopy."  This was a collaboration with Meng Zhuang and Cassandra Fraser.

Look for the papers on these topics later this summer!

Pittcon in Chicago

Dr. Pompano and Ashley Ross had a successful trip to Pittcon 2017 in Chicago, IL earlier this month.  Dr. Pompano co-hosted a symposium entitled "Microanalytical Techniques for Immunology" alongside Christopher Love (MIT), in the first immunology-focused session at Pittcon, to our knowlege.  Ashley presented an oral presentation on her newest work, using a microfluidic method to quantify diffusion of cytokines through lymph node tissue.  Look for the publication soon.

MicroTAS in Dublin!

Dr. Pompano and Dr. Ross both attended this year's MicroTAS conference in Dublin, Ireland!  MicroTAS is a  world-wide microfluidics conference where Dr. Ross presented on the local stimulation device.

Dr. Pompano took part in the outreach program.

Overall it was a great conference and we look forward to many more in the coming months!

NanoSTAR Mixer Poster Presentation

Jacob recently presented a poster at the nanoSTAR undergraduate/faculty mixer event on UVA grounds.  His poster was entitled "Assessing the Viability and Functionality of Murine Lymph Node Slices" and highlighted his great work over last summer and this past year.  

More information about the nanoSTAR institute can be found on our "Affiliations" page

CSS Symposium

Recently one of our undergrads, Drake Dixon, has presented his summer research to the members of the College Science Scholars Program.  He talked about the work he has done on immunometabolism.  For more information about the CSS program click the link below:

http://sciencescholars.clas.virginia.edu

Off to Microtas!

Professor Pompano is on her way to Gyeongju South Korea to the Microtas conference!  She will be presenting on the device that has been designed and extensively characterized by Dr. Ashley Ross and Jacob Woodroof.  We wish her safe travels and hope she brings back some new techniques to try!  Click on the image to see more about the conference in general

Thanks to VCU Chem & Life Sci Engineering!

Prof. Pompano visited Virginia Commonwealth University's Chemical and Life Science Engineering department yesterday, presented our work on lymph node stimulation, and had a series of stimulating conversations with the researchers there.  Many thanks to Dr. Christina Tang for the invitation!

Dr. Ashley Ross speaks at postdoc symposium

Congratulations to Ashley on being selected to give a platform talk at the 2015 UVA Postdoctoral Research Symposium!  The symposium brought together postdocs and faculty from across grounds to share research and meet one another. 

More information on the UVA Office of Postdoctoral Affairs and their events can be found here:

http://postdoc.virginia.edu/

Ray, Jacob, & Shara present at ACS poster fair

Undergraduate researchers Ray Ramirez, Jacob Woodroof, and Shara Fuller designed and presented a poster on their work at the state-wide 2015 ACS Undergraduate Research Poster Session, held at UVA on April 17.  Congratulations!

Prof. Pompano speaks at GradUCon at U Chicago

Many thanks to the University of Chicago Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs for the invitation to speak on a career panel, "Year One as Faculty"!  The 2015 GradUCon conference on April 10 was full of energy and a privilege to be a part of.