2025 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Biophysical Cues Mediating Cell Migration, Growth, and Differentiation

These sessions invite abstracts focused on engineering cells and tissues in human health. We welcome work focused on engineering at the cellular level aimed at modifying or controlling phenotypes and behavior.

Chair

Co-Chairs

Vivek Bajpai, Stanford University
Lawrence Dooling, University of Pennslyvania

Presentations

12:30 PM

(341d) Elongational Stress Dominated Flow Fields Impart Higher Degrees of Cellular Damage Than Shear Stress Dominated Flow
Kylie Foster, Shawn Carey, Ahmed M. El Banayosy, Aly El Banayosy, Hendra Setiadi, Edgar A. O'Rear

12:50 PM

(341b) Elevated Viscosity Drives Enhanced Cancer Cell Migration Via Distinct Traction Force Patterns and YAP Signaling
Sanjiban Nath, Bhawana Agarwal, Konstantinos Konstantopoulos

01:10 PM

(341c) Ion Channel-Mediated Regulation of Confined Cell Migration Under Elevated Extracellular Viscosity
Bishwa Ranjan Si, Kaustav Bera, Debanik Choudhury, Avery Tran, Konstantinos Konstantopoulos

01:30 PM

Break (Biophysical Cues)
Lawrence Dooling

01:40 PM

(341e) Engineering the Extracellular Microenvironment for the Regulation of Myofibroblast Activation during Aortic Valve Stenosis: A Hydrogel Based Approach
Georgios Tseropoulos, Alex Khang, Dilara Batan, Kristi Anseth

02:00 PM

(341f) Histamine Receptor Agonists (HiRAs) in Accelerating Diabetic Wound Healing
Sudhakar Godeshala, Shubham Pallod, Jordan Yaron, Kaushal Rege

02:20 PM

(341g) Glucocorticoid Receptor Signaling Mediates Drug Resistance in Matrix Rigidity-Induced Dormant Brain Metastatic Breast Cancer Spheroids
Sofia Luna, Venu Yakati, Lalita A. Shevde, Shreyas Rao