First International Conference on TISSUE ENGINEERING AND STEM CELL RESEARCH USING NANOMATERIALS

DAY ONE , 17th February, Tuesday
8:30 am - 09:30 am	Inaugural Session
9:30 am - 10:15 am	Conference Keynote	Prof. Antonios Mikos, Rice University, USA
10:15 am - 10:30 am	Opportunities for INDO-US Collaboration	Dr. Arabinda Mitra, Executive Director, INDO-US Science and Technology Forum
10:30 am - 10:45 am	TEA
SESSION I - NANOMATERIALS
10:45 am - 11:15 am	Nanogels Prepared Using Microemulsions for Applications in Tissue Engineering	Prof.Somasundaran,Columbia University, New york, USA (Chair)
11:15 am - 11:45 am	Nanostructure – Biomolecule Interactions: Implications For Tissue Regeneration	Prof.Richard Siegel, RPI, Troy, New york, USA (Co-Chair)
11:45 am - 12:15 pm	Multiscale Materials for Tissue Engineering	Prof.Shantikumar Nair, Amrita Centre for Nanosciences, India
12:15 pm -12:45 pm	Protein Engineered Scaffolds: Soft Biomaterials with Nanoscale Precision	Prof. Sarah. Heilshorn, Stanford University, USA
12:45 pm - 1:45 pm	LUNCH
SESSION II - NANOMATERIALS
1:45 pm – 2:15 pm	Tailoring The Integrity Of Hybrid Interfaces: A Nanomolecular Approach	Prof.Ramnath, RPI, Troy, New York, USA (Chair)
2:15 pm - 2:45 pm	Polyoxometalates: Synthetic Pathways and Bio-Medicinal Potential	Prof. Greta Ptzke,University of Zurich, Switzerland (Co-Chair)
2:45 pm – 3:10 pm	Preparation of Chitosan Spotted Alginate Fiber For the Cartilage Engineering	Prof. Seiichi Tokura, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan
3:10 pm – 3:30 pm	Biomimetic Approach for the Synthesis of Better Biomaterials	Dr.Harikhrishna Verma, SCTIMST, Trivandrum, India
3:30 pm – 3:45 pm	HIGH TEA
SESSION III - STEM CELLS
3:45 pm – 4:15 pm	Stem Cells: Concepts, Properties & Applications in Regenerative Medicine	Prof. Paul Simmons, University of Texas, Houston,USA (Chair)
4:15 pm – 4:45 pm	Vascular Morphogenesis and Regeneration	Dr. Karen Hirschi, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA (Co-Chair)
4:45 pm – 5:05 pm	Biodegradable Scaffold and Autologous Progenitor Cells for Construction of Functional Small Diameter Blood Vessels	Dr. Lissy K Krishnan, SCTIMST,Trivandrum,India
5:05 pm – 5:25 pm	Systems for Large-Scale Expansion and Directed Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells	Dr. E. S. Tzanakakis,University of Buffalo,USA
5:25 pm – 5:45 pm	Stem Cells and Cancer	Dr.T.S Ganesan, Institute of Molecular Medicine,AIMS
6:00 pm – 7:00 pm	Poster Session – I
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm	Cultural Program - Vocal Music Melodies of India
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Conference Banquet
DAY TWO, 18th February, Wednesday
SESSION IV - Application - I
8:30 am – 9:00 am	Cell- and Cytokine-Based Tissue Engineering to Repair Cardiac Defects	Dr.Ren Ke Li, University of Health Network, Toronto, Canada (Chair)
9:00 am – 9:30 am	Functional nanoparticle superlattices: New materials for diagnostics	Prof. T. Pradeep, IIT, Madras, India (Co-Chair)
9:30 am – 9:50 am	Tissue Engineering of Cornea	Dr. Shashi Singh,CCMB,India
9:50 am – 10:10 am	Ceramics, Cells and Tissues in Skeletal Tissue Engineering	Dr.Annie John, SCTIMST, Trivandrum, India
10:10 am – 10:25 am	TEA
SESSION V - Application - II
10:25 am – 10:45 am	Development Of Nanostructured Scaffolds For Tissue Engineering	Dr.Swaminathan, Sastra University, India (Chair)
10:45 am – 11:05 am	Nanocarriers for Antibiotic Scaffolds and Delivery Systems	Dr.Sampath, IIT, Madras (Co-Chair)
11:05 am - 11:25 pm	A Synthetic Scaffold Mimicking the Cellular Microenvironment and Promoting Chondrogenesis	Dr. Prabha Nair, SCTIMST, Trivandrum, India
WORKSHOP 1
11:30 pm - 12:30 pm	Nanoparticle Processing and Toxicity Issues	Prof.Somasundaran, Columbia University, New York, USA
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	LUNCH
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm	Conference Keynote	Prof. C N R Rao, Honorary President, JNCASR, India
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm	Poster Session - II
SESSION VI - NANOMEDICINE
3:00 pm - 3:05 pm	Opening Remarks	Prof. Shantikumar Nair, Amrita Centre for Nanosciences, India
3:05 pm - 3:15 pm	Molecular Imaging at Carestream, USA	Mr. Ramin Karimpour, Director, Product Development, Carestream Molecular Imaging
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm	Molecular MRI Approaches used to Aid in the Understanding of Angiogenesis in vivo	Dr.Rheal Towner, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma, USA (Chair)
3:45 pm - 4:05 pm	Nanodiagnostics & Nanotherapeutics using nanoparticles	Dr. Deepthy Menon, Amrita Centre for Nanosciences, Kochi
4:05 pm - 4:20 pm	HIGH TEA
4:20 pm - 4:40 pm	In vivo Imaging using Nanoparticles	Dr Rao V. L. Papineni , Carestream Health Inc, USA (Co-Chair)
4:40 pm - 5:00 pm	Nanomedicines: Basic Concepts and some in vivo results	Dr. Amarnath Maitra, University of Delhi
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm	Oral Presentation - Session VII
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm	Kodak Multispectral Imaging System - Real Time Imaging
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm	Cultural Program - Kerala Traditional Dance
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Conference Banquet
THIRD DAY, 19th February, Thursday
Workshops II
9:00 am – 10:00 am	Tissue Engineering Fundamentals and Advances	Prof. Antonios Mikos, Rice University, USA
10:00 am - 11:00 am	Stem Cells - Fundamentals and Advances	Prof.Paul Simmons, University of Texas, Houston,USA
11:00 am – 11:15 am	TEA
11:15 am – 12:15 am	Cell Therapy - Fundamentals and Advances	Dr.Ren Ke Li, University of Health Network, Toronto, Canada
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm	LUNCH
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm	Introduction to Protein based Materials	Prof. Sarah Heilshorn, Stanford University, USA
2:30 pm- 3:00 pm	Concluding Session and Award Ceremony

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