Meeting at a glance

08:00 am – 12:20 pm

For trainees only, session will be limited to 75 attendees only.

Breakfast
Trainee Workshop
- “Navigating the NIH Trainee Fellowship Grant System” – Audrey McAlinden
- “Designing Grants and Publications” – Laura Stanton & David Langesse
- Chat with Editors
  - Roberto Civitelli – “High Quality Manuscripts”
  - Farshid Guilak – “What Editors Are Looking For”
- “How to Make Figures” – Inkscape
Lunch – Table Topics
- Audrey McAlinden – Effective Grant Writing
- Farshid Guilak – Journals
- Matthew Silva – Recruitment
- Gretchen Meyer – Starting a Lab

12:25 – 1:30 pm

Welcome remarks.

Keynote Speaker: Kristi Anseth – “Engineering Bioresponsive and Adaptable Materials forRegenerative Medicine”

1:35 – 3:00 pm

Invited Speakers
- Warren Grayson – “Autologous Regeneration of Midfacial Bone in Large Animals”
- Stephanie Bryant – “Tissue-Mimetic Hydrogel Composites for Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering”
Local Speaker
- Nate Huebsch – “Designing Alginate Hydrogels to Exploit Integrin Signaling for Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering”
Abstract Talk
- Ning Gao – “Enriching MSC Paracrine Effects by Enhancing N-Cadherin Interaction For Ischemic Limb Regeneration”

3:15 – 4:00 PM

4:10 – 5:20 pm

Invited Speakers
- Bruno Peault – “Mesenchymal Stem Cells, From Natural Niches to Tissue Repair and Remodeling”
- Ken Muneoka (virtual) – “A Digital Approach to Regeneration and Regenerative Medicine”
Local Speaker
- Feini (Sylvia) Qu – “Development vs. Regeneration: Skeletal Patterning and Outgrowth of the Murine Digit Tip”

6:00 – 9:00 pm

Dinner will be a “Cinco de Mayo” theme, catered by Butler’s Pantry. During the cocktail hour, we will enjoy a glass blowing demonstration.

7:00 – 8:00 AM

8:15 – 9:45 am

Invited Speaker
- Nenad Bursac – “Modeling Rare Skeletal Muscle Diseases in a Dish”
Local Speaker
- David Brogan – “Intra-operative imaging of nerve injuries: A Paradigm Shift”
Abstract Talks
- Hua Shen – “Extracellular Vesicles From Inflammation-Primed Adipose Stem Cells Improve Tendon Healing Through Restoring Balanced Response Following Tendon Injury and Repair”
- Jennifer Brazill – “SARM1 Drives Type 1 Diabetes-Associated Bone Suppression and Fragility”
- Ryan Potter – “Systemic VEGFA Ablation Blunts Locomotive Deficts and Intradiscal Innervation Following Lumbar Intervertebral Disc Injury”
- Xiaohong Tan – “Dual Peptide Functionalized Alginate Hydrogels to Modulate Nucleus Pulposus Cell Phenotype”

10:10 am – 12:00 pm

Invited Speakers
- Matthew Greenblatt – “A skeletal stem cell basis for lineage selection in bone homeostasis and repair”
- Celine Colnot (virtual) -“Skeletal Stem/Progenitor Cells in Periosteum and Skeletal Muscle Coordinate Endochondral Ossification During Bone Regeneration”
Local Speaker:
- Kareem Azab – “3D Tissue-Engineered Bone Marrow Model as a Tool to Predict Therapeutic Efficacy in Cancer Patient Response”
Abstract Talks
- Neda Rashidi – “Modulation of Human Adipose Stem Cell Collagen Synthesis by Mechanosensing of Substrate Architecture Through the PIEZO1 Ion Channel”
- Wei Zou – “Car Cells Express BMP Inhibitors Negatively Regulating Bone Formation In Vivo”

12:00 – 1:00 PM

1:00 – 2:30 pm

Invited Speakers
- Philipp Leucht – “Skeletal Stem Cell Aging: Is it reversible?”
- Ben Levi – “The Power of One: Investing in One Cell and One Lab Member at Time”
Local Speaker
- Jie Shen – “Fracture Nonunion: New Insights into Mechanism and Therapy”
Abstract Talks
- Kunjan Khanna – “TMEM178 Negatively Regulates IL-1β Production Through Inhibition of NLRP3 Inflammasome”
- Xiao Zhang – “Neural Contributions to Leptin-Mediated Bone Marrow Adipocyte Catabolism”

2:50 – 3:40 PM

3:50 – 5:00 PM

Keynote Speaker
- Vicki Rosen – “Cues for Enhancing Musculoskeletal Regeneration From Studying BMP Signaling”
Closing Remarks: Matthew Silva