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CTW: Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine: Schedule

Tentative Schedule
Monday, April 30
8:30am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:45-9:15am Breakfast
9:15-9:30am Welcome, overview of workshop, and introductions: Marty Golubitsky
9:30-10:15am Heather Powell: Engineered Skin: New Strategies for Biomechanical Mimicry
10:15-10:45am Peter Anderson: Simulating the mechanical response of fibrous scaffolds for tissue engineering
10:45-11:00am Break
11:00-12:00pm Robert Diegelmann: Overview of Wound Healing
12:00-1:30pm Lunch break
1:30-2:30pm Melissa Knothe Tate: Multiscale Computational and Experimental Approaches to Harness the Regenerative Power of the Periosteum
2:30-3:30pm Praveen Arany: Directed Differentiation of Stem Cells using Lasers
3:30-4:00pm Break
4:00-5:00pm Yoram Vodovotz: Measurement, Modeling, and Rational Modulation of Inflammation and Wound Healing
5:00-7:00pm Reception and poster session in MBI Lounge
7:00pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Tuesday, May 1
8:15am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-10:00am Valerie Weaver: Matrix stiffness and cell behavior
10:00-10:45am Chinlin Guo: Long-range mechanical force enables scaffold-free self-assembly of epithelial tubules
10:45-11:00am Break
11:00-11:15am Chandan Sen: Wound Healing
11:15-12:00pm Leonard Sander: Strain confinement in non-linear biological media
12:00-1:45pm Lunch break
1:45-2:30pm Chuan Xue: Continuum approximations of cell-based models for bacterial chemotaxis
2:30-3:15pm Sharon Lubkin: Mechanical control of spheroid growth: Distinct morphogenetic regimes
3:15-3:45pm Break
3:45-4:30pm John Dallon: Modelling cell-cell and cell-extracellular interactions with random switching terms
4:30-5:00pm Discussion of wound healing
5:15pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Wednesday, May 2
8:15am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-9:45am Victor Barocas: Multiscale Models of Collagenous Materials
9:45-10:00am Ed Sander: Multiscale Computational Simulations of Fiber Remodeling and Cell Compaction in Collagen Gels
10:00-10:50am Torsten Blunk: Adipose TE - The Matrix Matters
10:50-11:20am Break
11:20-12:10pm Sarah Olson: Math models of cartilage regeneration
12:10-1:40pm Lunch break
1:40-2:20pm Alisha Sarang-Sieminski: Interplay between active and passive mechanical forces in microvascular network formation
2:20-2:50pm Richard T. Hart: Extracellular Matrix Fibers and Stress Transmission Between Cells
2:50-3:20pm Break
3:20-4:00pm Keith Gooch: Mathematical and computational modeling of cell-matrix interactions
4:00-4:30pm Samir Ghadiali: Mathematical Analysis of Traction Force Microscopy: Influence of Cell Mechanics, Adhesion and Morphology
4:30-5:00pm Discussion of cell matrix interactions
5:15pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
Thursday, May 3
8:15am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:30-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-10:00am Michael Sacks: Cell-Matrix interactions in TE heart valve
10:00-11:00am Laura Miller: Towards a complete neuromechanical model of pumping in tubular hearts
11:00-11:30am Break
11:30-12:30pm Nenad Bursac: Coaxing Myogenic Stem Cells into Highly Functional Engineered Tissues
12:30-2:15pm Lunch break
2:15-3:00pm Lauren Black: Alterations in Extracellular Matrix Properties Effect Cardiac Differentiation and Cardiomyocyte Proliferation
3:00-3:30pm Nicanor Moldovan: Quantification of "Actin Grips", a New Cytoskeletal Mechanism of Cell-Fiber Interaction
3:30-4:00pm Break
4:00-5:00pm Jay Humphrey: Constrained Mixture Model of growth and Remodeling
5:15pm Shuttle pick-up from MBI
6:00-7:00pm Cash Bar
7:00pm Banquet in the Fusion Room @ Crowne Plaza Hotel
Friday, May 4
8:00am Shuttle leaves for MBI
8:15-8:45am Breakfast
8:45-9:45am Jeffrey Holmes: Computational Modeling of Myocardial Infarct Healing
9:45-10:45am Elliot Elson: Myofibroblasts in the Electromechanical Function of TE Heart
10:45-11:00am Break
11:00-11:45pm Qi Wang: Modeling fusion of multicellular aggregates and endotheliation with applications to biofabrication
11:45-12:15pm Discussion of Cardiovascular
12:30pm One Shuttle back to hotel
One Shuttle to Columbus Airport (CMH)