Bio|Nano|Med
CUNY Advanced Science Research Center
85 St Nicholas Terrace,
New York, NY 10031
June 23^rd and 24^th 2016

Thursday June 23^rd

9:00	Registration Opens
9:20	Gillian M. Small CUNY V.C. for Research, Excutive Director of the ASRC Opening Remarks

	Session 1: Bio|Med
9:35	Rui Reis University of Minho Nano-tools and Bioinspired Tissue Engineering Approaches for the Regeneration of Different Tissues
10:20	Lane Gilchrist The City College of New York Supported Biomembrane Microenvironments of Controlled Composition for Gamma-Secretase Substrate Cleavage Assays
10:40	Robert Schwartz Weill Medical College of Cornell Engraftment and Function of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Hepatocyte-like Cells in Mice via 3D Co-aggregation and Encapsulation
11:00	Duncan Graham University of Strathclyde Nanoparticle Based Analysis of Biomolecules, Cells and Tissue

11:30

Coffee

	Session 2: Nano|Med
12:00	Michelle Bradbury MSKCC Title TBD
12:30	Joseph Frezzo NYU Tandon School of Engineering Traceable and Thermoresponsive Multifunctional Engineered Protein Drug Delivery Agents for Metastatic Breast Cancer
12:50	Ricardo Pires University of Minho Influence of Surface Chemistry on the Response of Stem Cells via Distinct Fibronectin Adsorption
13:10	Kevin D. Costa Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Myocardial Delivery of Lipidoid Nanoparticle Carrying modRNA Induces Rapid and Transient Expression

13:30

Lunch

	Session 3: Bio|Imaging
14:30	Gail McConnell University of Strathclyde A New Microscope Objective for Imaging Large Biomedical Specimens with Sub-cellular 3D Resolution
15:00	Amedee des Georges CUNY Advanced Science Research Centre Insights into Molecular Mechanisms of Heart Diseases: Cryo-electron Microscopy Uncovers the Atomic Structure of the Ryanodine Receptor and its Gating Mechanism
15:30	Hyungsik Lim Hunter College Imaging Molecular Structure in Living Animals

15:50

Coffee

	Session 4: Bio|Materials
16:15	David Kaplan Tufts University Fibrous Protein Biomaterials - Designs for Function
17:00	Jacek Wychowaniec The University of Manchester Shear Thinning Properties of β-sheet Nano-fibrillar Peptide Hydrogels
17:20	Joel Schneider National Cancer Institute, National Institues of Health Racemic hydrogels from enantiomeric peptides: Predictions from Linus Pauling

18:05

Poster Session

Friday June 24^th

	Session 5: Bio|Nano
9:15	Joanna Aizenberg Harvard University Towards Dynamic Hybrid Architectures: Or Can We Make Materials Adaptive?
10:00	Cecilia Roque Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Designing Biomimetics and Smart-materials for Recognition and Capture of Biologics
10:20	Adam Braunschweig University of Miami Cancer Carbohydrate Nanotechnology: Understanding and Targeting Cell Surface Glycosylation in Disease Therapy and Diagnosis
10:40	Alan Lyons College of Staten Island 3D Cell Culture in Anchored Hydrogel Droplets for High Throughput Drug Screening
11:00	Coffee
11:30	Yosi Shamay Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center P-Selectin is a Nanotherapeutic Delivery Target to the Tumor Microenvironment
11:50	Samuel K. Sia Columbia University Microfluidics for 3D Tissue Engineering and Personal Health Diagnostics

12:20	Closing Remarks
12:30	Close