The 2016 CHIB Investigator Meeting was held on October 27, 2016 at the University of Pennsylvania. Presentations and team pictures are posted below.

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Presentations are available as PDFs here:

CHIB UC4 Team Pictures

Melton UC4 Team		Sander UC4 Team
Stabler UC4 Team		Stanger UC4 Team

“Islet on a Chip” (Melton UC4) Demonstration Pictures

Melton Team: Demo station #1 led by Alanna Gannon explaining the ‘islet on a chip’ platform.		Melton Team: Demo station #2 led by Ben Pope explaining  nanofibers in the ‘islet on a chip’ device.		Melton Team: Demo station #3 led by Peter Jones, Girish Chitnis & Jamie Wu explaining the working mechanism and operational details of the islet chip for on-chip differentiation

“A 3D Biomimetic Human Islet to Model Beta Cell Function in Health and Disease” (Sander UC4) Demonstration Pictures

Sander Team: Demon station #1 led by Mahama Aziz Traore explaining the process of loading the Vascularized Micro-Organ device		Sander Team: Demo station #2 led by Hugh Bender explaining the process of loading the Vascularized Micro-Organ device		Vascularized Micro-Organ (VMO) device developed by the Hughes Lab

“Engineering a Human Physiomimetic Islet Microsystem” (Stabler UC4) Demonstration Pictures”

Stabler Team: Demo station #1 led by Giovanni Lenguito explaining the microscopy and live imaging of pancreatic human islets		Stabler Team: Demo stration #2 led by Matthew Ishahak explaining perfusion testing of pancreatic human islets

“A Vascularized 3D Biomimetic for Islet Function and Physiology” (Stanger UC4) Demonstration Pictures

Stanger Team: Demo station #1 Andre Georgescu is explaining a microfabricated device for growing human islets		Stanger Team: Demonstration station #2 Yi-Ju Chen is explaining multi-channel perfusion system for human islet  function.		Stanger Team: Demo station #3 Bill Polachek is explaining microfluidic networks for vascularizing human iselts