Tentative Schedule of International Conference on Design of Biomaterials (BIND-06)

Friday, 8th December

14:00-18:00: Registration (VH-Control Room)
19:00-22:00: Welcome dinner (VH Lawn)

Plenary Lecturer: (40+5) minutes
Keynote: (30+5) minutes
Invited: (20+5) minutes
Contributory: (12+3) minutes; Student's Presentation: 10 minutes

All session will be held at Auditorium, except parallel session that will be at
L-12, L-14 and L-15

Saturday, 9th December

9.00-10:00: Inaugural session (Venue Auditorium)

Session I: Tissue Engineering (Venue Auditorium)
10:00-10:45: Plenary Lecture - I:
Synthetic Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering
Speaker: Prof. C. Mauli Agarwal, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

10:45-11:15: High Tea (Venue Auditorium)

Session II: Bioceramics (Venue Auditorium)
11:15-11:50: Keynote-I:
Surface chemistry of biomimetic nanocrystalline apatitic calcium phosphates.
Implications in calcified tissues and biomaterials
Speaker: Prof. Christien Rey, ENSIACET, Toulouse, France

11:50-12:15: Invited- I:
Innovative Bioceramics from Eggshell waste
Speaker: Prof. T.S. Sampath Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India

12:15-12:40: Invited - II:
New Biomorphic Ceramic Materials for Biomedical Applications
Speaker: Dr. M. Singh, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland USA

12:40- 12:55: Contributory -I:
Fatigue Failure of Brittle Layer Structures for Biomedical Applications
Speaker: Dr. Sanjit Bhowmick, NIST, Gaithesburg, USA.

13:00-14:00: Lunch break (Venue Auditorium)

Session III: Polymeric Biomaterials (Venue Auditorium)

14:00-14:35 Keynote-II:
Micropatterned Polymer Substrates for Peripheral Nerve Regeneration and Control of Neural Stem Cell Growth and Differentiation
Speaker: Prof. Surya K. Mallapragada, Iowa State University, USA

14:35-15:00: Invited - III:
Injectable biodegradable hydrogels for biomedical applications
Speaker: Prof. Lakshmi S. Nair, University of Virginia, USA

15:00-15:15 Contributory - II:
Polymeric Microstructures Suspended in Three-Dimensional Cultures Modulate Cardiac Cell Function
Speaker: Prof. Sadhana Sharma, University of Illinois Chicago, USA.

15:15:15:30 Contributory - III:
Thermosensitive Transparent Interpenetrating Polymer Networks for Wound Dressing and Cell Adhesion Control
Speaker: Dr. Thimma Reddy, Kyushu University, Japan.

15:30-16:30: Tea Break & Poster Session

Session IVa: Biomaterial Applications (Venue L14)

16:40-17:15: Keynote-III:
Development of an improved TTK-Chitra Heart Valve Prosthesis
Speaker: Dr. G. S. Bhuvaneshwar, SCTIMST, Thiruvananthapuram, India

17:15-17:30: Contributory - IV:
Effect of nitrogen ion implantation on microstructure of biomaterials alumina
Speaker: Dr. S. K. Sinha, BIT, Ranchi.

Session IVb: Orthopedic Biomaterials (Venue L15)

16:40-17:05 Invited- IV:
Multiscale Toughening Mechanisms in a Natural Biomaterial: Bone
Speaker: Prof. Deepak Vashisth, RPI, USA

17:05-17:30: Invited - V:
Laser-Deposited Orthopedic Biomaterials and Functionally-graded Unitized Implants
Speaker: Prof. Rajarshi Banerjee, University of North Texas, USA

17:30-18:15 Indo-US delegates meeting (Venue L12)

18:30-20:00 Cultural function (Auditorium)

20:00-22:00 Banquet Dinner (Director's Residence)

Sunday, 10th December

Session V: Tissue Engineering (Venue Auditorium)
9:00 -9:45: Plenary Lecture - II:
Nanoengineered bone through electrospinning and mineralization
Speaker: Prof. Seeram Ramakrishna, National University of Singapore. Singapore

9:45-10:20: Keynote - IV:
Interfacial tissue engineering: The bridge for functional organ system.
Speaker: Prof. Helen H. Lu, Columbia University, USA.

10:20-10:45: Invited - VI:
Enhanced drug delivery to bone from porous bioactive scaffolds tailored for controlled release
Speaker: Dr. Sanjukta Deb, King's College, London, UK.

10:45-11:00: Contributory- V:
Three-dimensional growth of Retinoblastoma in a Polymer Scaffold
Speaker: Dr. Sanjeev K. Sahoo, Institute of Life Sciences, Bhuvaneswar, India

11:00-11:30: High Tea

Session VI: Cardiovascular biomaterials (Venue Auditorium)

11:30-12:05: Keynote - V
Cell Mimetic Surfaces: Blood Compatibility
Speaker: Dr. C. P. Sharma, SCTIMST, Thiruvananthapuram, India

12:05-12:40: Keynote - VI
Development of Blood Compatible Polymeric Materials for Medical Devices
Speaker: Prof. Alok R Ray, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India

12:40-13:05: Invited -VII:
In Search of a True Blood Substitute
Speaker: Dr. Niranjan Bhattacharya, Kolkata, India.

13:05-14:30: Lunch break and Poster Session (Auditorium)

Session VIIa: NanoBiomaterials (Venue L14)

14:40-15:15: Keynote - VII:
Nanomedicine for Healing Diseased Tissues
Speaker: Prof. Thomas J. Webster, Brown University, USA

15:15-15:40: Invited - VIII:
Nanostructured materials in medicine
Speaker: Prof. E. Piskin, TÜBITAK-Biyomedtek, Turkey

15:40-15:55: Contributory -VI:
Synthesizing stable nanoparticle composites for drug and gene delivery
Speaker: Prof. Subho Muzumdar, Delhi University, India.

15:55-16:10: Contributory - VII:
Cationic chitoson nanopolyplex microspheres as an effective carrier of siRNA for
target specific gene silencing
Speaker: Dr. Meenakshi Malhotra, Biogene, Gurgaon, India

Session VIIb: Biomaterial Applications (Venue L15)

14:40-14:55: Contributory- VIII:
From bacteria to tissue engineering applications: Usage of polyhydroxyalkanoates for biomedical applications
Speaker: Dr. Superb K. Misra, Department of Materials, Imperial College, UK

14:55-15:10: Contributory -IX:
Triphala Incorporated Collagen - A Smart Biomaterial For Infected Dermal Wound Healing
Speaker: Dr. Senthil Kumar, CLRI, Madras, India.

15:10-15:25: Contributory - X:
Polymeric scaffold based three dimensional culture of cancer cells as an in vitro tumor model
Speaker: Dr. Rajmohan Gopimohan, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India.

15:25-15:40: Contributory - XI:
Use of Biomaterials, Keratins-Gelatin and bFGF-Gelatin Composite Film as a Feeder Layer for Full Thickness Skin Mesh Graft in Experimental Dogs
Speaker: Prof. S. Thilagar, Department of Clinical Studies, Universiti Putra, Malaysia.

15:40-15:55: Contributory - XII:
Injectable Responsive Biodegradeable PLGA-PEG-PLGA Triblock Copolymers : Synthesis,Characterization and Effect of Copolomers Composition on Release of Methotrexate
Speaker: Dr. Neeraj Kumar, NIPER, Chandigarh, India

16.10-16.30: Tea break

Session VIII: Students' Presentation ( 16:30-17:45) (Venue L14 & L15)
Venue: L14 and L15 (6 presentations each)

18.00-19:00: Panel Discussion: Biomaterials Education, Research and Industry: Future Perspectives (Venue: Auditorium)

19:00-20:00 General Body Meeting of SBAOI. (Venue: Auditorium)
20.00-22.00: Dinner (Venue: VH)

Monday, 11th December

Session IX: Orthopedic biomaterials (Venue Auditorium)

9:00 -9:45: Plenary Lecture - III:
Functionally gradient ceramics for HIP replacement
Speaker: Prof. Omer Vander Biest, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.

9:45-10:20 Keynote - VIII:
Designing of porous calcium phosphate scaffolds for different orthopaedic applications
Speaker: Prof. Jose, Ferreira, University of Aveiro, Portugal.

10.20-10:45: Invited- IX:
Durability of structural ceramics for total hip replacement
Speaker: Dr. Laurent Germillard, INSA, Lyon, France

10:45 -11:10: Invited- X:
Properties of Substituted Apatites and Substituted Tricalcium Phosphates
Speaker: Prof. Racquel Z Legeros, New York Univ. College of Dentistry, USA.

11.10-11.30: High Tea

Session X: Biomaterial Applications (Venue Auditorium)

11.30-12.05: Keynote-IX:
Cryogels - a superporous material with interesting properties for separation of cells and for cultivation of cells.
Speaker: Prof. Bo Mattiasson, Lund University, Sweden

12.05-12.30: Invited - XI:
Effect of chemical pretreatment on iontophoretic delivery of insulin across porcine stratum corneum Speaker: Prof. Sneh Anand, IIT Delhi, New Delhi, India.

12:30-12:55: Invited - XII:
In vitro evaluation of biocompatibility of titanium oxide layer formed on metallic substrates
Speaker: Prof. Satoshi Hayakawa, Okayama University, Japan

13:00-14:30: Lunch break and Poster Session (Auditorium)

Session XIa: Bioceramics (Venue L14)

14.40-15.05: Invited-XIII:
Micro Macroporous Biphasic calcium phosphate concept for bone reconstruction and tissue engineering
Speaker: Prof. Guy DACULSI, Université de Nantes, Nantes, France

15:05-15.30: Invited - XIV:
Apatite stoichiometric ionomer glasses and glass ceramics: A crystallisation study in depth
Speaker: Dr. Artemis Stamboulis, University of Birmingham, UK

15:30-15:45: Contributory- XIII:
Low Temperature Processing of Dense Hydroxyapatite-Zirconia composites.
Speaker: Prof. S. Bhattacharya, NIT, Rourkela, India

15:45-16:00: Contributory- XIV:
Biomimetic behavior of in situ formed bioactive composite developed by powder metallurgy (PM) processing for load bearing applications
Speaker: Dr. Malobika Karanjai, ARCI, Hyderabad, India.

Session XIb: Biomaterial Applications (Venue L15)

14:40-15:15: Keynote- X:
Design principles in the development of synthetic corneal onlays and inlays
Speaker: Dr. Keith McLean, CSIRO and Vision CRC, Australia Invited- XVIII

15:15-15:40: Invited - XV:
Optimization in dentine mechanical properties: Effect of free water
Speaker: Dr. Anil Kishen, National University of Singapore, Singapore

15:40-15:55: Contributory- XV:
A Cost effective Solution of Edentulousness for the Subcontinent Populace.
Speaker: Dr. Subrata Pal, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

15:55-16:10: Contributory - XVI
Analysis of carbon fiber PEEK composite as implant material for Total hip Arthroplasty
Speaker: Dr. Amit Gupta, R & D (E), Pune, India.

16:15-17:00: Tea break

16:15-17:00: Meeting with Foreign delegates (Non-US speakers) (Venue L12)

17:00-17:30: Award Ceremony (Venue: Auditorium)

17:30-18:00: Closing Ceremony (Venue: Auditorium)