Emerging Topics
New Roles of Lymphatics in Disease
Co-sponsored by the Lymphatic Education & Research Network
Chairs: Stanly Rockson, Stanford University and Kari Alitalo, University of Helsinki
Guillermo Oliver, Northwestern University
Transcriptional profiling of lymphatic endothelial cells
Melody Swartz, University of Chicago
Immune implications of lymphangiogenesis in inflammation
Drug Discovery/Gene Therapy
Co-sponsored by the Japanese Vascular Biology and Medicine Organization
Chairs: Kenneth Walsh, Boston University and Kensuke Egashira, Kyushu University
Masanori Aikawa, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Systems biology of macrophage activation: target discovery for cardiometabolic inflammation
Grietje Molema, University Medical Center Groningen
New technology to unravel microvascular behavior in the in vivo niche
Imaging
Chairs: Christopher Carman and Roberta Martinelli, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School
Mark Miller, Washington University School of Medicine
Imaging leukocyte recruitment dynamics and blood brain barrier function during viral encephalitis
Eric A. Osborn, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School
Translational molecular imaging of atherosclerosis: Progress towards the coronary arteries
Stem Cells II
Co-sponsored by the European Vascular Biology Organization
Chairs: Jozef Dulak, Jagiellonian University and Shahin Rafii, Weill Cornell Medical College
Karen K. Hirschi, Yale School of Medicine
Role of vascular endothelial cells in stem cell generation and maintenance
Ann Zovein, University of California, San Francisco
Cell fate decisions in hemogenic endothelium
(Stem Cells I under Cells and Vascular Beds)Tissue Engineering
Chairs: Elena Aikawa, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School and
Anjelica Gonzalez, Yale University
Christopher Hughes, University of California, Irvine
Vascularized and perfused micro-tissues in culture and their use in drug screening
Ying Zheng, University of Washington
Engineering organ-specific microvasculatureTranscription and Epigenetics I
Chairs: Rama Natarajan, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope and
Marianne Grant, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Philip Marsden, University of Toronto
Epigenetic regulation of endothelial phenotype: the role of the non coding genome
Kathleen Martin, Yale School of Medicine
Transcriptional and epigenetic regulation in vascular smooth muscle cellsTranscription and Epigenetics II
Chairs: Jason Fish, University of Toronto and Yoshiaki Okada, Osaka University
Anna Randi, Imperial College London
Transcriptional control of vascular stability
Mukesh Jain, Case Western Reserve University
KLFs and the cardiovascular systemComplexity and Computational Modeling
Chair: Victoria Bautch, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Mete Civelek, University of Virginia
Systems genetics of the KLF14 locus associated with obesity and diabetes
Erzsébet Regan, College of Wooster
Do capillary vessels blink?New Technologies
Chair: Mary Dickinson, Baylor College of Medicine
Donald Ingber, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard
Vascular mechanobiology
Calum MacRae, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Assay development for in vivo drug discovery in the zebrafish