| 12:00pm – 5:00pm | Symposium Registration Open |
| 5:00pm – 6:30pm | Poster Session Location: AT&T Conference Center |
| 6:30pm – 7:00pm | Travel to Opening Session Center |
| Shuttle service provided to: | |
| Cockrell School of Engineering, Engineering Executive Education Center Auditorium |
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| 7:00pm – 9:30pm | Welcome – Opening Session and Reception |
| Linda Noble-Haeusslein, PhD, University of Texas at Austin | |
| James Sulzer, PhD, University of Texas at Austin | |
| Title: Introduction to the UT Cellular and Clinically Applied Rehabilitation and Engineering (C2ARE) Consortium | |
| Evening Session: Learning From the “Learned” Brain | |
| Featured Speakers: | |
| Jose del R. Millan, PhD, University of Texas at Austin | |
| Title: Brain-Computer Interfaces: Promoting Learning and Plasticity | |
| Edward Chang, MD, University of California, San Francisco | |
| Title: A Speech Neuroprosthetic for Restoring Communication |
| 7:00am – 8:30am | Symposium Registration/Check-In |
| 7:30am – 9:00am | Diversity Breakfast |
| Discussion facilitated by: | |
| Paula K. Davis, MA, Office of Diversity and Inclusion, University of Pittsburgh | |
| Co-Chair: TBD (University of Texas) | |
| 9:00am – 9:15am | Opening of Day One/Welcome |
| Fabrisia Ambrosio, PhD, MPT, University of Pittsburgh | |
| 9:15am – 10:00am | Featured Speaker: |
| Molly Shoichet, PhD, University of Toronto | |
| Title: Harnessing the Power of Stem Cells to Regenerate the Brain | |
| 10:00am – 10:30am | Break (refreshments in the foyer area) |
| 10:30am – 11:45am | Session #1: Modulation of the Microenvironment to Enhance CNS Recovery |
| Moderator: TBD | |
| Jennifer Dulin, PhD, Texas A&M University | |
| Title: TBA | |
| Argyrios Stampas, MD, TIRR Memorial Hermann, Texas Medical Center | |
| TItle: TBA | |
| Karunesh Ganguly, MD, PhD, University of California, San Francisco | |
| TItle: TBA | |
| 11:45am – 12:00pm | Young Investigator Blockbuster |
| Speaker: TBA (selected from poster abstracts) | |
| 12:00pm – 1:45pm | Lunch (will be provided) Networking and Poster Viewing |
| 1:45pm – 3:10pm | Session #2: Mechanically-Based Methods to Improve Regenerative Medicine Technologies for the Heart |
| Moderator: TBD | |
| Featured Speaker: William R. Wagner, PhD, University of Pittsburgh | |
| Topic: Biomaterials for Cardiac Engineering | |
| Speaker 2: TBD | |
| Speaker 3: TBD | |
| 3:10pm – 3:20pm | Young Investigator Blockbuster |
| Speaker: TBA (selected from poster abstracts) | |
| 3:20pm – 3:50pm | Break (refreshments in the foyer area) |
| 3:50pm – 5:05pm | Session #3: Novel Biomarkers for Reenerative Rehabilitation Research |
| Moderator: TBD | |
| Weian Zhao, PhD, University of California, Irvine | |
| Topic: Mechanosensing Stem Cells | |
| Marzia Bedoni, PhD, Don Gnocchi Foundation | |
| Topic: Extracellular Vesicles | |
| Thomas Rando, MD, PhD, Stanford University | |
| Topic: Bioluminescent Imaging of Stem Cells in Vivo | |
| 5:05pm – 5:20pm | Young Investigator Blockbuster |
| Speaker: TBA (selected from poster abstracts) | |
| 5:20pm – 6:30pm | Poster Session & Networking |
| 6:30pm – 8:30pm | Evening Session and Reception: |
| Moderator: TBD | |
| Featured Speakers: | |
| Conor Walsh, PhD, Harvard University | |
| Title: Soft Robots for Regeneration and Rehabilitation | |
| and | |
| Tejal Desai, PhD, University of California, San Francisco | |
| Title: Designing Therapeutic Biomaterials |
| 7:00am – 8:30am | Symposium Registration/Check-in |
| 7:30am – 9:00am | Clinical SIG Breakfast |
| Moderators: TBD | |
| 9:00am – 10:30am | Session #4: Rehabilitation Approaches from Cells to Tissues to Organism |
| Moderator: TBD | |
| Featured Speaker: Antonios Mikos, PhD, Rice University | |
| Title: Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine | |
| G.V. Shivashankar, PhD, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore & FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology (IFOM) | |
| Title: TBA | |
| Speaker #3: TBD | |
| 10:30am – 11:00am | Break |
| 11:00am – 12:25pm | Session #5: How to Build a Better Mouse Trap: Innovations in Tissue Engineering for Regenerative Rehabilitation |
| Moderator: TBD | |
| Speaker #1: TBD | |
| Speaker #2: TBD | |
| Speaker #3: TBD | |
| 12:25pm – 12:45pm | Closing Remarks Fabrisia Ambrosio, PhD, MPT, University of Pittsburgh |
