Vascular Biology 2008 Preliminary Program
April 5-9, 2008 - San Diego, CA
this meeting is held in
conjunction with the American Society for Investigative Pathology
at Experimental Biology 2008
Mini-symposium: Angiogenesis and Vascular Differentiation
Chairs: Heidi Stuhlmann, Weill Medical College and Joanne
Chan, Children's Hospital, Boston
Saturday, April 5, 2008 – 8:30-11:30am, Room 17A
Meet the Professor Luncheon
Sponsored by Springer - publisher of
Angiogenesis
Saturday, April 5, 2008 - 12:00-1:45pm
San Diego Marriott Hotel and Marina - Sea View Room
Blood Vessel Club:
Stem/progenitor cells - Contributions to blood vessel
assembly and repair
(co-sponsored with the American Society for Investigative Pathology)
The format will consist of two invited speakers and short talk
“blitzes”
Saturday, April 5, 2008 – 2:00-4:00pm, Room 15B
Chair: David Milstone, Harvard Medical School and Co-chair: Joyce Bischoff,
Children's Hospital, Boston
Speakers: Vivek Mittal, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Juan Melero-Martin, Children's Hospital Boston
Dmitry O. Traktuev, Indiana University
Welcome Reception/Highlighting Trainee
Research
Saturday, April 5, 2008 - 6:15-7:30 pm, Room 15B
Neurovascular connections/interactions
(co-sponsored with the American Association of Neuropathologists)
Sunday, April 6, 2008 – 2:00-5:00pm,
Room 15A
Chairs: Jeffrey A. Golden, Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania
and Christiana Ruhrberg, University College London, UK
Speakers:
Peter Carmeliet, University of Leuven, Belgium
The Neuro-Vascular link in health and disease: From genetic
insights to therapeutic perspectives
T. Makita, The Johns Hopkins University
Endothelins are vascular-derived axonal guidance cues for
developing sympathetic neurons
J. Long, Yale University
Determining the molecular mechanisms of vascular sympathetic
innervation
Chenghua Gu, Harvard Medical School
The molecular mechanisms of axon and vascular guidance
Christiana Ruhrberg, University College London
VEGF in the nervous system: Co-patterning of blood vessels,
neurons and glia
Joseph H. McCarty, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Integrin-mediated adhesion and signaling in the
neurovascular niche
David Zagzag, New York University
Hypoxia-induced angiogenesis and brain invasion in gliomas
--Of interest - AAA's related session (Tuesday, April 8.
2:30pm - Room 7A):
Crosstalk and codependence between
neural and vascular systems
Chair:
Nicole Ward, Case Western Reserve University
Yosuke Mukoyama, National Institutes of Health
Control of Blood Vessel Fate & Branching Pattern by Nerve-Derived Signals
Anne Eichmann, Collège de France
Neuronal Molecules Involved in Blood Vessel Branching
Adam Puche, University of Maryland
Migrating the Adult Brain: Vascular & ECM Mediated?
S. Thomas Carmichael, Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
A Neurovascular Niche for Neurogenesis after Stroke
Minisymposium: Modulators of Atherosclerosis and Other Vascular Diseases
Chairs: Craig A. Simmons, University of Toronto and Cecilia M. Giachelli, University of Washington
Sunday, April 6, 2008 – 2:00-5:00pm, 15B
Of special note:
Michael A. Gimbrone, Jr., Brigham & Women's
Hospital/Harvard Medical School
will give the ASIP Rous-Whipple Award
Lecture:
Vascular
Endothelium in the Post Genomic Era: New Insights into its Pathobiology
Sunday, April 6, 5:00pm, Room 16A
Vascular Cell
Dysfunction in Disease
Chair: Tim Hla, University of Connecticut
Monday April 7, 2008 - 8:30 - 11:30 am,
Room 15A
Speakers:
Joyce Bischoff, Children's Hospital, Boston
Hemangioma, an endothelial tumor of infancy, arises from a
multipotential stem cell
Gabriele Bergers, University of California, San Francisco
Vascular progenitor cells in tumors
Sung O. Park, University of Florida
ALK1 signaling plays a pivotal role in regulation of
genes involved in angiogenesis and vascular tone:
Implication on the pathogenetic mechanism for hereditary
hemorrhagic telangiectasia 2 (HHT2)
Susan Quaggin, University of
Toronto
Podocyte-endothelial interactions and angiogenic factors in glomerular
development and disease.
Louisa Villeneuve, Beckman Research Institute of
City of Hope
Novel epigenetic mechanisms involved in enhanced
inflammatory gene expression in vascular
smooth muscle cells derived from diabetic db/db mice and
relation to diabetic memory
Mukesh Jain, Case Cardiovascular Research Institute, Cleveland, OH
Kruppel-like factors in vascular pathophysiology
Minisymposium: Vascular Cell Membrane Biology
Chairs: Tara L. Sander, Medical College of Wisconsin and Radu V. Stan, Dartmouth Medical School
Monday, April 7, 2008 – 2:00-5:00pm, Room 17A
Earl P. Benditt Award Presentation and Lecture:
Shaun
R. Coughlin, University of California, San Francisco
Monday, April 7 at 5pm - Room 17B
Protease-activated receptors in vascular biology
The Immune System in Vascular Diseases
Chair: Klaus Ley, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and
Immunology
Tuesday April 8, 2008 – 8:30-11:30am, Room 17A
Speakers:
Klaus Ley,
La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology
Chemokine receptors and adhesion molecules in immune cell
trafficking into atherosclerotic arteries
Arjan Griffioen – University Hospital Maastricht, The
Netherlands
Angiogenesis
inhibition promotes an anti-tumor immune response.
J. Boyle, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
Atherosclerotic intralesional haemorrhage moulds monocyte differentiation into
a macrophage
antioxidant phenotype bearing the hemoglobin scavenger receptor CD163
Z. Mallat, Center for Cardiovascular Research, INSERM, Paris, France
T cell regulation in atherosclerosis and related vascular
diseases
Joseph Witztum, University of California, San Diego
Oxidation-specific epitopes are a major target of innate
natural antibodies
M. Lewis, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
Hierarchical contributions of IgM and complement C1q in protection against
murine atherosclerosis
NAVBO Membership Business Meeting
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 - 11:45am-12:30pm, Room 17A
Minisymposium: Molecular Regulation in Vascular Cells
Chairs: Levon Khachigian, University of New South Wales and Anna M. Randi, Imperial College London
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 – 2:00-5:00pm, Room 17A
Molecular engines that regulate epithelial and endothelial
junctions
(co-sponsored with the American Society for Investigative Pathology)
Tuesday, April 8, 2008 – 2:00-5:00pm, Room 16B
Chairs: William Muller, Northwestern University and Andrei Ivanov, Emory University
Speakers:
Albert B. Reynolds, Department of
Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University.
Role of p120-catenin in regulation of epithelial junctions.
Keith Burridge, UNC Chapel Hill
Regulation of endothelial permeability by small GTPases.
Tony Pawson, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute. Mount Sinai Hospital,
Toronto.
Rich-1 and Angiomotin as novel regulators of epithelial tight
junctions.
Fitzroy Curry, University of California, Davis
Determinants of microvascular
permeability in vivo.
Poster Sessions will be held Sunday through Tuesday
(late breaking abstracts will be presented on Wednesday)
Angiogenesis and Vascular Differentiation
Atherosclerosis and Other Vascular Diseases
Molecular Regulation in Vascular Cells
Thrombosis and Hemostasis
Vascular Extracellular Matrix, Proteases and Tissue Engineering
Vascular Permeability and Reactivity
