Program
The workshop begins on Sunday April 22 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 26 after breakfast.
The preliminary scientific program for 2012 is available for download here.
Opening lecture
Michael R. Rosen, New York
"Stretch-activated trafficking and transcription and cardiac repolarization"
Development of the heart
Antoon F. Moorman, Amsterdam
"Cardiac growth"
Robert G. Kelly, Marseille
"Properties of second heart field cardiac progenitor cells in the early mouse embryo"
Richard P. Harvey, Darlinghurst, New South Wales
"Systems biology of heart development"
Mechanotransduction and sarcomere signaling
Pieter P. de Tombe, Chicago
“Myofilament length dependent activation”
Wolfgang A. Linke, Bochum
"Novel properties of the cardiac titin spring"
R. John Solaro, Chicago
"Signaling to and from cardiac sarcomeres"
Mathias Gautel, London
"The sarcomeric M-band as a hub of mechanosignalling and protein turnover control"
Metabolic plasticity of the healthy and diseased heart
Marco Sandri, Padova
"The ubiquitin ligase atrogin1 controls autophagy in cardiomyocytes"
Christophe Montessuit, Geneva
"Free and lipoprotein-derived fatty acids: how they impair myocardial glucose transport"
Daniel P. Kelly, Orlando
"Transcriptional circuitry controlling cardiomyocyte mitochondrial function"
Gary D. Lopaschuk, Alberta
"Targeting mitochondrial oxidative metabolism as an approach to treat heart failure"
Cardiac ion channels on the move
Ernst Niggli, Bern
"Post-translational modifications of cardiac RyRs: Ca2+ signaling and EC-coupling"
Jeffrey R. Martens, Ann Arbor
"Potassium channel trafficking as a target for antiarrhythmic therapy"
Stéphane Hatem, Paris
"Anchoring of ion channels in the sarcolemma of cardiac myocytes: from physiology to diseases"
Robin M. Shaw, San Francisco
"Ion channel trafficking and disease related gridlock"
From complex signal regulation towards novel therapy
Laura Pentassuglia, Nashville
"Neuregulin: from cardioprotective mechanism to clinical application"
Julia Gorelik, London
"New scanning microscopic technique for cardiovascular biology"
Dario Diviani, Lausanne
“Multiple roles of PKA anchoring proteins in cardiac cells”
Joseph M. Metzger, Minneapolis
"EF-hand motif designer Ca2+ buffer for the heart"
Cardiac repair and regeneration
Michel Pucéat, Evry
“Pathways controlling cardiogenic differentiation in embryonic stem cells”
Gabriela Kania, Zurich
"Novel therapeutic options in autoimmune cardiomyopathy"
Nikolaos G. Frangogiannis, New York
"Negative regulation of the post-infarction inflammatory response in cardiac repair"
Loren J. Field, Indianapolis
"Can resident cardiac progenitors repopulate the heart?"
The preliminary time schedule for 2012 can be downloaded here.
The 2009-program can be downloaded here.
The 2006-program can be downloaded here.