Preliminary Program subject to change
08B15 Biomimetics I
OverviewThis session is devoted to investigations involving materials that have been developed to reflect the structure of naturally derived substances. Participants are requested to present studies describing novel functionalized biomaterials, modified naturally derived materials, and synthetic/natural material composites for controlling cell or tissue behavior.
Primary SponsorBiomaterials (08b)

Chair

Ravi S. Kane
Merck Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Ricketts 131, 110 8th Street
Troy, NY 12180
Phone Number: 518 276-2536
Email: kaner@rpi.edu

CoChair

Esmaiel Jabbari
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
University of South Carolina
Dept. of Chemical Eng., Rm. 2C11
Swearingen Engineering Center
Columbia, SC 29208
Phone Number: 803-777-8022
Fax Number: 803-777-0973
Email: jabbari@engr.sc.edu
Polysaccharide Hydrogels as Variably Elastic Cell Culture Substrates
Tor Wolf Jensen1, Rui Dong2, Kristin Engberg3, Emily Hou3, Ralph G. Nuzzo2 and Deborah E. Leckband4, (1)Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 600 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801, (2)Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, MRL 3011, 104 S. Goodwin Ave., MC-230, Urbana, IL 61801, (3)Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois, (4)Chemical Engineering, university of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, MRL 3011, 104 S. Goodwin Ave., MC-230, Urbana, IL 61801
Fibroblast Migration on Covalent Laminin Peptide Gradient Surfaces
Matt J. Kipper, National Institutes of Health (NIDCR) and National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8543, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8543, Hynda K. Kleinman, National Institutes of Health (NIDCR), Building 30, Room 433, 30 Convent Drive, MSC 4370, Bethesda, MD 20892-4370 and Francis W. Wang, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8545, Gaithersburg, MD 20878-8545
Morphogen Gradient Patterns within Three-Dimensional Matrices to Direct Stem Cell Responses
Charu Vepari, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Tufts University, 4 Colby St, Medford, MA 02155, Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY and David Kaplan, Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University, 4 Colby St, Medford, MA 02155
Biomimetic Osteoinductive in Situ Crosslinkable Poly(Lactide) for Bone Regeneration
Xuezhong He, Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina, Swearingen Engineering center Rm 1B30, 301 South Main Street, Columbia, SC 29208 and Esmaiel Jabbari, University of South Carolina, Dept. of Chemical Eng., Rm. 2C11, Swearingen Engineering Center, Columbia, SC 29208
Supported Bilayers Incorporating Cell-Adhesive Rgd Peptides: Composition, Structure and Function
Badriprasad Ananthanarayanan, Dimitrios Stroumpoulis and Matthew Tirrell, Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Design of a Novel Fibronectin-Mimetic Peptide-Amphiphile for Functional Biomaterials
Anastasia Mardilovich1, Jennifer Craig2, Matthew McCammon1, Ashish Garg1 and Efrosini Kokkoli1, (1)Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, (2)Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455

Materials Engineering and Sciences Division