Biological Interactions on Materials Surfaces

Protein Adsorption to Biomaterials David R. Schmidt, Heather Waldock, and W. John Kao Investigating Protein Adsorption via Spectroscopic Ellipsometry Maria F. Mora, Jennifer L. Wehmeyer, Ron Synowicki, and Carlos D. Garcia AFM Methods for Characterizing Protein Interactions with Microphase-Separated Polyurethane Biomaterials Li-Chong Xu, Pranav Soman, Aashiish Agnihotri, Christopher A. Siedlecki Molecular Simulation of Protein-Surface Interactions Robert A. Latour Biomolecule-Nanomaterial Interactions: Effect on Biomolecular Structure, Function, and Stability Ravindra C. Pangule, Shyam S. Bale, Dhiral A. Shah, Amit Joshi, Prashanth Asuri, Jonathan S. Dodrick, and Ravi S. Kane Phage Display as a Strategy for Designing Organic/Inorganic Biomaterials Sharon Segvich and David H. Kohn Extracellular Matrix-derived Ligand for Selective Integrin Binding to Control Cell Function Timothy A. Petrie and Andrés J. Garcia Ligand-functionalized Biomaterial Surfaces: Controlled Regulation of Signaling Pathways to Direct Cell Differentiation Myung Hee Kim and Krishnendu Roy Combination of Growth Factors with Scaffolds Yoshiro Ito Cell and Tissue Interactions with Materials: The Role of Growth Factors Christopher C. Gibson, David A. Puleo and Rena Bizios In Vitro and in Vivo Monocyte, Macrophage, Foreign Body Giant Cell and Lymphocyte Interactions with Biomaterials James M. Anderson Development and Differentiation of Neural Stem and Progenitor Cells on Synthetic and Biologically-based Surfaces Erin N. Boote Jones, Donald S. Sakaguchi and Surya K. Mallapragada Towards osteogenic differentiation of marrow stromal cellsand in vitro production of mineralized extracellular matrix onto natural scaffolds Ana M. Martins, Catarina M. Alves, Rui L. Reis, Antonios G. Mikos, and F. Kurtis Kasper Biomimetic Nanophase Materials to Promote New Tissue Formation for Tissue Engineering Applications Xiaohua Liu, Ian O. Smith and Peter X. Ma Photofunctionalization of Materials to Promote Protein and

Rena Bizios received a B.S. (Cum Laude) degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, a M.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1981-2005, she was a member of the faculty in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. She is now a Peter T. Flawn Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), San Antonio, TX. During her career, Dr. Bizios has taught various undergraduate and graduate fundamental engineering and biomedical engineering courses as well as developed new courses for biomedical engineering curricula. She has mentored many graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and junior faculty. Most of her former doctoral students are now pursuing academic careers at various universities in the United States.