2007 Symposium Agenda
Penn Center for Musculoskeletal Disorders Scientific Symposium Agenda
November 7, 2007
BRB II/III Auditorium/Lobby
University of Pennsylvania
| 8:00 - 8:45am | Continental Breakfast and Poster Set-up |
| 8:45 - 9:00am | Welcome and Overview Louis J. Soslowsky, PhD |
| 9:00 - 10:40am | Session I: Musculoskeletal Tissues (moderator: Lou Soslowsky, PhD) Robert Pignolo, MD, PhD: "Rescuing the Osteoporotic Phenotype in a Mouse Model of Accelerating Aging" Katie Rodgers, PhD: "Hypomorphic Perlecan Mice: A Model for Osteoarthritis and Osteonecrosis" Sunday Akintoye, BDS, DDS, MS: "Skeletal Site-Specific Properties of Bone Marrow Stromal Cells: Clinical Implications" Robert Mauck, PhD: "Meniscus Tissue Engineering with Nanofibrous Scaffolds" Dawn Elliott, PhD: "Multi-Scale Structure-Function of Healthy and Degenerated Intervertebral Disc" |
| 10:40 - 11:10am | Poster Session and Coffee Break in BRB Lobby |
| 11:10 - 12:10am | Session II: Imaging (moderator: Jerry Glickson, PhD) Hee Kwon Song, PhD: "Role of MRI in the Assessment of Bone Quality" Ravi Reddy, PhD: "Molecular Imaging in a Model of Osteoarthritis" Stephen Pickup, PhD: "MRI of a Rotator Cuff Tear Model in Rats" |
| 12:10 - 1:15pm | Poster Session and Lunch (provided) in BRB Lobby |
| 1:15 - 2:15pm | Session III: Proteomics/Genomics (moderator: Don Baldwin, PhD) Frederic Barr, PhD: "How Do Chromosomal Translocations Cause Sarcomas in the Musculoskeletal World?" Christopher Chen, MD, PhD: "Mechanical Regulation of BMP Signaling" Tejvir Khurana, MD, PhD: "Expression Profiling Reveals Novel Muscle Sparing Pathways for Muscular Dystrophy" |
| 2:15 - 3:15pm | Keynote Speaker (moderator: Dawn Elliott, PhD) "Is the Intervertebral Disc a Source of Pain?" Gunnar Andersson, MD, PhD, Rush University |
| 3:15 - 3:30pm | Presentation of Poster Awards, Wrap-up and Closing |
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