ERTS 2013

SESSION 9: Stem Cell Niche & Rejuvenation

Chairmen: D. Kletsas (Greece) & JJ. Lataillade (France)

• Exploring strategies for cell rejuvenation and tissues regeneration.
  Jean-Marc Lemaître (France)
• Senescence of somatic and stem cells: possible implications in tissue homeostasis and cell replacement therapies. Dimitris Kletsas (Greece)
• Engineering of mesenchymal stromal/stem niches.
  Arnaud Scherberich (Switzerland)

Selected short oral presentations

• Pulling the trigger on chronic wounds - Adaptive response of mesenchymal stem cells rescues impaired healing in LAD1 mice.
  Dongsheng Jiang (Germany)
• A preclinical model to study the efficacy of hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
  Johan van Neck (The Netherlands)
• Non-destructive imaging of stem cells and their differentiated progeny.
  Phil Stephen (UK)

Coffee break - Visit of exhibition + Posters

SESSION 10: Cell and Tissue Engineering (associated with SFBCT)

Chairmen: B. Pignon (France) & T. Shaw (United Kingdom)

• Red blood cell from stem cells in vitro: perspectives for transfusion medicine. Luc Douay (France)
• Exploring gingival fibroblasts for tissue repair and remodeling.
  Bernard Coulomb (France)

Selected short oral presentations

• Immunogenicity and osteogenic potential of human amniotic membrane: in vitro and in vivo studies. Florelle Gindraux (France)
• Muscle regeneration in the soft palate of rats.
  Johannes Von den Hoff (The Netherlands)
• Adipose mesenchymal stromal cells protect chondrocytes from degeneration associated with osteoarthriti. Marie Maumus (France) - YIA^*
• Effects of the incorporation of mesenchymal stem cells and fibroblasts into a flowable gel matrix substitute in an ex vivo cutaneous wound healing model. Tom Hodgkinson (UK) - YIA^*
• Bioengineering simultaneously bone and bone marrow tissue with a calcium carbonate scaffold and human mesenchymal stem cells.
  Martina Sladkova (France) - YIA^*

Awards & Closing Ceremony

Lunch