TERMIS NA 2008

TERMIS-NA 2008 Conference Agenda

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Pre-Conference Workshops - Sunday, December 7, 2008
10:00AM-5:30PM	Translational Models for Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine - Located in Salon F Sponsored by NIH/NIAMS/NBIB/NINDS and Forecast Technology Group Inc.
1:00AM-5:00PM	Tissue Engineering and Biomaterials Technologies to Improve Beta Cell Replacement - Located in Salon E Sponsored by JDRF and Forecast Technology Group Inc.

Opening Reception - Sunday, December 7, 2008
6:00-8:00PM	Welcome Reception & Exhibit Viewing - Located in Pavilion
6:15-6:30PM	Opening Remarks - Located in Pavilion

MONDAY, DECEMBER 8
8:00-9:00AM	PLENARY: Opening Keynote - Topic - Hematopoietic Stem Cells George Daley - Children's Hospital of Boston/Harvard Medical School
9:00-10:00AM	Coffee Break with Poster & Exhibit Viewing
SESSION 10:00-11:30AM	Synthetic and Biologic Scaffolds	Stem Cells - (MSCs, Adult Stem Cells, Embryonic Stem Cells) I	Microvascularization and Angiogenesis I	Would Healing I
Session Chairs	Glenn Prestwich (U Utah) and Robert Mauck (U Penn)	Arnold Caplan (Case Western Reserve U), and Jennifer Elisseeff (Johns Hopkins)	Elliot Chaikof (Emory) and Lucie Germain (LOEX, Canada)	Tony Atala (Wake Forest), Joachim Kohn (Rutgers) and Col Vandre (DoD)
	The Temporal Behavior of Electrospun, Multi-Polymer Nanofibrous Composites Robert Mauck - University of Pennsylvania	Adult and embryonic stem cells in musculoskeletal tissue engineering Jennifer Elisseeff - Johns Hopkins Univeristy	New Biomaterial Options for Vascular Tissue Engineering Elliot Chaikof - Emory University	The Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM) Robert Vandre - US Army Medical Research & Materiel Command
	Cell and Tissue In-growth Behavior into n-HA/PCL Composite Scaffold Fabricated by LMS: Comparison with Conventional SGP Scaffolds through Animal Studies Su-Jin Heo - Inje University	Structural and Functional Interactions of Stem Cells and Cardiomyocytes Nenad Bursac - Duke University	Engineering tissues with capillaries to improve organs reconstructed in vitro Lucie GERMAIN - 1 LOEX, H“pital du Saint-Sacrement, Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier Affili‚ Universitaire de Qu‚bec (CHA), and Department of Surgery, Universit‚ Laval	The Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM) Robert Vandre - US Army Medical Research & Materiel Command
	Cells in Gels: Exploring Cellular Morphogenesis and Differentiation in 3-D Culture Dror Seliktar - Technion - Israel Institute of Technology	Effects of Modulating Canonical Wnt Signaling on the In Vitro Performance of Human Bone Marrow-Derived Connective Tissue Progenitor Cells Brett Hoover - Cleveland Clinic	Deployment of Progenitor Cells Eduardo A. Silva - Harvard University	Engineered epidermal growth factor mutants enhance wound healing in vitro and in vivo Stayce Beck - Stanford University
	Scaffolds Presenting Integrin-Specific Biomimetic Ligands Inhibit MSC Chondrogenesis John Connelly - Georgia Institute of Technology	The Effect of Transcriptional Reprogramming on In Vitro Aging of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells Lisa Boyette Braswell - National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases	Endothelialized modules drive vascularization in an allogeneic rat model Rohini Gupta - University of Toronto	Chimeric Composite Skin Substitutes for Delivery of Autologous Keratinocytes to Promote Tissue Regeneration Cathy Rasmussen - UW-Madison
	Macrophages are Essential to the Degradation and Remodeling of ECM Scaffolds In-vivo Jolene Valentin - University of Pittsburgh	Directed Control of Multiple Developmental Pathways Promotes Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocyte Differentiation Oscar Abilez - Stanford University	Coculture Organization into Vascular Network within Macroporous PEG-Fibrinogen Hydrogel TAMAR KAULLY - Technion	Differentiation of Adipose Derived Stem Cells into Epithelial-Like Cells SHANMUGASUNDARAM NATESAN - United States Army Insitute of Surgical Research
	Engineered Extracellular Matrices for Regenerative Medicine Glenn Prestwich - University of Utah	Efficient Recovery of Endothelial Progenitors for Clinical Translation Bryan Tillman - Department of Vascular Surgery, Wake Forest University School of Medicine	Role of S1P Receptor-Specific Activation in Microvascular Remodeling Lauren Sefcik - University of Virginia	Injectability of Biodegradable, Porous Polyurethane Scaffolds for Tissue Regeneration Andrea Hafeman - Vanderbilt University
11:30-1:00PM	Exhibit Viewing
SESSION 1:00-2:30PM	Smart Biomaterials I	Cell Regulation and Microenvironment	Soft Tissue Repair I	Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering I
Session Chairs	Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert (Washington U) and Molly Stevens (Imperial College, UK)	Joanne Murphy-Ullrich (U Alabama, Birmingham) and Ali Khademhosseini (MIT)	Steve Badylak (U Pittsburgh) and Karen Burg (Clemson U)	Heinz Redl (Austria Cluster for Tissue Regeneration) and Rita Kandel (U Toronto, Canada)
	Smart Materials for Musculoskeletal Regeneration Molly Stevens - Imperial College London	The role of the calreticulin-binding sequence of the matricellular protein, thrombospondin-1, in regulating cell behavior and tissue remodeling Joanne Murphy-Ullrich - University of Alabama at Birmingham	A Blastema-like Approach to Mammalian Tissue Regeneration Stephen Badylak - University of Pittsburgh McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine	INJECTABLE THERMOSENSITIVE CHITOSAN BASED SCAFFOLDS FOR MUSCULOSKELETAL TISSUE REGENERATION Lakshmi Nair - University of connecticut health center
	Degradable Photocrosslinked Fibrous Scaffolds with Tunable Macro-Porosity and Drug Delivery Jason Burdick - University of Pennsylvania	Microengineered hydrogels for bottom-up and top-down tissue engineering Ali Khademhosseini - Harvard Medical School	Engineering Tissues for Ex Vivo Application Chih Chao Yang -	Regenerating the Intervertebral Disc: From Impossible to Probable Rita Kandel - Mt. Sinai Hospital
	A Method Based on Multiphoton-Excitation to Direct-Write Bioactive Peptides for Cellular Guidance Stephanie Seidlits - University of Nottingham	The Role of Geometry in Stem Cell Fate Kristopher Kilian - Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the University of Chicago	Scaffold Treatment with SDF-1α (CXCL12) Diminishes the Immune Response Paul Thevenot - University of Texas at Arlington	Nucleus Pulposus Cells Maintain Laminin 10/11 and its receptor Lu (CD239) Expression During Cell Culture In Vitro Jun Chen - Duke University
	Engineered Protein Hydrogels for Neural Stem Cell Transplantation Sarah Heilshorn - Stanford University	Chemoattraction of Progenitor Cells by Remodeling Extracellular Matrix Scaffolds Thomas Gilbert - University of Pittsburgh	Biologic Scaffold Remodeling and Macrophage Response in a Rat Model Bryan Brown - University of Pittsburgh McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine	Synovial joint replacement in vivo without cell transplantation: locomotion and weight bearing Chang Hun Lee - Columbia University
	Polarization of Hydroxyapatite Scaffolds; Influence on osteoblast cell proliferation and extracellular matrix production Sarah Cartmell - University of Keele	The use of skeletal muscle extracellular matrix extract to study the influence of an aging environment on the regenerative capacity of skeletal muscle progenitor cells Matthew Stern - Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center J. Paul Sticht Center on Aging	In Vitro 3D Model for Human Vascularized Adipose Tissue Jennifer Kang - Tufts University	Repair of Segmental Bone Defects Using Electrospun Nanofiber Meshes Yash Kolambkar - Georgia Institute of Technology
	The Effects of Growth Factor Delivery and Embryonic Stem Cell Transplantation on Spinal Cord Injury Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert - Washington University	Degradation and Vessel Formation in Glycated Collagen Gels in vivo Megan Francis-Sedlak - Illinois Institute of Technology		A Regeneration-Competent Animal Model to Study Musculoskeletal Regeneration and Malformation Bingbing Li - he Indiana University Center for Regenerative Biology and Medicine
2:30-3:00PM	Break with Poster Viewing
SESSION 3:00-4:30PM	Printing and Stereolithography for 3D Scaffolds I	Cell Tracking & Imaging	Cardiovascular and Vascular Tissue Engineering I	Dental, Oral and Craniofacial Tissue Engineering I
Session Chairs	Scott Hollister (U Michigan) and Vlad Mironov (U South Carolina)	Jeremy Mao (Columbia U) and Joseph Frank (NIH)	Robert Tranquillo (U Minnissota) and Ren-ke Li (U Toronto, Canada)	Ken Yamada (NIH) and Stephen Feinberg (U Michigan)
	Improved Quality of 3D-Printed Tissue Constructs Through Enhanced Mixing of Alginate Hydrogels Daniel Cohen - Cornell University	Magnetic Labeling of Stem Cells for Detection by Cellular MRI: Potential Applications in Regenerative Medicine Joseph Frank - National Institutes of Health	Cell Tracking and Cell Ratio Optimization for Cardiac Tissue Engineering Rohin K. Iyer - University of Toronto	Pharmacological Manipulation of an Oral Mucosa Progenitor/Stem Cell Population Stephen Feinberg - University of Michigan
	Three-dimensional Scaffold Fabrication by Indirect Micro-stereolithography Using Various Biomaterials Hyun-Wook Kang - POSTECH	In vivo tracking of quantum-dot labeled human mesenchymal stem cells in SCID mice Bhranti Shah - Columbia University	Cardiac Fibroblast Co-culture Enhances Contractile Function of Engineered Myocardium Kevin Costa - Columbia University	Salivary Gland Development and Reconstitution Kenneth Yamada - NIDCR, NIH
	High-Throughput Production of Single-Cell Hydrogel Microparticles Using Inkjet Printing Technology Tao Xu - Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine	Surveillance of systemic trafficking of macrophages induced by UHMWPE particles in nude mice by IVIS Pei-Gen Ren - Orthopaedic surgery Department	Cell-Induced Alignment of Fibrin Gel-Based Myocardial Equivalents Yields Unexpected Improvement in Contraction Force Lauren Black - Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota	Long-Term In Vitro Cultivation of Anatomically-shaped Bone Grats Warren Grayson - Columbia University
	Modeling of Cell Damage in the Bio-Dispensing-Based Scaffold Fabrication Daniel Chen - University of Saskatchewan	Micro Imaging System for Analyzing The Biomechanics of Engineered Tendons In vivo Gadi Pelled - The Hebrew University and Cedars Sinai Medical Center	Microfabricated Cardiac Tissue Patch with Tunable Structure and Function Nenad Bursac - Duke University	Computer-Designed Hybrid Scaffolds for Periodontal Tissue Interface Generation Chan Ho Park - University of Michigan
	Session Introduction Vladimir Mironov - Medical University of South Carolina	Influence of Corneal Fibroblasts on the Mechanical Behavior of Collagen Hydrogels Mark Ahearne - ISTM, Keele University	Synergistic Effect of Cells and Cytokines on Tissue Formation and Regeneration After Cardiac Repair using a Novel Cell Engineered Biodegradable Scaffold Ren-Ke Li - University Health Network	Insulin-producing Cells (IPCs) from Dental-Pulp Stem/Progenitor Cells Mo Chen - Columbia University College of Dental Medicine
	Scaffold Engineering: A Bridge to Where? Scott Hollister - U Michigan	Uptake and Intracellular Fate of Metals Encapsulated in Carbon Nanotubes within Cells Magdalena Swierczewska - Stony Brook University	Chemical Biology of Stem Cell Cardiogenesis Mark Mercola - Burnham Inst. Med. Res.	Craniofacial Bone Tissue Engineering using rAAV-BMP2-Coated Calvaria Allografts Dan Gazit - The Hebrew University and Cedars Sinai Medical Center
4:30-5:00PM	Exhibit Viewing & Refreshments
5:00-6:30PM	Poster Session I

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9
8:00-9:00AM	PLENARY - Topic - Transplantation Tolerance: From Animal Models to Clinical Studies Megan Sykes (Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School)
9:00-10:00AM	Coffee Break with Poster Viewing
SESSION 10:00-11:30AM	Smart Biomaterials II	Transplantation, Immunology and Cancer	Neural Tissue Engineering I	Wound Healing II
Session Chairs	Joe Tien (Boston U), and Andrea Gobin (U Louisville)	Jeffrey Platt (U Michigan) and Sudha Agarwal (Ohio State U)	Molly Shoichet (U Toronto, Canada) and Diane Hoffman-Kim (Brown U)	Cheng-Ming Chuong (USC) and Conan Young (Biomimetics)
	Development of Biomimetic Hydrogels for Guided Endothelial Cell Morphogenesis, Organizations and Vessel Formation Andrea Gobin - University of Louisville	On the fate of stem cells Jeffrey Platt - University of Michigan	Biomaterials for Spinal Cord Injury Repair Molly Shoichet - University of Toronto	Development of rhPDGF-BB based drug/device combination products for the treatment of orthopedic injuries Charles Hart - BioMimetic Therapeutics
	Treatment of Neuroinflammation by a Thermally-Sensitive Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha Antagonist Mohammed Shamji - Duke University		Tissue Engineered Models of Axon Guidance Diane Hoffman-Kim - Brown University	Caspase-8 Regulates Skin Regeneration and Wound Repair Colin Jamora - UCSD
	3D elastomeric engineered tissues with aligned, interconnected pore structures Jason Nichol - Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Human Primary Osteoblast Matrices as a Paradigm for Tumor/Bone Microenvironment Research Johannes Reichert - Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology	Nanofibrous Scaffold for Spinal Cord regererationa Eugene Zhu - UC Berkeley	New pre-clinical models of physiological and pathological cutaneous processes based on skin tissue engineering Fernando Larcher - CIEMAT. Cutaneous Diseases Modelling Unit
	Developing injectable and bio-absorbable thermally responsive hydrogels: Synthesis of poly (NIPAAm-co-AAc-co-HEMA-PTMC) and poly (NIPAAm-co-HEMA-co-MA-PLA) Zuwei Ma - McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh	Development of a 3D culture system to study the skeletal metastatic process of the Prostate cancer (CaP) Shirly Sieh - Queensland University of Technology	Lactic Acid Impacts Reactive Oxygen Species Effects on Neural Precursor Cells and Their Development in Monolayer Kyle Lampe - University of Colorado	Large-scale production of inductive dermal papilla microtissues for hair follicle regeneration via biomaterial facilitated self-assembly Sung-Jan Lin - Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University
	Fundamental Studies of Artificial Extra Cellular Matrix Composed of Laminin-derived sequence Sachiro Kakinoki - Department of Biomedical Engineering, Advanced Medical Engineering Center, National Cardiovascular Center Research Institute	A strategy for generating antigen-specific T cells for immunotherapy Brenda Ogle - University of Wisconsin-Madison	Design of guidance scaffolds containing minimal topographic cues to promote endogenous bridging of long peripheral nerve gaps Isaac Clements - Georgia Institute of Technology	Improving Postnatal Vasculogenesis Restores Diabetic Wound Healing Robert Allen, Jr. - New York University Langone Medical Center
	Bioactive Nanostructures for Regenerative Medicine and Cancer Therapies Ramille Capito -	Compressive Forces Control Inflammation by Regulating Activation of NF-κB Transcription Factor in Chondrocytes Jin Nam - The Ohio State University	Femtosecond Light Patterned Hydrogels for Tissue Engineering Ryan Wylie - University of Toronto	Forming Hair from Wounds Cheng Ming Chuong - University of Southern California
11:30-1:00PM	Exhibit Viewing
SESSION 1:00-2:30PM	Printing and Stereolithography for 3D Scaffolds II	Stem Cells - (MSCs, Adult Stem Cells, Embryonic Stem Cells) II	Soft Tissue Repair II	Dental, Oral and Craniofacial Tissue Engineering II
Session Chairs	Ben Wu (UCLA) and Dietmar Hutmacher (Queensland U, Australia)	Johnny Huard (U Pittsburgh) and Sylvia Evans (UCSD)	David Kaplan (Tufts U) and Martha Murray (Harvard U)	Pam Yelick (Tufts U) and Geroge Huang (U Maryland)
	3D Printing of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds ? Challenges and Opportunities Ben Wu - UCLA	Regenerative medicine based on muscle stem cells Johnny Huard - Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC	Bedside to Bench: A Complementary Approach to Soft Tissue Engineering Martha Murray - Children's Hospital, Boston	Strategies for Whole Tooth Tissue Engineering Pamela Yelick - Tufts University
	Determining engineering parameters for inkettable biological inks Thomas Boland - Clemson University	A Myocardial Lineage Derives from Tbx18 Epicardial Cells Sylvia Evans - UCSD	Synthesis and Characterization of Hyaluronic Acid-based Injectable, Biodegradable Hydrogels for Soft Tissue Repair Kacey Marra - University of Pittsburgh	Stem cell-mediated de novo regeneration of human dental pulp George Huang - University of Maryland
	Generation of Durable Tissue Constructs Using a Novel Hybrid Printing System Tao Xu - Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine	Amniotic Fluid-derived Stem Cells for Regeneration of Infracted Rat Myocardium Xuan Guan - Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine	Evaluation of a Tissue Engineered Urethral Wrap Following Implantation Donna Haworth - University of Pittsburgh	In Vivo Osteoconductive and Osteoinductive, Carrier Filled, 3D Printed, Bone Scaffolds for Custom Bone Repair and Replacement ELIZABETH CLARK - NYUCD
	Computer simulation of angiogenesis in a printed-type scaffold predicts load-dependent vascular invasion and osteogenesis Sara Checa - Trinity College Dublin	Myospheres, Stem Cells for Muscle Karen Westerman - Brigham and Women's Hospital	Translational Studies of Enhanced ACL Reconstruction Braden Fleming - Brown Medical School	Tooth Tissue Engineering: Kinetic of Vascularization Adnane NAIT LECHGUER - University Louis Pasteur Dental School INSERM UMR 595
	Maskless fabrication of masters and poly(dimethyl siloxane) stamps for the micro-contact printing of proteins and cells Imen Elloumi Hannachi - Institute of Advanced Biomedical Engineering and Science, Tokyo Women's Medical University	Synthetic Oxygen Carriers Enhance The Survival and Osteogenic Potential of Genetically Modified MSCs Zulma Gazit - Hebrew University and Cedars Sinai Medical Center	Rotator Cuff Repair Augmentation in a Canine Model Using a Woven PLLA Device Kathleen Derwin - Cleveland Clinic	Investigation of the effects of laser microgrooves and Arginine-Glycine-Aspartic acid (RGD) coating on the interfacial strength of Ti-6Al-4V pins. MOHAMED ALKHODARY - TISSUE ENGINEERING LABORATORY, FACULTY OF DENTISTRY, ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY, EGYPT
	What is the future for advanced design and fabrication of 3D scaffolds in Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine? Tim Woodfield - Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Otago Christchurch	Chondrogenic Differentiation of Embryonic Stem Cells and Adult Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Associations Among Contraction, Smooth Muscle Actin Expression, and Chondrogenesis In Vitro Karen Shu - Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Bedside to Bench: In Vitro to In Vivo Soft Tissue Engineering David Kaplan - Tufts University	Tissue engineering a human ear model following seeding of different chondrocytes Noritaka Isogai - Kinki University School of Medicine
2:30-3:00PM	Break with Poster Viewing
SESSION 3:00-4:30PM	Nanotechnology for Tissue Engineering	Cell Therapy	Microvascularization and Angiogenesis II	Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering II
Session Chairs	JJ Hickman (U Central Florida) and Jennifer West (Rice U)	George Muschler (Cleveland Clinic) and Marc Hedrick (Cytori)	Chris Chen (U Penn) and Shayn Peirce (U Virginia)	Rocky Tuan (NIH) and Lori Setton (Duke U)
	Temporal Neurotransmitter Conditioning and Neuroprotection by Ceria Nanoparticles Enables Adult Rat Spinal Cord Neuron Regeneration James Hickman - University of Central Florida	Optimizing Assays for Colony forming Cells ? Applications in Stem Cell Biology and Tissue Engineering George Muschler -	Adipose-derived Stromal Cells as Perivascular Support Cells during Angiogenesis and Arteriogenesis: Mechanisms of Recruitment and Therapeutic Implications Shayn Peirce - University of Virginia	Artificial Neural Network Modeling of Elastin-Like Polypeptide Parameter Effects on Gel Mechanical Properties, Cellular Metabolism, and Biosynthesis Lori Setton - Duke University
	Controlled Release of Retinoic Acid and Nerve Growth Factor from Nano-Pattern for Neuronal Regeneration Kim Kiat Teo - National University of Singapore	Adipose Based Cell Therapy Marc Hedrick - Cytori Therapeutics, Inc.	Regulation of capillary endothelial cell function by the adhesive and mechanical microenvironment Christopher Chen - University of Pennsylvania	Adult Stem Cells and Nanomaterials in Skeletal Tissue Engineering and Regeneration Rocky Tuan - NIAMS, NIH
	Nanoparticles for Cellular Imaging Jennifer West - Rice U	Doping Self-Assembling Peptide Hydrogels with Collagens Promotes Chondrogenesis of Mesenchymal Stem Cells Eric Vanderploeg - Massachusetts Institute of Technology	A Tissue Engineered Model of Intestinal Lacteals for Characterizing Lipid and Nanoparticle Uptake and Transport J. Brandon Dixon - Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne	Passaged Human Chondrocytes Can be Induced to form Hyaline Cartilage In Vitro Nazish Ahmed - Mount Sinai Hospital
	The Effect of Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Facilitated Thermoacoustic Stimulation on Marrow Stromal Cells Danielle Green - State University of New York at Stony Brook	Long Term Expansion of Pluripotent Human Embryonic Stem Cells in a Suspension Bioreactor Culture System Roman Krawetz - University of Calgary	Formation of Durable Vascular Networks within 3D Scaffolds: Implications for Engineered Bone Olga Tsigkou - Center for Regenerative Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School	Composition of Biodegradable Composite Scaffolds Directs In Vivo Osteogenesis and Angiogenesis Jiawei He - UC Davis
	Nanotechnology for Improving Tissue Regeneration: A Collection of in vivo Studies Thomas Webster - Brown	Treatment of Muscle Stem Cells with N-acetylcysteine Increases Survival and Resistance to Stress Lauren Drowley - University of Pittsburgh	Vascularization of Microfluidic Type I Collagen Gels Joe Tien - Boston University	A Hydrogel-Mineral Hybrid Scaffold for Osteochondral Interface Tissue Engineering Nora Khanarian - Columbia University
	Nanofiber-Based Scaffold System for Tendon-to-Bone Integration Kristen Moffat - Columbia University	Tissue engineered adrenal gland -adrenal sphere cell- Shigeyuki Furuta - Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School	Use of Endothelial Progenitor Cells and Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Engineering Long-lasting Functional Blood Vessels in vivo Patrick Au - Massachusetts General Hospital	Biomaterial Guided Cartilage Repair in a Goat Model Blanka Sharma - Cartilix Inc.
4:30-5:00PM	Exhibit Viewing & Refreshments
5:00-6:30PM	Poster Session II

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10 (1/2 day)
8:00-9:00AM	PLENARY - Topic - Kidney Organ Engineering Sanjay Nigam (University of California, San Diego)
9:00-9:30AM	Coffee Break
SESSION 9:30-10:45AM	Bioreactors and Mechanical Training of Tissue Constructs	Gene Therapy and Tissue Engineering	Cardiovascular and Vascular Tissue Engineering II	Endocrine and Metabolic Tissue Engineering
Session Chairs	Al Banes (U North Carolina) and Gordana Vunjak -Novakovic (Columbia U)	Dave Mooney (Harvard U) and Edward Schwarz (U Rochester)	Marc Mercola (Burnham Institute) and Jan Stegemann (U Michigan)	Athanassios Sambanis (Georgia Tech) and Fred Levine (UC San Diego)
	A novel rotational vacuum seeding device (S-RVSD) for porous tubular scaffolds Lorenzo Soletti - University of Pittsburgh	Oligonucleotide Uptake: Roles of Packaging and Cellular Context David Mooney - Harvard University	Strategies to Improve Protein-Based Scaffolds for Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering Jan Stegemann - University of Michigan	Genetically Engineered non-Pancreatic Cells for Physiologically Responsive Insulin Secretion Athanassios Sambanis - Georgia Institute of Technology
	Controlled Cyclic Stretching to Enhance Mechanical and Compositional Properties of Tissue Engineered Heart Valves Zeeshan Syedain - University of Minnesota	Independent and high level dual-gene expression from double promoter lentivirus for high-throughput and real-time dynamic gene expression profiling Jun Tian - University at Buffalo	Combination of muscle-derived stem cells and biodegradable scaffolds for arterial tissue-engineered vascular grafts in rat and pig models. Alejandro Nieponice - MIRM	High-Throughput Screening for Molecules that Modulate Insulin Promoter Activity Fred Levine - Burnham Institute for Medical Research
	Bioengineering of Lubricious Synovial Fluid in a Biomimetic Bioreactor Robert Sah - University of California-San Diego	Adenylate-Cyclase VI Transforms Ventricular Cardiomyocytes Into Biological Pacemaker Cells Arjang Ruhparwar - University of Heidelberg	Tissue Engineered Vascular Adventitia with Vasa Vasorum (TEVAwVV) Drastically Improve Implanted Graft Perfusion via Inosculation Maxime D. Guillemette - Laval University / LOEX	Covalently Linked Alginate/PEG Microcapsules for Islet Encapsulation Cherie Stabler - University of Miami
	Bioreactor for Application of Strain to Cells in Three Dimensional Collagen Hydrogels: Test bed for Modeling Strain Effects in Osteoblast-Mediated Gel Compaction, Development of Tissue Engineered Tendons and High Throughput 3D Culture Systems Albert Banes - University of North Carolina	Endostatin Transfection of Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Plasmid-Supplemented Collagen Scaffolds Lily Jeng - Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Engineering Small-Diametr Nanofibrous Vascular Grafts Song Li - UC Berkeley	Autologous cell-based liver tissue engineering Kazuo Ohashi - Tokyo Women's Medical University
	Tissue engineering bioreactors with biologically inspired physical stimulation regimes Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic - Columbia University	Inhibition of Multidrug-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii by Non-Viral Expression of hCAP-18 in a Bioengineered Human Skin Tissue Lynn Allen-Hoffmann - University of Wisconsin	Blood Outgrowth Endothelial Cells in Vascular Tissue Engineering Katherine Ahmann - University of Minnesota	Scalable Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells to Endodermal Progeny Emmanuel Tzanakakis - State University of New York at Buffalo
SESSION 10:45-12:00PM	Product Development and Commercialization of Tissue Engineering (Co-Sponsored by AABB)	Organ Tissue Engineering	Neural Tissue Engineering II	Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine in the Clinic
Session Chairs	Dave McKenna (U Minnesota) and Sharon Presnell (Tengion)	Doris Taylor (U Minnesota) and Linda Griffith (MIT)	Ravi Bellamkonda (Georgia Tech) and Mark Tuszynski (UC San Diego)	Nicholas L'Heureux (Cytograft) and James Yoo (Wake Forest U)
	Molecular & Cellular Therapeutics of the University of Minnesota: Facilitating teh Delivery of Therapies from Bench to Bedside David McKenna - University of Minnesota	Formation of Functional Tissue: Endothelialized Modules containing MSC or Islets Dean Chamberlain - Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering	Sustained and Local Delivery of Thermostabilized chABC for Treatment after Spinal Cord Injury Ravi Bellamkonda - Georgia Institute of Technology	The First Completely Biological and Autologous Tissue Engineered Blood Vessel for Human Use Nicolas L'Heureux - Cytograft Tissue Engineering, Inc.
	Targeted R&D in the Development of Neo-Organ Products for Regenerative Medicine Applications Sharon Presnell - Tengion	Biomechanical investigation of an optimal sterilization method Tomohiro Ota - Graduate school of Waseda University	Templated Agarose Scaffolds Orient and Guide Regenerating Long-Tract Axons Through Sites of Spinal Cord Injury Mark H. Tuszynski - University of California - San Diego	Clinical Application of Tissue Engineering Vascular Grafts in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Toshiharu Shinoka - Yale University
	Development of Identity and Potency Assays for Autologous Cell Therapy Products for Cartilage Repair Stephen Duguay - Genzyme Biosurgery	Fully Biological Bioprinted Blood Vessels Cyrille Norotte - University of Missouri	Influence of topography on the regenerative phenotype of peripheral nerve cells Vivek Mukhatyar - Georgia Institute of Technology	Phase I/II study of a New Autologous Transplantation Method for Vitiligo Treatment Wendy CHen - Institute of Biomedical Engineering
	Commercialisation Requirements for Regenerative Medicine Products Pawanbir Singh - Loughborough University	Engineering organs using Nature's Platform Doris Taylor -	Structurally Modified Acellular Scaffolds Promote Peripheral Nerve Regeneration in a Rabbit Model Paulina Sierpinski - Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine	Histologic Evaluation of a Stem Cell Based Sinus Bone Grafting Procedure for Dental Implant Reconstruction Bradley S. McAllister -
	Liver Tissue Engineering with Inverted Colloidal Crystal Scaffolds for In vitro Toxicity Testing Jungwoo Lee - University of Michigan	CAPTURING COMPLEX LIVER INFLAMMATORY PHENOTYPES IN VITRO Linda Griffith - MIT	3D Photo-Engraving of Guidance Micro-Channels into Hydrogels for Directed Neural Invasion Offra Sarig-Nadir - Technion - Israel Institute of Technology	Clinical Translation of Urologic Tissues James Yoo - Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
12:00PM	Adjournment