Fall Shared Resource Lunch & Learn
Event Details:
Location
Bass Biology Building
327 Campus Drive
Stanford, CA 94305
United States
Overview
Do you know that Stanford boasts over 50 Scientific Shared Resources with an array of expert scientists and advanced technologies to help you achieve your research goals?
Come enjoy free lunch and hear about exciting research from students and postdocs who have used these resources in their work! Learn how to access and collaborate with Shared Resources. Meet subject matter experts, discover advanced technologies, connect with fellow researchers, and accelerate your research progress!
Lunch from Treehouse will be served from 11:45 am.
Agenda
Welcome and Opening Remarks
12:00 pm - 12:05 pm
Claudius Mundoma, PhD, MBA
Director of Shared Research Platforms, VPDoR Office
Invited Presentations
Moderator: Ryan Leib, PhD
Director, SUMS (Stanford University Mass Spectrometry)
In Vitro Generated Neutrophils Reveal High Deformability is an Emergent Property12:47 pm - 1:01 pm
Allen Yesin, PhD candidate
Thiam Lab, Dept. of Bioengineering
Supported by Microfluidics Foundry
Vitamin efflux by an orphan diabetes-associated transporter
12:19 pm - 12:33 pm
Jan Spaas, PhD
Long Lab, Dept. of Pathology
Supported by ChEM-H Nucleus Lab (Metabolomics)
Targeting colorectal cancer with selective small-molecule antagonists of ALDH1B1
12:33 pm - 12:47 pm
Zhiping Feng, PhD
Chen Lab, Dept. of Chemical and Systems Biology
Supported by SUMS, ChEM-H Nucleus Lab (High-throughput Screening, Macromolecular Structure)
High-Resolution 3D Printing for Translational Biomedical Devices12:05 pm - 12:19 pm
Ian Coates, PhD candidate
DeSimone Lab, Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Supported by AMPF, SCi3, nano@Stanford (Soft & Hybrid Materials)
Soft photonic skins with dynamic texture and color control
1:01 pm - 1:15 pm
Siddharth Doshi, PhD candidate
Brongersma & Melosh Labs, Dept. of Materials Science
Supported by nano@Stanford
From structure to function: imaging cell-type specific synapses in the neocortex
1:15 pm - 1:29 pm
Jorge Sanz Ros, MD, PhD
Cobos Lab, Dept. of Pathology
Supported by CSIF, Wu Tsai Neuroscience Community Lab (Gene Vector and Virus Core, Neuroscience Microscopy Service)
Closing Remarks
Speakers
Ian Coates
Ian Coates is a PhD candidate in Chemical Engineering at Stanford University, where he develops high-resolution additive manufacturing methods to create functional biomedical devices. His work focuses on the invention of novel 3D printing strategies for fabricating freeform negative-space structures that enable advanced drug delivery, wearable health monitoring, and perfusable vascular scaffolds for engineered tissues. He has introduced new processes including, injection CLIP (iCLIP) for microfluidic microneedle array patches and Channel Architecture with Sacrificial Templates (CAST) for vascularized tissue constructs, that bridge the gap between lab-scale innovation and clinically relevant translation. Ian’s research integrates materials development, device fabrication, and biological validation with a strong emphasis on translational medicine and commercialization pathways.
Zhiping Feng
Dr. Feng is a research scientist in the Department of Chemical and Systems Biology. He earned his bachelor's degree in pharmacy from Nankai University in China, followed by a PhD in the Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology Program at UCLA. In 2017, he joined Dr. James Chen's lab for his postdoctoral training and has been a research scientist since 2023. His research interests are primarily centered on the development of chemical tools for basic research and cancer therapy.
Siddharth Doshi
Siddharth is a PhD candidate in Materials Science and Engineering in the groups of Mark Brongersma and Nicholas Melosh. His work focuses on the nanoscale processing and characterization of soft materials for active photonic and bioelectronic devices. His work has been supported by a Meta PhD Fellowship, a Wu-Tsai Human Performance Alliance PhD Fellowship and the Stanford Graduate Fellowship.
Jan Spaas
Jan Spaas obtained his PhD at Hasselt University and Ghent University, Belgium, working on neurobiology and carnosine metabolism. Since Oct 2023, he is a postdoctoral researcher in the Long Lab at ChEM-H Stanford, studying new pathways of metabolism linked to human disease. His work focusses on a new transporter for vitamin B5 and its physiological role in diabetes.
Jorge Sanz Ros
I am a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Pathology at Stanford University. I received my MD and PhD from the University of Valencia, Spain, where I studied how mesenchymal stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles improve healthspan in aging. At Stanford, under the mentorship of Dr. Inma Cobos, my research integrates single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, viral vector engineering, and advanced imaging to investigate synapse biology and mechanisms of selective vulnerability in Alzheimer’s disease.
Allen Yesin
Allen Yesin is a Bioengineering PhD student in Hawa Racine Thiam’s lab. His research focuses on how geometric confinement shapes key neutrophil host-defense functions, including migration and NETosis. He earned his undergraduate degree in Bioengineering from UC San Diego, where he developed a fascination with cellular mechanobiology and engineering strategies to manipulate it. In the lab, Allen designs and builds in vitro systems that precisely control the confinement of cells, enabling him to recapitulate aspects of in vivo tissue architecture and probe how physical environments regulate immune cell function.