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Engineering the Stem Cell Niche

Monday, November 17, 2008: 3:15 PM
Room 107-B (Pennsylvania Convention Center)

Description:
This session describes the creation of controllable environments to direct stem cell function.


Sponsor:
Biomaterials
Co-Sponsor(s):
Engineering Fundamentals in Life Science (15d)


Chair:
Andre F. Palmer
Email: palmer.351@osu.edu

CoChair:
Emmanuel (Manolis) S. Tzanakakis
Email: emtzan@buffalo.edu


3:15 PM
(145a) Elastic Niches and Capillaries Tuned for 3D Matrix Control of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Differentiation
Matthew Raab, Karthikan Rajagopal, Florian Rehfeldt, Manu Tewari, Chi Wang and Dennis E. Discher

3:35 PM
(145b) Combinatorial Biomaterials as An Engineered Niche Platform for Inhibition of Stem Cell Transformation and Promotion of Stem Cell-Based Regeneration
Er Liu, Hiral Patel, Hak-Joon Sung, Joachim Kohn and Prabhas Moghe

3:55 PM
(145c) Tendon Tissue Engineering Using Mechanical Stimulation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Rita Abousleiman, Peter S. McFetridge and Vassilios I. Sikavitsas

4:15 PM
(145d) Directed Differentiation of Embryonic Stem Cells to Cardiomyocytes in a Bioreactor
Abhirath Parikh, Dong H. Jing, Daniel E. Kehoe and Emmanuel (Manolis) S. Tzanakakis

4:35 PM
Break

4:45 PM
(145e) Integrated Expansion and Differentiation of Embryonoic Stem Cells In Fibrous Bed Bioreactors
Ning Liu and Shang-Tian Yang

5:05 PM
(145f) Effect of Organismal Aging on Bone Marrow Derived Smooth Muscle Progenitor Cells
Juhee Han, Jin Yu Liu, Daniel D. Swartz and Stelios T. Andreadis

5:25 PM
(145g) Evoking a Mature Smc Phenotype in Mouse Embryonic Progenitor Cells
Paul Qu, Dany Munoz-Pinto and Mariah Hahn
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