Scientific Programme - Friday, 11 May

08:00 – 09:00

Registration

09:00 – 12:20

chairs

Session 3
Material Induced Biological Responses
Regine Willumeit (Geesthacht, Germany)
Andres Garcia (Atlanta, USA)

09:00

Engineering Artificial Stem Cell Microenvironments
Matthias Lutolf (Lausanne, Switzerland) 

09:30

Co-cultures as a Tool to Study the Peri-Implant Regenerative Niche
C. James Kirkpatrick (Mainz, Germany)

10:00

Engineering Cell Function in Two and Three Dimension
Mathis Riehle (Glasgow, UK)

10:30

Fishing For a New Model: Using Zebrafish Embryos For In Vivo Analysis of Biomaterial Associated Infections
O. Stockhammer, X. Zhang, W.J. Veneman, L. de Boer, R. Dirks, D.W. Grijpma, H.P. Spaink, S.A.J. Zaat (Amsterdam, Enschede, Leiden and Groningen, Netherlands)

10:45

Coffee Break

11:05

Topographically – Induced Nuclear Deformation in Osteosarcoma Cells: Consequences on Research on Implants
Karine Anselme (Mulhouse, France)

11:35

Bacterial Response to Nanostructured Biomaterial Surfaces: Modeling the Adhesion Process
D. Siegismund, A. Undisz, A. Schröter, S. Germerodt, S. Schuster, M. Rettenmayr (Jena, Germany)

11:50

Current Challenges in the Development of New Dental Implant Surfaces - an Industrial Point of View
F. Schlottig (Waldenburg, Switzerland)

12:05

Staphylococcus epidermidis Relocates from Infected Implants to the Surrounding Tissue in Mouse Experimental Biomaterial-Associated Infection
M. Riool, V. Jaspers, L. de Boer, C. van der Loos, S. Zaat (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

12:20 – 13:20

Lunch Break & Industrial Exhibition

13:20 – 14:45

Poster Session II

14:45 – 18:00

chairs

Session 4
Mechanical control of cells
Kirsten Peters (Rostock, Germany)
Mathis Riehle (Glasgow, United Kingdom)

14:45

The Forceful Play of Cells with Extracellular Matrix and Bacteria
Viola Vogel (Zurich, Switzerland)

15:15

Vinculin Mediates Engagement of Actin Retrograde Flow to Focal Adhesions, but is Dispensable for Actin-Dependent Focal Adhesion Maturation
I. Thievessen, S. Berlemont, S. Plotnikov, A. Zemljic-Harpf, R. Ross, G. Danuser, C. Waterman (Erlangen, Germany; Bethesda, Boston and San Diego, USA)

15:30

Mechanical Loading Affects the Localization of Collagen II, Collagen IX and COMP in the Chondrocyte Matrix
J. Bleuel, F. Zaucke, N. Hamann, G.-P. Brüggemann, A. Niehoff (Cologne, Germany)

15:45

Substrate-Ligand Friction Controls Traction Forces on Materials Scaffolds
C. Müller, M. Kaufmann, M. Kasimir, S. Johne, S. Glorius, L. Renner, M. Bobeth, W. Pompe, C. Werner, T. Pompe (Leipzig and Dresden, Germany)

16:00

Regulation of Force Transmission through Vinculin
V. Auernheimer, R. Janostiak, D. Rösel, J. Brabek, B. Fabry, W.H. Goldmann (Erlangen, Germany; Prague, Czech Republic)

16:15

Cell Reorientation upon Cyclic Stretch: A Complex Interplay Between Versatile Signals and Signal Cascades
A. Zielinski, V. Niediek, U. Faust, N. Hampe, W. Rubner, N. Kirchgeßner, S. Safran, B. Hoffmann, R. Merkel (Jülich, Germany; Rehovot, Israel)

16:30

Coffee Break

16:50

Poster Awards - Sponsored by DOT GmbH and the journal BIOINTERFACES

17:00

Simulations of Mechanobiology in Tissue Engineering
Demain Lacroix (Barcelona, Spain)

17:30

Generating substrate-free unsupported cell films by mechanical strain
A. Undisz, E. Geuther, A. Voelpel, B.W. Sigusch, M. Rettenmayr (Jena, Germany)

17:45

Mechano-Sensing of Cells on Viscous Biomembrane-Mimicking Substrates
L.A. Lautscham, C.Y. Lin, V. Auernheimer, D. Minner, W. Goldmann, C. Naumann, B. Fabry (Erlangen, Germany; Indianapolis, USA)

18:00

Closing Remarks