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Workshop 5: Wound Healing

Schedule

Monday, March 9
8:30-9:30am Welcome, overview of workshop, and introductions: Marty Golubitsky and Chandan Sen
9:30-10:30am Robert F. Diegelmann: Overview of Wound Healing
10:30-11:30am Luisa DiPietro: Inflammation in the Healing Wound: Friend or Foe
11:30-1:00pm Lunch break
1:00-1:30pm Discussions: Thomas K. Hunt (Leader); Raj Maini, and Peter Sheehan (Panel)
1:30-2:30pm John King: Mathematical modelling of tissue growth
2:30-3:30pm Short talks
3:30-4:00pm Discussions: Katie Bentley (Leader); Rebecca Segal, Jianzhong Su, and Paul Liu (Panel)
4:00-4:30pm Break
4:30-5:00pm Summary of the day and discussions: Geoffrey Gurtner (Leader); Thomas Hunt, Richard Kollar, and Peter Sheehan (Panel)
5:00-7:00pm Reception and Poster Session
Tuesday, March 10
9:00-10:00am Sanjay Kumar: Cell-Matrix Mechanobiology: Biophysics, Therapeutics, and Biointerfacial Design
10:00-11:00am John Ward: A mathematical model of normal and chronic wound development
11:00-11:30am Discussions: Anie Philips (Leader); Paul Liu, and Stephen McDougall (Panel)
11:30-1:00pm Lunch break
1:00-2:00pm John Dallon: Fibroblast Populated Collagen Lattices
2:00-3:00pm Pierre Coulombe: Intermediate Filaments and Wound Repair: Cellular Mechanics and Beyond
3:00-3:30pm Discussions: Sanjay Kumar (Leader); Angela Reynolds, Carmen Stone and Len Sander (Panel)
3:30-4:00pm Break
4:00-5:00pm Poster Session
Wednesday, March 11
9:00-10:00am Periannan Kuppusamy: Imaging of Tissue Oxygen Tension
10:00-11:00am Ronald Xu: Multimodal imaging for wound assessment and healing
11:00-11:30am Discussions: Thomas K Hunt (Leader); Geoffrey Gurtner, and Richard Schuggart (Panel)
11:30-1:00pm Lunch break
1:00-2:00pm Leonard M. Sander: Discrete and continuum models of wound healing
2:00-3:00pm Min Zhao: Electric fields are a powerful directional signal in wound healing
3:00-3:30pm Discussions: John Ward (Leader); Marc Basson, Periannan Kuppusamy and Philip Maini (Panel)
3:30-4:00pm Break
4:00-5:00pm Poster Session
6:00pm Banquet Dinner at the Holiday Inn on the Lane
Thursday, March 12
9:00-10:00am Sarah Waters: Mathematical models for tissue engineering applications
10:00-11:00am Marc D. Basson: Intestinal epithelial wound healing: Influence of diameter, depth, duration, and deformation
11:00-11:30am Discussions: Bob Diegelman, Ronald Xu and Benjamin Yu (Panel)
11:30-1:00pm Lunch break
1:00-2:00pm Geoffrey C. Gurtner: Understanding the importance of progenitor cell mediated repair following injury
2:00-3:00pm Benjamin D. Yu, Anandaroop Mukhopadhyay, Suguna R. Krishnaswami: How to talk to developmental organizers during wound repair: a strategy to restore size and shape of skin
3:00-3:30pm Discussions: Chandan Sen (Leader); Luisa DiPietro, Angela Reynolds and Stephen McDougall (Panel)
3:30-4:00pm Break
4:00-5:00pm Anie Philip: Regulation of TGF-beta signaling in skin cells
Friday, March 13
9:00-10:00am Philip Maini: The role of angiogenesis in wound healing: continuum and multiscale approaches
10:00-11:00am Kevin Kesseler: A Predictive Mathematical Model of the G2 DNA Damage Checkpoint
11:00-12:00pm TBD
12:00-1:00pm Discussions: Mark Ferguson (Leader); Paul Liu, Chandan Sen and Raj Mani (Panel)