Cells and Vascular Beds
Endothelial Cells
Chairs: Marsha Moses, Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School and
Kayla Bayless, Texas A&M Health Science Center
Ralf Adams, Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine
Organ-specific and functional specialization of blood vessels
Toren Finkel, NHLBI/NIH
Autophagic and metabolic regulation of vascular function
Smooth Muscle Cells
Co-sponsored by the Canadian Society of Atherosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology
Chairs: Michelle Bendeck, University of Toronto and Mark Majesky, University of Washington
Christer Betsholtz, Uppsala University
Pericytes in health and disease
Gary Owens, University of Virginia
SMC phenotypic transitions play a key role in the pathogenesis of
advanced atherosclerotic lesions
Microcirculation
Co-sponsored by the Lymphatic Education & Research Network
Chairs: David Zawieja, Texas A&M University and W. Lee Murfee, Tulane University
David Gutterman, Medical College of Wisconsin
Redox regulation of microvascular function in humans
William Chilian, Louisiana State University
Is it time to think big about coronary microvessels?
Heart
Chairs: Stefan Chlopicki, Jagiellonian University and
Salim Abdeliah-Seyfried, Universität Potsdam Abteilung
Mark Kahn, University of Pennsylvania
Hemodynamic control of heart valve development
Joyce Bischoff, Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Reactivation of endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition as mechanism for mitral valve adaptation
Liver
Chairs: Sergij Goerdt, Heidelberg University and Tatsuhiko Kodama, University of Tokyo
Hellmut Augustin, Univ of Heidelberg & German Cancer Research Center
From angiocrine signaling to vascular maturation: Epigenetic control of vascular maturation
Vijay Shah, Mayo Clinic
Mechanisms of pericyte activation in the hepatic microcirculation
Kidney
Co-sponsored by the American Society of Nephrology
Chairs: Samir Parikh and S. Ananth Karumanchi,
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School
Janos Peti-Peterdi, University of Southern California
New mechanism of renal vascular and glomerular remodeling
Susan Quaggin, Northwestern University
High "Tek" solutions for vascular complications of diabetes
Stem Cells I
Chairs: Karen Hirschi, Yale School of Medicine and
Guillermo Garcia-Cardeno, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Shahin Rafii, Weill Cornell Medical College
Tissue-specific endothelial-derived angiocrine signals in organ regeneration
Kristy Red-Horse, Stanford University
Origin and patterning of coronary arteries
(Stem Cells II under Emerging Topics)
Eye
Chairs: Patricia D'Amore, Schepen's Eye Research Institute/Harvard Medical School and
Holger Gerhardt, Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine
Richard Lang, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research
Light response pathways in vascular development
Xuri Li, Sun Yet-Sen University
Novel functions of VEGF-B in Angiogenesis
Lung
Chairs: Kurt Stenmark, University of Colordo Denver and
Dolly Mehta, University of Illinois Chicago
Eric Schmidt, University of Colorado Denver
The Pulmonary Endothelial Glycocalyx: A determinant of lung injury onset and resolution
Asrar Malik, University of Illinois College of Medicine
Lineage tracing analysis of lung microvessel repair
Brain
Chairs: John Greenwood, UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Anne Joutel, INSERM
Jaime Grutzendler, Yale School of Medicine
Microvascular mural cell physiology and pathology investigations in the live mouse brain
Mark Nelson, University of Vermont
Capillaries as decoders of the neural rhythm of the brain: Translating thought into blood flow
Lymphatics: At the Crossroad of the Circulation and Immune System
Sponsored by the Lymphatic Education and Research Network
Supported in part by Texas A&M University College of Medicine, Department of Medical Physiology
Chair: David Zawieja, Texas A&M University
Stanley Rockson, Stanford University
Lymphatic disease, edema, and inflammation: From bench to bedside
Laura Santambrogio, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Lymph nodal circulation and antigens filtration rate
