Fall 2009 Meeting of
"Frontiers in Microcirculation:
Control Processes and Clinical Applications"
October 16-17, 2009
The University of Missouri - Columbia
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Meeting Agenda
Thursday, October 15th |
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| 5:00-8:00 pm | Arrival & Registration: Reception |
Friday, October 16th |
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| 7:30-8:30 am | Breakfast (Complimentary for hotel guests) |
| 8:30-10:30 am | SYMPOSIUM: PLASTICITY Co-Chairs: Tara Haas & George Osol |
| 8:30-9:00 am | “Regulation of Angiogenesis by the Akt/eNOS Axis during Health and Disease” William Sessa |
| 9:00-9:30 am | “Vascular Remodeling in Development Revealed by Live Cell Imaging of Hemodynamic Forces” Mary Dickinson |
| 9:30-9:45 am | “Microvascular Flow Patterns Altered in Leptin Deficient Mice”
Melissa Georgi |
| 9:45-10:00 am | “In Vivo Remodeling of a Vascularized Human Skin Substitute”
Francois Auger |
| 10:00-10:15 am | “Abnormal Collateral Artery Vasoactivity Following Chronic Ischemia”
Trevor Cardinal |
| 10:15-10:30 am | “Adaptation of Mesenteric Collecting Lymphatics to Acute Alcohol Intoxication”
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| 10:30 am-12:00 pm | POSTERS (coffee and snacks; discussions) |
| 12:00-2:00 pm | Lunch (with poster viewing, discussions)
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| 2:00-4:00 pm | SYMPOSIUM: INFLAMMATION Co-Chairs: Geraldine Clough & Herbert Lipowsky |
| 2:00-2:30 pm | “Microvascular Responses to Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease” D. Neil Granger |
| 2:30-3:00 pm | “Function of Lymphatic System in Cancer Metastasis” Mihaela Skobe |
| 3:00-3:15 pm | “Role of Collecting Lymphatics in Exchange”
Joshua Scallan |
| 3:15-3:30 pm | “Mat.Angiopoitin-1 Induced Changes in Microcirculatory Haemodynamics are Mediated by Nitric Oxide”
Alessio Alfieri |
| 3:30-3:45 pm | “Digestive Protease Transport and Mechanisms for Disruption of Mucosal Epithelial Barrier in Early Stages of Shock”
Marisol Chang |
| 3:45-4:00 pm | “The Blood-Labyrinth-Barrier Repair after Loud Sound Injury through Bone Marrow Cell Recruitment Mediated by a Local Inos Signal Pathway”
Xiaorui Shi |
| 4:00-5:30 pm | POSTERS (coffee & snacks; discussions) |
| 4:30-5:00 pm | Special MCS Business Meeting |
| 6:00-10:00 pm | Awards Banquet (Les Bourgeois Restaurant) Bus departs at 5:30 pm from Hampton Inn and Suites |
Saturday, October 17th |
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| 7:30-8:30 am | Breakfast (Complimentary for hotel guests) |
| 8:30-10:30 am | SYMPOSIUM: CELL SIGNALING Co-Chairs: Cynthia Meininger & Glenn Bohlen |
| 8:30-9:00 am | “Mechanical Changes in the Cell Nucleus Affect the Microcirculation” Kris Noel Dahl |
| 9:00-9:30 am | “Molecular Signaling Events Governing Angiogenesis and Its Aberrations” Luisa Iruela-Arispe |
| 9:30-9:45 am | “Endothelial Ephrin-B2 is Essential for Acute Arterial Vasodilation and Ischemic Recovery in Adult Mice”
Rong Wang |
| 9:45-10:00 am | “Regional Differences in the Mechanisms of Myogenic Tone in the Microcirculation”
Erika M Boerman |
| 10:00-10:15 am | “Genetically Encoded FRET-Based Sensors of MLCK Activation in Isolated Arteries and in Arteries of Living Animals (Intra-Vital Fret Imaging)”
Jin Zhang |
| 10:15-10:30 am | “Multiscale Modeling in the Microcirculation: Intra-and Intercellular Signaling in Vasoreactivity”
Nikolaos Tsoukias |
| 10:30 am-12:00 pm | POSTERS (coffee & snacks; discussions) |
| 12:00-2:00 pm | Lunch (with poster viewing; discussions)
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| 2:00- 4:00 pm | SYMPOSIUM: INTERCELLULAR COMMUNICATION Co-Chairs: Judy Muller-Delp & Shawn Bearden |
| 2:00-2:30 pm | “Electrical Communication in the Microcirculation: Implications to Blood Flow Control and the Genesis of Vascular Disease” Donald Welsh |
| 2:30 - 3:00 pm | “Tumor Microvasculature and Microenvironment: Novel Insights through Intravital Imaging” Dai Fukumura |
| 3:00-3:15 pm | “Measurement of Adhesion Forces between Prostate Cancer Cells and Bone Marrow Endothelial Cells Using Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)”
Kim Reeves |
| 3:15-3:30 pm | “Natriuretic Peptides Elicit an Increase in Contractile Frequency and Diastolic Tone in Rat Mesenteric Lymphatics"
Eric Bridenbaugh |
| 3:30-3:45 pm | “Endothelial [Ca2+]I Increase is Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) Dependent in Endothelial Derived Hyperpolarizing Factor (EDHF) Responses”
James Chidgey |
| 3:45-4:00 pm | “Structural Adaptation of Normal and Tumor Microvascular Networks: Role of Conducted Responses” Timothy Secomb |
| 4:00-5:30 pm | POSTERS (coffee & snacks; discussions) |
| 5:30 pm | CONFERENCE ADJOURNS Please remove posters. |