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“Matrix Molecular Biology: Integrator of Tissue Function and Disease”


St Catherine’s College, Oxford, 2nd – 4th April 2012


Monday 2nd April


11.30 – 12.40:

Registration


12.50 – 13.00:

Opening  remarks


13.00 – 15.00:

Session 1 - Mechano-biology of the matrix

13.00 – 13.30

To be confirmed


13.30 - 14.30:

Selected abstracts


14.30 – 15.00:

Paddy Prendergast (Dublin)


15.00 – 15.30:

Coffee and posters


15.30 – 17.00:

Session 2 - Nano-technology and cell adhesion


15.30 – 16.00:

Clare Waterman (NIH)


16:00 - 16.30:

Selected abstracts


16.30 – 17.00:

Joachim Spatz (Stuttgart)


17.00 – 17.30:

BSMB FELL-MUIR AWARD

Roger Mason (London)

'Exploring the role of Connective Tissue Growth Factor in kidney fibrosis - a tale of hypotheses and the unexpected'


17.30 – 18.15:

BSMB & DGBF AGMs

17.30 - 18.50:

Posters


19.00:

Dinner and local Oxford pub tour

 

 

Tuesday 3rd April


9.00 – 10.30:

Session 3 - Stem cells and their niche


9.00 – 9.30:

Francesco dell’Accio (London)


9.30 - 10.00:

Selected abstracts


10.00 – 10.30:

Cathy Merry (Manchester)


10.30 – 11.00:

Coffee and posters


11.00 – 13.00:

Session 4 - Matrix and cancer


11.00 – 11.30:

Kairbaan Hodivala-Dilke (London)


11.30 - 12.15:

Selected abstracts


12.15 – 12.45:

Yoshifumi Itoh (London)


13.00 – 14.15:

Lunch and posters


14.15 – 15.45:

Session 5 - Tissue injury and repair


14.15 – 14.45:

DGBF YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD


14.45 - 15.15:

Selected abstracts


15.15 – 15.45:

Dietmar Vestweber (Munster)


15.45 – 16.15:

Coffee and posters


16.15 – 18.00:

Session 6 - Wound healing/Inflammation


16.15 – 16.45:

Liliana Schaefer (Frankfurt)


16.45 - 17.30:

Selected abstracts


17.30 – 18.00:

Paul Martin (Bristol)


18.00:

Drinks reception and posters


19.00:

Conference dinner and social in college bar (with jazz band)

 

Wednesday 4th April (no posters)


9.00 – 10.30:

Session 7 - Fibrosis


9.00 – 9.30:

Oliver Eickelberg (Munich)


9.30 - 10.00:

Selected abstracts


10.00 – 10.30:

George Bou-Gharios (London)


10.30 – 11.00:

Coffee


11.00 – 1.00:

Session 8 - Cell adhesion and signalling


11.00 – 11.30:

Reinhard Faessler (Munich)


11.30 - 12.15:

Selected abstracts


12.15- 12.45:

John Couchman (Copenhagen)


12.45:

Awards and meeting close


13.00 – 14.00:

Lunch


14.00-17.00:

BSMB committee meeting