Session: Biomaterial-Cell Interactions In Tissue Engineering (2011 Annual Meeting)

Wednesday, October 19, 2011: 8:30 AM

L100 D (Minneapolis Convention Center)

Description:

This session welcomes submissions pertaining to the wide range of interactions that occur when cells come in contact with biomaterials, in silico, in vitro or in vivo. This session is a subgroup of tissue engineering areas focusing on material cell interactions.

Sponsor:

Engineering Fundamentals in Life Science

Chair:

Norma A. Alcantar
Email: alcantar@eng.usf.edu

Co-Chair:

Korkut Uygun
Email: uygun.korkut@mgh.harvard.edu

8:30 AM

(437a) Mechanical Strain Decreases the Rate of Fibrin Gel Degradation by Plasmin
Arjun S. Adhikari, Armen Mekhdjian and Alexander R. Dunn

8:50 AM

(437b) Engineering Synthetic ECM Analogs Using Elastin Mimetic Peptides
Dhaval Patel, Rohan Menon and Lakeshia Taite

9:10 AM

(437c) Increased Schwann Cell Migration Speed and Directionality Occurs During Electrical Stimulation Through Polypyrrole Substrates
Leandro Forciniti, Jose Ybarra, Muhammad H. Zaman and Christine Schmidt

9:30 AM

(437d) Improving Cochlear Implant Performance by Directing Nerve Growth with Photopolymerized Micropatterns
Brad Tuft, Joseph Clarke, Scott White, Marlan Hansen and C. Allan Guymon

9:50 AM

(437e) Fibril Alignment Induces Alignment of Sprouts From Endothelial Cell Spheroids In Fibrin Gel
Kristen T. Morin and Robert T. Tranquillo

10:10 AM

(437f) Dynamic Adhesion of Endothelial Progenitor Cells On Peptide-Coupled Hydrogels Under Flow
Wen Jun Seeto and Elizabeth A. Lipke

10:30 AM

(437g) Cell Adhesion On Thermosensitive Bio-Inert Materials with a Tunable LCST
Kevin Ling, Erik Wischerhoff and Lauren S. Anderson

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