2006 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Biomimetics III: Cell-Material Interactions

This session will highlight studies of molecular and material systems designed to mimic biomolecular structure and/or function. These studies will be focused towards addressing pressing biomedical challenges in cell-material interactions and tissue engineering.

Chair

Mark E. Byrne, Auburn University

Co-Chair

Esmaiel Jabbari, University of South Carolina

Presentations

12:30 PM

(534a) Effect of Adhesion Peptide Incorporation in Poly (L-Lactic Acid) Scaffolds on the Osteoblastic Differentiation of Mesemchymal Stem Cells under Conditions of Flow Perfusion
Jose F. Alvarez-Barreto, Vassilios I. Sikavitsas

01:00 PM

(534b) Osteonectin-Derived Peptide Significantly Affects Modulus of Apatite/Hydrogel Composites
Alireza S Sarvestani, Xuezhong He, Esmaiel Jabbari

01:20 PM

(534c) Insect Cuticle as a Motif for Crosslinked Biomimetic Materials
Christian Eichler, Joseph Lomakin, Yasuyuki Arakane, Karl J. Kramer, Michael R. Kanost, Stevin H. Gehrke

01:40 PM

(534d) Collagen-Mimetic Peptide (CMP) for Integrin-Specific Cellular Recognition and Tissue Engineering
Shih Tak Khew, Xin Hao Zhu, Yen Wah Tong

02:00 PM

(534e) Chemical and Topographical Modification to Polydimethylsiloxane Surfaces Affect Growth and Adhesion of Caco-2 Cells
Lin Wang, Shashi K. Murthy, Mehmet R. Dokmeci, Rebecca Carrier

02:20 PM

(534f) Role of Mw of Negatively-Charged Polymer on Cell Colonization in 3-D Matrices
Annett Ullm, Jeremy W. Tillman, Sundararajan V. Madihally

02:40 PM

(534g) The Use of Polymers in the Development of an Ex Vivo Three-Dimensional (3-D) Model of Human Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (Aml)
Teresa Mortera Blanco, Nicki Panoskaltsis, Alexander Bismarck, Athanasios Mantalaris