Program
Day 1 - Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Short Course - 8:00am - 3:30pm - New Concepts in Biocompatibility for Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine
Session I - Chairs: Steve Badylak & Bob Guldberg
| 5:00pm | Keynote Lecture - Andres Garcia - Georgia Institute of Technology Biomaterial strategies to monitor and modulate inflammation |
| 5:30pm | Donald Freytes - Columbia University Effects of macrophage polarization on mesenchymal stem cells |
| 5:50pm | Joel Collier - University of Chicago Modulating immune responses against self-assembled peptide biomaterials |
| 6:10pm | William Wagner - University of Pittsburgh Towards biohybrid composite materials: The best of both worlds? |
| 6:30pm - 8:00pm | Welcome Reception Lobby of Inn @ Harbour Town |
Day 2 - Thursday, March 15, 2012
Session II - Chairs: Bob Nerem & Elizabeth Laboa
| 8:00am | Keynote Lecture - Michal Schwartz - Weizmann Institute of Science A shift in the understanding of immune-brain relationships opens up a new era in treating neurodegenerative and mental diseases and brain senescence |
| 8:30am | Kyle Lampe - Stanford University A cell-biomaterial feedback loop for neural tissue engineering |
| 8:50am | Chandrasekhar Kothapalli - Cleveland State University Extracellular matrix microenvironment influences embryonic stem cell differentiation into neural and glial lineages |
| 9:10am | Charles Gersbach - Duke University Correction of duchenne muscular dystrophy by genome editing with engineered nucleases |
| 9:30am | Break |
Session III - Chairs: Johnna Temenoff & Kacey Marra
| 10:00am | Raymond Page - Worcester Polytechnic Institute Treatment of volumetric muscle loss with primary cells delivered using fibrin microthreads |
| 10:20am | Bryan Brown - University of Pittsburgh An inductive scaffold-based approach to reconstruction of the TMJ meniscus |
| 10:40am | Brendan Harley - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Patterning anisotropic collagen scaffolds for tendon insertion regeneration |
| 11:00am | William Hill - Georgia Health Sciences University Mesenchymal stem cells conditionally over-expressing SDF-1? drive new bone formation |
| 11:20am | Mark Hamrick - Georgia Health Sciences University Myostatin (GDF-8) suppresses Wnt/?-catenin signaling during chondrogenesis in vitro |
Rapid Fire I
| 11:40pm | Debanti Sengupta - Stanford University Novel protein-engineered biomaterials to generate 3D human skeletal muscle mimics |
| 11:45pm | Erica Tierney - Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland A Gene-activated matrix containing dual vectors and genes for bone tissue regeneration |
| 11:50pm | Marco Quarta - Stanford University Bioengineered muscle fiber niche of skeletal muscle stem cells for applications in clinical transplantation |
| 11:55pm | Ashley Allen - Georgia Institute of Technology Incorporation of platelet lysate gel maintains viability of stem cells within hydrogel constructs |
| 12:00pm | Rapid Fire Discussion |
| 12:15pm | Lunch Break |
Session IV - Chairs: William Wagner & Bob Taylor
| 2:00pm | Keynote Lecture - Geoffrey C. Gurtner - Stanford University Medical Center Stem and progenitor cell recruitment following injury |
| 2:30pm | Neill Turner - University of Pittsburgh The effect of age-related changes in biologic scaffold material properties on constructive tissue remodeling |
| 2:50pm | Todd McDevitt - Georgia Institute of Technology Osteoinductive potential of embryonic stem cell-derived morphogenic cues |
| 3:10pm | Stephen Badylak - University of Pittsburgh A regenerative surgery approach to esophageal reconstruction |
Rapid Fire II
| 3:30pm | Nassir Mokarram - Georgia Institute of Technology Modulating macrophage phenotype stimulates endogenous pathways for enhanced peripheral nerve regeneration |
| 3:35pm | Myung Hee Kim - University of Texas at Austin Generating functional T Cells from stem cells: Towards on-demand cell immunotherapy |
| 3:40pm | Claire Segar - University of Virginia Rapid vascularization and localized immune modulation enhance cell-based mandibular defect repair |
| 3:45pm | Ashley Brown - Georgia Institute of Technology Development of novel single chain antibody conjugated microgels for fibrin-triggered matrix assembly |
| 3:50pm | Rapid Fire Discussion |
| 4:05pm | Break |
| 4:30pm | Debate: Commercialization Cell Based Therapies: Autologous vs. Allogeneic Cells? Debaters: Barbara Boyan, Art Coury, Andres Garcia, and Kacey Marra |
| 5:30pm | Reception Habour Town Conference Center |
| 6:00pm | Adjourn |
Day 3 - Friday, March 16, 2012
Session V - Chairs: Barbara Boyan & Charlie Gersbach
| 8:00am | Keynote Lecture - Kenneth Poss - Duke University A blueprint for heart regeneration |
| 8:30am | Katja Schenke-Layland - Fraunhofer IGB Stuttgart and Eberhard Karls University Tübingen VEGF receptors identify a multipotent cardiovascular progenitor cell in developing hearts and induced-pluripotent stem cells |
| 8:50am | Anusuya Das - University of Virginia Sphingosine-1-Phosphate (S1P) receptors modulate endogenous stem cell mobilization and homing for bone regeneration |
Rapid Fire III
| 9:10am | Chris Bashur - Cleveland Clinic Engineering elastic-matrix-rich vascular grafts within a peritoneal cavity |
| 9:15am | Aaron DeWard - University of Pittsburgh The lymph node as an ectopic transplantation site for multiple tissues |
| 9:20am | Jaehyun Kim - Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine An innovative approach to building a clinically relevant sized tissues and organs |
| 9:25am | Melissa Kinney - Georgia Institute of Technology Characterization of molecular transport within embryoid body microenvironments |
| 9:30am | Rapid Fire Discussion |
| 9:45am | Break |
Session VI - Chairs: Todd McDevitt & Craig Duvall
| 10:15am | Keynote Lecture - Chuck Murry - University of Washington Cardiac tissue engineering with pluripotent and adult stem cells |
| 10:45am | Todd Evans - Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University Engineering cardiac cell fate from ESCs |
| 11:05am | Takehisa Matsuda - Kanazawa Institute of Technology In-situ capture technology of endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) |
| 11:25am | Robert Tranquillo - University of Minnesota In vivo remodeling of fibrin-based tissue-engineered arterial grafts |
| 11:45am | Marsha Rolle - Worcester Polytechnic Institute Fusion of self-assembled cell rings: a modular approach to engineering tissue tubes |
| 12:05pm | Garry Duffy - Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland microRNA mimic delivery to cardiomyocytes using ultrasound responsive microbubbles |
| 12:25pm | Lunch Break |
| 6:00pm-8:30pm | Poster Session & Dinner Reception Harbour Town Conference Center |
Day 4 - Saturday, March 17, 2012
Session VII - Chairs: Bryan Brown & Buddy Ratner
| 8:00am | Kacey Marra - University of Pittsburgh Long-term culture of adipose-derived stem cells in a 3D bioreactor: Implications for regenerative medicine |
| 8:20am | Michael Taylor - Cell and Tissue Systems, Inc. Plasticity of juvenile porcine islet aggregation in culture for xenotransplantation |
| 8:40am | Yosuke Kuruma - Tokyo Women's Medical University/Terumo Corporation Fabrication of a resectable microvascular bed suitable for grafting cell sheets |
| 9:00am | Deepak Jain - Tengion Inc. Neo-kidney augment products for kidney regeneration in chronic kidney disease |
| 9:20am | Kelvin Brockbank - Cell and Tissue Systems, Inc. Optimization of hypothermic storage conditions for blood vessels |
| 9:40am | Michael Hiles - Cook Biotech, Inc. Cytocompatibility is not identical to biocompatibility and may be crucial for cell therapies |
| 10:00am | Break |
Session VIII - Chairs: Joel Collier & Tom Barker
| 10:30am | Keynote Lecture - Jason Burdick - University of Pennsylvania Dynamic and patterned hydrogels to control stem cell behavior |
| 11:00am | Gary Bowlin - Virginia Commonwealth University The use of air-flow impedance to control fiber deposition during electrospinning |
| 11:20am | Johnna Temenoff - Georgia Institute of Technology GAG biomaterials enhance MSC response to soluble cues in a charge-dependent manner |
| 11:40am | Craig Duvall - Vanderbilt University Advanced therapeutics for regenerative medicine |
| 12:00pm | Buddy Ratner - University of Washington Unexpected observations on macrophage phenotypes and healing of sphere-templated scaffolds |
| 12:20pm | Lunch Break |
| 5:00pm | Nerem Lecture - George Daley - HHMI/Children's Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School Personalized stem cells and regenerative medicine |
| 6:00pm | Conference Dinner Reception Sea Pines Beach Club |
| 7:00pm | Conference Dinner Sea Pines Beach Club |
