9:00 – 9:30       Registration/Coffee and Light Breakfast (Provided)

 

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9:30 – 9:50       Investigation of the Compressive Mechanical Properties of Fresh, Frozen and Vitrified Porcine                                          Menisci 

• Junran Sun1 Lindsey Westover2, Leila Laouar3, Nadr M. Jomha3, Samer Adeeb1, Gail M. Thornton2

• 1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

• 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

• 3Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

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9:50 – 10:10     Cryopreservation of brain microvascular endothelial cells and astrocytes in suspension

• Leah A. Marquez -Curtis1,2 Reid Bokenfohr3, Locksley E. McGann2, Janet A. W. Elliott1,2

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

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

• 3Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

 

10:10 – 10:30    Optimization of bovine sperm cryopreservation using machine learning and response surface                                             methodology

• Frankie Tu, Maajid Bhat, James D. Benson

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

 

10:30 – 10:50    Cryopreservation of up to 2mm thick arteries and other tissues with Metal Forms

• Zonghu Han, Anirudh Sharma, Zhe Gao, John Bischof

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

 

 

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10:50 – 11:10    Coffee Break (Provided)

 

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11:10 – 11:30    Application of a cell-dense triphasic model to cryoprotectant equilibration

• Robyn Shuttleworth1 Ross Warner2, Adam Z Higgins2, James D Benson1

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

• 2School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States

 

11:30 – 11:50    Silymarin Mediated Osmotic Responses and Damage in Cultured Hepatocytes

• Iqra Azam, James D. Benson

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

 

11:50 – 12:10    Antioxidant Effects in Porcine Articular Cartilage during Exposure to Cryoprotective Agents

• Mary Crisol1 Kezhou Wu1, Leila Laouar1, Janet A. W. Elliott2,3, Nadr M. Jomha1

• 1Department 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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12:10 – 1:00      Lunch (Provided)

 

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1:00 – 1:20       Modelling the osmotic behaviour of human mesenchymal stem cells for cryopreservation

• Gabriele Traversari Alberto Cincotti

• Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica Chimica e dei Materiali (DIMCM), Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Via Marengo 1, 09123, Cagliari, Italy

 

1:20 – 1:40       Hydrate formation under static and pulsed electric fields

• Sima Hejazi Hassan Pahlavanzade, Mehrdad Manteghian

• Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

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1:40 – 2:00       Serum-free cell freezing medium preserved stemness properties and anti-fibrotic functions of human                                adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells

• Kar Wey Yong1,4 Jane Ru Choi2,3,4, Wan Kamarul Zaman Wan Safwani4, Belinda Pingguan-Murphy4

• 1Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

• 2Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

• 3Centre for Blood Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

• 4Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

 

2:00 – 3:00       Round-table discussion

 

3:00 – 3:15       Closing Remarks and Picture-taking