This symposium will focus on the use of materials for controlled structural, biochemical, and biomolecular interactions with living cellular systems. An emphasis will be placed on 1) understanding and exploiting the role of materials chemistry, size scales (geometry), and other properties on the incorporation or display of new or emerging biomolecules and ligands; and 2) understanding and exploiting the performance of cellular systems through controlled interactions with engineered biomaterials. Cell-material interactions can be engineered on the extracellular level, e.g., material-membrane or material-receptor recognition, or intracellular level, e.g., cytosolic, endocytic, or nuclear recognition. Specific areas of interest include new or creatively engineered materials for functional tissue engineering, stem cell bioengineering, cell-based biosensors, intracellular molecular beacons, cell-targeted drug and biomolecule delivery, and microscale-through-nanoscale ligand presentation. The aim of this symposium is to provide a forum for materials scientists and engineers, chemists, biologists, engineers, and clinicians to exchange information and ideas within a multidisciplinary environment.
Session Topics
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Synthesis and characterization of novel materials for controlled cellular interactions
- Cellular growth and differentiation on biomaterials
- Biomaterials for modulating intracellular processes
- Biomimetic materials
- Tissue-analog polymers: hydrogels, engineered membranes, vesicles, etc.
- Gene delivery and gene-modulating polymers
- Quantitative modeling of performance of cell-interactive materials
- Nanoscale processing of scaffolds and substrates for cell and tissue engineering
- Micro- and mesoscale fabrication and biodeposition
- Biosensors and bioactuators for cell-derived or cell-based biorecognition
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Invited Speakers
Invited speakers (tentative) include: Ashutosh Chilkoti (Duke Univ.), Andres Garcia ( Georgia Inst. of Technology), James Harden (Johns Hopkins Univ.), Efrosini Kokkoli (Univ. of Minnesota), Camilla Mohrdieck (Univ. Stuttgart, Germany), Charles Roth (Rutgers Univ.), Joachim Spatz (Univ. of Heidelberg, Germany), and Marcus Textor (Swiss Federal Inst. of Technology, Switzerland). |
Symposium Organizers
Prabhas Moghe
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Depts. of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical & Biochemical Engineering
98 Brett Rd.
Piscataway, NJ 08854
Tel: 732-445-4951
Fax: 732-445-2581
moghe@rci.rutgers.edu |
David Kaplan
Tufts University
Dept. of Chemical & Biological Engineering
4 Colby St.
Medford, MA 02155
Tel: 617-627-3251
Fax: 617-627-3991
david.kaplan@tufts.edu |
Susan Enders
Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research
Heisenbergstrasse 3, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany
Tel: 49-711-689-3424
Fax: 49-711-689-3412
enders@mf.mpg.de |
Shrirang Ranade
DePuy Spine, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson
Company
DePuy Biologics, Bone Technology & Process
Development
325 Paramount Dr. Raynham, MA 02767-0350 Tel: 508-828-3203
Fax: 508-828-3731
sranade@dpyus.jnj.com |
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