Program

Friday, April 20, 2007     (Biomedical Science Research Bldg)

8:00 am Registration, Continental Breakfast and Poster Set-up
9:00 am Welcome Address
9:15 am Session I – Biophysical Effects on Cells and Tissues  (Moderator: David Butler)
 
  1. B Li, et al. Mechanical Stress Regulates Cell Adhesion, Proliferation, and Differentiation Patterns.
  2. B Kalyanaraman, et al. Viability of Engineered Skin Substitutes in Perfusion Culture is Dependent on Medium Flow Rate.
  3. N Juncosa-Melvin, et al. Mechanical Stimulation Increases the Biomechanical Properties of Stem Cell – Collagen Sponge Constructs for Patellar Tendon Repair.
  4. F Li, et al. Cell Shape Regulates Collagen Type I Expression Levels in Human Tendon Fibroblasts.
  5. D Glos, et al. In vivo Compressive Stresses in the Intervertebral Disc Vary in Quadrupeds and are Lower than Human.
10:30 am   Break
10:45 am   Session II – Biomaterials  (Moderator: Champa Jayasuriya)
 
  1. AC Jayasuriya, et al. Fabrication and Characterization of Hybrid Microparticles.
  2. P Jing, et al. Synthesis and Characterization of Peptide-Polymers Inspired by the Coiled Coil Domain of Fibrin for Constructing Self-Assembled Biomaterials.
  3. S Segvich, et al. Molecular Modeling of Bone Adhesion Peptides on Hydroxyapatite.
  4. D Lee, et al. Exploring the Mineralization Potential of Phosphophoryn to Synthesize a Calcium Phosphate Based Scaffold for Bone Tissue Engineering.
  5. CJ Park, et al. Functional Consequences of Chitosan-Neutrophil Interaction for Pressure Ulcer Treatment.
  6. JP Jung, et al. Modular Peptide-Based Substrates for Endothelial Cells.
12:30 pm Box Lunch and Poster Session
2:00 pm Session III – Stem Cells  (Moderator: Paul Krebsbach)

 

 
  1. S Brown, et al. Human Embryonic Stem Cells Undergo Osteogenic Differentiation in hBMSC Microenvironments.
  2. Y Xie, et al. Construction of Three-Dimensional Embryonic Stem Cell-Scaffold Complexes Using Compressed Gas-Assisted Bioassembly.
  3. JM Feduska, et al. Human Muscle-Derived Stem Cells Undergo Myogenic Differentiation and Participate in Skeletal Muscle Regeneration.
  4. B Schmidt, et al. Umbilical Cord Derived Cells and Their Potential Use in Cartilage Tissue Engineering.
  5. BPN Teng, et al. Isolation and Osteogenic Differentiation of Dental Pulp Perivascular Stem Cells.
  6. K Izumi, et al. Isolation of a Progenitor/Stem Cell from Oral Mucosa.
  7. T Kean, et al. Uptake and Dissociation of Palmitated Protein G by Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Chondrocytes.
  8. RC Schugar, et al. The Isolation and Characterization of Wharton’s Jelly-Derived Stem Cells.
4:00 pm Poster Session and Informal Discussion Break
6:00 pm Banquet (Exhibit Museum of Natural History)

Saturday, April 21, 2007    (Palmer Commons – Forum Hall)

8:30 am Session IV – Cartilage/Bone   (Moderator: Steven Goldstein)
 
  1. JH Henderson, et al. The Oxygen Tension Present During Monolayer Expansion Affects the Quality of Cartilage that Chondrocytes Generate Post-Expansion
  2. L Sage, et al. Effect of Lidocaine on Chondrogenesis.
  3. A Awadallah, et al. Tissue Engineering of Scaffold-Free Cartilage Sheets.
  4. M Weidenbecher, et al. Fabrication of a Vascularised Neotrachea in a Rabbit Model.
  5. D Wen, et al. Lipid and Fibrillar Collagen Structure Contribute to the Permeability of the Porous Compartment of Cortical Bone.
9:45 am Break
10:00 am Session V – Growth Factors and Gene Therapy  (Moderator: James Dennis)
 
  1. V Raut, et al. Effect of Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor (bFGF) and Epidermal Grown Factor (EGF) on Connective Tissue Progenitor Cells (CTPs) from Human Bone Marrow in Primary Culture.
  2. S Balaji, et al. Angiogenic Scaffold Enhances Wound Healing in Murine Model of Type II Diabetes.
  3. HF Ko, et al. Novel Nanostructured Calcium Phosphate Carriers and 3-D Biologic Matrices for Non-Viral Gene Delivery.
  4. D Olton, et al. Nanostructured Calcium Phosphate Based Delivery Systems for Non-viral Gene Delivery.
  5. A Srinivasan, et al. Post-Transcriptional Gene Silencing Using siRNA Delivered from Poly (Oligo (Ethylene Oxide) Monomethyl Ether Methacrylate) Nanogels.
  6. A Jain, et al. Enhancing Tissue Engineering Literature Searches via Structured Annotation.
11:30 am Meeting Adjourned