As part of the Biomedical Engineering and Technology Research Day co-hosted by the NSERC CREATE Training in Global Biomedical Technology Research and Innovation, the Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology (CBB), The Office of Research Health Initiatives, and the Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program (BME), we would like to invite you to our afternoon keynote address presented by McMaster's Professor Kathryn Grandfield on July 24, 2024 from 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. in DC1302.
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Abstract
Title: Advanced microscopies for the development and characterization of biomaterials and biomineralized tissues
Uncovering the mechanisms of biomaterial-bone attachment is complicated by the complex and three-dimensional hierarchical structure of human bone. Our work explores the structure and formation of bone and its attachment to biomaterials with advanced microscopy approaches. This talk will introduce a range of correlative, 3D, and real-time high-resolution approaches to probe both biomineralization and osseointegration including electron tomography, focused ion beam microscopy, in situ liquid phase TEM, and atom probe tomography. These correlative microscopies provide a foundation for understanding the structure and chemical nature of inorganic and organic biomaterials, including shedding light on the titanium-bone interface, collagen-mineral arrangement, new approaches for visualizing osteocyte networks, and mineralization events in liquids. These platforms for characterization have broad applications across the field of biomedical engineering.
Keynote Speaker
Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies | McMaster University, Canada
Kathryn Grandfield is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering and the Associate Dean Graduate Studies for the Faculty of Engineering at McMaster University, Canada. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Microscopy of Biomaterials and Biointerfaces and is the Past-President of the Microscopy Society of Canada. Dr. Grandfield studied Materials Science and Engineering at McMaster University before attaining a Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences at Uppsala University, Sweden and then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the recipient of several early career awards including the Early Researcher Award from the Ministry of Science, Research, and Innovation. Her research within the Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy focuses on the development of multiscale, multidimensional and in situ correlative microscopies including focused ion beam, electron tomography, atom probe tomography, and liquid phase TEM for advancing the study of biomaterials and biomineralized tissues for applications in bone.