2025 CCBIR Annual Meeting

Tech Check for Speakers 

Poster presenters may attach their posters

Coffee provided by the MC2 Center / Sage Bionetworks   

Vadim Backman, Northwestern University

Jennifer Couch and Steven Becker, NCI

Session Chairs: Vadim Backman and Hao F. Zhang (Northwestern), and

Kevin Eliceiri (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Session Chair: CCBIR Trainee Subcommittee

Meeting in Gray

Dr. Irene Georgakoudi, Dartmouth College

Introduced by Paolo Provenzano, University of Minnesota

Session Chair: Steve Becker, NCI

3:40- 4:00  Northwestern University Center for Chromatin NanoImaging in Cancer - Vadim Backman, Northwestern University

4:05- 4:25  Center for 3D Imaging in Cancer Cell Biology - Denis Wirtz, Johns Hopkins University

4:30- 4:50  Center for Multiparametric Imaging of Tumor Immune Microenvironments - Paolo Provenzno, University of Minnesota

4:55- 5:15  Imaging Mechanisms of Metastatic Tumor Formation In Situ- Kevin Dean, UT Southwestern

Steve Becker, NCI

If they have not done so already, poster presenters are encouraged to attach their posters for viewing during the reception.

Appetizers hosted by the MC² Center

Coffee provided by the MC2 Center / Sage Bionetworks   

Tech check for all June 5th speakers

Session Chair: Denis Wirtz and André Forjaz, Johns Hopkins University

9:00 - 9:20  Paolo Provenzano (UMN): Mapping fibrotic and cellular immunosuppression within pancreatic adenocarcinomas in space and time 

9:20 - 9:40  Kevin Dean (UTSW) Cyclically Multiplexed Expansion Microscopy for High-Resolution, Multi-Target Imaging of Subcellular Architectures 

9:40 - 10:00  Pei-Hsun Wu (JHU): Accelerated Discovery of Cell Migration Regulators Using Label-Free Deep Learning-Based Automated Tracking

Session Chair: Kevin Dean and Qionghua (Nicole) Shen, UT Southwestern

10:15 - 10:35  Ruyi Gong (Northwestern): Chromatin and DNA Imaging via Multi-Label  and Label-Free Spectroscopic Nanoscopy

10:35 - 10:55  Valentina Matos Romero (JHU): CODAvision: best practices and a user-friendly interface for rapid, customizable segmentation of medical images

10:55 - 11:15  Hanieh Mazloom Farsibaf (UTSW): fishAtlas: A Zebrafish Xenograft  Platform to Map Organotropism in Ewing Sarcoma

11:15 - 11:35  Luay Almassalha (Northwestern): Chromatin beyond the connections

11:35 - 11:55  André Forjaz (JHU): InterpolAI: Deep learning based optical flow interpolation and restoration of biomedical images for improved 3D   tissue mapping

11:55 - 12:15 Meghan Driscoll (UMN): Microscopy image analysis as graph theory: Describing cellular and subcellular structures

Lunch provided by the MC2 Center / Sage Bionetworks   

Session Chair: Mazhar Adli and Alex Duval, Northwestern University

2:00 - 2:20  Conor McFadden (UTSW): Volumetric imaging of metastatic niches in Zebrafish xenografts with high throughput

2:20 - 2:40  Stephan Daetwyler (UTSW): Long-term imaging of cancer growth and metastasis in zebrafish xenografts with self-driving, multi-scale microscopy

2:40 - 3:00  Priyanila Magesh (UMN): Immune Engineering Strategies to Enhance T Lymphocyte Dynamics in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma

Session Chairs: Vadim Backman and Hao F. Zhang (Northwestern), and Kevin Eliceiri (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Session chair: CCBIR Trainee Subcommittee

Meeting in Gray

Session Chair: Hao Zhang, Northwestern University

Poster 1: Aamir Ansari

Poster 4: Andrew Chang

Poster 5: Seweryn Gałecki

Poster 6: Xingyue Hao

Poster 7: Rivaan Kakkaramadam

Poster 8: Tiffany Kuo

Poster 9: Ingrid Lekk

Poster 10: Wing Shun Li

Poster 11: Priyanila Magesh

Poster 12: Karla Medina

Poster 14: Guhan Qian

Poster 15: George Rabadi

Poster 16: Qionghua Nicole Shen

Poster 17: Menglin Shi

Poster 20: Manon Watzky

Poster 21: Fan Wu

Poster 22: I Chae Ye

Poster 23: Wei Hong Yeo

Poster 25: Hongrong Zhang

Ryan Family Atrium

4:30 - 5:00 PM Odd Posters

5:00 - 5:30 PM Even Posters

Posters must be taken down at the end of the poster session at 5:30 PM

Hosted by MC² Center / Sage Bionetworks

12 S. Michigan Avenue

The social includes a hosted dinner, plus access to a number of games, including Pop-A-Shot, foosball, shuffleboard, skeeball and pool. The menu will accommodate common dietary restrictions, including vegetarian, vegan and gluten free.

Coffee provided by the MC2 Center / Sage Bionetworks   

Session Chair: David Odde and Paolo Provenzano, University of Minnesota

9:00 - 9:20  Hao F. Zhang (Northwestern): Pushing the precision limit in spectroscopic single-molecule localization microscopy

9:20 - 9:40  Torikul Islam (UTSW): Imaging deep into metastatic sites to study rare melanoma cells

9:40 - 10:00  Amit Verma (Albany Medical): Precision Mapping of antibody-HER2 Engagement in Tumors Using Meditope-Engineered Antibodies and Mesoscopic FLIM-FRET Imaging

10:00 - 10:20  Xingyue (Delan) Hao (Northwestern): Quantitative Mitochondrial Analysis of Brequinar’s Effect on Platinum Resistant Ovarian Cancer Cells 

10:20 - 10:40  Reto Fiolka (UTSW): Multiscale fluorescence microscopy to shed light on cancer metastasis

10:40 - 11:00  Chris Zahm (UMN) γδ CAR-T cells show enhanced migration into pancreatic cancer

Vadim Backman, Northwestern

Steve Becker, NCI