Complete Conference Schedule

(Note: Presenting author's name is underlined) updated April 28, 2009

 

Thursday, 7 May 2009

 

1:00 PM-6:00 PM       Registration                                   Grand Ballroom Foyer

 

 

1:50-2:00 PM              Opening Remarks                              Grand Ballroom A

                                    Benoit Bruneau and Brian Black

 

 

2:00-3:40 PM              Platform Session I: Progenitors and Lineages Grand
                                    Ballroom A

                                    (Session Chair: Takashi Mikawa)

 

2:00-2:20         Establishment of anteroposterior patterning of the cardiac field. Nicolas Bertrand, Lucile Ryckebusch, Karen Niederreither, Pascal Dollé, Mario Capecchi, Stephane Zaffran

 

2:20-2:40         The Primary And Secondary Heart Fields Contribute To The Developing Cardiac Atrioventricular Conduction Axis. Brett S. Harris, Brian S. Snarr, Kyu-Ho Lee, Rebecca A. Neuren, Aimee Phelps, Robert H. Anderson, Robert G. Gourdie, Andy Wessels

 

2:40-3:00         Endothelin type-A receptor expression defines a distinct subdomain within the crescent-forming heart field contributing to chamber myocardium. Rieko Asai, Yukiko Kurihara, Takahiro Sato, Yumiko Kawamura, Hiroki Kokubo, Kazuo Tonami, Yasunobu Uchijima, Yumiko Saga, Sachiko Miyagawa-Tomita, Hiroki Kurihara

 

3:00-3:20         Lineage specific roles for GATA in Ciona intestinalis heart development. Katerina Ragkousi, Sarah Sweeney and Brad Davidson

 

3:20-3:40         Early events in myocardial progenitor development in the zebrafish embryo. Ian C. Scott, Sivani Paskaradevan, Bilge Yoruk, Xin Lou

 

 

3:40-4:10 PM              Coffee Break

 

 

4:15-6:00 PM              Platform Session II: Stem Cells and Regeneration       Grand
                                    Ballroom A

                                    (Session Chair: Maurice van den Hoff)

 

4:15-4:35         The Secondary Heart Field As A Model To Study Cardiogenic Stem Cells. Mary Redmond Hutson, Andrew J. Kim, Margaret L. Kirby

 

4:35-4:55         The Omentum: A source of vascular smooth muscle cells for development and repair. Elaine L. Shelton, Niki Winters, Rebecca Thomason, David M. Bader

 

4:55-5:15         A Regulatory Pathway Involving Notch1/b-Catenin/Isl1 Determines Cardiac Progenitor Cell Fate. Chulan Kwon, Li Qian, Paul Cheng, Vishal Nigam, Josh Arnold, Deepak Srivastava

 

5:15-5:35         Heart Induction in mESCs by Nodal/Cripto Involves Cerberus. Wenqing Cai, Rosa Guzzo, Mark Mercola

 

5:35-5:55         Reprogramming Of Adult Cardiomyocytes Into Nodal-Like Cells By Tbx3. Martijn L. Bakker, Bas J. Boukens, Malou van den Boogaard, Peter AC ’t Hoen, Ruben Coronel, Antoon F.M. Moorman, Vincent M. Christoffels

 

 

6:00-7:30 PM              Opening Reception                            Lobby Level, Atrium

 

 

7:30-8:45 PM              Keynote Address                                    Grand Ballroom A

                                    Stuart Orkin (Harvard)

                                    Transcriptional control in stem cells

 

 

Friday, 8 May 2009

 

7:30-8:30 AM              Continental Breakfast                      Grand Ballroom Foyer

 

 

8:30-10:10 AM            Platform Session III: Transcriptional Regulation           Grand
                                    Ballroom B/C

                                    (Session Chair: Anthony Firulli)

 

8:30-8:50         Control of Cardiac Growth, Differentiation and Hypertrophy by the BAF complex. Calvin T. Hang, Hsiu-Ling Cheng, Miriam Zeini, Kryn Stankunas, Ching Shang, Ching-Pin Chang

 

8:50-9:10         Deletion of ETS-1, a gene in the Jacobsen syndrome critical region, causes ventricular septal defects in mice. Paul Grossfeld, Maoqing Ye, Chris Coldren, Xingqun Liang, Teresa Mattina, Elizabeth Goldmuntz, D. Woodrow Benson, Dunbar Ivy, MB Perryman, Lee Ann Garrett-Sinha

 

9:10-9:30         Jarid2/Jumonji regulates Notch1 in the Developing Heart. Youngsook Lee, Emery H Bresnick, Matthew R. Mysliwiec

 

9:30-9:50         The homeobox transcription factor Irx3 establishes fast conduction within the His-Purkinje network. Shan-Shan Zhang, James Smyth, Robert A. Rose, Nathalie Gaborit, Tatyana Sukonnik, John N. Wylie, Neil Chi, Koroboshka Brand, Rui Sakuma, Vasanth Vedantham, Yonghong Zhu, Lucile Miquerol, Didier Stainier, Deepak Srivastava, Peter H. Backx, Robin Shaw, Chi-Chung Hui, Benoit G. Bruneau

 

9:50-10:10       Cardiac zinc-finger transcriptional factor SPALT-like (Sall) modulating chromatin/histone remodelers regulates cardiomyocyte proliferation and inhibits progressive cardiac hypertrophy. Koshiba-Takeuchi K., Sakai Y., Katou E., Takeuchi J.K.

 

10:10-10:40 AM          Coffee Break

 

 

10:45 AM-12:25 PM   Platform Session IV: Posttranscriptional Regulation   Grand
                                    Ballroom B/C

                                    (Session Chair: Michiko Watanabe)

 

 

10:45-11:05     mir-451 regulates multiple processes in vasculogenesis/angiogenesis, hematopoiesis and cardiogenesis. Ye Tao, Kathy Ivey, Deepak Srivastava, Robert Schwartz

 

11:05-11:25     An Ultra-conserved Region in the Bone Morphogenetic Protein (BMP)2 3’Untranslated Region is a Gene Repressor In Vivo. Melissa B. Rogers, Boudewijn P. T. Kruithof, David T. Fritz, Junwang Xu, Carolina S. Cabral, David Frank, Douglas P. Mortlock, Vinciane Gaussin

 

11:25-11:45     MicroRNAs and Cardiac Regeneration in Zebrafish. Viravuth P. Yin, Alexandra Lepilina, Kenneth D. Poss

 

11:45-12:05     The role of a RNA helicase in cardiac development and function. Ronald L. Neppl, Hee Young Seok, Mariko Tatsuguchi, Suk-Won Jin, Da-Zhi Wang

 

12:05-12:25     Overexpression of MicroRNA-130a during Cardiac Development Results in Ventricular Hypoplasia due to Translational Inhibition of FOG-2. Gene H. Kim, Sadhana A. Samant, Judy U. Earley, Eric C. Svensson

 

 

12:30-1:30 PM            Box Lunch (Pick up lunches in Justin Herman Plaza)

 

 

12:30-1:30 PM            Business Meeting                Regency Room

                                    (Weinstein Committee Members)

 

 

1:30-3:00 PM              Concurrent Workshops I

 

                                    Workshop #1 - Cardiac Regeneration   Grand Ballroom B

                                    (Session Chair: Kersti Linask)           

 

                                    Paul Riley (UCL-London)

                                    Educating the epicardium to mend a broken heart

 

                                    Jay Schneider (UTSW)

                                    Small molecules that enhance native epicardial
                                    regeneration/repair

 

                                    Ellen Lien (UCLA)

PDGF signaling is required for epicardial functions and new blood vessel formation during zebrafish heart regeneration

                                    Workshop #2 - MicroRNAs              Grand Ballroom C

                                    (Session Chair: Katherine Yutzey)    

 

                                    Deepak Srivastava (Gladstone/UCSF)

                                    MicroRNA Regulation of Cardiac Cell Fated
                                    anMorphogenesis

 

                                    Da-Zhi Wang (UNC)

                                    Taking microRNAs to heart

 

                                    Eric Olson (UTSW)

                                    MicroRNA Control of Muscle Disease

 

 

3:00-3:30 PM              Coffee Break

 

 

3:35-5:15 PM              Platform Session V: Cardiovascular Signaling   Grand
                                    Ballroom B/C

                                    (Session Chair: Anne Moon)

 

3:35-3:55         Retinoic Acid Regulates Differentiation of the Secondary Heart Field and TGFb-Mediated Outflow Tract Septation. Peng Li, Mohammad Pashmforoush, and Henry M. Sucov

 

3:55-4:15         Investigation Of Hippo-Signaling In Cardiac Progenitors. Todd R. Heallen, Randy L. Johnson, Daniel S. Wagner, James F. Martin

 

4:15-4:35         Developmental Downregulation of Chordin in the Notochord is Required for Fusion of the Dorsal Aortae. Robert J. Garriock, Catherine Czeisler, Takashi Mikawa

 

4:35-4:55         Wnt2a controls morphogenesis of the posterior pole of the vertebrate heart. Ying Tian, Ashley Goss, Lijun Yuan, Zhishan Wang, Tao Wang, Jifu Yang, Ethan D. Cohen, Edward E. Morrisey

 

4:55-5:15         Separation of the myocardial- and epicardial-lineage at the inflow of the heart is regulated by an interaction between BMP- and FGF-signaling. Bram van Wijk, Gert van den Berg, Radwan Abu-Issa, Saskia van der Velden, Martina Schmidt, Jan Ruijter, Margeret Kirby, Antoon Moorman, Maurice van den Hoff

 

 

5:15-7:30 PM              Poster Session I and Reception        Grand Ballroom A

                                    (odd numbered posters are manned)

 

 

                                    Dinner on your own

Saturday May 9th 2008

 

7:30-8:30 AM              Continental Breakfast                    Grand Ballroom Foyer

 

8:15-9:55 AM              Platform Session VI: Vessels and Valves Grand Ballroom B/C

                                    (Session Chair: Adriana Gittenberger de Groot)

 

8:15-8:35         A transcriptional code necessary and sufficient for vascular development and prediction of endothelial enhancers. Sarah De Val, Neil C. Chi, Stryder M. Meadows, Simon Minovitsky, Joshua P. Anderson, Ian S. Harris, Melissa L. Ehlers, Pooja Agarwal, Axel Visel, Shan-Mei Xu, Len A. Pennacchio, Inna Dubchak, Paul A. Krieg, Didier Y. R. Stainier, Brian L. Black

 

8:35-8:55         Etsrp/Etv2 and Hh function is required for the endocardium formation in zebrafish Kuan Shen Wong, Sharina Palencia Desai, Kira Proulx, Juli Uhl, Saulius Sumanas

 

8:55-9:15         Arterial/Venous Segregation by Selective Cell Sprouting: A Novel Mode of Blood Vessel Formation. Shane P. Herbert, Jan Huisken, Tyson N. Kim, Morri E. Feldman, Kevan M. Shokat, Rong A. Wang, Didier Y. R. Stainier

 

9:15-9:35         Wnt signaling in valve development and osteogenic gene induction. Christina M. Alfieri, Jonathan Cheek, Santanu Chakraborty, Katherine E. Yutzey

 

9:35-9:55         Notch and myocardial signals regulate a cardiac valve-forming field. José Luis de la Pompa, Luis Luna-Zurita, Joaquín Grego-Bessa, Belén Prados, Gonzalo del Monte, Guillermo Luxán, Alberto Benguría, Ralf H. Adams, José María Pérez-Pomares

 

9:55-10:25 AM            Coffee Break

 

10:30-12:10 PM          Platform Session VII: Migration and Mechanics          Grand
                                    Ballroom B/C

                                    (Session Chair: Joe Yost)

 

10:30-10:50     The role of hemodynamic force in regulating endothelial cell migration for proper vascular remodeling. Ryan S. Udan, Mary E. Dickinson

 

10:50-11:10     Computational Biology of Vascular Cell Behavior. Rusty Lansford, Yuki Sato, Greg Poynter, David Huss, Mike B. Filla1, Brenda Rongish1, Scott Fraser, Charles D. Little

 

11:10-11:30     Probing Heart Function in Model Systems with Small Hearts. Karen Ocorr, Carles Callol, Juan Carlos Ispizua-Belmonte, Pilar Ruiz-Lozano, Rolf Bodmer

 

11:30-11:50     Disruption of electrical cardiac conduction leads to dysregulation of cardiac morphogenesis. Neil C. Chi, Markus Bussen, Koroboshka Brand-Arzamendi, Chunhua Ding, Jeffrey E. Olgin, Gail R. Martin, Robin M. Shaw, Didier Y.R. Stainier

 

11:50-12:10     KikGR a photoconvertible green-to-red fluorescent protein for live cell labeling and lineage analysis in mouse ES cells and embryos. Sonja Nowotschin, Kat Hadjantonakis

 

12:15-1:30 PM            Box Lunch (Pick up lunches in Justin Herman Plaza)

                                   

12:45-1:30 PM            Lunch Time Opportunities Workshops Grand Ballroom B

 

            12:45-1:00       NHLBI Implementation of the ARRA, Charlene Schramm
                                    (NHLBI)

                                    Learn about how the stimulus package might affect you

                                   

            1:00-1:15         Enhancing Peer Review, Charlene Schramm (NHLBI)

Learn about changes in the NIH resubmission policy, Early Stage Investigators, new scoring system, and 2010 changes

 

            1:20-1:30         Presentation for Weinstein 2010 Amsterdam

 

1:30-3:00 PM              Concurrent Workshops II

 

                                    Workshop #3 - Stem Cells and ProgenitorsGrand Ballroom B

                                    (Session Chair: Ray Runyan)

 

                                    Mark Mercola (Burnham Institute)

                                    A Chemical Genomics Strategy for Generating Cardiac
                                    Myocytes

 

                                    Sean Wu (MGH, Harvard)

Turning Skin into Heart: Cardiac Progenitor Cells from Induced Pluripotent Cells

 

                                    Andrea Münsterberg

Wnt3a/RhoA mediated chemo-repulsion controls movement patterns of cardiac progenitors

 

                                    Workshops #4 - Heart Fields and Lineages                Grand
                                    Ballroom C

                                    (Session Chair: James Martin)           

 

                                    Deborah Yelon (Skirball Institute, NYU)

Regulation of heart size through definition of a cardiac progenitor pool in zebrafish

 

                                    Vincent Christoffels (Amsterdam)

                                    The origin of the conduction system

 

                                    Robert Kelly (Marseille)

                                    Identification of Hes1 as a regulator of second heart field
                                    development

 


3:15-5:35 PM             Poster Session II and Reception       Grand Ballroom A

                                    (even numbered posters are manned)

 

6:00-10:00 PM            Banquet at the Carnelian Room

                                    555 California Street, 52nd Floor

                                    Featuring entertainment by The Transactivators