Conference Series

European Molecular Biology Organization

 

 

 

 

 

 



26 - 30 September | 2010 | Sesimbra| Portugal

Programme

 

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Sunday, 26th September 2010

 

19:00

Registration, welcome drinks and putting up posters

 

20:45

Welcome address by conference organisers

Chair: Karen Echeverri

 

 

 

21:00

 

Keynote Speaker: Jeremy Brockes University College London, UK

The nerve dependence of vertebrate limb regeneration

 

 

 

 

 

Monday, 27th September 2010

 

 

 

Day 1: Epithelial stem cells, wound healing & signalling during regeneration

Morning Session Chair: Enrique Amaya

 

 

08:30

 

Fiona Watt: University of Cambridge, UK

Stem cells in mammalian epidermis

 

 

09.10

 

Paul Martin: Bristol University, UK

Epigenetics and immune cell recruitment – parallels between wound repair and cancer

 

 

09:50

 

Luke Pase: The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Australia

Myeloperoxidase-containing leukocytes dampen wound induced hydrogen peroxide

 

 

10:10

Coffee Break

 

11:00

 

Brigitte Galliot: University of Geneva, Switzerland

Plasticity of head regeneration in Hydra, what does it mean?

 

 

11:40

 

Federico Brown: Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

Regeneration in colonial seasquirts and flatworms

 

 

12:00

Lunch

 

14:00

Poster Session

 

 

Afternoon Session Chair: Brigitte Galliot

 

16:30

António Jacinto: Institute of Molecular Medicine, Portugal

Genetic analysis of epithelial repair in Drosophila

 

17:10

Thomas Holstein: University of Heidelberg, Germany

Wnt Signaling in Hydra Regeneration

 

17:50

Bea Christen: Centre for Regenerative Medicine Barcelona, Spain

Regeneration and reprogramming compared

 

18:10 

Coffee Break 

 

18:40

Alejandro Sánchez: Alvarado University of Utah, USA

Planarians, stem cells, and regeneration

 

19.20

Enrique Amaya: University of Manchester, UK

A role for NADPH metabolism during Xenopus tropicalis tail regeneration

 

20: 00

Eugene Berezikov: Hubrecht Institute, Netherlands

Experimental potential of the regenerating flatworm Macrostomum lignano

 

20.20

Session End

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, 28th September 2010

 

 

 

Day 2: Muscle satellite cells and molecular mechanisms of regeneration

Morning Session Chair: Jeremy Brockes

 

 

08:30

 

Michael Rudnicki: Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Canada

Molecular Regulation of Muscle Stem Cell Function

 

 

09:10

 

Eileen Furlong: EMBL Heidelberg, Germany

Gene Regulatory Networks During Development: Is there a code?

 

 

09:50

 

Florenci Serras: University of Barcelona, Spain

Regeneration of Drosophila Wing Imaginal Discs

 

 

10:10

Coffee Break

 

10:40

 

Elly Tanaka: Center for Regenerative Therapies, Germany

Serum protease control of BMP activity and its relation to cell cycle re-entry during regeneration

 

 

11:20

Margaret Buckingham: Pasteur Institute, France

Quiescent and activated muscle satellite cells: transcriptome analysis and mi-RNA regulation

 

12:00

 

Soeren Alsheimer: MPI for Developmental Biology, Germany

In vivo Imaging of Muscle Stem Cells and Muscle Regeneration in Zebrafish

 

 

12:20

Lunch with round table discussion

 

14:00

Excursion

 

 

Afternoon Session Chair: Alejandro Sanchez Alvarado

 

16:30

 

Randall Moon: University of Washington, USA

Wnt signaling in regeneration and regenerative medicine

 

 

17:10

 

Karen Echeverri: Center for Regenerative Therapies, Germany

Molecular analysis of regeneration: investigating the role of miRNAs

 

 

17:50

 

Joana Monteiro: Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Portugal

Dynamic extracellular ion fluxes during fin regeneration in Zebrafish

 

 

18:10

Coffee Break

 

18:40

Koji Tamura: Tohoku University, Japan

Molecular and cellular aspects of limb regeneration and wound repair in Xenopus

 

19:20

Ben Szaro: State University of New York at Albany, USA

Amphibian metamorphosis and the regeneration of spinal cord axons in Xenopus laevis

 

19.40

Yuval Rinkevich: Stanford University, USA

From whole body regeneration to digit tip regrowth: common premises and emerged unique regeneration themes

 

20:00

Session End

 

 

 

 

Wednesday , 29th September 2010

 

 

 

Day 3: Organ Regeneration

Morning Session Chair: Elly Tanaka

 

 

08:10

Keynote Speaker: Brigid Hogan Duke University, USA

 

 

Epithelial stem and progenitor cells in lung development, homeostasis and repair

 

09:10

 

Didier Stainier: UCSF, USA

Drug discovery in zebrafish: Chemical screen for •-cell regeneration

 

 

09:50

 

David Forsthoefel: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Intestinal renewal and regeneration in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea

 

 

10:10

Coffee Break

 

 

Chair: Antonio Jacinto

 

10:40

 

Anne Grapin-Botton: ISREC, Lausanne, Switzerland

Role of 3D architecture in pancreas progenitor expansion and differentiation in vitro

 

 

11:20

 

Harry Heimberg: Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Stem/progenitor cells endogenous to the pancreas for expansion of the beta cell mass

 

 

12:00

 

Kimberly Mace: University of Manchester, UK

Hoxa3 promotes the differentiation of hematopoietic progenitor cells into proangiogenic Gr-1+CD11b+ myeloid cells

 

 

12:20

Lunch

 

13. 30

30 Meeting about the future of the conference series

 

14:00

Poster Session

 

 

Afternoon Session Chair: Didier Stainier

 

16:30

 

James Hudspeth: The Rockefeller University, USA

Regeneration and polarization of mechanosensory hair cells in the lateral line of the larval zebrafish

 

 

17:10

 

David Raible: University of Washington, USA

Hair cell regeneration in the zebrafish lateral line

 

 

17:50

Shawn Burgess: NHGRI/NIH, USA

Digital Gene Expression identifies the stat3/socs3 pathway as a key regulator of supporting cell division and hair cell regeneration in the zebrafish inner ear

 

18:10

Coffee Break

 

18:40

Anna Jazwinska: University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Zebrafish heart regeneration after myocardial infarction

 

19:20

Greg Nachtrab: Duke University, USA

Androgen control of regenerative capacity in zebrafish

 

19.40

Session End

 

20:00

Conference Dinner

 

 

 

 

Thursday, 30th September 2010

 

 

 

Day 4: Neural stem cells and regeneration of the nervous system

Morning Session Chair: Brigid Hogan

 

 

09:00

 

Magdalena Götz: Helmholtz Center Munich, Germany

Neurogenesis from glial cells – novel sources for new neurons in the adult brain

 

 

09:40

 

Kiyo Agata: Kyoto University, Japan

“Distalization and intercalation", a fundamental mechanism of regeneration •insights from planarian regeneration

 

 

10:20

Coffee Break

 

11:00

 

Volker Krohne: CRTD, Germany

Regeneration of the adult zebrafish brain after a traumatic brain injury

 

 

11.20

 

Isabel Fariñas: Valencia University, Spain

Stem cell niches and tissue renewal in the adult brain

 

 

12:00

 

András Simon: Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Suppression and activation of neurogenesis in normally quiescent brain stem cell niches

 

 

12:40

Closing remarks by conference organisers