Next Scheduled Meeting: 19 December | 1:00 - 2:00pm

Room 936, 9th floor, Eye and Ear Institute

2006

January

Nicole Li, MPhil 
Pre-doctoral fellow
Dept of Communication Sci and Disorders 
School of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences
Phonotrauma: Agent-based modeling, inflammation and wound healing

Cecilia Yates
Graduate Student
Department of Pathology
Dermal-epidermal communication during wound healing is mediated by CXCR3 receptor and its ligands

James H-C Wang, PhD
Departments of Bioengineering and Orthopedic Surgery
Alpha-smooth muscle actin expression regulates cell traction forces

Tom Gilbert, MS
Graduate Student
Department of Bioengineering
Recruitment of bone marrow derived cells to the site of ECM scaffold remodeling

NO SEMINAR MIRM RETREAT

Bhavani Padma Thampatty, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Departments of Orthopedic Surgery
Differential regulation of EP receptors in response to IL-1beta in human tendon fibroblasts- Significance in tendon inflammation

James H-C Wang, PhD
Departments of Bioengineering and Orthopedic Surgery
Alpha-smooth muscle actin expression regulates cell traction forces

Ranjith Babu, MD 
Visiting Fellow
Department of Pathology 
Antimicrobial activities of silver assisted polymerization catalyst for a wound healing matrix

Hanshuang Shao, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Pathology
Spatial Localization of M-Calpain to the Plasma Membrane by PIP2 Binding during EGF Receptor-Mediated Activation

Naxin Guo, PhD
Department of Ophthalmology
Hyaluronan Is a Potent Enhancer of the Keratocyte Fibrotic Response to TGF-ß1 

Patricia A. Hebda, PhD
Departments of Otolaryngology and Cell Biology & Physiology
Inflammation and Fibrosis in Wound Healing

Richard Bodnar, PhD
Department of Pathology 
Blood vessel involution during wound healing

Yoram Vodovotz, PhD 
Departments of Surgery and Immunology
Center for Inflammation and Regenerative Modeling (C.I.R.M.)
Agent-based model of inflammation and wound healing: insights into diabetic foot ulcer pathology and the role of TGF-ß1

Gwendolyn Sowa, MD PhD 
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 
The beneficial effects of mechanical force on tissue healing

Latha Satish, PhD
Allegheny-Singer Research Institute
Center for Genomic Science
Role of chaperonins in scarless wound healing

Susan Reynolds, PhD
Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
Beta-catenin regulation of cell fate determination in the lung epithelium

Bin Li, PhD
Department of Bioengineering
The application of micropatterning technologies to study cell biology