
Christine Mummery
Leiden University Medical Center
The Netherlands
EMBO Workshop
This conference will take place at EMBL Heidelberg, with the option to attend virtually.
The cardiovascular system is a multicellular and disseminated organ consisting of the heart, a network of vessels and circulating blood, thereby forming an intricately interdependent system, whose dysfunction is the leading cause of human mortality. Despite translational progress with impactful new interventional and pharmacological therapies, cardiovascular dysfunction continues to plague mankind.
The current therapeutic approaches are either organ-centric or tackle the consequences of end-stage cardiovascular disease (CVD). New basic research approaches are focused on a deeper understanding of the causes and early development of CVD to identify mechanisms close to the root of the disease, providing the promise to prevent, halt, and reverse the disease process. In parallel, new tissue engineering and mechanobiology approaches are revolutionizing cardiovascular discovery research and disease modeling by more closely mimicking the human situation. However, these are largely separated research communities, with yet little crosstalk or exchange between the two. This new EMBO Workshop aims to transform the established organ-centric view on single cardiovascular organs into a systems biomedicine approach by tearing down the walls between disciplines and moving on to discussion of the cardiovascular system with an inter-, trans-, and cross-disciplinary approach.
Leiden University Medical Center
The Netherlands
Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
USA
Brown University
USA
Tufts University School of Medicine
USA
Heidelberg University & DKFZ Heidelberg
Germany
University of Turin
Italy
University of Washington Seattle
USA
Heidelberg University
Germany
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
Max Delbrück Center
Germany
EMBL Barcelona
Spain
Amsterdam UMC
The Netherlands
University of Sao Paulo Medical School
Brazil
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
USA
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology Vienna
Austria
Toronto General Hospital Research Institute
Canada
Murdoch Children’s Research Institute Melbourne
Australia
Åbo Akademi University and Eindhoven University of Technology
Finland
EMBL Heidelberg
Germany
Hubrecht Institute
The Netherlands
Tufts University School of Medicine
USA
Heidelberg University
Germany
EMBL Barcelona
Spain
Time (Europe/Berlin) | Session |
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11:30 – 13:15 | Registration and lunch |
13:15 – 13:30 | Opening remarks |
13:30 – 14:30 | Keynote: Cardiovascular models based on human pluripotent stem cell “come of age” Christine Mummery – Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands |
14:30 – 17:00 | Session 1: Where developmental biology meets cardiovascular engineering (Chair Kristina Haase) |
14:30 – 15:00 | Genome editing to understand and engineer heart development Alessandro Bertero – University of Turin, Italy |
16:00 – 16:15 | Selected #1 |
16:15 – 16:30 | Selected #2 |
15:00 – 15:30 | Cellular trajectories and regulatory control of human heart development Eileen Furlong – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany |
15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break |
16:30 – 16:45 | Selected #3 |
16:45 – 17:00 | Selected #4 |
17:00 – 17:30 | Self organization and functional maturation of the heart Sasha Mendjan – Institute of Molecular Biotechnology Vienna, Austria |
17:00 – 18:30 | Speed networking |
18:30 – 20:00 | Dinner in Canteen |
20:00 – 21:30 | After dinner drinks in ATC Rooftop Lounge |
Time (Europe/Berlin) | Session |
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09:00 – 12:00 | Session 2: Where engineering meets cardiovascular regeneration (Chair Jennifer Davis) |
09:00 – 09:30 | Vascularization strategies for regenerative medicine Sara Nunes Vasconcelos – Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, Canada |
09:30 – 10:00 | Targeting arrhythmia in hiPSC-CMs and fibrosis in cardiac tissue culture Jose E. Krieger – University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Brazil |
10:00 – 10:15 | Selected #5 |
10:15 – 10:30 | Selected #6 |
10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:00 – 11:30 | Bioprinting cardiac tissue in vitro and in vivo: Where are we at? Daniela Duarte Campos – Heidelberg University, Germany |
11:30 – 12:00 | Cardiac maturation and regeneration: two sides of the same coin Enzo Porrello – Murdoch Children’s Research Institute Melbourne, Australia |
12:00 – 13:30 | Lunch and meet the speakers |
13:30-16:00 | Session 3: Where cardiomyocyte biology meets immunology (Chair Johannes Backs) |
13:30 – 14:00 | Genetic engineering for cardiac fibrosis Jennifer Davis – University of Washington Seattle, US |
14:00 – 14:15 | Selected #7 |
14:15 – 14:30 | Selected #8 |
14:30 – 15:00 | Adaptive immunity in heart disease Pilar Alcaide – Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, USA |
15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee Break |
15:30 – 15:45 | Selected #9 |
15:45 – 16:00 | Selected #10 |
16:00 – 16:30 | Epigenetic therapies for diastolic dysfunction Timothy McKinsey – University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, USA |
16:30 – 17:00 | Flash talks |
17:00 – 18:30 | Poster Session 1 (odd numbers) with beer and snacks |
Free evening |
Time (Europe/Berlin) | Session |
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09:00 – 11:30 | Session 4: Where cardiomyocyte biology meets vascular biology (Chair Pilar Alcaide) |
09:00 – 09:30 | How blood flow regulates vascular networks Holger Gerhardt – Max Delbrück Center, Germany |
09:30 – 09:45 | Selected #11 |
09:45 – 10:00 | Selected #12 |
10:00 – 10:30 | 3D vascularised in vitro tissues for disease modelling Kristina Haase – EMBL Barcelona, Spain |
10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:00 – 11:15 | Selected #13 |
11:15 – 11:30 | Selected #14 |
11:30 – 12:00 | Vascular control of short and long distance communication Hellmut Augustin – Heidelberg University & DKFZ Heidelberg, Germany |
12:00 – 13:30 | Lunch and meet the speakers |
13:30-16:30 | Session 5: Where cardiovascular biology meets mechanobiology (Chair Enzo Porrello) |
13:30 – 14:00 | Notch signaling in mechanotransduction Cecilia Sahlgren – Åbo Akademi University and Eindhoven University of Technology, Finland |
14:00 – 14:15 | Selected #15 |
14:15 – 14:30 | Selected #16 |
14:30 – 15:00 | Cell-cell junctions as sensors and transducers of mechanical forces Stephan Huveneers- Amsterdam UMC, The Netherlands |
15:00 – 15:15 | Selected #17 |
15:15 – 15:30 | Selected #18 |
15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break |
16:00 – 16:30 | Perfusable on-chip vascular network for mechanobiology and developmental biology Ryuji Yokokowa – Kyoto University, Japan |
16:30 – 17:00 | Flash talks |
17:00 – 18:30 | Poster Session 2 (even numbers) with beer and snacks |
18:30 – 19:00 | Networking pre-dinner drinks |
19:00 – 21:00 | Conference dinner |
21:00 – 00:30 | Party – ATC Foyer |
Time (Europe/Berlin) | Session |
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09:00 – 13:00 | Session 6: Molecular Circuits of Heart Disease (Chair Norbert Frey) |
09:00 – 09:30 | Spatial transcriptomics guides new concepts to treat arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy Eva van Rooij – Hubrecht Institute, The Netherlands |
09:30 – 10:00 | Epitrancriptomic targets in heart disease Federica Accornero – Brown University, USA |
10:00 – 10:15 | Selected #19 |
10:15 – 10:30 | Selected #20 |
10:30 – 10:45 | Selected #21 |
10:45 – 11:15 | Coffee Break |
11:15 – 11:45 | Regulation of splicing in cardiomyopathies Lars Steinmetz – EMBL Heidelberg, Germany |
11:45 – 12:45 | Keynote: From cardiac biology to new cardiac therapies Eric N. Olson – UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, USA |
12:45 – 13:00 | Closing Remarks and Poster Prize Announcements |
13:00 – 13:15 | Packed Lunch and departure |
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Date: 20 - 23 Feb 2024
Location: EMBL Heidelberg and Virtual
Venue: EMBL Advanced Training Centre
Deadline(s):
Abstract submission: 28 Nov 2023
Registration (On-site): 9 Jan 2024
Registration (Virtual): 13 Feb 2024
Organisers:
Contact: Catherine Casas-Saavedra
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