Please fill out this form if you are planning to attend or present at the 2020 Dinesh O. Shah Symposium on November 30th, 2020. Please contact Emily Lopez,
admin@che.ufl.edu or Prof. Piyush K. Jain,
jainp@ufl.edu, for any questions.
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SYMPOSIUM AGENDA
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09:30 – 09:35 AM EST
Welcome address and Symposium Introduction with Dr. Carlos Rinaldi, Dean’s Leadership Professor and Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering
09:35 – 10:30 AM EST
DINESH O. SHAH LECTURE IN SURFACE SCIENCE
Samir Mitragotri, Hiller Professor of Bioengineering and Wyss Professor of Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University
Invited Annual Lecture: “UNDERSTANDING AND OVERCOMING BIOLOGICAL BARRIERS FOR DRUG DELIVERY”
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10:30 – 10:45 AM EST
Break
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10:45 – 11:00 AM EST
Dinesh O. Shah Symposium Speaker Introductions, Piyush Jain
11:00 – 11:30 AM EST
Symposium Speaker
Carlos Rinaldi, Dean’s Leadership Professor and Chair, Department of Chemical Engineering, (352) 284-6795
Invited Talk: Tracking nanomedicines and cell therapies using magnetic particle imaging
11:30 – 12:00 PM EST
Symposium Speaker
Ben Keselowsky, Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Associate Chair for Graduate Studies
Invited Talk: Tissue-Anchored Enzyme for Suppressive Metabolic Immune Engineering
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12:00 – 01:00 PM EST
Lunch with PhD Students
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01:00 – 01:25 PM EST
Symposium Speaker (Pre-Recorded)
Elias Joseph Sayour, Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, and Pediatrics
Invited Talk: Overcoming challenges to immunotherapy in solid tumors
01:25 – 01:55 PM EST
Symposium Speaker
Blanka Sharma, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Invited Talk: Engineering Targeted Drug Delivery Systems for Osteoarthritis
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01:55 – 02:25 PM EST
Lightning Round 1
Yeongseon Jang, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Invited Talk: Multifunctional, Biomimetic Soft Materials with Controlled Nanostructure and Stiffness
Piyush Jain, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Invited Talk: Engineered CRISPR/Cas systems as novel diagnostics
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02:25 – 02:40 PM EST
Coffee Break
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02:40 – 03:10 PM EST
Symposium Speaker
Tom Schmittgen, Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutics
Invited Talk: The erythrocyte-enriched miR-451a is enhanced in CNS exosomes following impairment of the blood brain barrier
03:10 – 03:40 PM EST
Symposium Speaker
Arun Srivastava, George H. Kitzman Professor of Genetics and Chief of Division of Cellular & Molecular Therapy in the Departments of Pediatrics, and Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, and Powell Gene Therapy Center
Invited Talk: Gene Therapy of Hemophilia B with AAV Vectors
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03:40 – 04:10 PM EST
Lightning Round 2
Whitney Stoppel, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Invited Talk: TBA
Carl Denard, Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Invited Talk: Deciphering and Engineering the Substrate Specificity of Protein-Modifying Enzymes
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04:10 – 04:15 PM EST
Final Remarks and Thank you, Piyush Jain
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