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2012
New Directions in Biology and Disease of Skeletal Muscle Conference

Meeting Program & Speakers

The Westin New Orleans Canal Place

2012 New Directions in
Biology and Disease of Skeletal Muscle Conference

JUNE 17 - 21, 2012
New Orleans, Louisiana

 

Preliminary PROGRAM

Sunday, June 17, 2012

10:00 am
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6:00 pm
  Registration
12:00 pm
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12:15 pm
 

MDA Translational Research Symposium
      Introduction

12:15 pm
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1:15 pm
 

Academic Projects
- Translation in Academia
- Collaboratiing with Companies
- Starting Your Own Company

1:15 pm
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1:30 pm
  Tech Transfer - Getting the project out of the university
1:30 pm
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1:45 pm
  IP - What is needed and when
1:45 pm
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2:00 pm
  Break
2:00 pm
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2:40 pm
  Working with the FDA
2:40 pm
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3:10 pm
  Resources - Panel Discussion with
  MVP / B21, NIH -NCATS, TACT, Pfizer drug database,
  Other funding angencies
3:10 pm
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3:50 pm
  Developing a clinical trial protocol for muscle disease: Case Studies
3:50 pm
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4:05 pm
  Break
4:05 pm
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5:25 pm
  Industry Efforts
5:25 pm
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5:45 pm
  Summary of session and messages learned
   
6:00 pm
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6:15 pm
 

Opening Remarks and Introduction of Keynote Speaker

6:15 pm
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7:00 pm
 

Keynote Speaker - Douglas C. Wallace, Ph.D., The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania

       

Mitochondrial Muscle Disease

7:00 pm
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9:00 pm

  Reception

Monday, June 18, 2012

Session I
 

Inflammation and Fibrosis - Chair: Melissa Spencer

8:00 am
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8:20 am
 

Kanneboyina Nagaraju, Ph.D., Children's National Medical Center

 
   

Inflammation in dysferlin deficiency

8:20 am
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8:40 am
  Benedicte Chazaud, Ph.D., Universite Paris Descartes
 
   

Role of macrophages in muscle Injury

8:40 am
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9:00 am
  Jeff Molkentin, Ph.D., Cincinnati Children's Hospital
 
   

p38 signaling defects in MD

9:00 am
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9:20 am
  Pura Munoz Canoves, Ph.D., Universitat Pompeu Fabra
       

Immune mediated mechanisms involved in development of fibrosis in mdx muscles

9:20 am
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10:00 am
  Coffee
10:00 am
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11:00 am
  Three Speakers TBN from Abstracts
 
Session II
  Muscle Growth and Regeneration - Chair: Elisabeth Barton
1:00 pm
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1:20 pm
 

Grace Pavlath, Ph.D., Emory University

 
 

Satellite cells in muscle disease

1:20 pm
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1:40 pm
  Anton Bennett, Ph.D., Yale University
 
 
MSPK phosphatase 1
1:40 pm
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2:00 pm
  Markus Ruegg, Ph.D., Universitat Basel
 
 

mTOR, hypertropy, congenital MD

2:00 pm
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2:20 pm
  Da-Zhi Wang, Ph.D., Children's Hospital Boston
 
 

miRNAs and myogenesis

2:20 pm
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3:00 pm
  Break
3:00 pm
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3:20 pm
  Elizabeth Chen, PH.d., John Hopkins University
 
 

Cystoskeletal rearrangement in myogenesis

3:20 pm
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4:00 pm
  Two Speakers TBN from Abstracts
 
   
5:00 pm
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8:00 pm
  Poster Session I

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

7:00 am
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10:00 am
  Poster Session II
         

Session III

  Trafficking Defects in Muscle Diesease - Chair Alan Beggs
10:00 am
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10:20 am
  Renzi Han, Loyola University
 
 
Dysferlin in membrane repair
10:20 am
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10:40 am
  Jocelyn Laporte, IGBMC
 
 

Myotubularin in muscle disease

10:40 am
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11:00 am
  Ning Lui, Ph.D., UT Southwestern
 
 

Dynamin in muscle disease

11:00 am
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11:20 am
  Melissa Spencer, Ph.D., UCLA
 
 

Calpain mediate muscular dystrophy

11:20 am
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12:20 am
  Three Speakers TBN from Abstracts
   
   
Session IV
  Nuclear Defects - Chair: Laura Ranum
2:30 pm
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2:50 pm
  Maurice Swanson, Ph.D., University of Florida
 

MBNL2

2:50 pm
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3:10 pm
  Stephen Tapscott, MD, PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington
 

FSH

3:10 pm
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3:30 pm
 

Silvere van der Maarel Ph.D., Leiden University Medical Center

 

FSHD

3:30 pm
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3:50 pm
 

Laura Ranum, Ph.D., University of Florida

 

Myotonic dystrophy

3:50 pm
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4:30 pm
  Break
4:30 pm
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5:30 pm
  Three Speakers TBN from Abstracts

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Session V
  Signaling Defects and Therapies - Chair: Jill Rafael Fortney
8:00 am
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8:20 am
  Kathryn Wagner, MD, PhD, Kennedy Krieger Institute, John Hopkins University
 
 

Role of myostatin in fibrosis

8:20 am
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8:40 am
  Dennis Guttridge, Ph.D., Ohio State University
 
 

NF-KB signaling in MD

8:40 am
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9:00 am
  Ronald Victor, M.D., Cedars-Sinai
 
 

PDE5 inhibition in MD

9:00 am
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9:20 am
  Dean Burkin, Ph.D., University of Nevada
 
 

AKT signaling in MD

9:20 am
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10:00 am
  Break
10:00 am
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11:00 am
  Three Speakers TBN from Abstracts
         
Session VI
 

Gene Correction/Replacement and Novel Therapeutics -

Chairs: Kathryn Wagner and Volker Straub

1:00 pm
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1:20 pm
  Anna Buj-Bello, Ph.D., Genethon
   
 

AAV for myotubular myopathy

1:20 pm -
1:40 pm
  Francesco Muntoni, M.D., UCL
   
 

Exon skipping in DMD

1:40 pm -
2:00 pm
  Davide Gabellini,Ph.D., San Raffeale
   
 

AAV for FSHD

2:00 pm -
2:20 pm
 

Charles Thornton, M.D., University Rochester Medical Center

   
 

Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1

2:20 pm -
3:00 pm
  Break
3:00 pm -
4:00 pm
  Three Speakers TBN from Abstracts
   
   
6:30 pm -
10:30 pm
  Riverboat Cruise
         

Thursday, June 21, 2012

8:00 am
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12:00 pm
 

PPMD Sponsored Workshop on Stem Cell Therapeutics

 

Last update 2/07/2012

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