Highlights


ESBES - ISPPP - BIOTHERMODYNAMICS 2010
Bologna/Italy
05.09.2010 - 08.09.2010
11. Kolloquium: Gemeinsame Forschung in der Klebtechnik
DECHEMA e.V., Frankfurt am Main
22.02.2011 - 23.02.2011

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Programme

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Tuesday, Sep 22 nd

 18:00             
OPENING REMARKS
U. Marx, ProBioGen AG, Berlin/D
 


18:15
Opening remarks and Evening Lecture
Chair: Steven Dickman, CBT advisors, Cambridge, MA/USA

Controlling cell function: What have we overlooked in Nature´s toolbox?
Prasad Shastri, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN/USA

 19:00 - 21:30  Get-Together with drinks and snacks

 

Wednesday, Sep 23 rd

   
09:00 Welcome address and introduction
   
  Scaffolds emulating ECM of various organs
Chair: Hansjörg Hauser, HZI Brunswick/D
   
09:10  Biomaterials and scaffolds for tissue regeneration
Andreas Lendlein, GKSS Research Centre Geesthacht GmbH, Teltow/D
   
09:50 Monolithic (composite) materials for tissue engineering
Michael Buchmeiser, Leibniz Institute of Surface Modification e.V. (IOM), Leipzig/D
   
10:30 Coffee Break and Exhibition
   
11:00 Pancreatic organotypic cultures
Hemant Kocher, Tumour Biology Laboratory, John Vane Science Centre, London/GB
   
11:40 Prediction of the in vivo role of drug transport from in vitro data
Heyo Kroemer, Clinical Pharmacology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University Greifswald/D
   
12:20 Nanoparticulate opioid preparations - a new approach for wound healing and local pain reduction?
Monika Schäfer-Korting, Freie Universität Berlin, Institute for Pharmacy, Berlin/D
   
13:00 Lunch Break and Exhibition
   
 
   
  3D organ culture for substance testing
Chair: Heike Mertsching, FhIGB Stuttgart/D
   
15:00 In vitro co-culture models of the human airway barrier: 24-transwell screening of substance interaction
Iris Hermanns, Institute of Pathology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz/D
   
15:40 Testing hormones during generation of renal tubules
Will. M. Minuth, University Hospital Regensburg/D
   
16:20 Coffee Break and Exhibition
   
16:40 Multicellular spheroids: an underestimated tool is catching up again
Leoni A. Kunz-Schughart, TU Dresden/D
   
17:20 Immunological substance testing on human lymphatic microorganoids in vitro
Christoph Giese, ProBioGen AG, Berlin/D
   
18:00 Evening lecture :
Delivering skin models to consumers – many years of science and entrepreneurship
Bart de Wever, De Wever Consulting, Monte Carlo/MC
   
 18:45  End of the lecture programme

 

Thursday, Sep 24 th

   
09:00 Introduction
   
  In vitro vascularisation and multi-organ systems
Chair: Andreas Lendlein, GKSS, Teltow/D
   
09:10 In vitro screening assays for the discovery of regulators of angiogenesis and tumor growth
Roopali Roy, Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA/USA
   
09:50 Mimicking tissue's on a microscale
Jens Kelm, University of Zurich/CH
   
10:30 Coffee Break and Exhibition
   
11:00 Cellular models to study angiogenesis
Helmut G. Augustin, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg/D
   
11:40 A 3D human vascularised test system
Heike Mertsching, Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB, Stuttgart/D
   
12:20 Body-on-a-Chip: applications to pharmacological and toxicological studies
Mandy Esch, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY/USA
   
13:00 Lunch Break and Exhibition
   

Microsystems technologies for in vitro organ culture
Chair: Uwe Marx, ProBioGen AG, Berlin
   
15:00 Novel 3D-biochip based high content-screening systems for real time monitoring of organotypic tissues
Andrea Robitzki, Center for Biotechnology and Biomedicine, University of Leipzig/D
   
15:40  Approaches for tissue culture-based tests with higher throughput
Hagen Thielecke, Fraunhofer Institut for Biomedical Engineering (IBMIT), St. Ingbert/D
   
16:20
Coffee Break and Exhibition
   
16:40 Prototyping of chip-based multi-tissue culture systems
Frank Sonntag, Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology (IWS), Dresden/D
   
 17:20  End of the lecture programme
   

19:00
- 23:30

Conference Dinner at  "Krongut Bornstedt"



Friday, Sep 25 th

   
09:00 Introduction
   
   
  Substance exposure in vitro - how to cope with industrial requirements?
Chair: Christa Burger, Merck Darmstadt
   
09:10 German In vitro Organ map - a survey on activities in industry and academia
Ralf Pörtner, Hamburg University of Technology/D
   
09:30 Applications of stem cells in the early drug discovery process
Stefan Lohmer, Axxam SpA, Milan/I
   
10:10 Cellular mechanisms and cell-tissue interactions explored with validated microfluidic flow assays
Vivienne Williams, Cellix Ltd., Dublin/IR
   
10:50 Screening towards pharmacological relevance
Mirek Jurzak, Merck Serono Research/Discovery Technologies, Darmstadt/D
   
11:30 Coffee Break and Exhibition
   
  Visions and future trends
Chair: Steven Dickman, CBT advisors, Cambridge, MA/USA
   
12:00  In vitro and In silico approaches to safety  - synergies or competition?
Carl Westmoreland, Unilever - Safety & Environmental Assurance Centre, London/GB
   
12:40 Homunculus 2020 for substance testing?!
Uwe Marx, ProBioGen AG, Berlin/D
   

13.20

Symposium Summary
Steven Dickman, CBT advisors, Cambridge, MA/USA
   
14:00  Closing remarks
Uwe Marx, ProBioGen AG, Berlin/D
   
 14:15 End of Symposium


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