Virtual ESA 3D BioSystem Workshop

The scientific community in ESA member states is invited to join the workshop virtually and gain insights into the work performed so far by the 6 research teams, some of which will be present in person at ESTEC in the Netherlands.

Following the workshop, ESA will host the second info-session on the ISS 3D Biosystem, for researchers to inform themselves on the capabilities the system will have to help prepare their experiments for the upcoming announcement of opportunity.

Programme

9:30 - Welcome and Introduction to symposium (ESA)

9:45 – 10:45 - Project presentations (15 minutes + 15 minute community discussion)

• Development of 3D printed skeletal muscle constructs to test how microgravity affects myofiber development (Kai Hoettges, University of Liverpool)
• Biofabrication of a 3D bone-on-a-chip by inkjet printing for microgravity research (Ronnie Willaert, Charlotte Yvanoff, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

10:45 – 10:55 – Coffee break

11:00 – 13:00 – Project presentations (15 minutes + 15 minut community discussion)

• Making bioprinting in microgravity possible on Earth (Andreas Blaeser, David Sipos, TU Darmstadt)
• Paving the way for bioprinting of skin on Earth (Michael Gelinsky, Johannes Windisch, TU Dresden)
• Core-Shell Bioprinting of Skeletal Muscle Motoric Units (Gabor Trautmann, Charité Berlin)
• Robust extrusion bioprinting of mesoscopic tissue constructs: optimising flow and transport regimes (Igor Chernyavsky, University of Manchester)

13:00 – 14:00 – Lunch

13:30 – 15:00 – 3D Biosystem info-session (ESA)

• Presentation on 3D biosystem for ISS capabilities and development status 

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• Presentation on the ISS 3D Biosystem

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