8:00 – 8:30       Registration/Coffee and Light Breakfast (Provided)

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8:30 – 9:00       Welcoming and Opening Remarks

• Conference Opening: Janet A. W. Elliott

• Welcome: Deborah James, Associate Vice-President (Innovation), University of Alberta

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9:00 – 10:00      Keynote Session 1: Normothermic Organ Perfusion: Dovetailing with Cryobiology

• Darren Freed

• Department of Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

 

10:00 – 10:20    A low-cost method of rat ex vivo lung perfusion for cryopreservation

• Larissa Lautner1, Jason P. Acker2,3, Jayan Nagendran1,4

• 1Department of Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

• 2Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

• 3Centre for Innovation, Canadian Blood Services, Edmonton, AB, Canada

• 4Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

 

10:20 – 10:40    Review of strategies to optimize cryopreservation of articular cartilage

• Kezhou Wu1,Leila Laouar1, Janet A. W. Elliott2,3, Nadr M. Jomha1

• 1Division of Orthopedic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

• 2Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

• 3Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

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10:40 – 11:00    Coffee Break (Provided)

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11:00 – 11:20    Time Dependent Osmotic Damage in Sea Urchin Oocytes

• Dominic Olver1 Pablo Heres2, Estefania Paredes2, James D Benson1

• 1Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

• 2Department of Ecology and Marine Biology & Marine Biological Resources Functional Preservation Service at ECIMAT marine Station, University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain

 

11:20 – 11:40    The Effect of Length of Storage of Cryoprotectant Solutions on Chondrocyte Cell Viability: Study                                                Development and Preliminary Findings

• Johnathan Sevick1,2 Kezhou Wu2, Leila Laouar2, Charles Bouchard2, Janet A. W. Elliott3,4, Nadr Jomha2

• 1Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

• 2Department of Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

• 3Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

• 4Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

 

11:40 – 12:00    Improving the post-thaw outcome of cryopreserved mesenchymal stem cells and peripheral blood                                                  mononuclear cells using ice recrystallization inhibitors

• Leah E. McMunn1 S. Khan2,3, J. Poisson1, L. Davila2, C. Mitz2, D.W. Courtman2,3, R.N. Ben1

• 1Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

• 2Regenerative Medicine, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada

• 3Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

 

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12:00 – 1:00      Lunch (Provided)

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1:00 – 2:00       Keynote Session 2: Nanowarming for Regenerative Medicine

• John Bischof1,2

• 1Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, MN, United States

• 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, MN, United States

 

2:00 – 2:30       The Canadian Ice Core Lab

• Alison Criscitiello

• Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

 

2:30 – 2:50       Hydraulic Parameters Obtained from Kinetic Cell Volume Measurements of HUVECs Fitted to a Model                                       Assuming Non-Ideal Thermodynamic Behaviour

• Laura Gabler Pizarro1 Locksley E. McGann2, Janet A. W. Elliott1,2

• 1Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

• 2Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

 

2:50 – 3:10       Modulating Rates of Intracellular Ice Recrystallization Using Permeating and Non-Permeating CPAs

• Nishaka William1 Jason P. Acker1,2

• 1Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

• 2Centre for Innovation, Canadian Blood Services, Edmonton, AB, Canada

 

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3:10 – 3:30       Coffee Break (Provided)

 

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3:30 – 3:50       Overcoming solubility limitations with a new class of ice recrystallization inhibitors

• Anna Ampaw Robert N. Ben

• Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

                       

3:50 – 4:10       Rapid cool high-pressure cryopreservation

• Mohammad Amini James Benson

• Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

 

4:10 – 4:30       Positive effect of 3-O-Methylglycose on post-thaw in bull sperm

• Maajid Bhat James Benson

• Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

 

4:30 – 5:00       What’s Hot in the Cold Sciences – an Update

•  Jason Acker1,2

• 1Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

• 2Centre for Innovation, Canadian Blood Services, Edmonton, AB, Canada

 

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5:30                  Banquet (Faculty Club)

 

8:00                  Ice Castles at Hawrelak Park