WISCTECH 2008
1st Annual Wisconsin Stem Cell Technology Symposium
Sponsored by the Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Great Hall
UW Memorial Union
Tuesday evening, September 23rd, 2008
| 6:00 | Dinner: speakers and guests |
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Lectures in Great Hall, 4th floor of UW Memorial Union
| MORNING |
| 9:00 | Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Columbia University |
| Stem cells and tissue engineering |
| 9:50 | Sean Palecek, University of Wisconsin |
| Human embryonic stem cell bioprocessing |
| 10:40 | Break |
| 11:00 | David Beebe, University of Wisconsin |
| Controllable microenvironments for stem cell culture |
| 11:50 | Lunch break (speakers’ lunch in room 1045 Engineering Centers Building) |
| AFTERNOON |
| 1:10 | David Schaffer, University of California-Berkeley |
| Molecular engineering of stem cell and gene therapies |
| 2:00 | William Murphy, University of Wisconsin |
| Using bioinspired materials to regulate stem cell behavior |
| 2:50 | Break |
| 3:10 | Kyriacos Athanasiou, Rice University |
| Stem cells in cartilage tissue engineering |
| 4:00 | Brenda Ogle, University of Wisconsin |
| Merging multiphoton optics and microfluidics to assess stem cells |
| 4:50 | Adjourn and reception, UW Memorial Union |
Speakers
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Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic is Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University. Her research focuses on engineering functional human tissues by integrating stem cells, biomaterial scaffolds and bioreactors.
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William Murphy is Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Pharmacology at the University of Wisconsin. His research focuses on developing bioinspired materials for stem cell biology and tissue engineering.
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David Beebe
is Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin. His research focuses on engineering cellular scale systems to understand basic cellular processes relevant to cancer and development.
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David Schaffer
is Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of California-Berkeley. His research employs molecular and cellular engineering approaches to investigate biomedical problems.
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Sean Palecek is Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin. His research focuses on characterizing how quantitative changes in the flow of signals control cellular processes.
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Kyriacos Athanasiou is Karl F. Hasselmann Professor of Bioengineering at Rice University. His research focuses on understanding and augmenting the healing processes of cartilage via tissue engineering principles.
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Brenda Ogle is Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin. Her research focuses on understanding mechanisms by which stem cells contribute to tissues during development.
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