2009 Annual Meeting

Session: Stem Cells in Tissue Engineering

Chair

Debra T. Auguste, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

Co-Chairs

Manolis S. Tzanakakis, State University of New York at Buffalo
Yaakov Nahmias, Center for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School 51 Blossom Street

Presentations

12:30 PM

(117a) Extracellular Matrix Mechanics Affect Stem Cell Lineage in 3D by Controlling Integrin Binding
Nathaniel Huebsch, Praveen R. Arany, Angelo S. Mao, Jose Rivera-Feliciano, David J. Mooney

12:50 PM

(117b) Affect of Hypoxia On Cardiomyocyte Differentiation and Its Extracellular Environment
Renita Horton, Eleftherios Sachlos, Debra T. Auguste

01:10 PM

(117c) Guided Cardiogenic Commitment of Human Embryonic Stem Cells for Heart Tissue Engineering
Donghui Jing, Abhirath Parikh

01:30 PM

(117d) Elasticity Effects On the Origin of Heartbeat
Christine I. Carag, Dennis Discher

02:00 PM

(117e) Multivalency Enhances the in Vitro Potency of Recombinant Sonic Hedgehog On Stem Cells
Randolph Ashton, Ravi S. Kane

02:20 PM

(117f) Extracellular Matrix Protein and Astrocyte Derived Soluble Factors Synergistically Affect Neural Progenitor Cells
Carlos A. Ariza, Surya K. Mallapragada, Donnald S. Sakaguchi

02:40 PM

(117g) Engineering Stromal Cells for Targeted Differentation of Adult Bone Marrow Stem Cells Into Antigen-Specific Helper T Cells
Pin Wang, Bingbing Dai