Workshop

European Molecular Biology Organization

 

Disease, Development and

Stem Cells in the Pancreas

 

 

 

 

 



14 - 16 June | 2010 |Stockholm| Sweden

Programme

 

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Monday 14th June

 

11:00-12:30

Registration and Lunch

12:30-13:00

Welcome and opening remarks

Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson
(President, Karolinska Institutet)

Matthias Löhr
(CLINTEC, Karolinska Institutet)

13:00-17:00

Session I:    Disease Genetics and Mechanisms

Chair – Mathias Treier / Maureen Gannon

Sarah Flanagan (Exeter, UK)
Monogenetic forms of Diabetes
 

John Todd (Cambridge, UK)

Type 1 diabetes genetics

 
Marc McCarthy (Oxford, UK)
Type 2 diabetes genetics
 

Pål Njolstad (Oslo, Norway)
CEL mutations and pancreatic dysfunction

15:00-15:30  

Coffee Break

Ron Kahn (Boston, USA)
Insulin Signaling and the Pathogenesis of Diabetes

Mathias Treier (Heidelberg, Germany)
Cilia signaling and beta cell function

Carmen Guerra (Madrid, Spain)
Cancer genetics

17:00-17:30

EMBO Young Investigator Lecture

Chair – Matthias Löhr / Rainer Heuchel

 

Duncan Odom (Cambridge, UK)
Species-specific transcription in mice carrying human chromosome 2

17:30 - 18:00 Chair – Ralf Jesenofsky / Cecilia Götherström
 

Oral Posters (selected speakers)

18:00-19:00

Poster Session

19:00 -late
Welcome party and buffet dinner
   

Tuesday, 15th June

 

08:00-13:00

Session II: Pancreatic Development

Chair – Helene Edlund / Harry Heimberg

 

Ewa Wandzioch (Philadelphia, USA)
Specification of pancreatic and hepatic progenitors

Klaus H. Kaestner (Philadelphia, USA)
Foxa2 and pancreatic development

Ray MacDonald (Dallas, USA)
From beginning to end: Ptf1a control of pancreatic organogenesis

Henrik Semb (Lund, Sweden)
Pancreatic tubulogenesis

10:00-11:00

Coffee break

Gerald Gradwohl (Illkirch,France) Ngn3 and endocrine cell specification

Lori Sussel (New York, USA)
Nkx2.2, neuro D, and endocrine cell differentiation
Helena Edlund (Umeå, Sweden)
Retinoic acid and beta cell differentiation
Maureen Gannon (Nashville, TN, USA)
Beta cell proliferation during embryogenesis

13:00-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:30

Session III: Stem Cells

Matthias Hebrok / Eva Wandzioch

Outi Hovatta (Stockholm, Sweden)

hES cells

Katarina LeBlanc (Stockholm, Sweden)
Differentiating mesenchymal stem cells
Anna Wobus (Gatersleben, Germany)
ES to insulin-producing cells
15:30-16:00
Coffee break
16:00-18:30

Session IV: Pancreatic cell regeneration and reprogramming

Jake Kushner (Philadelphia, PA, USA)
Adult beta cell turnover

Harry Heimberg (Brussels, Belgium)

Islet neogenesis

Patrick Collombat (Nice, France)
Pax4-mediated reprogramming of endocrine alpha-cells into beta-cells

Ralf Jesenofsky (Heidelberg, Germany)
Reprogramming of pancreatic stellate cells Evening free

Evening Evening Free
20:00 -late
Faculty Dinner(The Royal Dramatic Theatre; invitation only!)
Wednesday, 16th June

08:30-12:30

Session V: Stem Cell and Pancreatic Cancer
Chair – Rune Toftgård / Olle Ringdén

Anne Grapin Botton (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Wnt signaling in pancreatic development and cancer

Matthias Hebrok (San Francisco, USA)
HH and pancreatic tumor development in mouse models

 

Christopher Heeschen (Madrid, Spain)
Pancreatic cancer stem cells

10:00-10:30
Coffee Break
 

Rune Toftgård (Stockholm, Sweden)
sHH and pancreatic cancer development

 

Chair – Christopher Heeschen / Per-Olof Berggren

  Oral Posters (selected speakers)
11:30-12:45
Lunch
13:30-15:30

Session VI: Clinical Applications of Stem Cells

Chair -Jörgen Larsson / Roland M. Schmid

Olle Korsgren (Uppsala, Sweden)
In vivo imaging in clinical islet transplantation
Per-Olof Berggren (Stockholm, Sweden)
In vivo imaging of transplanted islets

Frederik L. Giesel (Heidelberg, Germany)
Stem cell imaging - possibilities and limitations using MRI and radioisotope labelling

Olle Ringdén (Stockholm, Sweden)
Use of stem cells in pancreatic cancer treatment
15:30-16:00

Coffee break

16:00-16:30

Summary

Helena Edlund (Umeå, Sweden), Mathias Treier (Heidelberg, Germany)
Concluding remarks

16:30-18:00

Science & Society-Plenary Discussion

Chairs -Johan Permert / Matthias Löhr

18:30-late

Farewell party and Reception at the Golden Hall, City Hall

   
   


 

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