| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | New Developments |
| Discussion Leader: Gérard Karsenty (Baylor College of Medicine) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Ronen Schweitzer (Shriners Hospital for Children, Portland)
"Phenotype of the Scleraxis-deficient mouse" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:50 pm | Paolo Bianco (Universita La Sapienza, Rome)
"Hematopoiesis and cancer metastasis in bone - Modeling and manipulating the seed and soil interaction" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:30 pm | Bjorn Olsen (Harvard Medical School) |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Group Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Transcriptional control of bone cell differentiation and function |
| Discussion Leader: Patricia Ducy (Baylor College of Medicine) |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Ernestina Schipani (Harvard Medical School)
"Hypoxia and HIF-1α in chondrogenesis" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Hiroshi Takayanagi (Tokyo Medical and Dental University)
"Regulation of osteoclast differentiation by NFATc1" |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Donald Glass (Baylor College of Medicine)
"Molecular bases of the regulation of bone remodeling by the Wnt canonical signaling pathway" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Advances in Stem Cell biology: from the inner cell mass to the post-natal organism |
| Discussion Leader: Pamela G. Robey (NIDCR) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Andrew Elefanty (Monash University)
"Sorting out the bloody mess - directed differentiation of ES cells along mesodermal pathways" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:50 pm | Elaine Dzierzak (Erasmus University, Rotterdam)
"Mesenchymal progenitor/stem cells in the mouse embryo" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:30 pm | Paul Simmons (Peter MacCallum Research Institute, Victoria)
"Stem Cells in the Mammalian Skeleton" |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Mineral homeostasis and calcification |
| Discussion Leader: L. Darryl Quarles (University of Kansas Medical Center) |
| 9:00 am - 9:35 am | Robert Terkeltaub (VA Medical Centre, San Diego)
"Molecular mechanisms of calcification" |
| 9:35 am - 10:15 am | Lynda Bonewald (University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio)
"Mechanisms of calcification" |
| 10:15 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 am - 11:20 am | Paul Price (UCSD)
"Vascular calcification" |
| 11:20 am - 11:55 am | Dwight Towler (Washington University)
"Osteogenic Regulation of Vascular Calcification" |
| 11:55 am - 12:30 am | Monzur Murshed (Baylor College of Medicine)
"Why bone mineralization occurs only in bone" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Teeth/Craniofacial biology |
| Discussion Leader: Marc McKee (McGill University) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm | Irma Thesleff (University of Helsinki)
"Runx2 in the development of craniofacial bones and teeth" |
| 8:00 pm - 8:30 pm | Michael Paine (USC)
"Enamel matrix protein interactions" |
| 8:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Martha Somerman (University of Washington)
"Cementoblast differentiation, cementum extracellular matrix and regeneration strategies" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Songtao Shi (NIDCR)
"Stem cells of the periodontium" |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Signaling/cytokines |
| Discussion Leader: Matthew Gillespie (St. Vincent's Institute of Medical Research) |
| 9:00 am - 10:00 am | Robyn Starr (The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research)
"Identification of suppressors of cytokine (SOCs) activity" |
| 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:30 am | Toshiyuki Takai (University of Tokyo)
"Immunoreceptors, calcium, and bone remodeling" |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Georges Rawadi (ProStrakan, Romainville, France)
"Wnt signaling in osteoblast" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Osteoclasts/bone resorption |
| Discussion Leader: Robert L. Jilka (University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Brendan Boyce (University of Rochester)
"Cytokine signaling and osteoclast formation, activation, and survival" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:50 pm | Stavroula Kousteni (University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences)
"The regulation of osteoclast apoptosis by sex steroids" |
| 8:50 pm - 9:30 pm | Mitch Schaffler (Mount Sinai School of Medicine)
"Osteocyte control of bone remodeling" |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Skeletal anabolic agents |
| Discussion Leader: Nicola C. Partridge (University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey) |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Sundeep Koshla (Mayo Clinic)
"IGFs and GH in clinical and basic studies" |
| 9:40 am - 10:20 am | Lin Qin (University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey)
"Novel PTH-responsive genes" |
| 10:20 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:50 am - 11:30 am | Ross Garrett (OsteoScreen, San Antonio)
"Statins and BMPs" |
| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm | Peter Bodine (Wyeth-Ayerst)
"Wnt signaling and bone" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Keynote lecture |
| Discussion Leader: René St-Arnaud (Shriners Hospital for Children) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm | Henry Lee (Connecticut State Police Laboratory)
"Identification of human remains through bones & teeth" |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
