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SELECTBIO Conferences Lab-on-a-Chip and Microfluidics: Emerging Themes, Technologies and Applications
Conferences  \  Lab-on-a-Chip, Microfluidics & Microarrays World Congress 2016  \  Lab-on-a-Chip and Microfluidics: Emerging Themes, Technologies and Applications  \  Agenda  \  Kennedy Okeyo
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Kennedy Okeyo's Biography


Kennedy Okeyo, Senior Lecturer, Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University

Dr. Kennedy O. Okeyo is currently a senior lecturer at the Institute for Frontier Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University. He graduated with a PhD in mechanical engineering from Kyoto University, Japan, and worked briefly in a company thereafter. Prior to his current appointment, he worked as an assistant professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan. His current research interests includes tissue engineering, biomicrofluidics, and cellular biomechanics, with specific focus on stem cell function manipulation based on cell-material interactions.

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Step by Step Fabrication of Biomaterials based on Cell Adhesion Control

Wednesday, 28 September 2016 at 08:00

Add to Calendar ▼2016-09-28 08:00:002016-09-28 09:00:00Europe/LondonStep by Step Fabrication of Biomaterials based on Cell Adhesion ControlSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com

On-chip fabrication of biomaterials such as cell sheets based on self-assembly organization of cells into tissues continues to attract attention due to potential applications in regenerative medicine as well as in the development of in vitro models for drug screening. We recently developed a technique for step-by-step fabrication of cell sheets based on adhesion control. It involves minimization of cell-substrate interaction to initiate self-assembly of cells, not into spheroids, but into planar cell sheets which can be then overlaid or stacked into 3D tissue models. For cell adhesion minimization, we developed a mesh culture system where cells are seeded and grown on suspended ultra-thin (~2µm thick) mesh scaffolds consisting of considerably large apertures (exceeding 100 µm in size) and thin mesh lines (3-5 µm in width).

Add to Calendar ▼2016-09-26 00:00:002016-09-28 00:00:00Europe/LondonLab-on-a-Chip and Microfluidics: Emerging Themes, Technologies and ApplicationsSELECTBIOenquiries@selectbiosciences.com


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