Saturday |
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
3:00 pm - 3:15 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
3:15 pm - 4:00 pm | Keynote Session: Engineered Hydrogels for Regenerative Medicine
Applications |
| Discussion Leader: Jagannath Padmanabhan (Yale University, USA) |
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm | Ali Khademhosseini (Harvard University, USA) "Engineered Hydrogels for Regenerative Medicine
Applications" |
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm | Discussion |
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm | Poster Session |
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm | Micro and Nanomaterials in Tissue Engineering |
| Discussion Leader: Phin Peng Lee (University of California, San Francisco, USA) |
5:30 pm - 5:50 pm | Andres Sanz (University of Helsinki, Finland) "Human Adipose-Derived Stem Cell Decorated Nanofibrillated Cellulose Threads for Surgery" |
5:50 pm - 6:00 pm | Discussion |
6:00 pm - 6:20 pm | Carrie Brubaker (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland) "A Cationic Micelle Carrier Improves Vaccination Outcomes
Against Unmodified Whole Protein Antigen" |
6:20 pm - 6:30 pm | Discussion |
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm | Ramya Parameswaran (University of Chicago, USA) "Optical Modulation of Neuronal Activity with Novel Silicon-Gold
Nanowires" |
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm | Discussion |
7:00 pm - 7:20 pm | Jacob Jordahl (University of Michigan, USA) "Hierarchically Patterned Microfibers via 3D Jet Writing" |
7:20 pm - 7:30 pm | Discussion |
8:00 pm | Dinner |
Sunday |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 11:00 am | Engineering Tissue Microenvironment |
| Discussion Leader: Pilar de la Puente (Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, USA) |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Lesley Chow (Imperial College London, United Kingdom) "Peptide-Guided Spatial Organization of Bioactivity in
Functionally Diverse Scaffolds for Translational Tissue Engineering" |
9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
9:30 am - 9:50 am | Carolina Mora Solano (University of Chicago, USA) "Integrative Peptide Assemblies that Protect Against TNF-Driven
Inflammation" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:20 am | Molly Ogle (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) "Spatially Localized Recruitment of Anti-Inflammatory
Monocytes and Microvascular Network Remodeling by SDF-1α Delivery from Heparin-Based
Hydrogels" |
10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
10:30 am - 10:50 am | Silvia R. M. Ferreira (King's College London, United Kingdom) "3D Spatiotemporal Evaluation of the Stiffness Impact on Stem
Cell Niche" |
10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Mentorship Component: Panel Discussion: Industry vs. Academia - Challenges and Opportunities |
| Discussion Leader: Edward Botchwey (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) |
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Panel Discussion |
| "Industry vs. Academia - Challenges and Opportunities" |
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- Joel Collier (University of Chicago, USA)
- Themis Kyriakides (Yale University, USA)
- Horst Von Recum (Case Western Reserve University, USA)
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2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |