Program
Sunday, October 23
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Sunday, October 23
| 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Registration |
| 4:15 PM - 4:30 PM | Welcome |
| 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Keynote Speaker: Biomaterial mechanics, stem cells and regeneration - David Mooney (Harvard University) |
| 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM | Keynote Speaker: Peter Zandstra, University of Toronto |
| 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM | Welcome Reception |
Monday, October 24 |
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| 8:00 AM- 12:00 PM | Registration |
| 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM - 10:45 AM |
Session 1: Differentiation and Morphogenesis I: Randy Ashton, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | Invited Speaker: Engineering the Morphogenesis of Pluripotent Stem Cells - Todd McDevitt (Gladstone Institute) |
| 9:30 AM - 9:45 AM | Dynamic Soft Materials for Deconstructing ‘Matrix Structure—Cell Function’ Relationships - Kristopher Kilian (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) |
| 9:45 AM - 10:00 AM | Generating Epicardial Cells from Human Pluripotent Stem Cells in a Defined, Growth-Factor Free Manner - Sean Palecek (University of Wisconsin, Madison) |
| 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM | Biomaterials for Cellular Reprogramming and Origami-Based Tissue Engineering - Nathaniel S. Hwang (Seoul National University) |
| 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM | Using Patient-Derived Stem Cells to Study HIF2 Regulation in Pulmonary Hypertension - Xin Yi Chan (Johns Hopkins University) |
| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | Engineering CNS Tissue Morphogenesis Ex Vivo. - Randolph Ashton (University of Wisconsin-Madison) |
| 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM | Break |
| 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM | Session 2: Computational Stem Cell Biology: Ben Cosgrove, Cornell University |
| 11:15 AM - 11:30 AM | Comprehensive Reconstruction and Manipulation of the Pluripotent Stem Cell Metabolic Network.- Sriram Chandrasekaran (Harvard University) |
| 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | Tracking Pluripotent Stem Cell Differentiation with FLOW-MAP, a Graph-Based, Force-Directed Layout Algorithm for Single-Cell, Time Course Datasets - Eli Zunder (University of Virginia) |
| 11:45 AM - 12:00 PM | Single-Cell Dissection of Muscle Stem Cell Functional Heterogeneity - Ben Cosgrove (Cornell University) |
| 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Lunch |
| 1:30 PM - 3:15 PM | Session 3: Microtechnologies & High Throughput Screening/Disease model: Nicola Elvassore, BioERA |
| 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM | Invited Speaker: Engineering Organoid Development in 3D Artificial Microenvironments - Matthias Lutolf (EPFL) |
| 2:00 PM - 2:15 PM | Heart-on-a-Plate for Modelling of Cardiac Physiology and Drug Screening - Milica Radisic (University of Toronto) |
| 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM | Microtopography-Enhancement on Dopaminergic Neuronal Differentiation - Evelyn Yim (University of Waterloo) |
| 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM | Modeling the Pharmacogenomics of Chemotherapy-Induced Cardiotoxicty Using hiPSC - Paul Burridge (Northwestern University) |
| 2:45 PM - 3:00 PM | Isolation and Characterization of Lung Cancer Stem Cells from p53 Gain-of-Function Mutant Mouse Models - Raj Rao (University of Arkansas) |
| 3:00 PM - 3:15 PM | High-Efficiency Cellular Reprogramming and Differentiation with Microfluidics - Nicola Elvassore (University of Padova) |
| 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM | Break |
| 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM | Session 4: In situ/Endogenous Regeneration: Thomas Gilbert, ACeLL |
| 3:45 PM - 4:15 PM | Invited Speaker: Development of an Improved Vascular Graft for Use in Children - Christopher Breuer (Nationwide Children's Hospital) |
| 4:15 PM - 4:30 PM | Dental Pulp Stem Cell Adhesion and Differentiation on a Novel Therapeutic Biomaterial - Jacob Scherba (Harvard University) |
| 4:30 PM - 4:45 PM | Endogenous Neural Stem Cell Stimulation and Motor Recovery after Local Delivery of Cyclosporine and Erythropoietin with a Hyaluronan-Based Hydrogel - Anup Tuladhar (University of Toronto) |
| 4:45 PM - 5:00 PM | The Role of Progenitor Cells in Extracellular Matrix Scaffold Remodeling - Thomas Gilbert (ACell, Inc.) |
| 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM | Dinner |
Tuesday, October 25 |
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| 7:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Registration |
| 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM | Breakfast |
| 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM | Session 5: Differentation & Morphogenesis II: Stephanie Willerth, University of Victoria |
| 8:30 AM - 9:00 PM | Invited Speaker: Electrical Function of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocyte Grafts - Michael Laflamme (University Health Network) |
| 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM | Mechanical regulation of direct cell reprogramming - Song Li (University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles) |
| 9:15 AM - 9:30 AM | Biomaterials Strategies to Enhance the Therapeutic Potential of Human Neural Stem Cells for Neural Tissue Regeneration - Hai-Quan Mao (John Hopkins University) |
| 9:30 AM - 9:45 AM | Tracking and Predicting Reprogramming from a Biophysical Perspective - Jared Carlson-Stevermer (University of Wisconsin-Madison) |
| 9:45 AM - 10:00 AM | Experimental and Computational Modeling for Directing Vascular Fate - Kara McCloskey (University of California, Merced) |
| 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM | Engineering Personalized Neural Tissue Using Cell Permeable Transcription Factors - Stephanie Willerth (University of Victoria) |
| 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM | Break |
| 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM | Session 6: Immune Engineering: Jae-Won Shin, The University of Illinois at Chicago |
| 10:45 AM - 11:15 AM | Invited Speaker: Biomaterials in Regenerative Engineering: immunoengineering and translation - Jennifer Elisseeff (John Hopkins University) |
| 11:15 AM - 11:30 AM | Engineered Marrow Macrophages Engorge and Accumulate in Tumors before Differentiating into Tumor Associated Macrophages - Cory Alvey (University of Pennsylvania) |
| 11:30 AM - 11:45 AM | Utilizing Humanized Mice to Study the Human Immune Response to Pro-Regenerative Biomaterials - Raymond Wang (University of California, San Diego) |
| 11:45 AM - 12:00 PM | Mechanical Programming of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells for Immunomodulation - Jae-Won Shin (University of Illinois at Chicago) |
| 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Lunch |
| 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM | Session 7: Clinical Applications and Challenges (Including scale up and Imaging): Kevin D'amour, Viacyte Inc. |
| 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM | Invited Speaker: Imaging Stem Cell Delivery Near the Bed: Are We There Yet? - Jeff Bulte (John Hopkins University) |
| 2:00 PM - 2:15 PM | Bioprocess Engineering Strategies for Stem Cell-Based Therapies and Regenerative Medicine - Joaquim Cabral (Instituto Superior Técnico) |
| 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM | Patient-Derived Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Diabetes Cell Replacement Therapy and Drug Screening - Jeffrey Millman (Washington University ) |
| 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM | Microtissue Optimization for Practical Cell-Based Therapies - Mark Ungrin (University of Calgary) |
| 2:45 PM - 3:00 PM | Development of a Stem-Cell Derived Islet Replacement Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes - Kevin D'Amour (ViaCyte, Inc.) |
| 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Rapid Fire |
| 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Break |
| 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM | Reception and Poster Session |
Wednesday, October 26 |
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| 7:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Registration |
| 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM | Breakfast |
| 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM | Keynote Speaker: Endogenous Cell Stimulation and Exogenous Cell Transplantation to Promote Repair in the Central Nervous System - Molly Shoichet (University of Toronto) |
| 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | Break |
| 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Session 8: Towards regenerative therapies (including scale up and imaging): Warren Grayson, Johns Hopkins University |
| 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Invited Speaker: Regenerative Engineering of Human Tissues - Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic (Columbia University) |
| 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM | Scaling up a Chemically-Defined Aggregate-Based Suspension Culture System for Neural Commitment of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells - Maria Margarida Diogo (Instituto Superior Técnico) |
| 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM | 3D Biomaterials for Accelerated Generation and Transplantation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Midbrain Dopaminergic Neurons to Treat Parkinson’s Disease - Maroof Adil (University of California, Berkeley) |
| 11:00 AM - 11:15 AM | Hyaluronic Acid Hydrogels Induce mTOR Activation to Enhance Isolated Rod Photoreceptor Survival in Vitro - Nikolaos Mitrousis (University of Toronto) |
| 11:15 AM - 11:30 AM | Rapid Vascularization of Engineered Tissues - Warren Grayson (Johns Hopkins University) |
| 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Awards & Thank you |
