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20 Minute Webinar: Modeling the Vascular Environment In Vitro: Lessons from Shear Flow Studies

Blood cells don’t function in static environments. In vivo, they experience continuous shear forces that influence adhesion, activation, aggregation, and cell–cell interactions in ways traditional plate-based assays simply can’t replicate.

In this webinar, we’ll explore how researchers are using shear flow–based assays to generate more physiologically relevant insights—and what they’ve been able to uncover as a result.

Attendees will learn:

  • Practical considerations for designing shear flow experiments, including assay setup, shear rate selection, and real-time imaging
  • How researchers model vascular environments in vitro, including the use of pulsatile flow patterns that simulate cardiac rhythms (up to 120 beats per minute)
  • The importance of running parallel control conditions within each viewing window, enabling built-in experimental controls at scale for stronger statistical confidence
Whether you’re studying platelet biology, leukocyte dynamics, coagulation, inflammation, or drug responses, this session will provide a practical roadmap for integrating shear flow into your hematology research—grounded in how others are successfully doing it in the literature today.
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Presenters

Stephanie Proano. Ph.D.
03/11/2026
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