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Meeting Program

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Sunday, March 15
3:00 - 7:30 PM Registration
6:30 - 7:30 PM Refreshments
7:30 - 8:30 PM Keynote Address
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/15/2009
Speaker to be Announced,
Monday, March 16
7:00 - 8:00 AM Breakfast
8:00 - 11:00 AM Stemness and Cell Fate in Pluripotent Cells
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/15/2009
Natalia B. Ivanova, Yale University School of Medicine, USA
Dissecting Self-Renewal by RNA Interference
Sean M. Wu, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Turning Skin into Heart: Cardiac Progenitor Cells from Induced Pluripotent Cells
Speaker to be Announced,
Gordon M. Keller, University Health Network, MaRS Centre, Canada
Mesoderm Determination and Patterning
Short Talk(s) to be Chosen from Abstracts,
9:20 - 9:40 AM Coffee Break
11:00 AM- 1:00 PM Poster Setup
11:00 AM- On Own for Lunch
1:00 - 10:00 PM Poster Viewing
4:30 - 5:00 PM Coffee Available
5:00 - 7:00 PM Making Myocardium: Lessons from Organogenesis
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/15/2009
Margaret B. Buckingham, Institut Pasteur, France
Cardiac Progenitor Cells of the Second Heart Field
Jonathan A. Epstein, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Cardiac Neural Crest
Deepak Srivastava, Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease/UCSF, USA
Control of Cardiac Development by MicroRNAs
Short Talk to be Chosen from Abstracts,
7:00 - 8:00 PM Social Hour w/ Lite Bites
7:30 - 10:00 PM Poster Session 1
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/15/2009
Tuesday, March 17
7:00 - 8:00 AM Poster Setup
7:00 - 8:00 AM Breakfast
8:00 - 11:00 AM Cardiopoiesis: Cardiac Muscle Cell Creation by Adult and Embryonic Cells
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/15/2009
Michael D. Schneider, Imperial College London, UK
Cloning Cardiac Progenitors from Adult Myocardium
Richard P. Harvey, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Australia
Cardiac Progenitor Cells During Embryogenesis
Kenneth R. Chien†, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
Islet-1: Prototype and Paradigm
Mark Mercola, Burnham Institute for Med. Res., USA
A Chemical Genomics Strategy for Generating Cardiac Myocytes
Short Talk(s) to be Chosen from Abstracts,
9:20 - 9:40 AM Coffee Break
11:00 AM- 12:00 PM Lunch
12:00 - 2:30 PM Poster Session 2
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/15/2009
2:30 - 4:30 PM Workshop 1: Human ES Cell Update
Joseph Gold, Geron Corporation, USA
Large-Scale Generation and Characterization of hESC-Derived Cardiomyocytes for Cell Therapy
Lior Gepstein, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Myocardial Regeneration Using Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Short Talks to be Chosen from Abstracts, , USA
4:30 - 5:00 PM Coffee Available
5:00 - 7:00 PM Injury and Inflammation in Muscle Regeneration
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/15/2009
Nadia A. Rosenthal, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Italy
IGF-I, the NF-kappaB Pathway, and Muscle Regeneration
Kenneth Poss, Duke University Medical Center, USA
Mechanisms of Cardiac Regeneration in Zebrafish
Elizabeth M. McNally, University of Chicago, USA
Improved Progenitor Cells from Skeletal Muscle for Cardiac Repair
Short Talk to be Chosen from Abstracts,
7:00 PM- On Own for Dinner
Wednesday, March 18
7:00 - 8:00 AM Breakfast
8:00 - 11:00 AM Vasculogenesis and Angiogenesis: Developmental Insights and Therapeutic Targets
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/15/2009
Robert J. Schwartz, Texas A&M University Health Science Center, USA
A Novel SRF Dependent SM-HAT, Complexed With CRP2 and Myocardin Cofactors Drives Smooth Muscle Gene Targets
Mary Dickinson, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Form Follows Flow: Where Biomechanics and Genetics Meet
Paul R. Riley, University College London, Institute of Child Health, UK
Coronary Vascular Progenitors from Adult and Embryonic Epicardium
Peter M. Carmeliet†, University of Leuven, Belgium
Functional Genomics of Angiogenesis
Short Talk(s) to be Chosen from Abstracts,
9:20 - 9:40 AM Coffee Break
11:00 AM- 1:00 PM Poster Setup
11:00 AM- On Own for Lunch
1:00 - 10:00 PM Poster Viewing
2:30 - 4:30 PM Workshop 2: 'The Vision Thing:' Imaging Sciences and Cell Tracking for Cardiac Repair
Albert Lardo†, Johns Hopkins Hospital, USA
Joseph C. Wu, Stanford University, USA
Short Talks to be Chosen from Abstracts, , USA
4:30 - 5:00 PM Coffee Available
5:00 - 7:00 PM Myocyte Death and Dysfunction in Heart Failure
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/15/2009
Richard N. Kitsis, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA
Mediators and Executioners of Cardiac Apoptosis
Jonathan G. Seidman, Harvard Medical School, USA
Mechanisms and Modifiers of the Hereditary Cardiomyopathies
Eric N. Olson, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA
The Molecular Logic of Cardiac Development and Disease
Short Talk to be Chosen from Abstracts,
7:00 - 8:00 PM Social Hour w/ Lite Bites
7:30 - 10:00 PM Poster Session 3
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/15/2009
Thursday, March 19
7:00 - 8:00 AM Breakfast
8:00 - 11:00 AM Cardiac Repair in Human Trials: The Half-Full Cup?
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/15/2009
Stefanie Dimmeler, University of Frankfurt, Germany
Bone Marrow for Cardiac Repair: Molecular Insights and Clinical Deployment
Douglas W. Losordo, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, USA
Targeting the Microvasculature for Ischemic Tissue Repair
Joshua M. Hare, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, USA
Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Cardiac Repair
Eduardo Marbán, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA
Cardiosphere-Derived Cells for Clinical Cardiac Repair
Short Talk(s) to be Chosen from Abstracts,
9:20 - 9:40 AM Coffee Break
11:00 AM- On Own for Lunch
2:30 - 4:30 PM Workshop 3: Implanting Cells, Engineering Tissue, or Giving Stem Cell Proteins? Three Visions of the Therapeutic Horizon
Piero Anversa, Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA
Myocardial Regeneration
Doris A. Taylor, University of Minnesota, USA
Victor J. Dzau, Duke University Medical Center, USA
Paracrine Mediators of Stem Cell Reparative Action
4:30 - 5:00 PM Coffee Available
5:00 - 7:00 PM 'Get With the System:' How Systems Biology is Transforming Biomedicine
Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 02/15/2009
Richard A. Young†, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, USA
Genome-Wide Analysis of Transcriptional Circuits and Chromatin Remodeling
Marc Vidal, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, USA
The Human Interactome Project and Molecular Network Analysis
Timothy J. Aitman, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, UK
Genomic Approaches to Common Diseases
7:00 - 8:00 PM Social Hour w/ Lite Bites
8:00 - 11:00 PM Entertainment
Friday, March 20
Departure
      *=Session Chair     †=Speaker invited, not yet responded.





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Cardiac muscle death, without numerically equivalent myocyte creation, poses a formidable and inexorable challenge in both acute and chronic forms of heart disease. A regenerative medicine approach to rescue cardiac muscle cell number or instigate heart repair in other ways has moved from the esoteric fringe to the mainstream of both fundamental and patient-based cardiovascular research. However, notwithstanding the encouraging results from phase I and even phase II trials in this realm, the scientific foundations of cardiac repair largely remain to be proven on a basis that is more than empirical. By virtue of its orientation not merely to translation, but at least equally to the enabling sciences within stem cell biology, cardiovascular development, and genetics, this Keystone Symposia meeting addresses a critical unmet need in a high-impact field of current and foreseeable explosive growth.