Symposium D 413.40 Kb

The symposium addresses the growing interest among materials scientists, chemists, physicists, biomedical engineers, and medical practitioner in the creation, characterization, and control of processes at functional biointerfaces between biomolecules, cells, tissues or complex biological systems with foreign materials in the body.

Scope:

The goal of this symposium is to bring together researchers who work at the interface of materials science, biology, and biomedical engineering with a focus on biomedical devices under extreme physical, chemical, as well as physiological conditions in human and or other living bodies. The symposium will focus on the integration of advanced experimental, computational, and theoretical methods, utilized to assess structure-process-property relations and to monitor and predict mechanisms associated with failure of biomedical devices and structures composed of them.

Hot topics to be covered by the symposium:

Topics to be covered but not limited to

• Biointerfaces of biomedical devices
• Surface modification to influence cellular interactions
• Surface modification to influence cellular interactions
• Corrosion/degradation of medical devices in living bodies with time
• Bio-inspired material design
• In vivo and in vitro testing methods of new biomaterials
• Delivery of biomolecules to promote tissue regeneration
• Micro- and nanodevices for cell culture and assays
• Stimuli-responsive materials
• Structuring and functionalization of biointerfaces
• Nanoparticle, nanotube and nanofibre interfaces
• Drug delivery at biointerfaces
• Sensors and devices
• Characterization of biointerfaces including probe methods
• Computational modeling of biointerfaces

Tentative list of invited speakers/talks:

• Smadar Cohen (Israel) – Alginate scaffolds
• Eric Finot (University of Burgundy, France) - Spectroscopic fluctuations of single proteins determined by Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering on nanoantennas
• Dirk Grijpma (Holland) – Drug delivery, structuring of interfaces, others – polymeric materials
• Matthias Epple, (University of Essen Germany) - Nano-calcium phosphates for transfection
• Martin Hegner, Trinity College, Ireland
• Sangmin Jeon (POSTECH, South Korea) - Ultrasensitive mass sensors for materials science
• Ali Passian (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) - Thermoplasmonic materials in biomedical applications
• Ramgopal Rao (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India) - A Piezo-resistive Polymeric Nano-electro-mechanical device for Point of Care Diagnosis of Acute Myocardial Infarction
• Michael Schmidt (Technical University of Denmark) - Multisensory approach for the highly sensitive and selective detection
• Jag Sankar (North Carolina A & T State University, USA) - Biodegradable metals for implant applications
• Patrik Schmuki (Germany) – nanomaterials, interfaces, etc.
• Dror Seliktar (Israel) – polymeric materials
• William Wagner, (University of Pittsburgh, USA) – Cardiovascular materials  

Tentative list of scientific committee members:

• Prakash Apte, Indian Institute of Technology India
• Aldo Boccacini, University of Erlangen, Germany
• Doina Craciun, National Institute for Laser, Romania
• Peter Dubruel, University of Gent, Belgium
• Kenji Ebihara, Kumamoto University, Japan
• Frank Feyerabend, Germany
• Rolly Gaboriaud, CNRS-University of Poitiers, France
• Michael Gelinsky, University of Dresden, Germany
• Anja Hänzi, ETH, Switzerland
• Norbert Hort, Germany
• Klaus Jandt, University of Jena, Germany
• Karl Kainer, Germany
• James Kirkpatrik, Germany
• Prashant Kumta, University of Pittsburgh, USA
• Diego Mantovani, University of Laval, Canada
• Bert Müller, University of Basel, Switzerland
• Mattias Peuster, Chicago Hospital, USA
• Devdas Pai, North Carolina A & T, USA
• Abhay Pandit, University of Ireland, Ireland
• Arndt Schilling, Germany
• Charles Sfeir, University of Pittsburgh, USA
• Mark Shultz, University of Cincinnati, USA
• Kaushal Singh, Applied Materials, USA
• A. Sundaresan, India
• Regine Willumeit, Germany
• Yufeng Zheng, University of Peking, China

Sponsor:

Symposium organizers:

Dhananjay Kumar
Department of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering
North Carolina A&T State University
Greensboro, NC 27411
USA
Tel.: +1 (336) 256 1151 ext 2242
Fax: +1 (336) 256 1153
This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Frank Witte
Laboratory for Biomechanics and Biomaterials
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Hannover Medical School
Anna-von-Borries-Str. 1-7
30625 Hannover
Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)511 5354 546
Fax: +49 (0)511 5354 875
This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Thomas Thundat
Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering
ECERF E7-026 University of Alberta
Edmonton T6G 2V4
Canada
Tel.: +1 780 492 2068
Fax: +1 780 492 2881
This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it