Program
The workshop begins on Sunday April 26 at 6 pm with a keynote lecture and buffet-dinner. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday are reserved for plenary and poster sessions in the morning and afternoon. Departure is on Thursday April 30 after breakfast.
The preliminary program can be downloaded here
Keynote: Gary D. Lopaschuk, Edmonton
Energy metabolic phenotype of
the cardiomyocyte during development and differentiation
Mechanisms of stem cell proliferation, migration and differentiation
Bernd Fleischmann, Bonn
Role of extracellular matrix components for cardiomyocyte differentiation
and function
Mauro Giacca, Trieste
Searching for genes that induce myocardial protection, myocardial repair
or neoangiogenesis by in vivo gene transfer using AAV vectors
Christine Mummery, Leiden
Cardiomyocytes from human embryonic stem cells in drug discovery and
disease
Otmar Pfister, Basel
The role of ATP-binding cassette transporters in cardiac progenitor cells
Michel Pucéat, Evry
Derivation of cardiac progenitors from human embryonic and induced
pluripotent stem cells
Developmental biology
José Luis de la Pompa, Madrid
Notch signaling in cardiac development
Antoon F.M. Moorman, Amsterdam
A caudal proliferating growth center contributes to both poles of the
forming heart tube
Jeffrey Robbins, Cincinatti
Progenitor cell populations in the heart; the birth of a syndrome
Deepak Srivastava, San Francisco
MicroRNA regulation of cardiac cell fate and morphogenesis
Novel regulatory mechanisms in the cardiomyocyte
Hugues Abriel, Lausanne
Ubiquitylation of cardiac ion channels
Gianluigi Condorelli, Rome
MicroRNA and myocardial diseases
Stefan Engelhardt, München
Role of microRNAs in cardiac growth control
Joseph M. Metzger, Minneapolis
Reversal of fortunes in regulating calcium handling for heart performance
Cell-to-cell interactions in the heart
Craig T. January, Madison
Rescue of mutated cardiac ion channels through interventions on trafficking
Stephan Rohr, Bern
Heterocellular crosstalk between myofibroblasts and cardiomyocytes
Jeffrey E. Saffitz, Boston
Disease mechanisms in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy
Tissue engineering
Adam W. Feinberg, Cambridge
Engineering the contractility of cardiac muscle from the sub-cellular
to tissue scale
Arne Hansen, Hamburg
Fibrin-based engineered heart tissue
Michael R. Rosen, New York
From the stem cell to the engineered cardiac pacemaker
Computational sciences
Colleen Clancy, New York
Gender difference in cardiac repolarization: a computational study
Yoram Rudy, St. Louis
In vivo imaging of human cardiac electrical excitation