AVS 50th International Symposium
    Biomaterial Interfaces Wednesday Sessions

Session BI+SS-WeM
Cell Interactions with Patterned Surfaces

Wednesday, November 5, 2003, 8:20 am, Room 307
Moderator: M. Textor, ETH Zurich, Switzerland


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8:20am BI+SS-WeM1
Patterned Surfaces using Masking during Plasma Deposition or Pulsed Laser Ablation
H. Thissen, CSIRO Molecular Science, Australia, J.P. Hayes, Industrial Research Institute Swinburne, Australia, P.G. Hartley, G. Johnson, CSIRO Molecular Science, Australia, E.C. Harvey, Industrial Research Institute Swinburne, Australia, H.J. Griesser, University of South Australia
8:40am BI+SS-WeM2
Patterning Surfaces with "Nonfouling" Oligoethylene Glycol "Bottle Brushes" by Soft Lithography and Surface-Initiated Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization
H. Ma, A. Chilkoti, Duke University
9:00am BI+SS-WeM3
Molecular Assembly Patterning by Lift-off (MAPL): A Novel Approach to Produce Biologically Designed Micropatterns for Biosensor Applications and Cell-Surface Interaction Studies
D. Falconnet, F. Assi, A. Koenig, M. Textor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich
9:20am BI+SS-WeM4
Micrometer-scale Fibronectin Patterning for Control of Focal Adhesion Dynamics in Fibroblasts
D.S. Rhoads, R.N. Orth, M. Wu, B.A. Baird, J.L. Guan, Cornell University
9:40am BI+SS-WeM5 Invited Paper
Microengineering Surfaces to Interface with Mammalian Cells
C.S. Chen, Johns Hopkins University
10:20am BI+SS-WeM7
Analyzing Lymphocyte Adhesion, Membrane Receptors and Cytoskeletal Rearrangement on Micron Scale Mitogen Patterns
R.N. Orth, M.J.B. Flaminio, J. Kameoka, T.G. Clark, H.G. Craighead, Cornell University
10:40am BI+SS-WeM8
Directed Motoneuron Growth on Self-Assembled Monolayer (SAM) Patterned Surfaces
M.G. Poeta, M. Das, C.A. Gregory, P. Molnar, D.C. Henry, L.M. Riedel, J.J. Hickman, Clemson University