SmallTalks TODAY 4-5pm in 6-104

[Debra L. Martin]

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>This Wednesday marks another installment of Small Talks, an informal
>interdisciplinary seminar series for students by students.   Please join us
>from 4-5p in 6-104, for a Small Talk by Christopher J Bettinger. 
>Light refreshments & drinks will be served.
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>Nanotopographic Control of Cell Function for Tissue Engineering
>Christopher J Bettinger, MIT, PostDoc, ChemE
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>Wednesday, May 7, 4-5pm, Room 6-104 (Chipman room)
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>Discussion Topic
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>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.
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>Small Talks -- Educational Seminars for Students by Students
><>http://web.mit.edu/small-talks
>Sponsors -- Graduate Student Life Grants, DMSE, MechE, Chemistry, 
>RLE, Aero/Astro, MEMS at MIT
>Every Week, Wednesday Afternoons, 4-5p
>Light Refreshments & Drinks
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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.
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