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Cells & Materials: at the Tissue Engineering Interface

February 18 - 21, 2003

IPAM Building
Room 1200

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Tuesday, February 18, 2003

Tissue Engineering Application - Mechanical Forces in Development and Healing

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:20 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:20 - 9:30 Welcome Remarks - Stan Osher & Ben Wu (UCLA)
9:30 - 10:30

Dennis Carter (Stanford University)

"Mechanobiology of Skeletal Development and Regeneration"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00

Michael Longaker (Stanford University)

"Endogenous Models of Bone Tissue Engineering"

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Tom Hou (California Institute of Technology)

"Multiscale Modeling and Computation of Incompressible Flow in Heterogeneous Porous Media"

3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:30

Li-Tien Cheng (University of California at San Diego)

"HMM for Interface Motion in Heterogeneous Media"

4:30 - 5:30

Frederic Gibou (Stanford University)

""A Level Set Approach for the Numerical Simulation of Dendritic Growth"."

5:30 - 7:00 Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Wednesday, February 19, 2003

Tissue Engineering Application - Microfluid Flow in Nature

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30

Howard Winet (UCLA /Orthopaedic Hospital)

"Challenges to modeling the links between muscle pumps, microcirculation and fluid flow to scaffold implants in bone"
Presentation (PDF File)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00

John Frangos (La Jolla Bioengineering Institute)

 

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Jon Dantzig (University of Illinois)

"Multiscale Modeling in Engineering Problems"
Presentation (PDF File)

3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:30

Dimitri Vvedensky (Imperial College, London, UK)

"Multi-Scale Modelling in Materials"

4:30 - 5:30

Qing Nie (University of California at Irvine)

"Tissue Patterning During Development"


Thursday, February 20, 2003

Tissue Engineering Application - The Role of Fibrin in Past, Present and Future

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30

Michael Mosesson (Blood Center Southeastern Wisconsin)

"The structure and biology of fibrinogen and fibrin"
Article (PDF file)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00

James DiOrio (Baxter Technology Resources)

"Structural and Mechanical Properties of Fibrin"

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Bill Tawil (Baxter Biosciences)

"Fibrin Sealant as a Cell Delivery Vehicle"

3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:30

David Amrani (Baxter Healthcare)

"Fibrin and Wound-healing matrix macromolecular interactions"

4:30 - 5:30

Sam Helgerson (Baxter Biosciences)

"Fibrin Biomatrix For Tissue Regeneration"

5:30 - 7:00 Dinner (Hosted by IPAM)

Friday, February 21, 2003

Tissue Engineering Application - Nutrient Transport in 3D Scaffolds

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30

Melissa Knothe Tate (The Cleveland Clinic Foundation)

"Emerging Insights into the “Cellular Physiology” of Bone: Experiments, Computational Modeling & Applications for Surgeons & Tissue Engineers"

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00

Barry Merriman (UCLA)

"Gene Expression Profiling of Normal Tissues"

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

James Dunn (UCLA)

"Diffusion-Limited Cell Growth in Scaffolds"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:30

Ichiro Nishimura (UCLA)

"Tissue Engineering: Technology without equations (yet..)"

4:30 - 5:30

John Lowengrub (University of Minnesota / UC Irvine)

"Nonlinear Simulations of Tumor Growth"

5:30 Conclusion

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