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Aegean Conferences Communication
Please note that our registration fees include hotel accommodations and therefore no additional reservations are required. The only communication you should receive is from Aegean Conferences and if your paying by credit card, payment receipts from Conferex LLC. SCAM Alert: Beware of any third party companies calling and/or emailing you to reserve hotel accommodations for you during our conferences
Registration
In completing the online registration form you are not automatically accepted to attend the conference nor are you automatically registered for the conference. Final registration to the conference shall occur after you have been accepted and notified by the conference chair of your acceptance to the conference. If you have been charged the registration fee but your attendance has been declined you will be reimbursed in full.
Airport
You want to arrive at the Ioannina Airport (code: IOA) and take a taxi from the airport to the hotel (~20 EUR)
Accommodation Tax
An accommodation tax of € 4.00 per room night will apply, and will be charged automatically to the individual guest’s extras accounts.
Accommodations
Accommodations for the conference are at the Hotel Du Lac. The hotel is located in the city of Ioannina, 7 km from the Airport.
Arrival and Check-in
It is expected that attendees will arrive/check-in after 3:00 PM. Anyone arriving after 10:30 pm on the first day should make alternative dinner arrangements.
Conference Venue
The Du Lac Conference Center is located at the hotel.
Handicapped Accessibility
The site is fully handicapped accessible.
Oral Presentations
Speakers are asked to bring their USB flash drive to the reception desk at least 30 minutes prior to the session. The allocated time for all presentations, unless otherwise indicated, includes five minutes Q&A.
City Tour
Buses for the city tour will depart from the hotel front lobby at 3:30 pm. Badges are required for participation.
Breakfast
Breakfast for registered participants and registered accompanying persons will be served at the Avra Imperial Hotel main restaurant during the hours scheduled in this program.
Lunches/Informal Discussions
Lunches for registered participants and registered accompanying persons will be served during the times indicated in this program at the main restaurant and only after the session has finished. Badges are required for admission.
Dinners/Informal Discussions
Three of the dinners/informal discussion will be served during the times indicated in the program. Vegetarian entrees are available only upon request in advance of the meeting. Please contact info@aegeanconferences.org.
Internet, Phone, & Computer
Wireless Internet access is located throughout the conference center free of charge during meeting hours. There are computers available in the hotel’s business center for the use of the attendees. Phone service is available for an additional charge from your hotel room.
Certificate of Participation
A Certificate of Participation will be distributed to a participant for those sessions that the participant has attended. A participant must attend an entire session to receive credit for that particular session. Late arrivals and early departures from a session will preclude a participant from receiving credit for that session.
Passports and Visa
Participants are advised to check on their individual requirements before attending any Aegean Conference meeting. Visa applications should be filed at the nearest Greek Embassy in the country in which you are resident, at least three months prior to the anticipated departure date.
Letters of Invitation
Letters of invitation to attend an Aegean Conference meeting will be issued only to:
- Authors of accepted abstracts
- Fully paid registrants
Note: Invitations are issued at the discretion of Aegean Conferences, and requests for letters will be accepted only 60 days prior to the conference start date.
Liability and Insurance
Neither the organizers, nor the Aegean Conferences will assume any responsibility whatsoever for damage or injury to persons or property during meeting period. Participants are advised to arrange their own personal travel and health insurance.
Other Information
Animals are not permitted on site.
Badges are required for admission to all events.
All Aegean Conferences events are non-smoking.
No Photographs and Recording Devices
Participants are not allowed to photograph and/or record using cameras, mobile telephones and other recording devices during the slide and poster presentations.
Code of Conduct Policy
Aegean Conferences is committed to making its meetings an inclusive space for sharing ideas and knowledge. The code of conduct can be viewed here.
Thursday, May 26
07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Conference Registration
08:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Welcome Reception and Dinner
Friday, May 27
07:30 AM - 08:30 AM
Breakfast
08:30 AM - 08:35 AM
Welcome and Opening Remarks - Johnna Temenoff
08:35 AM - 09:15 AM
1
Considerations for biomaterial scaffolds: Lessons learned from physiology and biology
Rena Bizios
Dental and Craniofacial Tissue Engineering
09:15 AM - 09:45 AM
2
Cell therapies - Clinical applications in Regenerative DentistryAthina Bakopoulou
09:45 AM - 10:15 AM
3
Cell therapies for periodontal clinical applicationsDanae A Apatzidou
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
4
Maxillo-facial bone regeneration with stem cells and biomaterials in a comparative clinical trialPierre Layrolle
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
5
Dentin-pulp complex tissue engineering: a proposal for future dental clinical practice.Foteini Machla1, Viktoriya Sokolova2, Varvara Platania3, Oleg Prymak2, Kathrin Kostka2, Benedikt Kruse2, Maria Chatzinikolaidou3,4, Matthias Epple2, and Athina Bakopoulou1
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Coffee Break
Cardiac and Vascular Tissue Engineering
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
6
Biomimetic Material Support of Pluripotent Cell Stem
Differentiation for Cardiac Applications
Elizabeth A Lipke
12:30 PM - 01:00 PM
7
Engineered Models of Heterotypic Cardiac InteractionsTracy Hookway
01:00 PM - 01:30 PM
8
Protein Loaded Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) Nanoparticles for Vascular Tissue Engineering ApplicationsJordyn Wyse1, Marisa Esparza1, Dimitrios Miserlis, Panagiotis Koutakis, and Marissa Wechsler1
01:30 PM - 02:00 PM
9
Tissue Engineering with Soft MatterYadong Wang
02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Lunch and Informal Discussions
07:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Dinner and Informal Discussions
Saturday, May 28
07:30 AM - 08:30 AM
Breakfast
Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering 1
08:30 AM - 09:00 AM
10
Engineering biomaterials and using high-throughput approaches for optimising their interactions with cells Rui L. Reis
09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
11
Polymeric scaffolds under dynamic conditions promote osteogenic differentiation of pre-osteoblastsGeorgia-Ioanna Kontogianni1, Konstantinos Loukelis1, Amedeo Franco Bonatti2, Carmelo De Maria2, Raasti Naseem3, Giovanni Vozzi2, Kenneth Dalgarno3, Nicholas Dunne4, Chiara Vitale-Brovarone5, and Maria Chatzinikolaidou6
09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
12
Effect of Biomaterial Substrate on Expansion and Function of Marrow Stromal Cells Johnna S Temenoff
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
13
poly(pro-drug) biomaterials for drug delivery to the injured central nervous systemRyan J Gilbert
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
14
Restoring vocal fold biomechanics after laryngeal nerve injury through biomaterial augmentationSolaleh Miar1, Gabriela Gonzales1, Ronit Malka2, Joo Ong1, Rena Bizios1, Gregory Dion2, and Teja Guda1
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
15
Sustained oxygen release from hydroxyapatite coated calcium peroxide scaffold for tissue engineeringDaisuke Tomioka and Michiya Matsusaki
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Coffee Break
Tissue Engineering Technologies – Microphysiological Models
Chair: Stephanie Seidlits
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
16
A microphysiological system for modeling opioid reinforcement and withdrawal, and the negative affective component of pain of device based on 3D cultures of human iPSC-derived neuronsStephanie K Seidlits1,2, Ze Zhong Wang1,2, Zhan Shu4, Alex H Laperle3, Clive Svendsen3, and Nigel T Maidment4
12:30 PM - 01:00 PM
17
3D bioprinted complex skin models to investigate in vitro human simplex virus infection and enable high-throughput therapeutic screeningsS. Tori Ellison, Paige Derr, Kristy Derr, and Marc Ferrer
01:00 PM - 01:30 PM
18
Bioprinting-based development of salivary gland mini-organoids for high-through drug screening and therapeutic application in xerostomia patientsIoannis Angelopoulos, Foteini Machla , Athina Bakopoulou, and Dimitrios Andreadis
01:30 PM - 02:00 PM
19
Engineered salivary gland tissue chips for radioprotective drug screeningDanielle Benoit
02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Lunch and Informal Discussions
03:30 PM - 07:30 PM
City Tour
07:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Dinner and Informal Discussions
Sunday, May 29
07:30 AM - 08:30 AM
Breakfast
Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering
Chair: Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez
08:30 AM - 09:00 AM
20
Engineered matrices to improve bone regeneration with the Masquelet TechniqueElizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez
09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
21
Piezoelectric polymers and nanocomposites in bone Tissue EngineeringSerena Danti1, Claudio Ricci1, Bahareh Azimi1, and Paolo Parchi2
09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
22
3D-Printed Mini-Bone-OrgansXiao-Hua Qin
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
23
Intervertebral disc degeneration: evaluation of novel therapies in relevant ex vivo and in vivo modelsCatherine Le Visage
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
24
Mineralized Collagen Scaffold Pore Structure Enhances Immunomodulatory Potential of Mesenchymal Stem CellsVasiliki Kolliopoulos and Brendan AC Harley
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Coffee Break
Tissue Engineering Technologies
Chair: Athanasios Mantalaris
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
25
Metabolism-driven stem cell bioprocessingAthanasios Mantalaris
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
26
Development of Blood-Brain Barrier Networks with Opening Structures for Screening Assays of Receptor-Mediated TransportMichiya Matsusaki
12:30 PM - 01:00 PM
27
Skin penetrating tyrosinase conjugated CNT nanoneedle for alleviating photo-induced damageJunghyeon Ko1, Nathaniel Suk-Yeon Hwang1, Min Jeong Lee2, and Seon-Yeong Kwak2
01:00 PM - 01:30 PM
28
Study on the structural characteristics of intestinal microbiota in patients with breast cancer in Hainan ProvinceYonglan Jiang1, Weihua Xu1, Zhichao Ma1, Chong Lin2, Shengmiao Fu1, and Xinping Chen1
01:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Lunch and Informal Discussions
07:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Dinner and Informal Discussions
Monday, May 30
07:30 AM - 08:30 AM
Breakfast
Tissue Engineering Technologies - 3D Printing and Biopatterning
08:30 AM - 09:00 AM
29
Bioprinting Scaffold-free Constructs with Cell-only BioinkEben Alsberg1, Oju Jeon1, Yu Bin Lee1, Hyoen Jeong, Sang Jin Lee1, and Derrick Wells1
09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
30
Injectable and 3D-printable PNiPAAm-based hydrogels for tissue engineeringAntonios G. Mikos, Jason L. Guo, Emily Y. Jiang, Yuseon Kim, Adam M. Navara, and Hannah A. Pearce
09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
31
Regulating of Cell-Matrix Interactions at Engineered Biointerfaces via Nanopatterning of Laminin-332 Sadegh Ghorbani1, Ali Shahrokhtash1, Fiona M. Watt2, and Duncan Sutherland1
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
32
Development of biomimetic models of intestinal tissue: guiding cellular self-organization through biofabrication techniquesElena Martinez
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
33
Bioprinting perfused muscle for regenerative medicine and food applicationsShulamit Levenberg
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Coffee Break
Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering 2
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
34
Stem cell secretome regulators for tissue vascularization and homeostasisHyunjoon Kong
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
35
Matrix strain and stromal support guide tissue engineering scaffold vascularization in a time dependent mannerGennifer Chiou, Elysa Jui, Allison Rhea, Rena Bizios, Joo Ong, Christopher Rathbone, and Teja Guda
12:30 PM - 01:00 PM
36
Engineering multi-cellular spheroids using bioinspired materials for tissue regenerationHeungsoo Shin
01:00 PM - 01:15 PM
Concluding Remarks - Heungsoo Shin
01:15 PM - 02:45 PM
Lunch and Informal Discussions
07:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Farewell Dinner
Tuesday, May 31
08:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Breakfast
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Departure