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Despite rapid progress in the identification of relevant niche proteins and signaling pathways using in vitro models, to date, many stem cell types cannot be efficiently cultured in vitro. To address this challenge, we have been developing biomaterial-based approaches to display and delivery stem cell regulatory signals in a precise and near-physiological fashion, serving as powerful artificial microenvironments to study and manipulate stem cell fat. In this talk I will discuss some of our recent efforts to develop \u0027microarrayed artificial niches\u0027 allowing key biochemical and biophysical characteristics of stem cell niches to be mimicked and the physiological complexity deconstructed into a smaller, experimentally amendable number of distinct signaling interactions. The systematic deconstruction of stem cell niches may serve as a broadly applicable paradigm for defining and reconstructing artificial niches to accelerate the transition of stem cell biology to the clinic.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBiography:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMatthias Lutolf is Head of the Laboratory of Stem Cell Bioengineering at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EFPL). He was trained as a Materials Engineer at ETH Zurich where he also carried out his Ph.D. studies on the development of a novel class of biomaterials for tissue engineering and cell biology (awarded with ETH medal, 2004). In 2005, with fellowships from the Swiss National Science Foundation and Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Lutolf joined the Baxter Laboratory in Stem Cell Biology at Stanford University to study microenvironmental regulation of adult stem cells. In 2007, Lutolf received a European Young Investigator (EURYI) award to start up his independent research group at EPFL. By interfacing advanced biomaterials engineering, microtechnology and stem cell biology, a major goal in his lab is to uncover mechanisms of stem cell fate regulation by developing and applying \u0027artificial niches\u0027 which allow probing stem cell biology at the single cell level under well-defined biochemical and biophysical conditions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Stem Cell Engineering seminar series brings leaders in the field to Georgia Tech to share their most recent work and advances.\u0026nbsp; The seminars are open to all faculty, trainees and staff interested in stem cell engineering research.\u0026nbsp; Please visit the Stem Cell Engineering Center website or the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience website for a list of upcoming and previous speakers. 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This talk will be divided into two parts.\u0026nbsp; The first part, focused on profiling of stem cells, will review a high content imaging approach to obtain multidimensional descriptors of stem cell organization.\u0026nbsp; These descriptors of the stem cell phenotypes and mechanobiology can be used to parse stem cell subpopulations and gene expression much earlier than readouts enabled by traditional biochemical assays.\u0026nbsp; An example of how this strategy can be used to rank-order differentially osteogenic polymeric biomaterials will be highlighted.\u0026nbsp; The toolbox can also be applied to track the evolution of lineage restriction, cancerous transformation of adult stem cells, or follow minute organizational changes in nuclear proteins regulating cell cycle and epigenetic modifications.\u0026nbsp; The second part of the talk will focus on understanding how three-dimensional substrates regulate stem cell phenomena, including self-renewal and directed differentiation, with an emerging focus on neural reprogramming of human pluripotent stem cells.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBiography:\u003C\/em\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u2028Prabhas Moghe is a Professor and Vice Chair of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Rutgers University in New Jersey. 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An elected International Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering and of the AIMBE, Professor Moghe has directed two NSF IGERT programs at Rutgers, on Biointerfaces and Integrative Science and Engineering of Stem Cells (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.igert.rutgers.edu\u0022 title=\u0022www.igert.rutgers.edu\u0022\u003Ewww.igert.rutgers.edu\u003C\/a\u003E), currently co-directs a NIH T32 Postdoctoral Training Program on Translational Regenerative Medicine (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.njbiomaterials.org\u0022 title=\u0022www.njbiomaterials.org\u0022\u003Ewww.njbiomaterials.org\u003C\/a\u003E), and leads a major core, within RESBIO:\u0026nbsp;a National Biomedical Technology Resource Center, funded by the NIH\/NIBIB, on Cell Profiling of Polymeric Biomaterials.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Stem Cell Engineering seminar series brings leaders in the field to Georgia Tech to share their most recent work and advances.\u0026nbsp; The seminars are open to all faculty, trainees and staff interested in stem cell engineering research.\u0026nbsp; Please visit the Stem Cell Engineering Center website or the Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience website for a list of upcoming and previous speakers. 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Zandstra, PhD\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProfessor and Canada Research Chair in Stem Cell Bioengineering\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECSO, Centre for the Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EUniversity of Toronto\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E**Seminar to be videoconferenced at Emory University Hospital, Hurst conference room, 4th floor, E450\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESpatial organization and intercellular (between cell) communication networks are important components of the stem cell microenvironment. These higher order interactions maintain homeostasis and coordinate regenerative and developmental cues in multicellular organisms. We have developed a number of new tools to measure and control cell-cell interactions. These include: high throughput systems for screening paracrine interactions between cells; network analysis strategies (and toolboxes) to depict and analyze ligand connectivity between stem cells, their progeny and cells in their microenvironment; and artificial stem cell niches to regulate and control the context and impact of these interactions. In this presentation I will review the key design principles of these tools, and discuss their application in two short examples. In the first example I will describe our recent work in controlling feedback signaling from differentiated cells to grow human blood stem cells in a clinical relevant bioprocess. In the second example I will present our efforts to formulate human pluripotent derived cardiac cells into micro-tissues that allow for high-throughput functional analysis of responses to drug candidates. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003EBiography:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EResearch in the Zandstra Laboratory is focused on the generation of functional tissue from adult and pluripotent stem cells. His groups\u2019 quantitative, bioengineering-based approach strives to gain new insight into the fundamental mechanisms that control stem cell fate and to develop robust technologies for the use of stem cells and their derivatives to treat disease. Specific areas of research focus include blood stem cell expansion and the generation of cardiac tissue and endoderm progenitors from pluripotent stem cells. Dr. Zandstra is a Professor in the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, and the Donnelly Centre at the University of Toronto. He is also a member of the McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine and the Heart and Stroke\/Richard Lewar Centre of Excellence. He currently acts as Chief Scientific Officer for the Centre for the Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.CCRM.ca\u0022 title=\u0022www.CCRM.ca\u0022\u003Ewww.CCRM.ca\u003C\/a\u003E). Dr Zandstra\u2019s accomplishments have been recognized by a number of awards and accolades including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the McLean Award. 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Therefore, these remarkably plastic cells are termed \u201cpluripotent\u201d and represent attractive resources for tissue engineering and human disease modeling. Making these cells in a standardized and predictable manner however has been problematic, because the methods to derive and propagate these cells are either poorly understood or difficult to scale-up. Through two projects, I will describe engineering approaches to 1) identify key parameters that control the kinetics of a new technique of deriving pluripotent stem cells and 2) develop new polymeric materials that can efficiently propagate them. The first project describes stochastic transitions involved in progressing to a pluripotent state through epigenetic reprogramming, and the second project details biomolecules involved in the clonal growth of human cells in a pluripotent state. These modeling and materials engineering frameworks open up opportunities to readily grow sufficient quantities of clinically-grade, standardized human pluripotent cells from routine biopsies or blood samples, ultimately providing a foundation for more active, regenerative, and personalized therapy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESpeaker Biography\u003Cbr \/\u003EKrishanu Saha studied Chemical Engineering at Cornell University and at the University of California in Berkeley. In his dissertation with Professors David Schaffer and Kevin Healy, he worked on experimental and computational analyses of neural stem cell development, as well as the design of new materials for adult stem cell culture. In 2007 he became a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Professor Rudolf Jaenisch at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 2006 he has done research on human embryonic stem cells. 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Most physiological and pathophysiological processes involve complex interactions of cells with their microenvironments.\u0026nbsp; These interactions often vary both spatially and temporally and provide critical, instructive cues to the cells. In this talk we would specifically focus on engineering artificial niches to control stem cell fate. Specifically, we would present results from our effort to (a) generate complex tissues with spatially varying extracellular matrix (ECM) compositions and mechanical properties from a single stem cell population, and (b) generate functional immune cells from embryonic and adult stem cells using biomaterial and bioreactor-based approaches. We will also briefly discuss our work on designing new biomaterial-based delivery systems for cancer therapies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiosketch: \u003Cbr \/\u003EDr. Krishnendu (Krish) Roy received his undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Kharagpur, India) followed by his MS from Boston University and his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. Following his PhD, he joined Zycos Inc., a start-up biotechnology company where he served first as a Scientist and then as a Senior Scientist in the Drug Delivery Research group.\u0026nbsp; Dr. Roy left his industrial position to join The University of Texas at Austin in 2002, where he is currently the General Dynamics Endowed Faculty Fellow in Engineering, Associate Chair for Education and Outreach and Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Roy\u2019s research interests are in the areas of stem cell engineering with particular focus on bioreactor cultures and immune cell generation. He is also interested in controlled drug and vaccine delivery technologies and biomedical polymers with applications in cancer and immunotherapies. He was recently elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Dr. Roy has received numerous awards and honors including the Young Investigator Awards from both the Controlled Release Society (CRS) and The Society for Biomaterials (SFB), the Young Scientist Award from HSEMB, NSF CAREER award, Global Indus Technovator Award from MIT, the CRS Cygnus Award etc. He has also received the translational research award from the Coulter foundation and the bioengineering grant from the Whitaker Foundation. Dr. Roy\u2019s research has been supported through numerous grants from the NIH and NSF as well as an individual investigator award from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT). He serves as a member of the Editorial Boards for the Journal of Controlled Release and the European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESCEC Seminar Series\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Engineering Complex Stem Cell Niches:\u0026nbsp; Generating Therapeutic Cells from Adult and Embryonic Stem Cells\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKrishnendu Roy, PhD - University of Texas at Austin\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u0022Engineering Complex Stem Cell Niches:  Generating Therapeutic Cells from Adult and Embryonic Stem Cells\u0022 Krishnendu Roy, PhD - University of Texas at Austin"}],"uid":"27195","created_gmt":"2011-04-13 13:12:16","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:54:46","author":"Colly Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2011-04-26T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2011-04-26T14:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2011-04-26T14:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2011-04-26 17:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2011-04-26 18:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2011-04-26 18:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"65552":{"id":"65552","type":"image","title":"Krishnendu Roy, PhD - University of Texas at Austin","body":null,"created":"1449176863","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:07:43","changed":"1475894579","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:59","alt":"Krishnendu Roy, PhD - University of Texas at Austin","file":{"fid":"192274","name":"Roy_Krish.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Roy_Krish_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Roy_Krish_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":13278,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Roy_Krish_1.jpg?itok=MEFy5N-b"}}},"media_ids":["65552"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.bme.utexas.edu\/faculty\/roy\/index.html","title":"Roy lab"},{"url":"http:\/\/scec.gatech.edu\/","title":"Stem Cell Engineering Center"}],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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This usually achieved by exposing stem and progenitor cells to specific types and doses of cytokines, growth factors and extracellular matrix proteins. This can also be achieved by directly modulating the activity of signaling enzymes or transcription factors using genetic engineering strategies or by delivering bioactive molecules in the cell cytosol or nucleus.\u0026nbsp; In this seminar, I will first describe our investigation of the mechanisms responsible for the combinatorial cytokine dependence of stem\/progenitor cell fate decisions. During the development of embryonic and adult tissues, there is stage-specific, sequential expression of cytokine receptors during differentiation. We hypothesized that combinatorial cytokine dependence arises in cell subsets in unique transitional stages where cell fate decision can be regulated by combinations of early- and late-acting factors. We used adult bone marrow erythropoiesis (red blood cell development) as a model system since it depends on the sequential action of stem cell factor (SCF), an early-acting cytokine and erythropoietin (EPO), a late-acting cytokine. We have identified a subset of hematopoietic progenitor cells which fate decisions depend on both the SCF and EPO signals. The integration of the EPO and SCF signals was found to take place in the MAPK pathway and was found depend on a molecular mechanism that controls the dynamics of the ERK signal. Next, I will describe some work on the differentiation of neural precursor cells isolated from human olfactory epithelium (OE). These neural precursor cells can be easily harvested from a minimally invasive nasal biopsy, making them a valuable cell source to study human neural cell lineages in health and disease. We examined the impact of changes in glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3) activity on the fate of adult human OE neural precursors in vitro. In these experiments, ATP-competitive (6-bromoindirubin-3\u0027-oxime and CHIR99021) and substrate-competitive (TAT-eIF2B) inhibitors were used in order to eliminate potential confounding effects on cell fate due to off-target kinase inhibition. The results indicated that GSK-3 inhibition promotes the early stages of neuronal differentiation and decrease proliferation in cultures of adult human neural precursors. This finding provides insights into the mechanisms by which alterations in GSK-3 signaling affect adult human neurogenesis, a cellular process strongly suspected to play a role in the etiology of neuropsychiatric disorders. The different investigations described above both required the use of tools to examine how signal transduction operates in single live cells. We mostly used multicolor flow cytometry in these studies but we have also explored several applications for single-cell capillary electrophoresis (CE). 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