May 26 (Thursday)
7:00pm Conference Registration
8:00pm Welcome Reception / Dinner
May 27 (Friday)
7:30 Breakfast
Keynote Speaker
Chair: J. Temenoff
8:30
Welcome and Introduction
Johnna Temenoff
8:35-9:15
Keynote: Considerations for biomaterial scaffolds: Lessons learned from physiology and biology
Rena Bizios
Session I. Dental and Craniofacial Tissue Engineering
Chair: A. Bakopoulou
9:15-9:45
Cell therapies - clinical applications in regenerative dentistry
Athina Bakopoulou
9:45-10:15
Cell therapies for periodontal clinical applications
Danae Apatzidou
10:15-10:45
Maxillo-facial bone regeneration with stem cells and biomaterials in a comparative clinical trial
Pierre Layrolle
10:45-11:15
Dentin-pulp complex tissue engineering: a proposal for future dental clinical practice
Foteini Machla*, Viktoriya Sokolova, Varvara Platania, Oleg Prymak, Kathrin Kostka, Benedikt Kruse, Maria Chatzinikolaidou, Matthias Epple, and Athina Bakopoulou
*Young Investigator
11:15 Coffee Break
Session II. Cardiac and Vascular Tissue Engineering
Chair: T. Hookway
12:00-12:30
Biomimetic material support of pluripotent stem cell differentiation for cardiac applications
Elizabeth Lipke
12:30-1pm
Engineered models of heterotypic cardiac interactions
Tracy Hookway
1-1:30pm
Protein loaded poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) nanoparticles for vascular tissue engineering applications
Jordyn Wyse, Marisa Esparza, Dimitrios Miserlis, Panagiotis Koutakis, and Marissa Wechsler
1:30-2pm
Tissue engineering with soft matter
Yadong Wang
2:00pm Lunch and Informal Discussions
7:30pm Dinner and Informal Discussions
May 28 (Saturday)
7:30 Breakfast
Session III. Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering 1
Chair: J. Temenoff
8:30-9 am
Engineering biomaterials and using high-throughput approaches for optimising their interactions with cells
Rui Reis
9-9:30 am
Polymeric scaffolds under dynamic conditions promote osteogenic differentiation of pre-osteoblasts
Georgia-Ioanna Kontogianni, Konstantinos Loukelis, Amedeo Franco Bonatti, Carmelo De Maria, Raasti Naseem, Giovanni Vozzi, Kenneth Dalgarno, Nicholas Dunne, Chiara Vitale-Brovarone, and Maria Chatzinikolaidou
9:30-10am
Effect of biomaterial substrate on expansion and function of marrow stromal cells
Johnna Temenoff
10-10:30am
Poly(pro-drug) biomaterials for drug delivery to the injured central nervous system
Ryan Gilbert
10:30-11am
Restoring vocal fold biomechanics after laryngeal nerve injury through biomaterial augmentation
Solaleh Miar, Gabriela Gonzales, Ronit Malka, Joo Ong, Rena Bizios, Gregory Dion, Teja Guda
11-11:30am
Sustained oxygen release from hydroxyapatite coated calcium peroxide scaffold for tissue engineering
Daisuke Tomioka*^ and Michiya Matsusaki
*Young Investigator
^Student Travel Award Winnner
11:30 Coffee Break
Session IV. Tissue Engineering Technologies – Microphysiological Models
Chair: S. Seidlits
12 - 12:30pm
A microphysiological system for modeling opioid reinforcement and withdrawal, and the negative affective component of pain of device based on 3D cultures of human iPSC-derived neurons
Stephanie Seidlits, Ze Zhong Wang, Zhan Shu, Alex Laperle, Clive Svendsen, and Nigel Maidment
12:30-1pm
3D bioprinted complex skin models to investigate in vitro human simplex virus infection and enable high-throughput therapeutic screenings
S. Tori Ellison*, Paige Derr, Kristy Derr, and Marc Ferrer
*Young Investigator
1-1:30 pm
Bioprinting-based development of salivary gland mini-organoids for high-through drug screening and therapeutic application in xerostomia patients
Ioannis Angelopoulos*, Foteini Machla , Athina Bakopoulou, and Dimitrios Andreadis
*Young Investigator
1:30-2pm
Engineered salivary gland tissue chips for radioprotective drug screening
Danielle Benoit
2:00pm Lunch and Informal Discussions
7:30pm Dinner and Informal Discussions
May 29 (Sunday)
7:30 Breakfast
Session V. Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering
Chair: E. Cosgriff-Hernandez
8:30-9am
Engineered matrices to improve bone regeneration with the Masquelet Technique
Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez
9-9:30am
Piezoelectric polymers and nanocomposites in bone tissue engineering
Serena Danti, Claudio Ricci, Bahareh Azimi, and Paolo Parchi
9:30-10am
3D-printed mini-bone-organs
Xiao-Hua Qin
10-10:30am
Intervertebral disc degeneration: evaluation of novel therapies in relevant ex vivo and in vivo models
Catherine Le Visage
10:30-11am
Mineralized collagen scaffold pore structure enhances immunomodulatory potential of mesenchymal stem cells
Vasiliki Kolliopoulos*^ and Brendan Harley
*Young Investigator
^Student Travel Award Winner
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30-1:30pm VI. Tissue Engineering Technologies
Chair: A. Mantalaris
11:30-12pm
Metabolism-driven stem cell bioprocessing
Athanasios Mantalaris
12-12:30pm
Development of Blood-Brain Barrier Networks with Opening Structures for Screening Assays of Receptor-Mediated Transport
Michiya Matsusaki
12:30-1pm
Skin penetrating tyrosinase conjugated CNT nanoneedle for alleviating photo-induced damage
Junghyeon Ko*, Nathaniel Hwang, Min Jeong Lee, and Seon-Yeong Kwak
*Young Investigator
1-1:30pm
Study on the structural characteristics of intestinal microbiota in patients with breast cancer in Hainan Province
Yonglan Jiang, Weihua Xu, Zhichao Ma, Chong Lin, Shengmiao Fu, and Xinping Chen
1:30pm Lunch and Informal Discussions
3:00pm City Tour
7:30pm Dinner and Informal Discussions
May 30 (Monday)
7:30 Breakfast
Session VII. Tissue Engineering Technologies - 3D Printing and Biopatterning
Chair: A. Mikos
8:30-9am
Bioprinting scaffold-free constructs with cell-only bioink
Eben Alsberg, Oju Jeon, Yu Bin Lee, Hyoen Jeong, Sang Jin Lee, and Derrick Wells
9-9:30am
Injectable and 3D-printable PNiPAAm-based hydrogels for tissue engineering
Antonios Mikos, Jason Guo, Emily Jiang, Yuseon Kim, Adam Navara, and Hannah Pearce
9:30-10am
Regulating of cell-matrix interactions at engineered biointerfaces via nanopatterning of laminin-332
Sadegh Ghorbani*, Ali Shahrokhtash, Fiona Watt, and Duncan Sutherland
*Young Investigator
10-10:30am
Development of biomimetic models of intestinal tissue: guiding cellular self-organization through biofabrication techniques
Elena Martinez
10:30-11am
Bioprinting perfused muscle for regenerative medicine and food applications
Shulamit Levenberg
11:00 Coffee Break
Session VIII. Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering 2
Chair: H. Shin
11:30am-12pm
Stem cell secretome regulators for tissue vascularization and homeostasis
Hyunjoon Kong
12-12:30pm
Matrix strain and stromal support guide tissue engineering scaffold vascularization in a time dependent manner
Gennifer Chiou, Elysa Jui, Allison Rhea, Rena Bizios, Joo Ong, Christopher Rathbone, Teja Guda
12:30-1pm
Engineering multi-cellular spheroids using bioinspired materials for tissue regeneration
Heungsoo Shin
1:30pm
Concluding Remarks
Heungsoo Shin
1:45pm Lunch and Informal Discussions
7:30pm Dinner and Informal Discussions
May 31 (Tuesday)
7:30 Breakfast
Departure