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Young Scientists training workshop on Fundamentals and Advances in Biomaterials Science and Bio-Engineering (BIOMAT 12) December 6-9, 2012 Name: ______________________________________ Title/Position: ________________________________ Organization:_________________________________ ____________________________________________ Mailing Address: _____________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ E-mail:______________________________________ Phone(s): ____________________________________ Research interests: ____________________________ ____________________________________________ Accommodation Required: Yes / No For further information, contact

Young Scientists training workshop

[Exclusively for PhD students and young researchers of 35 years of age or below] ON

Fundamentals and Advances in Biomaterials Science and Bio-Engineering

(BIOMAT 12)
December 6-9, 2012

Workshop Coordinator:

Prof. Bikramjit Basu

Workshop Convener, BIOMAT 12 Materials Research Center, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore 560012, Karnataka, INDIA. E-mail: biomat12@gmail.com

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Participants Signature

NOTE:
1. Registration will begin on September 15, 2012 and the Registration fee, if any, will be announced before this date on the workshop website. 2. For Registration in this course, the duly filled application form MUST be accompanied with a letter from the thesis supervisor/ Head of the department (signed with official stamp/seal) confirming your status as a researcher and a photocopy of your identity card issued from your institution/organization. Otherwise, the application will NOT be considered as valid. 3. A maximum of 25 participants will be allowed (first-cum-first serve basis) and NO more than TWO researchers from same research group will be allowed. 5. The registration closes on October 30, 2012.

http://mrc.iisc.ernet.in/Bikram_Website /BIOMAT/BIOMAT-12.htm

Venue Auditorium, Materials Research Center Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES
Biomaterials, recognized as a new class of materials in the Materials Science community, are being developed in last few decades for human health care. The design and development of biomaterials requires the integration of the concepts and expertise from two widely different disciplines, i.e. Materials Science & Engineering and Biological Science. While such integration is not an easy task by any means, the researchers have put their extensive efforts in this direction. The importance of the field of biomaterials and Bio-Engineering as an area of interdisciplinary research is increasingly being noticed in the Engineering community and it is being reflected with the new Bio-Engineering initiative at IISc, Bangalore as well as academic courses on this subject is being taught at undergraduate and graduate level in many of the topmost universities, including in IITs. In order to ensure continuous growth of the field of Biomaterial science and Bio-Engineering in India, BIOMAT 12 has been planned to educate and train the young scientists from various academic institutions / R&D labs of 35 years of age or below.

COURSE CONTENT
Section I: Fundamentals Basic concepts of Materials Science and Salient properties of biomaterials and Concept of biocompatibility Structure and properties of biological cells, bacteria & tissues Cell fate processes and Cell-material interaction Section II: Biocompatibility Assessment In vitro biocompatibility testing in vivo testing and histocompatibility assessment SECTION III: Bio-Engineering Hydroxyapatite (HA)-based biocomposites Processing & Properties of Polymer biocomposite Advanced fabrication techniques of biomnaterials External field stimulated cell fate processes Bio-electronics and Medical imaging Section IV: Laboratory training and exposure: Cell Culture & in vitro biochemical assays Bacteria culture Culture experiments under external electric and magnetic field Fluoroscent Activated Cell sorter (FACS) Genotoxicity and haemocompatibility assessment In vivo testing of biomaterials in animal model Three dimensional printing of scaffolds Electrospinning of fibrous scaffolds Microscopy and imaging of biomaterials

Workshop Overview:
a) Integration of the concepts of Materials Science and Biological Science b) Coverage of the necessary fundamentals of cell / molecular biology c) Processing and basic material properties of various biocompatible metals and ceramics based materials d) Coverage of in vitro and in vivo biological property evaluation of materials for bone tissue, neural tissue engineering as well as cardiovascular applications e) Processing and Properties of metals, ceramics and polymer based biocomposites, including the fabrication of porous scaffold materials using 3D printing and electrospinning f) Lectures by both academicians as well as clinicians and professionals from orthopedic industry g) In addition to providing necessary fundamentals in the subject area, the participants will be trained in a number of laboratory experiments, covering on both Processing aspects of biomaterials fabrication to Cell/Bacteria Culture experiments as well as to advanced molecular biology techniques, like Fluoroscent Activated Cell sorter (FACS) and finally to Microscopy and imaging techniques.

WORKSHOP SPEAKERS
A special lecture by the internationally wellrecognized cardiologist, Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty, Padma Bhushan will be organized apart from another interactive session with Prof. Shankaran Valiathan, Padma Vibhushan. A series of lectures will be delivered by the following persons:
Ajay Roy, Bengal Engineering and Science University J. Chatterjee, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur Annie John, SCTIMST, Trivandrum T. Sampath Kumar, Indian Inst. of Technology Madras D. Bahadur, Indian Inst. of Technology Bombay Rinti Banerji, Indian Inst. of Technology Bombay H. K. Varma, SCTIMST, Trivandrum Bikramjit Basu, Indian Institute of Science Kaushik Chatterjee,Indian Institute of Science,Bangalore Ashok Raichur, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Alok Dhawan, Ahmedabad University, India D. C. Sundaresh, MS Ramaiah Adv. Learning Center

Attention:

Workshop Convener, BIOMAT 12 Materials Research Center, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore 560012, Karnataka, INDIA.

Prof. Bikramjit Basu