| Sunday evening : | Stem cells |
Chair: Giulio Cossu, Stem Cell Research Institute, Italy
- Helen M. Blau, Stanford University School of Medicine
"Stem Cells: The Ultimate Plasticity of Cell Fate"
- Johnny Huard, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
"Identification and characterization of a novel population of muscle stem cells in mice: Potential for tissue regeneration"
- Michael A. Rudnicki, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Canada
"Pluripotent stem cells in adult skeletal muscle"
- Terry Partridge, Imperial College School of Medicine (Hammersmith Campus), UK
"Myogenic cell diversity in phenotype and function"
| Monday morning : | Somitogenesis and myogenic specification: |
Chair: Shahragim Tajbakhsh, Pasteur Institute
- Shahragim Tajbakhsh, Pasteur Institute
"Manipulation of the Myf5 locus and consequent distal rib phenotypes"
- Sara Venter, UCSF
- Chaya Kalcheim, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
"Characterization of the mitotic phase of myotome development "
- Giulio Cossu, Stem Cell Research Institute, Italy
"Vessel associated mesoderm progenitors in tissue histogenesis and repair"
- Andrea Munsterberg, University of Dundee
"Wnt and Shh signalling in somite patterning and myogenesis"
- Peter Currie, London
| Monday evening : | Muscle gene expression |
Chair: Steve Tapscott, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
- Vittorio Sartorelli, National Institutes of Health
"Regulation of MyoD function in undifferentiated and differentiated muscle cells"
- Shannon Odelberg, HHMI, University of Utah
"Reversion of the differentiated myocyte phenotype by MSX1"
- Peter Rigby, Chester Beatty Laboratories, Institute of Cancer Research, London
"The complex transcriptional regulation of the mrf4/myf5 locus"
- Hans-Henning Arnold, University of Braunschweig, Germany
"M-Cadherin and Popeye1 in regenerating skeletal muscle"
- Tim McKinsey, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
"Control of Myogenesis by MEF2:HDAC Interactions"
| Tuesday morning : | Cardiogenesis and heart specification |
Chair: Kenneth Chien, University of California, San Diego
- Ralph Bodmer, University of Michigan
- Enrique Amaya, University of Cambridge, UK
"Insertional mutagenesis and gene trapping in Xenopus"
- Didier Stainier, University of California, San Francisco
"Myocardial differentiation and morphogenesis in zebrafish"
- Richard Harvey, Cardiac Research Institute
"Chamber Specification and Morphogenesis in the Developing Mammalian Heart"
- Margaret Buckingham, CNRS URA 19476
"Cardiogenesis and the origin of the outflow tract"
- Kenneth Chien, University of California, San Diego
"Developmental pathways for cardiac diseases: New genetic pathways for hypoplastic left heart syndrome and sudden cardiac death"
| Tuesday evening: | Genomics and muscle regulatory circuitry |
Chair: Barbara Wold, California Institute of Technology
- Steve Tapscott, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
"Orchestration of Muscle Gene Expression by MyoD"
- Robert Strausberg, National Cancer Institute
"The NIH Mammalian Gene Collection"
- Bruce Paterson, NIH
"Application of RNA-I to the analysis of gene function in Drosophila myogenesis in vivo and in vitro"
- Lisa Stubbs, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
"Mouse-human comparative sequence analysis and the discovery of new genes and regulatory DNA sequences in human chromosome 19"
- Peter Roy, Stanford University
"Genome-wide Analysis of Muscle Gene Expression in C. elegans."
| Wednesday morning : | Myogenic induction and specification |
Chair: Charlie Emerson, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- Charlie Emerson, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
"Myogenic specification in somites"
- Olivier Pourquiè, LGPD-IBDM-CNRS
"Segmentation clock control over spatio-temporal Hox activation"
- Michael Bate, University of Cambridge
"Myotubes and muscle patterning: indications from Drosophila"
- Thomas Braun, University of Halle
"Specificity, permissiveness and induction: modes of muscle cell specification"
- Phil Ingham, University of Sheffield
"The zebrafish u-boot mutation identifies a Hedgehog regulated genetic switch for fibre-type specification"
| Wednesday evening: | Keynote |
- David Anderson, HHMI Caltech
"Tales from neurogenesis and its stem cells"
| Wednesday evening: | Adult Muscle |
Chair: Nadia Rosenthal, Massachussetts General Hospital
- Leslie Leinwand, University of Colorado
"Consequences of myosin gene inactivation"
- Stefano Schiaffino, University of Padova
"Ras and calcineurin signaling in muscle fiber type specification by nerve activity"
- Nadia Rosenthal, Mass. General hospital
"IGF and muscle hypertrophy"
- Grace Pavlath, Emory University
"Multiple roles of calcineurin in muscle growth"
| Thursday morning: | Signal transduction and muscle patterning |
Chair: Bradley Olwin, University of Colorado
- Bradley Olwin, University of Colorado
"RAS and MAP kinase signaling pathways in myogenesis"
- Steve Devoto, Wesleyan University
"Two independent paths to one cell type in zebrafish axial musculature"
- Rob Krauss, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
"CDO and BOC: Ig superfamily members that positively regulate myogenic differentiation"
- Se Jin Lee, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
"Regulation of muscle mass by myostatin"
- David Sassoon, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
"Signals guiding muscle cell death, survival, and differentiation"
- Ken Walsh, St. Elizabeth Medical Center Tufts University, Boston
| Thursday evening: | Muscle diseases and therapies |
Chair: Kay Davies, University of Oxford
- Kevin Campbell, University of Iowa, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
"Mouse models of muscular dystrophy: molecules and mechanisms"
- Jeff Chamberlain, University of Washington
"Modular flexibility of dystrophin: designer genes for muscular dystrophy"
- Tom Cooper, Baylor College of Medicine
"Myotonic dystrophy: a trinucleotide expansion creates an RNA gain-of-function mutation that disrupts muscle-specific alternative splicing"
- Stephen Kaufman, University of Illinois
"Integrins in muscle diseases: causes or cure?"
- Elizebeth McNally, University of Chicago
"Genetic analysis of muscular dystrophies"
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