2025 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Faculty Candidate Session: Food, Pharmaceuticals, and Bioengineering II

This session will highlight cutting edge work done by postdocs and graduate students in Food, Pharmaceuticals, and Bioengineering. All presenters are on the job market during the 2025-2026 academic year.

Co-Chairs

Lawrence Stern, University of South Florida
Benjamin Woolston, Northeastern University
Ross Thyer, University of Texas at Austin

Presentations

08:00 AM

(276a) Biomaterial Facilitated on-Demand Delivery of Mitochondria for Modulating the Bioenergetic State of Cells
Ryan Miller, Johnna Temenoff

08:18 AM

(276b) Electro-Assisted Direct Ink Writing (E-Writing) of Mycelium-Based Scaffolds for Advanced Burn Wound Healing
Libin Yang, Kenan Song

08:36 AM

(276c) Harnessing Photoenzymatic Reactions for Unnatural Biosynthesis
Yujie Yuan, Maolin Li, Wesley Harrison, Zhengyi Zhang, Huimin Zhao

08:54 AM

(276d) Next-Generation Peptide Sequencing Via Chemoenzymatic Reverse Translation of Peptides into DNA
Liwei Zheng, H. Tom Soh

09:12 AM

(276e) Mechanosensitive Regulation of Cell Volume and Its Implications in Cell Functions
Qin NI, Zhuoxu Ge, Konstantinos Konstantopoulos, Sean X. Sun

09:30 AM

(276f) Therascript: A Data-Efficient Foundation Model for Predicting mRNA Translation and Stability from UTR Sequences
Daniel Mukasa, Mae M. Lewis, Eunice Park, Giovanni Traverso, Heather Kulik

09:48 AM

(276g) Discovery of Plant Derived Cell-Penetrating Peptides for Crop Bioengineering and Agricultural Biotechnology
Henry Squire, Jeffrey Wang, Markita Landry