MDR Annual meeting – 2022
MDR Annual meeting 2022
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On the 9th & 10th of May, we will organize the next MDR Annual meeting in Elspeet, the Netherlands.
The MDR Annual meeting brings together faculty, PhD students, postdocs and technicians working in the participating groups of the MDR Research Center to share the latest developments and breakthroughs of their research. The aim of this event is to stimulate discussion and interaction between members of the MDR community, with the intention to further strengthen the collaborations and joined efforts leading to outstanding research.
Location: Hotel Mennorode, Elspeet
Costs: €100,-
Includes: 2-day event with food, drinks and overnight stay
Registration closed: April 22th, 2022 > EXTENDED
Program MDR Annual Meeting
Venue: Hotel & Congrescentrum Mennorode, Apeldoornseweg 185, 8075 RJ Elspeet – 0577 – 498 111
Monday May 9th, 2022
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch buffet + short opening Carlijn Bouten
13:00 – 15:15 Session 1 – Materials-driven Form & Function
Moderated by Jan van Hest
13:00 – 14:00 Keynote lecture by Marileen Dogterom – Delft University of Technology
“Towards building synthetic cells”
14:00 – 14:15 Daniel Krueger – Hubrecht Institute
“Mechanisms of Cell Extrusion controlling Tissue Homeostasis in the Intestine”
14:15 – 14:30 Stefan Giselbrecht – MERLN
“Organoid culture in microfluidic systems”
14:30 – 14:45 Vito Conte – TU/e
“Supracellular mechanical nature of carcinogenesis”
14:45 – 14:55 Rapid Fire talks:
Martina Viola – “Thermosensitive shrinking behavior of biopolymer-based hydrogels for high resolution printing”
Marleen van Stevendaal – “Implementing micro-sized synthetic cells in tissue engineering”
14:55 – 15:15 Q&A session 1
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 – 17:00 Session 2: Cell-material interface and screening
Moderated by Clemens van Blitterswijk
15:45 – 16:00 Jan de Boer – TU/e
“Topographical design space and its relation to cell response”
16:00 – 16:15 Jos Malda – RMU
16:15 – 16:30 Aurélie Carlier – MERLN
“Deconstructing and reconstructing the dynamic interactions between cells and their extracellular matrix using computational modeling”
16:30 – 16:40 Rapid Fire talks:
Steven Vermeulen – “Guiding Medusa’s Gaze: Spheroid Calcification for Disease Modelling and Regenerative Medicine”
Jasper Aarts – “Supramolecular biomaterial screening”
16:40 – 17:00 Q&A session 2
17:00 – 18:00 Break + drinks
18:00 – 20:00 Poster session with (walking) dinner
20:00 Social program + drinks
Tuesday May 10th, 2022
7:30 – 8:30 Breakfast buffet and check out
8:30 – 9:15 Session 3: MDR Young Talent Incentives
Moderated by Aurélie Carlier
8:45 – 9:00 Merle Maas-Krebber and Dr. Tamar Wissing – RMU and TU/e
“A novel atherogenic 3D in vitro model to elucidate biomaterial-driven vascular regeneration”
9:00 – 9:15 Bregje de Wildt – TU/e
“Towards an in vitro platform to evaluate materials-driven human bone regeneration”
9:15 – 12:00 Session 4 – Desired and undesired material-induced mineralization
Moderated by Niloofar Tahmasebi
9:15– 9:30 Carlijn Bouten – TU/
“Will in-situ tissue engineered heart valves calcify?”
9:30 – 9:45 Sandra Hofmann – TU/e
“Both chemical and mechanical environments affect mineralization in in vitro cultures”
9:45 – 10:00 Martijn van Griensven – MERLN
10:00 – 10:10 Rapid fire talks:
Sana Ansari – “Development of serum substitute medium for bone tissue engineering”
Liline Fermin – “Unravelling the role of biomaterials properties in orchestrating the osteoimunological and osteoclastogenic events during biomaterials-driven bone regeneration”
10:10 – 10:30 Q&A session 3
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00 Keynote lecture by John Jansen – Radboud University Nijmegen
“FROM REPAIR TO REGENERATION: from bioinert to bioregenerative biomaterials”
12:00 – 13:00 Session 5 – Cells, organoids and organs
Moderated by Marianne Verhaar
12:00 – 12:15 Marc van de Wetering – Hubrecht Institute
“Organoids as human disease models”
12:15 – 12:30 Patricia Dankers – TU/e
“Engineering functionality into synthetic extracellular matrices to steer cell and organoid cultures”
12:30 – 12:40 Rapid fire talks:
Laura Rijns – “Synthetic extracellular matrices based on supramolecular hydrogels”
Elana Meijer – “Blood vessel organoids – the missing ingredient in (pre-)vascularization strategies”
12:40 – 13:00 Q&A session 4
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch buffet
14:30 – 17:00 MDR PI meeting
MDR PhD / PD meeting
The program is available for download as a pdf.
Poster session
All PhD students and Postdocs are invited to present a poster during the poster session which is combined with the lunch. Poster boards will be available (poster board size: 1000 x 1250 mm).
Travel and directions to the venue
Navigation address: Apeldoornseweg 185, 8075 RJ Elspeet
By train:
Utrecht station: 09.51am from platform 4 or 10.21am from platform 4 > NS sprinter in the direction of Zwolle, platform 4 > after 55 minutes, get out of the train at station Nunspeet**
Maastricht station: 07.31am* from platform 1 (train in the direction of Alkmaar) > switch trains at Utrecht station (after 56 minutes of travel) > NS sprinter in the direction of Zwolle, platform 4 > after 55 minutes, get out of the train at station Nunspeet**
*the same route can be taken at 08.01am from Maastricht station
or
Maastricht station: 07.41am* from platform 4b (train in the direction of Roermond) > switch trains at Sittard station (after 20 minutes of travel) to the train on platform 2b at 8.05am (train in the direction of Enkhuizen) > switch trains at Utrecht station (after 1h40min of travel) > NS sprinter in the direction of Zwolle, platform 4 > after 55 minutes, get out of the train at station Nunspeet**
*the same route can be taken at 08.11am from Maastricht station
Eindhoven station: 08.57am from platform 5 or 09.27 am from platform 5 (train in the direction of Enkhuizen) > switch trains at Utrecht station (after 48 minutes of travel) > NS sprinter in the direction of Zwolle, platform 4 > after 55 minutes, get out of the train at station Nunspeet**
**at the station of Nunspeet there will be a shuttle bus ready to take you to your venue > please contact Steffie Hermans (s.hermans.beijnsberger@tue.nl) if you want to make use of this shuttle bus (deadline May 3rd).
(Check the exact and latest schedule at https://www.ns.nl/en)