Session 1, Sun Evening - Invertebrate Matrix: Evolution of an Elastic Matrix
- Fred Keeley (Discussion Leader, Toronto): The evolutionary lineage of elastin
- Susanne Reber-Mueller (Portland/Basel): Jellyfish fibrillins
- Edwin DeMont (Nova Scotia): Mechanical properties of microfibril-based arteries
Sunday Evening - Social
Session 2, Mon Morning - Microfibrillar Proteins
- Francesco Ramirez (Discussion Leader, New York)
- Michael Raghunath (Muenster): Extracellular modifications of profibrillin
- Mark Gibson (Adelaide): MAGP-2
- Scott Argraves (Charleston): New perspectives on the function of fibulin-1
- Timothy Ritty (St. Louis): Proteolytic processing of the fibrillin-1 C-terminal domain
Poster Session 1, Mon 4-6 PM: Matrix Structure and Assembly
Session 3, Mon Evening - Molecular Structure of Microfibrils
- Lynn Sakai (Discussion Leader, Portland): Heterogeneity in microfibrils
- Cay Keitly (Manchester): Fibrillin microfibrils in tight skin mice
- Penny Handford (Oxford): Structural Analysis of Fibrillin Domains
- Deiter Reinhardt (Portland): Self-interaction and characterization of the N-terminal end of fibrillin-1
Session 4, Tue Morning - Animal Models of Matrix Assembly
- Robert Mecham (Discussion Leader, St. Louis)
- Francesco Ramirez (New York): Fibrillin-1 and Marfan syndrome
- Renato V. Iozzo (Philadelphia): Decorin: A regulator of matrix assembly and cellular growth
- Dean Li (Salt Lake City): Cell phenotypes in the elastin knock-out
- Gilles Faury (St. Louis): Vascular mechanics in the elastin deficient mice
- Rosario Hernandez (St. Louis): Ocular abnormalities in elastin deficient mice
- Steve Perrin (Boston): Zebra fish with elastic tissue defects
Poster Session 1, Tue 4-6 PM: Matrix Structure and Assembly (cont'd)
Session 5, Tue Evening - Cytokines and Extracellular Matrix
- Jeffrey Bonadio (Discussion Leader, Ann Arbor): Targeting latent growth factors to extracellular matrix
- Jorma Keski-Oja (Helsinki): ECM-associated LTBPs
- Daniel Rifkin (New York): Latent TGF-ß binding protein
- Mats Hellström (Seattle): PDGF-A signaling in lung development and elastin deposition
Session 6, Wed Morning - Vasculogenesis
- Charles Little (Discussion Leader, Charleston): How the embryo builds a blood vessel
- Karen Hischi (Boston): Cell-cell interactions during vessel assembly
- Brenda Rongish (Nashville): Fibrillin-2 and embryonic morphogenesis
- Chitra Suri (Tarrytown): Angiopoietin-1 during embryonic angiogenesis
- Paul Skoglund (Charlottesville): Expression of a dominant negative Xenopus fibrillin construct in developing mesoderm perturbs convergent extension at gastrulation
Poster Session 2, Wed 4-6 PM: Regulation of Matrix Production, Matrix Gene Mutations and Responses to Disease
Session 7, Wed Evening - Mutations in Matrix Genes
- Dianna Milewicz (Discussion Leader, Houston): Fibrillin gene mutations
- Mark Keating (Salt Lake City): Mutations in the elastin gene
- Maurice Godfrey (Omaha): Marfan-like phenotype caused by mutations in LTBP-2
- Terhi Rantamäki (Helsinki): Cellular modelling of Marfan mutations
- Jeffrey Davidson (Nashville): Elastin gene mutations in cutis laxa patients
Session 8, Thu Morning - Matrix Biosynthesis
- William Parks (Discussion Leader, St. Louis): Post-transcriptional control of elastin production
- Judith Foster (Boston): Transcriptional regulation of tropoelastin
- Joel Rosenbloom (Philadelphia): Elastin expression in strange places
- Elaine Davis (Dallas): Helper proteins for tropoelastin: Potential folding and trafficking chaperones
- Herb Kagan (Boston): Localization and activity of lysyl oxidase within nuclei of fibrogenic cells
Poster Session 2, Thu 4-6 PM: Regulation of Matrix Production, Matrix Gene Mutations and Responses to Disease (cont'd)
Session 9, Thu Evening - Repair of Elastic Tissue
- Jeffrey Davidson (Discussion Leader, Nashville): Elastin induction in pulmonary fibrosis
- Richard Pierce (St. Louis): Induction of elastin expression in fetal lung mesenchyme: role of epithelium-derived signals
- Celeste Rich (Boston): FGF and elastin transcription: a novel model of emphysema
- Steven Shapiro (St. Louis): Elastase and lung disease
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