7th Int'l Conference on Tissue Engineering in conjunction with the 5th Int'l Conference on Regenerative Biomedical Materials

Program

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    Registration 
    In completing the online registration form you are not automatically accepted to attend the conference nor are you automatically registered for the conference. Final registration to the conference shall occur after you have been accepted and notified by the conference chair of your acceptance to the conference. If you have been charged the registration fee but your attendance has been declined you will be reimbursed in full.

    Airport
    You want to arrive at the Ioannina Airport (code: IOA) and take a taxi from the airport to the hotel (~20 EUR)

    Accommodation Tax
    An accommodation tax of € 4.00 per room night will apply, and will be charged automatically to the individual guest’s extras accounts. 

    Accommodations
    Accommodations for the conference are at the Hotel Du Lac.  The hotel is located in the city of Ioannina, 7 km from the Airport. 

    Arrival and Check-in
    It is expected that attendees will arrive/check-in after 3:00 PM. Anyone arriving after 10:30 pm on the first day should make alternative dinner arrangements.

    Conference Venue
    The Du Lac Conference Center is located at the hotel. 

    Handicapped Accessibility
    The site is fully handicapped accessible.

    Oral Presentations
    Speakers are asked to bring their USB flash drive to the reception desk at least 30 minutes prior to the session.  The allocated time for all presentations, unless otherwise indicated, includes five minutes Q&A.

    City Tour
    Buses for the city tour will depart from the hotel front lobby at 3:30 pm. Badges are required for participation. 

    Breakfast
    Breakfast for registered participants and registered accompanying persons will be served at the Avra Imperial Hotel main restaurant during the hours scheduled in this program. 

    Lunches/Informal Discussions
    Lunches for registered participants and registered accompanying persons will be served during the times indicated in this program at the main restaurant and only after the session has finished. Badges are required for admission.

    Dinners/Informal Discussions
    Three of the dinners/informal discussion will be served during the times indicated in the program. Vegetarian entrees are available only upon request in advance of the meeting.  Please contact info@aegeanconferences.org. 

    Internet, Phone, & Computer
    Wireless Internet access is located throughout the conference center free of charge during meeting hours. There are computers available in the hotel’s business center for the use of the attendees. Phone service is available for an additional charge from your hotel room.

    Certificate of Participation
    A Certificate of Participation will be distributed to a participant for those sessions that the participant has attended. A participant must attend an entire session to receive credit for that particular session. Late arrivals and early departures from a session will preclude a participant from receiving credit for that session. 

    Passports and Visa
    Participants are advised to check on their individual requirements before attending any Aegean Conference meeting. Visa applications should be filed at the nearest Greek Embassy in the country in which you are resident, at least three months prior to the anticipated departure date.

    Letters of Invitation
    Letters of invitation to attend an Aegean Conference meeting will be issued only to:

    • Authors of accepted abstracts
    • Fully paid registrants

    Note: Invitations are issued at the discretion of Aegean Conferences, and requests for letters will be accepted only 60 days prior to the conference start date.

    Liability and Insurance
    Neither the organizers, nor the Aegean Conferences will assume any responsibility whatsoever for damage or injury to persons or property during meeting period. Participants are advised to arrange their own personal travel and health insurance.  

    Other Information
    Animals are not permitted on site.
    Badges are required for admission to all events.
    All Aegean Conferences events are non-smoking.

    No Photographs and Recording Devices
    Participants are not allowed to photograph and/or record using cameras, mobile telephones and other recording devices during the slide and poster presentations. 

    Code of Conduct Policy 
    Aegean Conferences is committed to making its meetings an inclusive space for sharing ideas and knowledge. The code of conduct can be viewed here. 

Thursday, May 26

07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Conference Registration
08:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Welcome Reception and Dinner

Friday, May 27

07:30 AM - 08:30 AM
Breakfast
08:30 AM - 08:35 AM
Welcome and Opening Remarks - Johnna Temenoff
Keynote Speaker
Chair: Johnna Temenoff
08:35 AM - 09:15 AM
Considerations for biomaterial scaffolds: Lessons learned from physiology and biology
Rena Bizios
Dental and Craniofacial Tissue Engineering
Chair: Athina Bakopoulou
09:15 AM - 09:45 AM
Cell therapies - Clinical applications in Regenerative Dentistry
Athina Bakopoulou
09:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Cell therapies for periodontal clinical applications
Danae Apatzidou
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Maxillo-facial bone regeneration with stem cells and biomaterials in a comparative clinical trial
Pierre Layrolle
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Dentin-pulp complex tissue engineering: a proposal for future dental clinical practice.
Foteini Machla1, Viktoriya Sokolova2, Varvara Platania3, Oleg Prymak2, Kathrin Kostka2, Benedikt Kruse2, Maria Chatzinikolaidou3,4, Matthias Epple2, and Athina Bakopoulou1
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Coffee Break
Cardiac and Vascular Tissue Engineering
Chair: Tracy Hookway
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Biomimetic Material Support of Pluripotent Cell Stem Differentiation for Cardiac Applications
Elizabeth Lipke
12:30 PM - 01:00 PM
Engineered Models of Heterotypic Cardiac Interactions
Tracy Hookway
01:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Protein Loaded Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) Nanoparticles for Vascular Tissue Engineering Applications
Jordyn Wyse1, Marisa Esparza1, Dimitrios Miserlis, Panagiotis Koutakis, and Marissa Wechsler1
01:30 PM - 02:00 PM
Tissue Engineering with Soft Matter
Yadong Wang
02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Lunch and Informal Discussions
07:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Dinner and Informal Discussions

Saturday, May 28

07:30 AM - 08:30 AM
Breakfast
Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering 1
Chair: Johnna Temenoff
08:30 AM - 09:00 AM
Engineering biomaterials and using high-throughput approaches for optimising their interactions with cells
Rui Reis
09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
Polymeric scaffolds under dynamic conditions promote osteogenic differentiation of pre-osteoblasts
Georgia-Ioanna Kontogianni1, Konstantinos Loukelis1, Amedeo Franco Bonatti2, Carmelo De Maria2, Raasti Naseem3, Giovanni Vozzi2, Kenneth Dalgarno3, Nicholas Dunne4, Chiara Vitale-Brovarone5, and Maria Chatzinikolaidou6
09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Effect of Biomaterial Substrate on Expansion and Function of Marrow Stromal Cells
Johnna Temenoff
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
poly(pro-drug) biomaterials for drug delivery to the injured central nervous system
Ryan Gilbert
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Restoring vocal fold biomechanics after laryngeal nerve injury through biomaterial augmentation
Solaleh Miar1, Gabriela Gonzales1, Ronit Malka2, Joo Ong1, Rena Bizios1, Gregory Dion2, and Teja Guda1
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sustained oxygen release from hydroxyapatite coated calcium peroxide scaffold for tissue engineering
Daisuke Tomioka and Michiya Matsusaki
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Coffee Break
Tissue Engineering Technologies – Microphysiological Models
Chair: Stephanie Seidlits
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
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 Seidlits1,2, Ze Zhong Wang1,2, Zhan Shu4, Alex Laperle3, Clive Svendsen3, and Nigel Maidment4
12:30 PM - 01:00 PM
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
01:00 PM - 01:30 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
01:30 PM - 02:00 PM
Engineered salivary gland tissue chips for radioprotective drug screening
Danielle Benoit
02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Lunch and Informal Discussions
03:30 PM - 07:30 PM
City Tour
07:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Dinner and Informal Discussions

Sunday, May 29

07:30 AM - 08:30 AM
Breakfast
Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering
Chair: Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez
08:30 AM - 09:00 AM
Engineered matrices to improve bone regeneration with the Masquelet Technique
Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez
09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
Piezoelectric polymers and nanocomposites in bone Tissue Engineering
Serena Danti1, Claudio Ricci1, Bahareh Azimi1, and Paolo Parchi2
09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
3D-Printed Mini-Bone-Organs
Xiao-Hua Qin
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Intervertebral disc degeneration: evaluation of novel therapies in relevant ex vivo and in vivo models
Catherine Le Visage
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Mineralized Collagen Scaffold Pore Structure Enhances Immunomodulatory Potential of Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Vasiliki Kolliopoulos and Brendan Harley
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Coffee Break
Tissue Engineering Technologies
Chair: Athanasios Mantalaris
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Metabolism-driven stem cell bioprocessing
Athanasios Mantalaris
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Development of Blood-Brain Barrier Networks with Opening Structures for Screening Assays of Receptor-Mediated Transport
Michiya Matsusaki
12:30 PM - 01:00 PM
Skin penetrating tyrosinase conjugated CNT nanoneedle for alleviating photo-induced damage
Junghyeon Ko1, Nathaniel Hwang1, Min Jeong Lee2, and Seon-Yeong Kwak2
01:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Study on the structural characteristics of intestinal microbiota in patients with breast cancer in Hainan Province
Yonglan Jiang1, Weihua Xu1, Zhichao Ma1, Chong Lin2, Shengmiao Fu1, and Xinping Chen1
01:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Lunch and Informal Discussions
07:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Dinner and Informal Discussions

Monday, May 30

07:30 AM - 08:30 AM
Breakfast
Tissue Engineering Technologies - 3D Printing and Biopatterning
Chair: Antonios Mikos
08:30 AM - 09:00 AM
Bioprinting Scaffold-free Constructs with Cell-only Bioink
Eben Alsberg1, Oju Jeon1, Yu Bin Lee1, Hyoen Jeong, Sang Jin Lee1, and Derrick Wells1
09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
Injectable and 3D-printable PNiPAAm-based hydrogels for tissue engineering
Antonios Mikos, Jason Guo, Emily Jiang, Yuseon Kim, Adam Navara, and Hannah Pearce
09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Regulating of Cell-Matrix Interactions at Engineered Biointerfaces via Nanopatterning of Laminin-332
Sadegh Ghorbani1, Ali Shahrokhtash1, Fiona Watt2, and Duncan Sutherland1
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Development of biomimetic models of intestinal tissue: guiding cellular self-organization through biofabrication techniques
Elena Martinez
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Bioprinting perfused muscle for regenerative medicine and food applications
Shulamit Levenberg
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Coffee Break
Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering 2
Chair: Heungsoo Shin
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Stem cell secretome regulators for tissue vascularization and homeostasis
Hyunjoon Kong
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
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, and Teja Guda
12:30 PM - 01:00 PM
Engineering multi-cellular spheroids using bioinspired materials for tissue regeneration
Heungsoo Shin
01:00 PM - 01:15 PM
Concluding Remarks - Heungsoo Shin
01:15 PM - 02:45 PM
Lunch and Informal Discussions
07:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Farewell Dinner

Tuesday, May 31

08:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Breakfast
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Departure