Lymphatic Forum 2025 – Preliminary Program | ||
| Day 1 – Thursday, June 12 | ||
| 8:20-8:30am | Welcome Remarks (Tsutomu Kume) | |
| 8:30-12:00pm | Plenary Session 1 – Lymphatics Development and Differentiation Chair: Hyun-Min Jung, University of Illinois, Chicago | |
| 8:30-9:00am | Novel insights into lymphatic-associated organs and cells from the zebrafish Brant Weinstein (NIH) | |
| 9:00-9:30am | Mechanisms of lymphatic vascular specialization Tatiana Petrova (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) | |
| 9:30-10:00am | Developmental evolution and plasticity of lymphatic endothelial cells Ben Hogan (Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia) | |
| 10:00-10:30am | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30-11:00am | TBD Kaska Koltowska (Uppsala University, Sweden) | |
| 11:00-11:30am | A novel neuro-lymphatic communication regulates lymphatic development and function Xiaolei Liu (Temple University) | |
| 11:30am-12:00pm | Short Talks (from selected abstracts) | |
| 12:00-1:30pm | Lunch (on your own) For Trainees: Career Development Round Table – Learning networking skills | |
| 1:30-5:00pm | Plenary Session 2 – Lymphatic Fluid Regulation Chair: Tsutomu Kume, Northwestern University | |
| 1:30-2:00pm | Unraveling the meningeal lymphatics and their connections for cerebrospinal fluid drainage Gou Young Koh (KAIST, South Korea) | |
| 2:00-2:30pm | High resolution in vivo imaging of cerebrospinal fluid clearance to lymphatics Steven Proulx (University of Bern, Switzerland) | |
| 2:30-3:00pm | Short Talks (from selected abstracts) | |
| 3:00-3:30pm | Break | |
| 3:30-4:00pm | Unique properties of lymphatic muscle cells enable spontaneous, phasic contractions Michael Davis (University of Missouri) | |
| 4:00-4:30pm | The role of lymphatics in TSC disease Ying Yang (University of South Florida) | |
| 4:30-5:00pm | Short Talks (from selected abstracts) | |
| 5:30-7:30pm | Welcome Dinner | |
| 7:30-9:30pm | Poster Presentation 1 | |
| Day 2 – Friday, June 13 | ||
| 8:30am-12:00pm | Plenary Session 3 – Lymphatic-Immune Crosstalk Chair: TBD | |
| 8:30-9:00am | TBD Melody Schwartz (University of Chicago) | |
| 9:00-9:30am | TBD Nathan E. Reticker-Flynn (Stanford University) | |
| 9:30-10:00am | Navigating Immunity: Leukocyte-Lymphatic Crosstalk Cornelia Halin Winter (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) | |
| 10:00-10:30am | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30-11:00am | TBD Gwendalyn J. Randolph (Washington University) | |
| 11:00-11:30am | TBD | |
| 11:30am-12:00pm | Short Talks (from selected abstracts) | |
| 12:00-1:30pm | Lunch (on your own) For Trainees: Career Development Round Table – Managing Your Career | |
| 1:30-4:50pm | Plenary Session 4 – Lymphatics in Metabolism Chair: Guillermo Oliver, Northwestern University | |
| 1:30-2:00pm | Ameliorating Metabolic Syndrome: Foxc2 as Novel Target Hong Chen (Harvard Medical School) | |
| 2:00-2:30pm | Assessment of Lymphatic Function for Early Detection of Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Humans Catherine Martel (Montreal Heart Institute, Canada) | |
| 2:30-3:00pm | Mechanisms of lymphatic growth and specialization Michael Potente (Berlin Institute of Health, Germany) | |
| 3:00-3:20pm | Break | |
| 3:20-3:50pm | Collecting Lymphatic Vessel Dysfunction in Obesity and Dyslipidemia Jorge Castorena-Gonzalez (Tulane University) | |
| 3:50-4:20pm | TBD Susan Quaggin (Northwestern University) | |
| 4:20-4:50pm | Short Talks (from selected abstracts) | |
| 4:50-5:00pm | Break | |
| 5:00-6:30pm | Plenary Session 5 – Unsolved Issues and Gaps in Lymphatic Disease Chair: Carrie Shawber, Columbia University | |
| 5:00-5:20pm | TBD Stanley Rockson (Stanford University) | |
| 5:20-5:40pm | Podoplanin hetero-insufficiency mice with inflammation in the jejunum demonstrates a good animal model of congenital protein-losing enteropathy with lymphangioectasia Toshio Ohashi (Shinshu University, Japan) | |
| 5:40-6:00pm | TBD June Wu (Columbia University) | |
| 6:00-6:30pm | Panel Discussion among above speakers | |
| 6:30-8:00pm | Dinner (on your own) | |
| 8:00-10:00pm | Poster Presentation 2 | |
| Day 3 – Saturday, June 14 | ||
| 8:15-9:15am | Young Investigator Session Chairs: Two Postdocs will be chosen from applications Four short talks from selected trainee abstracts will be presented | |
| 9:15am-12:00pm | Concurrent Session 1 (Disease-oriented) | |
| Lymphatic Disease Detection, Therapeutic Innovations, Clinical Trials Chair: June Wu, Columbia University | Lymphatic Malformation and Pathobiology and Clinical Trials Chair: Luisa Iruela-Arispe, Northwestern Univ | |
| 9:15-9:45am | TBD Ramaswamy Kalyanasundaram (UIC) | Lymphatic anomalies: From genes and pathophysiology towards therapeutic trials Miikka Vikkula (UCLouvain, Belgium) |
| 9:45-10:15am | Surgical Management of Lymphedema David Chang (University of Chicago) | Proteostasis defects downstream of PI3K hyperactivation in lymphatic anomalies; A novel therapeutic target Carrie Shawber (Columbia University) |
| 10:15-10:45am | Leveraging biomaterials to improve lymphatic formation and function in lymphedema J. Brandon Dixon (Georgia Tech) | Medical Management of Lymphatic Anomalies (Clinical Trials and Future Trials) Denise Adams (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia) |
| 10:45-11:00am | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00-11:30am | Diagnosis of lymphatic disease with MR lymphangiography Andreas Loening (Stanford University) | A single-cell atlas of normal and KRASG12D-malformed lymphatic vessels Michael Dellinger (UT Southwestern) |
| 11:30am-12:00pm | Intestinal Lymph Interactions in Metabolic Control Natalie Trevaskis (Monash University, Australia) | Cerebral venous blood flow regulates brain clearance via meningeal lymphatics Stéphanie Lenck (Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital) |
| 12:00-12:30pm | Short Talks (from selected abstracts) | Short Talks (from selected abstracts) |
| 12:30-2:00pm | Lunch (on your own) | |
| 2:00-4:45pm | Concurrent Session 2 (Disease-oriented) | |
| Lymphatics, Cancer, and Metastasis Chair: Jan Kitajewski, UIC | Lymphatic Dysfunction in Human Diseases Chair: Stanley Rockson, Stanford University | |
| 2:00-2:30pm | Aging-induced changes in lymphatic system function Timothy Padera (Harvard Medical School) | TBD Natasza Kurpios (Cornell University) |
| 2:30-3:00pm | Cell migration in lymph node mimicking microenvironments Susan Thomas (Georgia Tech) | New insight about the functional roles of lymphatics in cardiac growth and repair Guillermo Oliver (Northwestern University) |
| 3:00-3:30pm | Tumor Microenvironmental Dynamics Driving Local and Systemic T Cell Responses Dennis Jones (Boston University) | Phenotyping and Genotyping of Primary Lymphatic Anomalies Pia Ostergaard (St George’s University) |
| 3:30-4:00pm | Coffee Break | |
| 3:45-4:15pm | Microphysiological Systems for Lymphatic and Cancer Research Esak Lee (Cornell University) | Genomics Informs Precision Medicine for Individuals with Lymphatic Anomalies Sarah Sheppard (NIH) |
| 4:15-4:45pm | Short Talks (from selected abstracts) | Regulation of Lymphatic Function during Acute Lung Injury Hasina Outtz Reed (Weill Cornell) |
| 4:45-5:00pm | Closing Remarks | |
