2nd Annual Methods in Bioengineering Conference

More than 300 scientific leaders from across the world, representing over 60 institutes, gathered at MIT July 12 for the second annual Methods in Bioengineering Conference, which was co-hosted by the MGH Center for Engineering in Medicine and the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. Over 70 posters were presented during the conference which focused on leading methodology used in the fields of BioMEMS, Regenerative Medicine, Functional Imaging, Opto-Electronics, and Cellular Modeling, and showcased state-of-the-art technology from six centers funded by the National Institutes of Health – the MGH BioMEMS Resource Center; the Tissue Engineering Resource Center at Tufts University, Columbia University, and MIT; the Brain Functional Imaging Regional Resource Center at MGH; the Developmental Resource for Biophysical Imaging Opto-Electronics at Cornell; the Resource Center for Studies of Complex Physiologic and Biomedical Signals at MIT; and the National Resource for Cell Analysis and Modeling at the University of Connecticut. Other sponsors were the Artech House Publishers, Annual Reviews of Biomedical Engineering, BOSE Corporation, the journal Tissue Engineering, the Center for High-Rate Nanomanufacturing and the IGERT program in Nanomedicine at Northeastern University, and the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center. Among the highlights of the conference events were the keynote lectures from prominent investigators at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, and Harvard Medical School, and a one-day intensive hands-on microtechnology and microfluidics workshop prior to the conference.

Presentations

Thursday- July 12, 2007

Robert Lanza, Keynote Speaker
Embryonic stem cells as a source of tissue for bioengineering & regenerative medicine

Mehmet Toner
BioMEMS applications for clinical diagnostics

Martin Yarmush
Real time functional genomics

David Kaplan
Protein-Based Biomaterial Designs to Direct Cell and Tissue Functions

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic
Bioreactor Systems to Generate Functional Tissues

Warren Zipfel
Fluorescence techniques for cell biology and bioanalytical
measurements

Lawrence Wald
Highly parallel detection and excitation for Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Bruce Fischl
Computational Neuroanatomy

Friday- July 13, 2007

George Church, Keynote Speaker
Genome engineering, evolution and sequencing

Ion Moraru
Modeling and simulation with the Virtual Cell

James Schaff
Virtual Microscopy

Madalena Costa
Measuring Complexity

George Moody
Building and Using Research Databases of Physiologic Signals on the Web

Posters

Click here for a list of posters presented at the conference.