Thursday, 1 December
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13:00 – 14:45 |
Registration and Refreshments |
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14:45 - 15:00 |
Welcome remarks |
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Session 1
Cardiovascular Disease
(Chair: Stefanie Dimmeler ) |
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15:00 – 15:30 |
Kari Alitalo
(Biological Functions and Therapeutic Potential of
Vascular Endothelial Growth Factors) |
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15:30 – 16:00 |
Christian Weber
(Chemokines: established and novel targets in atherosclerosis) |
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16:00 – 16:30 |
Salvador Moncada
(Discovery of the mechanism that enables the provision of nutrients to proliferating cells) |
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16:30 - 17:00 |
Peter Carmeliet
(Tumor vessel normalization and metastasis) |
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17:00 - 17:30 |
Coffee Break |
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17:30 – 18:30 |
Philippe Sansonetti
(Keynote Lecture:
Microbiota and pathogens: War and Peace at mucosal surfaces) |
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18:30 - 19:00 |
Matthias Hentze
(miRNA in iron metabolism) |
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19:00 – 21:00 |
Get Together |
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Friday, 2 December
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9:00 – 10:00 |
Edison T. Liu
(Keynote Lecture: Genomic Reconstruction of the Estrogen ReceptorAlpha Network for Breast Cancer) |
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Session 2
Stem cells: friends or foes?
(Chair: Anneke Funk) |
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10:00 – 10:30 |
Giulio Cossu
(A Phase I/II cell therapy trial for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy) |
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10:30 – 11:00 |
Yann Barrandon
(A single stem cell aproach for regenerative medicine) |
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11:00 – 11:30 |
Peter Dirks
(Defining the Properties of Brain Tumor Stem Cells) |
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11:30 – 11:45 |
Coffee Break |
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11:45 – 12:15 |
Austin Smith
(Pluripotent Landscapes) |
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12:15 – 12:30 |
Jason Doles
(Epidermal stem cells exhibit marked age-associated functional and molecular alterations) |
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13:00 – 14:30 |
Lunch |
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Session 3
Molecular and cellular interactions in inflammation
(Chair: Paola Ricciardi-Castagnoli ) |
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14:45 – 15:15 |
Ivan Dikic
(Ubiquitin and autophagy networks in human diseases) |
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15:15 – 15:45 |
Manolis Pasparakis
(Epithelial regulation of immune homeostasis and inflammation in barrier surfaces) |
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15:45 – 16:15 |
Giulio Superti-Furga
(Functional dissection of dynamic molecular networks in innate immunity) |
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16:15 – 16:45 |
Stylianos Antonarakis
(Trisomy 21: a chromatin disorder?) |
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16:45 – 19:00 |
Poster Session |
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19:00 – 22:00 |
Conference dinner |
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Saturday, 3 December
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Session 4
Genetic and epigenetic basis of human disease
(Chair: Nancy Hynes)
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09:00 – 09:15 |
Claude Libert
(GILZ as a novel candidate for sepsis treatment) |
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09:15 - 09:30 |
Wai Yan Sun
(Sphingosine kinase regulates P-selectin-induced neutrophil rolling during allergic inflammation) |
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9:30 – 10:00 |
Anthony Monaco
(The genetics of developmental dyslexia) |
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10:00 – 10:30 |
Anne Brunet
(Epigenetic regulation of aging neural stem cells) |
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10:30 – 10:45 |
Coffee Break |
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10:45 – 11:15 |
Christof von Kalle
(Genome wide mutation analysis in gene-modified human hematopoiesis) |
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11:15 – 11:30 |
Stephan Vagner
(MicroRNA expression to classify breast cancer and predict relapse) |
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11:30 - 11:45 |
Cetin Kocaefe
(Klf5 is an emerging transcription factor with a role in skeletal muscle regeneration and differentiation) |
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11:45 – 12:45 |
Lunch |
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Session 5
miRNAs as new therapeutic and diagnostic targets
(Chair: Céline Carret) |
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12:45 – 13:15 |
Sakari Kauppinen
(Targeting miRNAs for therapeutics) |
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13:15 – 13:45 |
Bart de Strooper
(miRNA deregulation in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s Disease) |
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13:45 – 14:15 |
Karen Avraham
(miRNA regulation in the inner ear: A short past and a long future) |
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14:15 – 14:30 |
Coffee break |
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14:30 – 15:00 |
Ed Morrisey
(Mechanisms of miRNA mediated cellular reprogramming) |
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15:00 – 15:15 |
Eduard Hergenreider
(Atheroprotective communication between endothelial cells and smooth muscle cells via KLF2-dependent enrichment of miRNAs in microvesicles) |
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15:15 – 15:30 |
Poster prize and good-bye |
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* tentative title |
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Molecular Insights for Innovative Therapies
