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SUMMARY:Bigger Picture Talk with Prof. Alvaro Mata - Alvaro Mata\, Profess
 or in Biomedical Engineering and Biomaterials\, University of Nottingham
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CONTACT:Mariella Kundert
DESCRIPTION:*From biological organisation principles to supramolecular bio
 fabrication and tissue engineering*\n\n"Register for your free ticket":htt
 ps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bigger-picture-talk-with-professor-alvaro-mata
 -tickets-504299291757\n\nLiving systems have evolved to grow and heal thro
 ugh biological organization principles (BOPs) capable of organizing molecu
 lar and cellular building-blocks at multiple size scales. These BOPs emerg
 e from cooperative interactions and chemical networks between multiple com
 ponents\, which allow biological systems to diversify\, respond\, and opti
 mize. This talk will present our laboratory’s efforts to combine supramo
 lecular events found in nature such as self-assembly\, disorder-to-order t
 ransitions\, or diffusion-reaction processes with engineering processes to
  design bioinspired materials and devices. I will also describe recent eff
 orts aiming to go beyond “bioinspiration” and into “biocooperation
 ”. I will describe methodologies to develop a) dynamic hydrogels and in 
 vitro models for cancer b) self-assembling fluidic devices and c) regenera
 tive implants.
LOCATION:Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology\, West Cambr
 idge Site
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