Titel: Tissue Engineering and Development Biology

Termin: 12.4.2007 bis 17.4.2007

Veranstaltungsort:
Snowbird Resort
Little Cottonwood Canyon
PO Box 929000
Snowbird, Utah 84092-9000
USA

Referenten: Alan Colman (ES Cell International and A*STAR Center for Molecular Medicine, Singapore) *** Alexander F. Schier (Harvard University) *** Arnold I. Caplan (Case Western Reserve University) *** Buddy Ratner (University of Washington) *** Charles E. Murry (University of Washington) *** Christopher S. Chen (University of Pennsylvania) *** David J. Mooney (Harvard University) *** David Kaplan (Tufts University) *** Didier Y. R. Stainier (University of California, San Francisco) *** Donald E. Ingber (Harvard Medical School/Children's Hospital Boston) *** Eric N. Olson (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center) *** Farshid Guilak (Duke University) *** Frederick J. Schoen (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School) *** Gordana V. Vunjak-Novakovic (Columbia University) *** Gordon M. Keller (Mount Sinai School of Medicine) *** Jeffrey D. Axelrod (Stanford University) *** Jeremy J. Mao (Columbia University Dental Medicine and Biomedical Engineering) *** Laura E. Niklason (Yale University) *** Lilianna Solnica-Krezel (Vanderbilt University) *** Masatoshi Takeichi (RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology) *** Michael Levin (Forsyth Institute, Harvard School of Medicine) *** Peter W. Zandstra (University of Toronto) *** Randall T. Moon (University of Washington School of Medicine) *** Robert Lanza (Advanced Cell Technology, Inc.) *** Robert M. Nerem (Georgia Institute of Technology) *** Rocky Tuan (NIAMS, National Institutes of Health) *** Suzanne Eaton (Max Planck Institute) *** Thomas A. Reh (University of Washington)

Weitere Informationen:
http://www.keystonesymposia.org/Meetings/ViewMeetings.cfm?MeetingID=84 ...

Kurzbeschreibung: Our overall goal is to identify the scientific and technological needs that are common for the fields of developmental biology and tissue engineering and thereby help guide the scientific inquiry in the two fields. We believe that the proposed Keystone conference is essential to start ‘filling the gap’ between fundamental concepts in biology and engineering. It is becoming essential to utilize the knowledge base from developmental biology to guide the design of tissue engineering systems, as well as to utilize engineered tissues as controllable biological models for studies of development, remodeling and disease. In a more general sense, we feel that this is the right time to step back and critically rethink the field of tissue engineering, and to establish more efficient interactions between the biologists and engineers. In composing the scientific program, we attempted to identify those individuals who are not only involved in cutting edge research in developmental biology or engineering, but who also work at least in part at the interface between the two disciplines. Also, we selected one unifying theme for each of the four days, and designed the two sessions (morning and evening) such that each theme is addressed from the standpoints of biology and engineering. In addition, we propose two workshops that will also help integrate the approaches: one focused on what developmental biology can offer to tissue engineering (e.g., sound biological principles), and the other focused on what tissue engineering can offer to developmental biology (e.g., advanced tools for in vitro studies). Lastly, the three of us were inspired to propose this conference after a wonderful experience we had at the recent NIH-sponsored workshop that gathered leading tissue engineers and a few developmental biologists. We felt that this is the time for an interactive and inspiring meeting of “biology and engineering”.

Kontakt: Keystone Symposia
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USA
Tel.: +1 - 970 - 2 62 12 30
Fax: +1 - 970 - 2 62 15 25
info@keystonesymposia.org
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Veranstalter: Keystone Symposia

Schlagworte: Organ-/Gewebetransplantation