2008 Annual Meeting

Session: Engineering the Stem Cell Niche

This session describes the creation of controllable environments to direct stem cell function.

Chair

Andre F. Palmer, Graduate Student

Co-Chair

Emmanuel (Manolis) S. Tzanakakis, State University of New York at Buffalo

Presentations

03:15 PM

(145a) Elastic Niches and Capillaries Tuned for 3D Matrix Control of Mesenchymal Stem Cell Differentiation
Matthew Raab, Karthikan Rajagopal, Florian Rehfeldt, Manu Tewari, Chi Wang, Dennis E. Discher

03:35 PM

(145b) Combinatorial Biomaterials as An Engineered Niche Platform for Inhibition of Stem Cell Transformation and Promotion of Stem Cell-Based Regeneration
Er Liu, Hiral Patel, Hak-Joon Sung, Joachim Kohn, Prabhas Moghe

03:55 PM

(145c) Tendon Tissue Engineering Using Mechanical Stimulation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Rita Abousleiman, Peter S. McFetridge, Vassilios I. Sikavitsas

04:15 PM

(145d) Directed Differentiation of Embryonic Stem Cells to Cardiomyocytes in a Bioreactor
Abhirath Parikh, Donghui Jing, Daniel E. Kehoe, Emmanuel (Manolis) S. Tzanakakis

04:45 PM

(145e) Integrated Expansion and Differentiation of Embryonoic Stem Cells In Fibrous Bed Bioreactors
Ning Liu, Shang-Tian Yang

05:05 PM

(145f) Effect of Organismal Aging on Bone Marrow Derived Smooth Muscle Progenitor Cells
Juhee Han, Jin Yu Liu, Daniel D. Swartz, Stelios T. Andreadis

05:25 PM

(145g) Evoking a Mature Smc Phenotype in Mouse Embryonic Progenitor Cells
Paul Qu, Dany Munoz-Pinto, Mariah Hahn