Time: Mon, Tue July 17 - July 18, 9:00 am - 11:30
Place: Bioinformatics Computer Core Lab (Rm 104), Life Sciences Bldg
Organizers: Raj Rao
Audience: Primarily 1st year students

Schedule

Mon July 17, 9am	- Scenario: Mechanical cues for stem cells - Primer: Stem Cells (NIH) - Article: Lutolf MP, Hubbell JA (2005). Synthetic biomaterials as instructive extracellular microenvironments for morphogenesis in tissue engineering. Nature Biotechnol 23:47-55. - Article: Tan JL et al (2003). Cells lying on a bed of microneedles: An approach to isolate mechanical force. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 100:1484-1489.
Tue July 18, 9am	Nikolai Eroshenko presents: Jiang G, Huang AH, Cai Y, Tanase M, Sheetz MP (2006). Rigidity Sensing at the Leading Edge through alpha[v]beta3 Integrins and RPTPalpha. Biophys J 90:1804-1809. Pam Cuce presents: Brooks RA (1991). Intelligence without representation. Artificial Intelligence 47:139-159.
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