Cellular and Tissue Engineering, Biomaterials

Development of synthetic extracellular matrices for medical devices and tissue engineering
Development of cellular microarrays for drug toxicity testing
Stereolithography of hydrogel scaffolds for tissue engineering
Examining cellular response to different hydrogel microenvironments

Below are some selected additional publications that are not listed in the PubMed "Selected Publications" collection (at the bottom of this page):

Masters KS, Mann BK. Tissue engineered heart. In Applications of Cell Immobilisation Biotechnology. Nedovic V, Willaert R, eds. Springer, 2005.
Arcaute K, Ochoa L, Medina F, Elkins C, Mann B, Wicker R. Three-dimensional PEG hydrogel construct fabrication using stereolithography. Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings 2005; 874:L5.5.1-7.
Fernet MD, Melvin B, Gustin MC, Shanks JV. 13C-NMR studies of glucose metabolism in osmolarity mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Enzyme and Microbial Technology 1994; 16:207-15.

Baird IS, Yau AY, Mann BK, Mammalian cell-seeded hydrogel microarrays printed via dip-pin technology. Biotechniques 2008 Feb;44(2):249-56

Vanderhooft JL, Mann BK, Prestwich GD, Synthesis and characterization of novel thiol-reactive poly(ethylene glycol) cross-linkers for extracellular-matrix-mimetic biomaterials. Biomacromolecules 2007 Sep;8(9):2883-9

Arcaute K, Mann BK, Wicker RB, Stereolithography of three-dimensional bioactive poly(ethylene glycol) constructs with encapsulated cells. Ann Biomed Eng 2006 Sep;34(9):1429-41

Gunn JW, Turner SD, Mann B , Adhesive and mechanical properties of hydrogels influence neurite extension. J Biomed Mater Res A 2005 Jan 1;72(1):91-7

Mann BK, Biologic gels in tissue engineering. Clin Plast Surg 2003 Oct;30(4):601-9

Mann BK, West J , Cell adhesion peptides alter smooth muscle cell adhesion, proliferation, migration, and matrix protein synthesis on modified surfaces and in polymer scaffolds. J Biomed Mater Res 2002 Apr;60(1):86-93

Mann BK, Gobin AS, Tsai AT, Schmedlen RH, West J , Smooth muscle cell growth in photopolymerized hydrogels with cell adhesive and proteolytically degradable domains: synthetic ECM analogs for tissue engineering. Biomaterials 2001 Nov;22(22):3045-51

Mann BK, West J , Tissue engineering in the cardiovascular system: progress toward a tissue engineered heart. Anat Rec 2001 Aug 1;263(4):367-71

Mann BK, Schmedlen RH, West J , Tethered-TGF-beta increases extracellular matrix production of vascular smooth muscle cells. Biomaterials 2001 Mar;22(5):439-44

Mann BK, Tsai AT, Scott-Burden T, West J , Modification of surfaces with cell adhesion peptides alters extracellular matrix deposition. Biomaterials 1999 Dec;20(23-24):2281-6

Melvin BK, Shanks J , Influence of aeration on cytoplasmic pH of yeast in an NMR airlift bioreactor. Biotechnol Prog 1996 Mar-Apr;12(2):257-65