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Talks included

• The role of hypoxia in tissue engineering and stem cell biology; transcriptional, translational, and biochemical consequences:

  Dr Nicholas R Forsyth Ph.D, Reader in Stem Cell Biology, The Guy Hilton Research Laboratories, Keele University Medical School, Thornburrow Drive, Hartshill, Stoke on Trent, UK

• Using induced pluripotent stem cells to study monogenic diseases of the eye:

  Dr Amanda-Jayne Carr, Senior Postdoctoral Research Associate, University UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, UK

• Strategies for stem cell expansion and differentiation mimicking physiological conditions:

  Professor Cornelia Kasper, University Professor for Biotechnology/Cell and Tissue Culture Technology, Vienna, Austria

• Tissue-engineered skin innervation:  

  Dr François Berthod, Ph. D., Full Professor, Department of Surgery, Laval University, Centre LOEX de l’Université Laval, Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec, Hopital de l’Enfant-Jesus, Quebec (QC), Canada

• Long term in vivo assessment of bioengineered skin substitutes: a clinical study:

  Professor. Angela FAGA, Professore Ordinario di Chirurgia Plastica e Ricostruttiva, UniversitÄ… degli Studi di Pavia, Direttore Sezione di Chirurgia Plastica I.R.C.C.S. Fondazione “Salvatore Maugeri” – Istituto di Pavia, Italy

• Microfluidic-driven tissue patterning:

  Dr Alexandre Benedetto, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute of Healthy Ageing, University College London, Darwin Building, Gower street, London, UK

• Ionic and electrical waves in healing epithelia and their potential therapeutic significance: 

  Dr Silvia Chifflet, Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay

• Translational Application of MRI and Mechanics Analysis in Assessing Carotid Atherosclerotic Plaque Vulnerability:

  Dr Zhongzhao Teng PhD, Department of Radiology, University of Cambridge, School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK

• Direct conversion of neural progenitor cells for repair of the adult brain:

  Dr Daniel A. Peterson, Ph.D.,Professor and Vice-Chairman of Neuroscience, Director, Center for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, The Chicago Medical School, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, IL, USA

• The experimental therapy of spinal cord injury by tissue engineering in the rat:

  Dr Qunyuan Xu, MD, PhD, Beijing Institute for Brain Disorders, Beijing Center of Neural Regeneration & Repair, Department of Neurobiology, Beijing Key Laboratory of Major Brain Disorders, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

• Regeneration of the retina and tissue engineering of nerual stem cells using a three-dimentional culture:

  Dr Masasuke Araki, Ph.D., Professor of Biological Sciences Developmental Neurobiology Laboratory, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Nara Women’s University, Nara, Japan

• Dental Pulp MSCs (DPMSCs) and human Periapical Cysts MSCs (hPCy-MSCs) compared in the bone tissues formation and in the neuroregenerations

  Dr. Marco Tatullo, Scientific Director
  Tecnologica Research Institute, Italy And Dr. Massimo Marrelli Calabrodental Clinic, Crotone, Italy

• Synergistic effect of biomimetic materials and BMPs on bone cell behaviour:

  Dr Nathalie Faucheux, Université de Sherbrooke, QC, Canada

• Clay: new opportunities for tissue engineering and biomaterial design:  

  Dr Jon Dawson, EPSRC Early Career Research Fellow, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

• Bioengineered trachea: spiral up or going round in circles

  Professor. Mikhail Kiselevskiy, NN Blokhin Russian Cancer Research Center, Cheif of Lab. of Cellular Immunity, Moscow, Russia

• Novel biomaterials for tissue engineering based on molecular properties of spider silk

  Professor Jan Johansson, Karolinska Institutet, Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Stockholm, Sweden

• 3D Biomimetic Models of the Extracellular Matrix for Tissue Engineering Fabricated by Multiphoton Excited Photochemistry:  

• Professor Paul J. Campagnola, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Associate Chair for Graduate Advising Medical Physics Department, Madison, US

•  Annulus Fibrosus Tissue Engineering:

• Professor Bin Li, Ph.D., Biomaterials and Cell Mechanics Laboratory (BCML), Orthopedic Institute, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China

• Spider silk scaffolds for cell culture Associate:

  Professor Anna Rising, Dept. of NVS, Karolinska Institutet Novum, Huddinge, Sweden

• Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Regenerative Medicine: Focus on Articular Cartilage Regeneration by Micro-engineering of the Chondrocyte Niche:  

  Dr Ali Mobasheri, BSc ARCS (Hons), MSc, DPhil (Oxon), Professor of Musculoskeletal Physiology, Head of Department of Pre-clinical Animal Science & Veterinary Pre-Clinical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK

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