Speakers

Andreas Herrmann, Keynote
DWI – Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials and RWTH Aachen University
“Polymer Mechanochemistry Enables the Activation of Drugs, Proteins and Nucleic Acids by Ultrasound”

Evan Wang, Keynote
University of Texas at Austin
“H-bonded organic frameworks as ultrasound-programmable delivery platform for sono-chemogenetics”

Kofi Agyeman
University of Southern California
“Unravelling Effects of Epilepsy-foci Resection and Responsive Neurostimulation in the Human Brain using Functional Ultrasound Imaging of Interictal Activity”

Pierina Barturen-Larrea
California Institute of Technology
“Longitudinal brain-wide imaging of metastasis dynamics using acoustic reporter genes”

Kama Bell
Pennsylvania State University
“Ultrasound control of gene expression in human induced pluripotent stem cells via heat shock promoters”

Taweon Choi
Sunkyunkwan University
“Low-Intensity Transcranial Ultrasound in Glymphatic Function and Brain Waste Removal”

George Daghlian
California Institute of Technology
“Acoustic tumor paint for real-time imaging, surgical guidance and recurrence monitoring of brain tumors with ultrasound”

Hugues Favre
TU Delft
“Super-resolution cellular ultrasound imaging based on nonlinear gas vesicle scattering”

Peixiang He
UCSD / USC
“Engineering Sonogentic EchoBack CAR-T cells”

Xiaoran Hu
Syracuse University
“Sonochemical Activation of Covalent Prodrugs via Deep-Penetrating Ultrasound”

Jae-Hyun Lee
Yonsei University, IBS Center for Nanomedicine
“Magneto- and sono-genetics for non-invasive, remote neuromodulation”

Jamie Kwon
California Institute of Technology
“In vitro development of probiotic acoustic biosensors for noninvasive imaging of gut inflammation”

Fotios Tsitsos
Columbia University
“Mechanistic insights into theranostic ultrasound-mediated brain gene delivery”

Kevin Xu
Washington University in St. Louis
“A prefrontal cortex-hypothalamus circuit for heart rate control in non-human primates”

Tianqi Xu
Washington University in St. Louis
“TRPV4-F617L as an Ultrasound-sensitive Actuator for In Vivo Sonogenetic Neuromodulation”

Yirui Xu
Duke University
“Deep-tissue Functional Molecular Imaging With 3D Integrated Photoacoustic Tomography and Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (3D-PAULM)”

Jee Won Yang
California Institute of Technology
“Ultrasonic Reporter for Kinase Activity”

Chen Yang
Boston University
“Non-genetic High precision Photoacoustic Neural Stimulation”

Yaoheng Yang
University of Southern California
“Acoustic Transparency Enabling Functional Ultrasound Imaging Through Mouse and Human Skulls”

Zhou Yuan
University of Southern California
“Integrated CRISPR-Cas9 and Sonogenetic Tumor Engineering Boosts CAR-T Cell Efficacy in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer”