Developmental Biology and Morphogenesis of Engineered Tissues

Moderator(s)

• TH

  Tracy Hookway, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Assistant Professor
  Binghamton University, New York, United States
• VS

  Vasudha Srivastava, PhD

  Specialist
  University of California San Francisco
  San Francisco, California, United States

Keynote Speaker(s)

• MK

  Matthew Kutys, PhD (he/him/his)

  Assistant Professor
  University of California San Francisco
  San Francisco, California, United States

Presentations:

• 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM PDT

  Decoding tissue morphogenic instruction by Notch receptors
  

  Presenting Author: Matthew L. Kutys, PhD (he/him/his) – University of California San Francisco
• 4:15 PM – 4:30 PM PDT

  Design and fabrication of a working tissue model of the developing embryonic heart
  

  Presenting Author: Joshua Gershlak, PhD – Massachusetts General Hospital

  Co-Author: Kenji Miki – Massachusetts General Hospital

  Primary Investigator: Harald Ott – Massachusetts General Hospital
• 4:45 PM – 5:00 PM PDT

  ROCK INHIBITION PROMOTES THE DEVELOPMENT OF POLARIZED ACINI STRUCTURES WITH SECRETORY FUNCTIONS IN HYALURONIC ACID-BASED HYDROGEL MATRICES
  

  Presenting Author: Apoorva Metkari, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Delaware

  Co-Author: Mugdha Pol, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Delaware

  Co-Author: Robert Witt – Helen F. Graham Cancer Center

  Primary Investigator: Xinqiao Jia (she/her/hers) – University of Delaware
• 5:00 PM – 5:15 PM PDT

  Extracellular Matrix and Cell Developmental Age Influence Cardiac Fibroblast Phenotype in the Context of Cardiac Tissue Engineering
  

  Co-Author: Luke R. Perreault, PhD (he/him/his) – Boston College Department of Engineering

  Co-Author: Mark Daley – Tufts University

  Co-Author: Matthew Watson (he/him/his) – Tufts University

  Presenting Author: Lauren Black, III, PhD – Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University
• 5:15 PM – 5:30 PM PDT

  Computational model of molecular gradients to inform 3D cell culture design
  

  Presenting Author: Wangui Mbuguiro – Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Juan S. Gnecco, PhD (he/him/his) – Tufts University

  Co-Author: Samantha E. Holt, PhD – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Co-Author: Linda G. Griffith – MIT

  Primary Investigator: Feilim Mac Gabhann, PhD – Johns Hopkins University