Pompano Lab

Parastoo Anbaei, Marissa G. Stevens, Alexander G. Ball, Timothy N.J. Bullock, Rebecca R. Pompano, “Spatially resolved quantification of oxygen consumption rate in ex vivo lymph node slices” Analyst, 2024, accepted. [Open access at publisher]

• Selected as an Analyst HOT Article of 2024

Hannah B. Musgrove, Sophie R. Cook, and Rebecca R. Pompano. “Parylene-C coating protects resin 3D printed devices from materials erosion and cytotoxicity.” ACS Applied Bio Materials, 2023. [Publisher link] [ChemRxiv][Design Files]

Ozulumba T, Montalbine AN (#), Ortiz-Cárdenas JE, Pompano RR. “New tools for immunologists: Experimental and computational models of lymph node function from cell to tissue levels”. Frontiers in Immunology, 2023, 14, doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1183286. Review article, open access.

Musgrove HB, Saleheen A, Zatorski JM, Arneja A, Luckey CJ, and Pompano RR. “A scalable, modular degasser for passive in-line removal of bubbles from biomicrofluidic devices.” Micromachines, 2023, 14(2), 435. [Open access at publisher][design files]

Featured in the Women’s Special Issue Series: Micromachines.

Musgrove HB and Pompano RR. “Threadless chip-to-world connections on resin 3D printed microscale devices.” In Chips & Tips (2022), a curated open access blog associated with Lab on a Chip. [design files]

Hannah B. Musgrove, Megan A. Catterton, Rebecca R. Pompano, “Applied tutorial for the design and fabrication of biomicrofluidic devices by resin 3D printing.” Analytica Chimica Acta, 2022, 339842. [publisher link]. [Download: ZIP file of CAD drawings]

Featured in special issue: 3D Printing for Analytical Chemistry

View similar version at BioRxiv.

Harris AR, Esparza S, Azimi MS, Cornelison R, Azar FN, Llaneza DC, Belanger M, Mathew A, Tkachenko S, Perez MJ, Rosean CB, Bostic RR, Cornelison RC, Tate KM, Peirce-Cottler SM, Paquette C, Mills A, Landen CN, Saucerman J, Dillon PM, Pompano RR, Rutkowski MA and Munson JM. “Platinum Chemotherapy Induces Lymphangiogenesis in Cancerous and Healthy Tissues That Can be Prevented with Adjuvant Anti-VEGFR3 Therapy.” Frontiers in Oncology, 2022, 12. [Publisher link]

Ortiz-Cárdenas JE, Zatorski JM, Arneja A, Montalbine AN (#), Munson JM, Luckey CJ, & Pompano RR. “Towards spatially-organized organs-on-chip: Photopatterning cell-laden thiol-ene and methacryloyl hydrogels in a microfluidic device.” Organs-on-a-Chip, 2022, 4, 100018 [Publisher link]

Featured in Emerging Investigators in Organs-on-a-Chip special issue.

Sophie R. Cook, Hannah B. Musgrove, Amy L. Throckmorton, & Rebecca R Pompano. “Microscale impeller pump for recirculating flow in organs-on-chip and microreactors.” Lab on a Chip, 2022. 2022, 22, 605 - 620. {Publisher link]

Jennifer H. Hammel, Jonathan M. Zatorski, Sophie R. Cook, Rebecca R. Pompano, Jennifer M. Munson. “Engineering in vitro immune-competent tissue models for testing and evaluation of therapeutics,” Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews (2022). 182, 114111. [Publisher link]

Hunter RA, Pompano RR, & Tuchler MF. “Alternative Assessment of Active Learning,” Chapter 15 in ACS Symposium Series: Active Learning in the Analytical Chemistry Curriculum. 2022. Editors: Wenzel T, Kovarik M, Robinson J. pp. 269-295. DOI: 10.1021/bk-2022-1409.ch015. Online before print.

Invited contribution.

Megan A. Catterton, Alexander G. Ball, and Rebecca R. Pompano. "Rapid Fabrication by Digital Light Processing 3D Printing of a SlipChip with Movable Ports For Local Delivery to Ex Vivo Organ Cultures" Micromachines (2021) 12, no. 8: 993. https://doi.org/10.3390/mi12080993 [Link, open access]

Catterton M, Montalbine AN (#), & Pompano RR. “Selective Fluorination of the Surface of Polymeric Materials After Stereolithography 3D Printing.” Langmuir (2021) 37, 24, 7341–7348. [Publisher link]

Affiliated with ACS.

JH Hammel’, SR Cook’, MC Belanger’, JM Munson, and RR Pompano. “Modeling Immunity In Vitro: Slices, Chips, and Engineered Tissues.” Annual Review of Biomedical Eng, 2021, online ahead of print. [pubmed] ‘Equal contributions.

Venton BJ and Pompano RR. “Strategies for enhancing remote student engagement through active learning.” Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (2021), online before print. [Link]

Invited contribution.

View the entire series featuring teaching analytical science during the pandemic.

Maura C. Belanger, Alexander G. Ball*, Megan A. Catterton*, Andrew W.L. Kinman*, Benjamin D. Groff (#), Stephanie J. Melchor, John R. Lukens, Ashley E. Ross, & Rebecca R. Pompano. “Acute lymph node slices are a functional model system to study immunity ex vivo.” ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science (2021), 4, 1, 128–142. *Equal contributions. [Publisher link] [Pubmed Central]

Ball AG, Belanger MC, & Pompano RR. “Detergent wash improves vaccinated lymph node handling ex vivo” J Immunological Methods, 2021, 112943. [Publisher link] [final version on BioRxiv]

Austin F. Dunn, Megan A. Catterton, Drake D. Dixon(#), and Rebecca R. Pompano. “Spatially resolved measurement of dynamic glucose uptake in live ex vivo tissues.” Analytica Chimica Acta (2021), 1141, 47-56. [Journal Link]

Belanger MC, Anbaei P, Dunn AF, Kinman AWL, and Pompano RR. “Spatially resolved analytical chemistry in intact, living tissues.” Analytical Chemistry, (2020) 92, 23, 15255–15262. [link]

Affiliated with ACS.

Zatorski JM, Montalbine AN (#), Ortiz-Cárdenas JE, & Pompano RR. “Quantification of fractional and absolute functionalization of gelatin hydrogels by optimized ninhydrin assay and 1H NMR.” Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry (2020), 412, 6211–6220. [Link]

Selected by the Editor as a “Paper in Forefront.”
Featured in the ABC Female Role Models in Analytical Chemistry special issue.

Maura C. Belanger*, Meng Zhuang*, Alexander G. Ball, Kristen H. Richey, Christopher A. DeRosa, Cassandra L. Fraser, and Rebecca R. Pompano. “Labelling Primary Immune Cells Using Bright Blue Fluorescent Nanoparticles.” Biomaterials Science (2020), 8, 1897 - 1909. [link]

*Equal contributions.

Kinman AWL & Pompano RR. "Optimization of enzymatic antibody fragmentation for yield, efficiency, and binding affinity." Bioconjugate Chemistry (2019), 30(3): 800-807. [Link]

Affiliated with ACS.

Shim S, Belanger MC, Harris AR, Munson JM, & Pompano RR. “Two-way communication between tissues on a microfluidic chip: application to tumor-lymph node interaction.” Lab on a Chip (2019), 19, 1013-1026. [link] [PubMed]

Part of the LOC Organ-, body- and disease-on-a-chip themed collection.

Groff BD* (#), Kinman AWL*, Woodroof JF (#), & Pompano RR. "Immunofluorescence staining of live lymph node tissue slices." Journal of Immunological Methods (2019), 464, 119-125. *Equal contributions. [DOI] [Pubmed]

Ross AE, Pompano RR. "Diffusion of cytokines in live lymph node tissue using microfluidic integrated optical imaging." Analytica Chimica Acta (2018), 1000, 205-213. [Journal Link][Accepted Manuscript PDF]

Featured in the 1000th volume of Analytica Chimica Acta

Early work highlighted in C&E News coverage of the 2017 national meeting of the American Chemical Society.

Catterton MA, Dunn AF, & Pompano RR. "User defined local stimulation of living tissue through a movable microfluidic port." Lab on a Chip (2018), 18: 2003-2012. [link] [Pubmed]

Featured in the Lab on a Chip Emerging Investigator Series.

Ross AE, Belanger MC, Woodroof JF, Pompano RR. “Spatially resolved microfluidic stimulation of lymphoid tissue ex vivo.” Analyst (2017), 142 (4), 649-659. [Journal link] [Pubmed]