Vasculata 2018
July 23-26, 2018
St. Louis, MO
DAY 1 – July 23, 2018 |
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7:00am - |
Registration - Pick up your badge and check-in | |
8:00am - 8:15am |
Welcome and orientation | |
Blood Vessel DevelopmentChairs: Princess Imoukhuede, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and |
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8:15 am | Kyunghee Choi, Washington University in St. Louis | |
Early embryology and cell fate decisions leading to endothelial cell and hematopoietic cell emergence | ||
8:55am | Rong Wang, University of California, San Francisco | |
Arterial and venous specification | ||
9:35am | Saulius Sumanas, Cincinnati Children's Hospital | |
Transcriptional control of blood vessel development and patterning – lessons from zebrafish | ||
10:15am | Break | |
10:45am | David Ornitz, Washington University | |
Growth factors in vascular development | ||
11:25am | Princess Imoukhoude, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | |
Quantitative + Computational Biology of Angiogenesis | ||
12:05pm | Satish Srinivasan, Oklahoma Medical Research Center | |
Lymphatic development and the development of valves in the lymphatic and venous vasculature | ||
1:00pm | Lunch (on your own) | |
ECM and Muscle in the Vessel WallChair: Joshua Scallan, University of South Florida |
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2:45pm | Carmen Halabi, Washington University | |
The development and maintenance of arterial wall integrity | ||
3:25pm | Amber Stratman, NICHD/NIH | |
Molecular basis of capillary tube assembly and pericyte-induced maturation | ||
4:05pm | Harald Laughlin, University of Missouri, Columbia | |
Exercise-induced vessel remodeling and sources of phenotypic heterogeneity in the skeletal muscle arteriolar network | ||
4:45pm | Rusty Lansford, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California | |
Mechanical forces in development | ||
DAY 2 – July 24, 2018 |
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Core PhysiologyChairs: Melody Swartz, University of Chicago and Michael Davis, University of Missouri |
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8:30am | Steve Segal, University of Missouri, Columbia | |
Blood Flow Regulation | ||
9:10am | Michael J. Davis, University of Missouri, Columbia | |
Physiologic regulation of lymphatic transport |
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9:50am | Joshua Scallan, University of South Florida | |
Permeability in the blood and lymphatic vasculature | ||
10:30am | Break | |
11:00am | Melody Swartz, University of Chicago | |
The interstitial microenvironment | ||
11:40am | Jessica Wagenseil, Washington University | |
Vascular Mechanics | ||
12:30pm | Poster Viewing and Lunch (provided) | |
Cells of the BloodChairs: William A. Muller, Northwestern University and Luis Martinez-Lemus, University of Missouri |
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1:45pm | Allan Doctor, Washington University | |
Endothelium ~ Red Cell interactions: role in normal vasoregulation and pathology | ||
2:15pm | William Muller, Northwestern University | |
Leukocyte trafficking in the vasculature | ||
2:45pm | Ching-Ling Lien, University of Southern California | |
Coronary development | ||
3:15pm | Shawn Bender, University of Missouri | |
Coronary flow control in health in disease | ||
3:45pm | Break | |
4:15pm | Nathan Stitziel, Washington University | |
Genetics and vascular disease | ||
4:45pm | Luis Martinez-Lemus, University of Missouri | |
Aortic stiffness and vascular disease | ||
5:15pm | Andrea Bredemeyer, Washington University | |
Macrophages in coronary development, physiology, and pathology | ||
Day 3 - July 25, 2018 |
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Posters |
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From 7:30-9:30am |
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Workshops |
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University of Missouri Workshops | ||
Skeletal Muscle Microcirculation | ||
Isolated Vessels/Pressure Myography | ||
Permeability Assessments | ||
Washington University Workshops | ||
2-Photon Imaging of the Blood and Lymphatic Vasculature | ||
Embryoid Body Differentiation and Vascular Sprouting | ||
Mechanical Testing in the Vasculature | ||
Cerebral Vasculature and Vascular Casting |
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Single Nucleus RNA-seq of Mouse Aorta Workshop | ||
Metabolic Techniques in the Cardiovascular and Vascular Systems | ||
Noninvasive Imaging of the Vasculature using Quantitative Imaging Modalities | ||
Zebrafish Workshop | ||
Flow Cytometric Analysis of Leukocyte Popluations Isolated from Atherosclerotic Aorta | ||
Writing Workshop | ||
Dinner at City Museum at 7:00pm | ||
DAY 4 – July 26, 2018 |
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The Vasculature in DiseaseChair: Brian Wong, Washington University |
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8:00am | Peter Brooks, Maine Medical Center Research Institute | |
The tumor vasculature | ||
8:40am | Sarah England, Washington University | |
Uterine vasculature and smooth muscle in normal and complicated pregnancy | ||
9:20am | Lorin Olson, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation | |
Mesenchymal Stem Cells | ||
10:00am | Benjamin Humphreys, Washington University | |
Pericytes, injury and organ fibrosis | ||
10:40am | Break | |
11:10am | Gwen Randolph, Washington University | |
Immunology for the vascular biologist | ||
11:50am | Annet Kirabo, Vanderbilt University | |
Hypertension and its links to immunity | ||
12:30pm | Colin Nichols, Washington University | |
Potassium Channels and Vascular Disease | ||
1:10pm | Closing Remarks |