Saturday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Staff / Welcome and Introduction from the Chairs
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: Enabling New Sensors and Screening Technologies with Nanotechnology
Discussion Leader: Marjon Zamani (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States)
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm
Shana Kelley (Northwestern University, United States)
"Enabling New Sensors and Screening Technologies with Nanotechnology"
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Advances in Sensor Technology: Materials, Fabrication, and Design Strategies
Discussion Leader: Farbod Amirghasemi (University of Southern California, United States)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Tyler Sodia (Colorado School of Mines, United States)
"Glow-in-the-Dark Optode Sensors for Autofluorescence-Free Quantification"
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
Discussion
7:55 pm - 8:10 pm
Shitanshu Devrani (University of Gothenburg , Sweden)
"An Automated High-Throughput Platform for AI-Guided Development of Nanopore Membrane Biosensors and Real-Time Edge Processing"
8:10 pm - 8:20 pm
Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm
Xin Jiang (Technion, Israel)
"Photonic Silicon Chip for Point-of-Care Detection and Differentiation of Bacterial and Fungal Infections"
8:35 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 9:00 pm
Luca Salvigni (KAUST, Saudi Arabia)
"Reconfiguration of Organic Electrochemical Transistors for High-Performance Potentiometric Sensing"
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Sripadh Guptha Yedire (McGill University, Canada)
"Additive Manufacturing Leveraged Microfluidics for Rapid and Automated Nucleic Acid Detection"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Translational Research: Advancing Sensors Towards Field and Clinical Applications
Discussion Leader: Vincent Clark (Johns Hopkins University, United States)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Hanie Yousefi (Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, United States)
"Implantable Materials for Studying the Correlation of Chronic Disease and Inflammation"
9:15 am - 9:25 am
Discussion
9:25 am - 9:40 am
Fatemeh Keyvani (University of Waterloo, Canada)
"Wearable Microneedle Biosensor for Real-Time and Continuous Therapeutic Drug Monitoring"
9:40 am - 9:50 am
Discussion
9:50 am - 10:05 am
Charlotte Hudlerova (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
"Single-Molecule Detection of Breast Cancer Biomarker Candidates from Liquid Biopsies"
10:05 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:30 am
Dylan Snider (University of Texas at Austin, United States)
"DNA-Locked Peptide Beacons for CRISPR-Amplified Sensing of Protease Activity"
10:30 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 am
Carolina del Real Mata (McGill University, Canada)
"Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models for the Classification of Single Extracellular Vesicles"
10:55 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Making Global Impact Through Careers in Non-profit and Government
Discussion Leader: Emilie Novak (Rice University, United States)
1:30 pm - 2:10 pm
Arunan Skandarajah (Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, United States)
"Breadth and Depth: A Scientist’s Journey Across Government, Business, and Non-Profit"
2:10 pm - 2:30 pm
Discussion
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Complete the GRS Evaluation Forms; Election of Future Chair(s)
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes