Jana Petr
Jana Petr
Student / Programme Doctorate at D-BSSE
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My bachelor's and master's studies in "Health Sciences and Technology" at ETH Zurich gave me a broad background in engineering, human anatomy & physiology and biology. During a practical course in my master's, I was introduced to the concept of microfluidics for diagnostic applications and as an approach to more closely mimicking human diseases, which immediately caught my attention and fascination. The focus of my PhD project lies on developing microfluidic platforms for the long-term culturing of ex vivo tissue slices and in parallel enabling high-resolution imaging to investigate dynamic processes such as tumor cell infiltration in a tissue context. Hence, my core expertise is:
- Microphysiological systems and advanced 3D cell culture models
- Microfluidics for applications in neuroscience/(neuro)oncology
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Preprints
Real-Time Tracking of Tumor Invasion Dynamics in Organotypic Brain Slices at Subcellular Resolution
JB Petr, M.-S. Lin, D. Hochuli, A. Hierlemann, M. Baumgartner, MM Modena
DOI: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.28.640791v1
Oral Presentations
PHIROS: A microfluidic platform for long-term, high-resolution imaging of organotypic tissue slices to study astrocyte dynamics
JB Petr, M.-S. Lin, P. Machado Almeida, A. Hierlemann, M. Baumgartner, MM Modena
BaCell 3D, Basel, Switzerland, June 24-26, 2024
PHIROS: A microfluidic platform for long-term, high-resolution imaging of organotypic tissue slices to study astrocyte dynamics
JB Petr, M.-S. Lin, P. Machado Almeida, A. Hierlemann, M. Baumgartner, MM Modena
3rd Microphysiological Systems World Summit, Seattle, USA, June 9-14, 2024
Posters
Exploring Medulloblastoma-Tumor Microenvironment Interactions in a 3D Cerebellar Tissue Model Using Real-Time High-Resolution Imaging
JB Petr, M.-S. Lin, A. Hierlemann, M. Baumgartner, MM Modena
Keystone Symposium: Neural Influence on Cancer, Tumor Microenvironment and Cancer Immunology, Banff, Canada, January 18-21, 2025
Abstract was awarded the Keystone "Future of Science Scholarship" to attend the symposium
Dynamic platform for continuous, high-resolution imaging of organotypic brain-tissue slices
JB Petr, M.-S. Lin, P. Machado Almeida, A. Hierlemann, M. Baumgartner, MM Modena
2nd Annual Microphysiological Systems World Summit, Berlin, Germany, June 26-30, 2023
Microfluidic Platform for Continous, High-Resolution Imaging of Organotypic Brain-Tisue Slices
JB Petr, L. Vivancos, M. Baumgartner, A. Hierlemann, MM Modena
Annual Conference of the European Organ-on-Chip Socïety (EUROoCS), Grenoble, France, July 4-5, 2022
This poster won the Best Poster Award
Microfluidic Platform for Continous, High-Resolution imaging of Ex Vivo Tissue slices
JB Petr, L. Vivancos, M. Baumgartner, A. Hierlemann, MM Modena
Agora Workshop "Organoids in Cancer Research", Lausanne, Switzerland, November 24 2021
This poster won the Best Poster Award