Scientific Programme - Thursday, 10 May

08:00 – 09:00

Registration

09:00 – 12:35

chairs

Session 1                                                      
Generation of Regenerative Materials
James C. Kirkpatrick (Mainz, Germany),
Hans-Georg Neumann (Rostock, Germany)

09:00

Microfabricated Patterns and Arrays to Study Cell Function
and Drug Response in Engineered 2D and 3D Microenvironment”
Marcus Textor (Zurich, Switzerland)

09:30

Biomimetic Materials for in situ Tissue Engineering
Jürgen Groll (Würzburg, Germany)

10:00

Titanium-Tissue Interactions: Materials Properties, Gene Expression
and Structure-Function Relationships
Peter Thomsen (Gothenburg, Sweden)

10:30

Combined Micro- and Nanopatterning of Ti Surfaces in 2D and 3D
T. Sjöström, B. Su (Bristol, UK), L. McNamara, M. Dalby (Glasgow/UK)

10:45

Coffee Break

11:05

Nanosponges for the Linear Release of Therapeutics in Implants and for Targeted Drug Delivery Devices
Eva Harth (Nashville, USA)

11:35

Strategies for Antibacterial Biomaterial Surfaces
Hans J. Griesser (Mawson Lakes, Australia)

12:05

Fabrication of Injectable Polymeric Materials for Hernia Repair
M. El Fray, J. Skrobot, L. Zair (Szczecin, Poland)

12:20

Photocurable Materials for Building Up Small and Smallest Blood Supplying Systems by Stereolithography
W. Meyer, E. Novosel, S. Engelhardt, K. Borchers, P. Kluger, G. Tovar, B. Elling, M. Wegener, D. Mang, H. Krüger

12:35 – 13:35

Lunch Break & Industrial Exhibition

13:35 – 15:00

Poster Session

15:00 – 18:20

chairs

Session 2
Cell - Extracellular Matrix Interaction
Barbara Nebe (Rostock, Germany)
Alexander Bershadsky (Rehovot, Israel)

15:00

Plasticity of Cell-Matrix Interaction and Migration
Peter Friedl (Nijmegen, Netherlands)

15:30

Cell Adhesion-Dependent Self-Organization of the Actin Cytoskeleton
Alexander Bershadsky (Rehovot, Israel)

16:00

Insights into the Regulation of Cadherin-Mediated Cell-Cell Adhesion
Ronen Zaidel-Bar (Singapore)

16.30

Coffee Break

16.50

BioArtificial Materials for Cell Delivery and Tissue Repair
Andres Garcia (Atlanta, USA)

17:20

Cytotoxic Residuals of Polyhexanid Preclude Cellular Repopulation and Promote Graft Calcification of Decellularized Equine Carotid Arteries in a Sheep Model
U. Böer, C. Spengler, D. Jonigk, T. Bisdas, M. Klingenberg, A. Haverich, M. Wilhelmi (Hannover, Germany)

17:35

Introduction of Sulfated Glycosaminoglycans in Growth Substrates Impairs the TGFβ1 Driven Differentiation of Human Dermal Fibroblasts to Myofibroblasts
A. van der Smissen, V. Hintze, D. Scharnweber, S. Möller, M. Schnabelrauch, U. Anderegg (Leipzig and Dresden, Germany)

17:50

Artificial Extracellular Matrix Composed of Collagen I and High Sulfated Hyaluronan Exerts Anti-Inflammatory Effects on Monocytes
J. Kajahn, S. Franz, V. Hintze, I. Forstreuter, S. Moeller, J. Simon (Leipzig, Dresden and Jena, Germany)

18:05

Development of biomaterials used as artificial corneal replacement
J. Storsberg, C. Schmidt, S. Sel (Potsdam and Erlangen, Germany)

20:00 – 23:30

Social Evening