Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Heilshorn
Talk Title: Small molecules to modulate hydrogel gelation and mechanics for dynamic organoid culture
Event: Society for Biomaterials 2023 Annual Meeting

Awarded in 2022

Talk Title: Engineered matrices reveal stiffness-mediated progression of fatty liver disease
Event: 2022 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting

Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Heilshorn
Talk Title: Spatially controlled fabrication of assembloids with 3D bioprinting
Event: Society for Biomaterials 2023 Annual Meeting and Exposition - Michelle received the Student Travel Achievement Recognition (STAR) Honorable Mention.

Awarded in 2022

Talk Title: Matrix remodelability modulates human neural maturation
Event: American Institute of Chemical Engineers 2022 Annual Meeting

Home Department: Materials Science & Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Nicholas Melosh and Mark Brongersma
Talk Title: Wavefront manipulation using chemically and electrically driven geometric reconfiguration of polymer metasurfaces
Event: 2022 MRS Fall

Home Department: Computer Science
Faculty Advisors: Aaron Newman and Anshul Kundaje
Talk Title: Inferring absolute developmental potential in single cells
Event: 14th Annual RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory & Systems Genomics with DREAM Challenges RSGDREAM 2022

Home Department: Immunology
Faculty Advisors: Catherine Blish and Purvesh Khatri
Talk Title: Non-human primates replicate conserved human responses to RNA viral infections, with viral family-associated differences in response dynamics
Event: American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Annual Meeting 2022

Home Department: Orthopaedic Surgery
Faculty Advisor: Fan Yang
Talk Title: Aspirin synergizes with optimized calcium phosphate particles to enhance macroporous scaffold-mediated bone regeneration in vivo
Event: 2023 Society for Biomaterials - Ni was honored to receive a nomination for the SFB postdoc recognition award.

Awarded in 2022

Talk Title: Cell membrane-coated microribbon scaffolds elicit regenerative immune responses and enhance cranial bone regeneration
Event: 2022 BMES

Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisors: Fan Yang and Yan Xia
Talk Title: Adaptable sliding hydrogels with dynamic crosslinks for the enhancement of cartilage regeneration
Event: BMES 2022 Annual Meeting

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: Fan Yang
Talk Title: Bone ECM-derived macroporous scaffolds for immunomodulation and cranial bone regeneration
Event: 2022 BMES Annual Meeting

Home Department: Radiology
Faculty Advisor: Craig Levin
Talk Title: Simulation study of a metamaterial that exploits the plasmonic purcell enhancement effect to achieve a ‘super-scintillator’
Event: IEEE NSS/MIC 2022

Supported by The Matthew Frank Family

Home Department: Bioengineering
Faculty Advisor: David Camarillo
Talk Title: Toward generalizable brain deformation estimators for head impacts with unsupervised domain adaptation and deep learning
Event: 2023 Summer Conference on Biomechanics, Bioengineering and Biotransport

Awarded in 2022

Talk Title: Mouthguard denoising with one-dimensional convolutional neural network for accurate brain strain calculation
Event: ASME 2022 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition