Workshop

European Molecular Biology Organization


THE MULTIPLE FACES OF

LAMINS IN AGING & DISEASE

 

 

 

 

 



6 - 9 January | 2009 |IMBA |Vienna| Austria

Programme (preliminary)

 

Tuesday, 6th January

16:00 – 19:00

Registration of the participants | Poster Set-up

18:00

Welcome and Get-Together

Wednesday, 7th January

09:00 – 10:40

Genetics and Pathophysiology of Lamin-linked Diseases I
Thomas Voit: Paris, France
short talk from abstract
short  talk from abstracts

Guy Rouleau: Montreal, Canada

11:10 – 12:30

Gemetics and Pathophysiology of Lamin-linked Diseases II
Gisele Bonne: Paris, France
Short talk from abstracts
Yinh Hui Fu: San Francisco, USA

 

Lunch (Buffet) & Discussion

14:00 – 16:10

Atomic structure interactions and assembly of lamins
Ohad Medalia: Beer Sheva, Israel
short talk from abstract
short  talk from abstracts

Ueli Aebi: Basel, Switzerland
Kathy Wilson: Baltimore, USA

16:10 – 18:30

Poster Session & Coffee

18:00 – 19:30

“Public” Panel Discussion & Press Conference
“Anti Aging – who wants to live forever?”

19:30 -

Beverages & Open Discussion

Thursday, 8h January

09:00 – 10:40         

Mouse models for laminopathic diseases
Colin Stewart: Singapore
short talk from abstract
short talk from abstract

Howard Worman: New York, USA

10:40 – 11:10

Coffee & Discussion

11:10 – 12:30

Lamins in Gene Expression and Chromatin organization
Robert Goldman: Lamin mutations affect heterochromatin
short talk from abstract
Yosef Gruenbaum: Jerusalem, Israel

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch (Buffet) & Discussion

14:00 – 15:40

Lamins in Proliferation and Differentiation
Tom Misteli: Bethesda, USA
short talk from abstract
short talk from abstract

Chris Hutchison*: Durham, England
Brian Kennedy: Seattle, USA

16:15 – 18:00

Poster Session & Coffee

18:30 – 19:30

Experts Panel Discussion
"Lamin-linked Diseases: From molecular pathomechanisms to therapeutic strategies”

20:00

Dinner at a 'Heurigen' (Viennese rural wine restaurant)

Friday, 9h January

09:00 – 10:40

Therapeutic strategies and future perspectives
Lucio Cornai: Los Angeles, USA
short talk from abstract
short talk from abstract

Nicolas Lévy:* Marseille, France

10:40 – 11:10

Coffee & Discussion

1:10 - 12:30

short talk from abstract
short talk from abstract

Abhimanyu Garg: Dallas, USA

12:30

Concluding remarks and end of meeting

 

 

 

 


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