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Spring meeting 2012 in Ghent

http://bscdb.ugent.be/2012adhesionpolarity

Spring Meeting 2012
"CELL ADHESION
   and CELL POLARITY
   in DEVELOPMENT and DISEASE"
Joint meeting with the FWO Network on
      Cell-Cell and Cell-Matrix Interaction

in Ghent, on Friday and Saturday, April 27-28, 2012

Printable pdf version of the Meeting poster
(printed posters (A3 size) are available on request)

Registration and abstract submission are open now.

Deadline for registration and abstract submission :
Thursday March 22nd, 2012

Location : 't Pand, Onderbergen 1, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium.
A historical monastery in the city center.
( How to get there - History of the building)

Organized by :
Jolanda van Hengel, Kris Vleminckx & Frans Van Roy
(Ghent University and VIB )

Contact : jolanda.vanhengel@dmbr.vib-ugent.be

Accomodation : participants should make their own hotel reservations. We will provide some suggestions and hyperlinks here (page under cosntruction).

Program :

Download a printable pdf-version of the program

Friday April 27^th
8:30	Registration and coffee / Poster mounting
9:25	Opening and Welcome
Morning session
9:30	Alpha Yap (Brisbane, Australia) “Integration at junctions: cadherin adhesion and the actin cytoskeleton”
10:15	Roberto Mayor (London, UK) “How are mesenchymal cells maintained together during collective cell migration?”
11:00	Celebration: 40 years of BSCDB
11.10	Marc Mareel (Ghent, Belgium) “Cell adhesion in invasion and metastasis“
11:40	Christian de Duve, Nobel Prize Laureate (Brussels, Belgium) “Title to be announced“
12:10	Celebration drink & Lunch / Visit of posters and commercial exhibit
Afternoon session
14:00	Dietmar Vestweber (Muenster, Germany) “Regulation of endothelial junctions and leukocyte extravasation”
14:45	Carien Niessen (Cologne, Germany) “Polarity signaling regulates cell fate decisions in the skin”
15:30	Speaker #1 selected from abstracts “Title to be announced”
15:45	Coffee / Visit of posters and commercial exhibit
16:45	Speaker #2 selected from abstracts “Title to be announced”
17:00	Speaker #3 selected from abstracts “Title to be announced”
17:15	Barry Thompson (London, UK), lecture is sponsored by EMBO YIP “Epithelial polarity in Drosophila”
18:00	Walking Dinner with drinks and poster viewing
Saturday April 28^th
Morning session
9:00	Valeri Vasioukhin (Seattle, WA) “Alpha-E-catenin in regulation of cell proliferation and cancer”
9:45	Alessandra Rampazzo (Padova, Italy) “Molecular genetics and pathogenesis of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy: a cell adhesion disease”
10:30	Coffee / Visit of posters and commercial exhibit
11:00	Uli Technau (Vienna, Austria) “Germ layer formation and differentiation in the diploblastic cnidarian Nematostella vectensis”
11:45	Speaker #4 selected from abstracts “Title to be announced”<
12:00	Speaker #5 selected from abstracts “Title to be announced”
12:15	Lunch / Visit of posters and commercial exhibit
Afternoon session
13:45	Aziz El-Amraoui (Paris, France) “Deaf-blindness in the Usher Syndrome: a tale of membrane crosslinking and protein transport”
14:30	Speaker #6 selected from abstracts “Title to be announced”
14:45	Speaker #7 selected from abstracts “Title to be announced”
15:00	Erez Raz (Muenster, Germany) “Control of directed migration and motility of Primordial Germ Cells (PGC) in zebrafish”
15:45	Peter Friedl (Nijmegen, The Netherlands) “Cancer invasion and the microenvironment: plasticity and reciprocity”
16:30	BSCDB poster awards
16:45	End of the meeting