Meeting Program & Speakers
Westin Hotel - Conference Venue, Ottawa, Canada
The Ottawa Conference on New Directions in
Biology and Disease of Skeletal Muscle
May 5 - 8, 2010
Ottawa, Ontario Canada
PROGRAM
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
2:00 pm - 7:00 pm Registration
3:00 pm - 6:00 pm Opening Session
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm Reception
7:30 pm - Keynote Speaker Eric Olson
Thursday, May 6, 2010
7:30 am - 8:30 am Continental Breakfast
8:30 am - 10:00 am Session I - Muscle Biology
10:00 am - 10:20 am Coffee
10:20 am - noon Session I continued
noon - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Session II - Therapy
3:00 pm - 3:20pm Coffee
3:20 pm - 4:50 pm Session II continued
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Posters
Friday, May 7, 2010
7:30 am - 8:30 am Continental breakfast, posters
8:30 am - 10:00 am Session III - Disease Pathology I
10:00 am - 10:20 am Coffee
10:20 am - noon Session III continued
noon - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Session IV - Signaling
3:00 pm - 3:20pm Coffee
3:20 pm - 4:50 pm Session IV continued
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Posters
6:30 pm - Closing Banquet, Museum of Civilization
Saturday, May 8, 2010
7:30 am - 8:30 am Continental breakfast, posters
8:30 am - 10:00 am Session V - Disease Pathology II
10:10 am - 10:20 am Coffee
10:20 am - noon Session V continued
Noon - 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Session VI - Stem Cells
2:30 pm - 2:50 pm Coffee
2:50 pm - 4:00 pm Session VI continued
4:00 pm - Keynote Speaker Andrew Marks
SPEAKERS
Keynote Speakers:
Eric Olson, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
Andrew Marks, Columbia UniversitySession I: Muscle Biology
Stephen Tapscott, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Emanuela Gussoni, Children's Hospital Boston
Pura Munoz-Canoves, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Lou Kunkel, Children's Hospital Boston
Selected Abstract PresentationSession II: Therapy
Jeff Chamberlain, University of Washington School of Medicine
Lee Sweeney, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Eric Hoffman, Children's National Medical Center, Washington D.C.
Xaio Xaio, University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy
Selected Abstract PresentationSession III: Disease Pathology I
Eric Shoubridge, McGill university
Kevin Campbell, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Iowa
Elizabeth McNally, University of Chicago Medical Center
Maurice Swanson, University of Florida
Charlotte Sumner, John Hopkins Medicine
Brunhilde Wirth, Institute of Human Genetics at the University Hospital of Cologne
Frederic Charbonnier, Laboratoire de Neurobiologie des Réseaux Sensorimoteurs
Melissa Spencer, University of California Los Angeles Health Sciences
Selected Abstract PresentationSession IV: Signaling
Rachelle Crosbie, University of California Los Angeles Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Research Center
Gordon Lynch, University of Melbourne
Bernard Jasmin, University of Ottawa
Alfred Goldberg, Harvard Medical School
Selected Abstract PresentationSession V: Disease Pathology II
Katherine Wagner, John Hopkins School of Medicine
Carsten Bonnemann, The Pennsylvania Muscle Institute , University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Selected Abstract PresentationSession VI: Stem Cells
Michael Rudnicki, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Brad Olwin, University of Colorado
Amy Wagers, Harvard Medical School
Irina Conboy, University of California, Berkeley
Selected Abstract Presentation
DRAFT ONLY 11/10/2009
