Cell Biology
Bones/Muscles@@Tissue Engineering/Regeneration
Megan Killian, Ph.D
Associate Professor
Orthopaedic Surgery and Molecular and Integrative Physiology
University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor , Michigan, United States
Jennifer Simkin, PhD
Assistant Professor
Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky, United States
The ability to regenerate a new limb after amputation or heal a wound without generating a fibrotic scar would revolutionize human health. This session focuses on new and inventive research approaches led by innovative scientists with expertise in regenerative biology. This session will focus on how regeneration occurs at multiple length scales using a wide range of model systems including digit tip regeneration, extracellular matrix remodeling, and reproductive cell regeneration. Speakers include experts in extracellular matrix (sub-micron scale), cell and tissue biology (micron scale), and whole organism scale (mm/cm scale). The emergence of new technologies to study regenerative biology, such as high-resolution imaging and multiomics approaches, are constantly evolving, and research led by the selected speakers are on the cutting edge of these emerging technologies.
Speaker: Jennifer Simkin, PhD – University of Kentucky
Speaker: Sarah Calve, PhD – University of Colorado Boulder
Speaker: Marian Hettiaratchi – University of Oregon
