Kayla SprengerUniversity of Colorado BoulderBoulder, CO Towards Modeling Antibody–Virus Coevolution and Escape: Integrating Evolutionary Modeling, Molecular Dynamics Simulations, and Interpretable Machine Learning In the Rationally Designed Immunotherapeutics and Interfaces (RDI) Lab, we integrate computational modeling, immuno-engineering, molecular biophysics, and machine learning to understand—and ultimately control—how immune systems respond to rapidly evolving viral pathogens. A key...

Room 1610 Engineering Hall Daniel HammerAlfred G. and Meta A. Ennis Professor of BioengineeringUniversity of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PA A Tale of Two Motilities In the spirit of Bird, Stewart and Lightfoot, we have been studying an important problem in transport phenomena, the biological and bio-inspired motility of cells. Motility is important for the functioning of the...

Sijin LiCornell UniversityIthaca, New York Interactomics-driven discovery and characterization of plant natural product biosynthetic pathways in yeast Plants are a rich source of small-molecule drugs and drug leads. Traditional methods for sourcing valuable plant natural products (PNPs) from their native producers are often limited by cost and inefficiency. Leveraging recent advances in synthetic biology and...