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