About the Program: The 2011 Myogenesis GRC was severely impacted by Hurricane Irene. Many attendees, including speakers and discussion leaders, either arrived late or did not make it to the conference at all. The program below is not representative of a typical GRC, but does reflect the agenda of the conference as it actually happened that week. |
SUNDAY |
| No formal program (only some people make it to the Conference Center) |
MONDAY |
8:30 am - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:15 pm - 7:20 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:20 pm - 7:30 pm | Welcome: Vice Chair Helen M. Blau (Stanford U.) |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Session I |
| Discussion Leader: Terry Partridge (Childrens' Natl. Med Center) |
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Tom Rando (Stanford U.)
"Stem cell aging" |
7:50 pm - 7:55 pm | Discussion |
7:55 pm - 8:15 pm | Fabio Rossi (U. British Columbia, Canada)
"Muscle fat interactions" |
8:15 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
8:20 pm - 8:40 pm | Christophe Marcelle (Monash U., Australia)
"Neural crest signaling in somitogenesis" |
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
8:45 pm - 9:05 pm | Andrew Ho (Salpétrière, Paris, France)
"Neural crest cells modulate trunk myogenesis through Nrg1/ErbB3 signaling" |
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm | Discussion |
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Ed Gomes (U. Paris France)
"Nuclear positioning" |
9:30 pm - 9:35 pm | Discussion |
9:40 pm - | Welcome Party |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 10:15 am | Session II |
| Discussion Leader: Steve Tapscott (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Res. Cntr.) |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Fabien Le Grand (Inserm, Paris, France)
"Homeostasis of the satellite cell niche during skeletal muscle regeneration" |
9:20 am - 9:25 am | Discussion |
9:25 am - 9:45 am | Vahab Soleimani (Ottawa Hosp. Res. Inst., Canada)
"Snail regulates MyoD binding-site occupancy to direct enhancer switching and differentiation-specific transcription in myogenesis" |
9:45 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
9:50 am - 10:10 am | Jason Pomerantz (UCSF)
"Regeneration suppressors and the reversal of muscle differentiation" |
10:10 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
10:15 am | Group Photo / Coffee Break |
10:45 am - 12:30 pm | Session III |
| Discussion Leader: Fabio Rossi (U. British Columbia, Canada) |
10:45 am - 11:05 am | Steve Tapscott (Fred Hutchinson Canc Res. Cntr.)
"Genetic and epigenetic regulation of myogenesis and neurogenesis" |
11:05 am - 11:10 am | Discussion |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Gabrielle Kardon (U. Utah)
"Satellite cells and connective tissue fibroblasts are critical for muscle regeneration" |
11:30 am - 11:35 am | Discussion |
11:35 am - 11:55 am | Dawn Cornelison (U. Missouri)
"Satellite cell migration: a very moving story" |
11:55 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm | Andrew Brack (Mass Gen Hospital)
"Satellite cell heterogeneity and functionality" |
12:20 pm - 12:25 pm | Discussion |
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 | Session IV |
| Discussion Leader: Helen M. Blau (Stanford U.) |
7:30 pm - 8:05 pm | Special Lecture: Bruce Spiegelman (Dana-Farber/Harvard)
"Fat muscle interactions" |
8:05 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
8:15 pm - 8:35 pm | Ben Cosgrove (Stanford U.)
"Muscle stem cell self-renewal" |
8:35 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
8:40 pm - 9:00 pm | Thomas Braun (Max Planck Inst., Bad Neuheim, Germany)
"Cell cycle and cardiac regeneration" |
9:00 pm - 9:05 pm | Discussion |
9:05 pm - 9:25 pm | Ken Poss (Duke U.)
"Regenerative mechanisms in fish" |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 10:15 am | Session V |
| Discussion Leader: Louis Kunkel (Childrens' Hospital/Harvard) |
9:00 am - 9:20 am | Nadia Rosenthal (EMBL, Rome, Italy/Monash U., Australia)
"Macrophages and muscle regeneration" |
9:20 am - 9:25 am | Discussion |
9:25 am - 9:45 am | Miranda Grounds (U. Western Australia)
"Muscle aging" |
9:45 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
9:50 am - 10:10 am | Terry Partridge (Childrens Natl. Med. Center)
"Horizons of myogenesis" |
10:10 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
10:15 am | Coffee Break |
10:45 am - 12:00 pm | Session VI |
| Discussion Leader: Jeff Chamberlain (U. Washington) |
10:45 am - 11:05 am | Pura Munoz-Canoves (U. Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
"Regeneration and immune response" |
11:05 am - 11:10 am | Discussion |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | H.Q. Han (Amgen Inc)
"Cachexia" |
11:30 am - 11:35 am | Discussion |
11:35 am - 11:55 am | Denis Guttridge (Ohio State U.)
"NFkb and muscle regeneration" |
11:55 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time / GRC Hike |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair |
7:30 pm - 8:45 pm | Session VII |
| Discussion Leader: Miranda Grounds (U. Western Australia) |
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Pete Currie (Monash U., Australia)
"Fish models of dystrophy" |
7:50 pm - 7:55 pm | Discussion |
7:55 pm - 8:15 pm | Lou Kunkel (Childrens Hosp./Harvard U.)
"Dystrophy models" |
8:15 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
8:20 pm - 8:40 pm | Foteini Mourkioti (Stanford U.)
"Dystrophy models" |
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 10:15 am | Session VIII |
| Discussion Leader: Helen M. Blau (Stanford U.) |
9:00 am - 9:40 am | Special Lecture: Doug Wallace (U. Pennsylvania)
"Perspectives on aging" |
9:40 am - 9:50 am | Discussion |
9:50 am - 10:10 am | Alon Kahana (U. Michigan)
"What can zebrafish extraocular muscle regeneration teach us about cancer?" |
10:10 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
10:15 am | Coffee Break |
10:45 am - 12:00 pm | Session IX |
| Discussion Leader: Nadia Rosenthal (EMBL, Rome, Italy/Monash U., Australia) |
10:45 am - 11:05 am | Jeff Chamberlain (U. Washington)
"Cell and gene therapy" |
11:05 am - 11:10 am | Discussion |
11:10 am - 11:30 am | Toshifumi Yokota (Childrens Natl. Med. Center)
"Morpholinos and exon skipping in dog models" |
11:30 am - 11:35 am | Discussion |
11:35 am - 11:55 am | David Glass (Novartis Inst.)
"Sarcopenia and atrophy" |
11:55 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:45 pm | Free Time |
4:45 pm - 6:00 pm | Session X |
| Discussion Leader: Peter Currie (Monash U., Australia) |
4:45 pm - 5:05 pm | Douglas Millay (U. Texas Southwestern)
"Post transcriptional control in muscle development and disease" |
5:05 pm - 5:10 pm | Discussion |
5:10 pm - 5:50 pm | Special Lecture: Elly Tanaka (Technische Univ. Dresden, Germany)
"Cell specification in axolotl regeneration" |
5:50 pm - 6:00 pm | Discussion |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 pm - | End of Conference Party |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |