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<blockquote type="cite" cite>This Wednesday marks another installment
of Small Talks, an informal<br>
interdisciplinary seminar series for students by students.
Please join us<br>
from 4-5p in 6-104, for a Small Talk by Christopher J
Bettinger<b>.</b> Light refreshments & drinks will be
served.<br>
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Nanotopographic Control of Cell Function for Tissue Engineering<br>
Christopher J Bettinger, MIT, PostDoc, ChemE<br>
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Wednesday, May 7, 4-5pm, Room 6-104 (Chipman room)<br>
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Discussion Topic<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Tissue engineering and organ regeneration
has the potential to address many clinical problems including the
critical issue of vital organ donor shortages. Tissue
engineering strategies often rely on the ability to control cell
function using a variety of physicochemical cues including small
molecules, growth factors, and cell-biomaterial interactions.
Taken together, these parameters collectively form a cell
microenvironment. Mammalian cells also have the ability to sense
and respond to nanotopography; topographical features on the nanometer
length scale. This talk will discuss how nanotopography can be
used to control cell function for tissue engineering applications
including the effect on stem cell differentiation. Recent
progress in the ability to use synthetic nanotopography to control
blood vessel formation in vitro will also be discussed.<br>
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Small Talks -- Educational Seminars for Students by Students<br>
<a href="">http://web.mit.edu/small-talks</a><br>
Sponsors -- Graduate Student Life Grants, DMSE, MechE, Chemistry, RLE,
Aero/Astro, MEMS@MIT<br>
Every Week, Wednesday Afternoons, 4-5p<br>
Light Refreshments & Drinks<br>
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Each hour-long Small Talk features a researcher introducing their
domain of research for an audience of fellow scholars. Presenters
speak for about a half-hour and give a general overview of their
research area, spiced with a few personal research examples, leaving
plenty of time for Q&A. This is not intended as a
practice-talk for a conference or for delivery of detailed research
results. Instead, we ask presenters to introduce the basics and
big picture of their broad category of work. The intent of Small
Talks is to raise general awareness of current research across MIT; to
increase opportunities for collaborations; and to be an informal,
interdisciplinary forum for students.<br>
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