Parallel Sessions

Parallel Sessions

April 16th

12:30 – 2:00 PM

            1A – NanoMaterials

Invited Speaker

12:30 – 1:00 PM Dr. Qun “Treen” Huo (UCF) D2Dx Immunity Test – A Nanotechnology-Enabled Rapid Blood Test for Monitoring the Immune Status and Immune Health of Livestock Animals

ORAL Presenters

1:00 – 1:15 PM Neda Arabzadeh Nosratabad (FSU) Evaluating the Strength of N‑Heterocyclic Carbene-to-Gold Nanoparticle Coordination via Surface Etching Measurements
1:15 – 1:30 PM Renjie Liu (UF) Co-assembly Peptide-Protein Granules for in Vitro Cell Engineering
1:30 – 1:45 PM Ryan Clark (UF) Co-Assembling Peptide Conformation is Driven by Temperature in a Semi-Reversible Manner
1:45 – 2:00 PM Ashton Holderness (UCF) Evaluation of Mg(OH)2 Coated Betaine Citrate Particle Toxicity as a Potential Treatment Towards Migraines

12:30 – 2:00 PM

            1B – NanoChemistry

invited speaker

12:30 – 1:00 PM Dr. Shyam Mohaptra (USF) Nanochemistry:  State of the Art Covid-19 Diagnosis

ORAL Presenters

1:00 – 1:15 PM Irene Vicente Larena (FIT) α-synuclein Aggregation Explained By DVLO Theory
1:15 – 1:30 PM Narjes Dridi (FSU) A Colorimetric Assay to Sense Cancer Enzyme Activity using AuNP-peptide Conjugates
1:30 – 1:45 PM Loretta Chen (FAU) Spatiotemporal Visualization of IL-1b Expression: The Novel IL-1b-TRAP Mouse Model
1:45 – 2:00 PM Huanhuan Zhou (FSU) Mechanism of Surfactant-Based Molecular Recognition

2:15 – 3:45 PM

            2A – NanoMedicine

invited speaker

2:15 – 2:45 PM Dr. Steven Lenhert (FSU) Lipid Nanotechnology for Drug Discovery and Biosensing

ORAL Presenters

2:45 – 3:00 PM Alexandria Brady-Mine (USF) Copolymerization with Cationic Monomers Enhances Cell Adhesion on Patterned “Smart” Hydrogels
3:00 – 3:15 PM Sophie Shrestha (UM) Murine Hindlimb Critical Limb Ischemia Model for Studying Therapeutic Effect of E-Selectin Administration
3:15 – 3:30 PM Sebastian Leon (UCF) Dopamine-loaded Nanopolymer Matrices as a First Step in Potential Treatment for Parkinson’s Disease and TBI
3:30 – 3:45 PM Michael Chung (UF) High-resolution Fluorescence Imaging of the Assembly of Liposome Nanoparticles for mRNA-based Vaccine and Immunotherapy.

2:15 – 3:45 PM

           2B – NanoElectronics

invited speaker

2:15 – 2:45 PM Dr. Philip Feng (UF) Atomic-Scale Semiconductor Devices and the Future of Electronics

ORAL Presenters

2:45 – 3:00 PM Ossie Douglas (USF) UHV Molecular Beam Epitaxy: An Approach Towards Tellurium growth
3:00 – 3:15 PM Tahmid Kaisar (UF) Improving Signal-to-Noise Ratio and Noise Matching in AlN NEMS Resonators Using Parametric Amplification
3:15 – 3:30 PM Yunong Wang (UF) Electrostatic Frequency Tuning of NiPS3 and FePS3 Resonant Nanoelectromechanical Systems (NEMS)
3:30 – 3:45 PM Ammon Johnston (UCF) Mechanisms of Metal Exfoliation of Monolayer MoS2*

4:00 – 5:30 PM

         3A – NanoBIOMechanics and Tissue                                Engineering

invited speaker

4:00 – 4:30 PM Dr. Henry Chu (UF) Macro transport Framework for Diffusiophoretic Colloids and Chemotactic Microorganisms

ORAL Presenters

4:30 – 4:45 PM Natali Barakat (UCF) Maximizing In-Vitro Skeletal Muscle Adhesion for Prolonged Drug Testing: A Matrix Metalloproteinase Approach
4:45 – 5:00 PM Victor Rivera-Llabres (UF) Size Controllable Fabrication of Magnetic Alginate Microparticles (MAMs) as Sacrificial Templates for Magnetic Templating
5:00 – 5:15 PM Ladan Jiracek-Sapieh (UF) Tissue-Engineered Electronic Nerve Interfaces (TEENI): Improved Design, Fabrication, and Packaging Using Aggressive in vitro Reliability Testing
5:15 – 5:30 PM Edwin Davidson Barahona (UCF) Dermal Tissue Regeneration through the Delivery of Manganese in Biopolymeric Vesicles with Antimicrobial and Antioxidant Properties.
5:30-5:45 PM Pavlo Kravchuk (UCF) Small organic osmolytes accelerate actin filament assembly and stiffen filaments

4:00 – 5:30 PM

       3B – NanoPhysics

invited speaker

4:00 – 4:30 PM Dr. Saiful Khondaker (UCF) Doping and Defect Engineering of Two-dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

ORAL Presenters

4:30 – 4:45 PM Chelsea Rosen (UF) Characterization of Polymer-Based Magnetic Nanoparticle System for in Vivo Joint Tracking
4:45 – 5:00 PM Hayden Good (UF) Tailoring SPIONs Through Polymer Coating Modifications for Cell Labeling and Tracking with Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI)
5:00 – 5:15 PM Bryan Demonsthene (UCF) Impact of the Size of Macromolecular Crowding on Actin Filament Assembly Kinetics
5:15 – 5:30 PM Yousuf S M Enamul Hoque (UF) MoTe2 NEMS Resonators for Near-Infrared Light Detection

April 17th 

12:30- 1:45 PM

           4A – NanoFluidics

Invited speaker

12:30 – 1:00 PM Dr. Z. Hugh Fan (UF) Nanofluidics and Microfluidics for Biomedical Applications

ORAL Presenters

1:00 – 1:15 PM Kierstin Smith (UF) Development of Microfluidic Devices for Isolating Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cells
1:15 – 1:30 PM Tracey Bell (FSU) Scalable Lipid Droplet Microarray Fabrication, Validation, and Screening
1:30 – 1:45 PM Natasha Ramnauth (FAU) Development of a Microfluidic Device for Exosome Enrichment in Point-of-Care Settings
1:45 – 2:00 PM Heather Blackwell (UF) Novel Approaches for Isolating Hematopoietic Stem Cells Using a Planar Gradient Magnetic System

 12:30- 1:45 PM

      4B – NanoAgriculture

invited speaker

12:30 – 1:00 PM Dr. Mathews L. Paret (UF) Tools and New Opportunities for Nano Innovations in Plant Disease Management

ORAL Presenters

1:00 – 1:15 PM Jorge Pereira (UCF) Nano Borate-Cellulose Adherence as a Viable Mechanism for Targeting Inorganic Antimicrobials
1:15 – 1:30 PM Andre Childs (UCF) Plotter Cutter as an Accessible, Cost-effective, Benchtop Microfabrication Tool for Rapid Stencil Mask Prototyping Towards Effective Organic & Inorganic Material Deposition in the Sub-100 μm RANGE
1:30 – 1:45 PM Junha Park (UF) Sweet Corn Phytoglycogen as a Protein Stabilizing Excipient
1:45 – 2:00 PM Jinsheng Huang (UF) Fixed Bed Column Performance of Al-modified Biochar for the Removal of Sulfamethoxazole and Sulfapyridine Antibiotics from Wastewater

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