| Thursday 4th December | ||||
| 9:00 am | Registration | |||
| 10:00 am | Welcome | |||
| Speaker Session Chair: Natasha Harvey (CCB) | Vascular 1 | |||
| 10:15 am | 11:05 am | Keynote speaker: Holger Gerhardt ==CANCELLED== | ||
| 10:20 am | 10:45 am | Chris Mitchell Regulation of angiogenesis by PI3-Kinase/Akt signaling |
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| 10:45 am | 11:10 am | Xiangjian Zheng The cerebral cavernous malformation pathway regulates cardiac development by maintaining cardiac matrix hemostasis |
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| 11:10 am | 11:35 am | Quenten Schwarz Defining neural crest cell and blood vessel interactions |
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| 11:35 am | 11:50 am | Sophie Wizniak Neural crest cell-derived VEGF promotes vascular growth to drive jaw extension |
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| 11:50 am | 12:05 pm | Anne Lagendijk Live imaging of a zebrafish VE-Cadherin tension sensor transgenic line reveals patterns of force at maturing artery adherens junctions |
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| 12:05 pm | 1:10 pm | Lunch | ||
| Speaker Session Chair: Mirana Ramialison (ARMI) | Regeneration & Stem cells 1 | |||
| 1:10 pm | 1:35 pm | Milena Furtado Cardiogenic transcriptional network in heart fibroblast biology and disease |
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| 1:35 pm | 2:00 pm | Kazu Kikuchi Immune regulation of zebrafish heart regeneration |
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| 2:00 pm | 2:25 pm | James Hudson Developmental Profile and Differentiation of Bioengineered Heart Muscle |
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| 2:25 pm | 2:40 pm | David Anderson NKX2-5 has a critical role in regulating cardiovascular development |
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| 2:40 pm | 2:55 pm | Choon Boon Sim Post-natal DNA methylation dynamics during heart development |
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| 2:55 pm | 3:25 pm | Afternoon tea | ||
| Speaker Session Chair: Nadia Rosenthal (ARMI) | Cardiac Development/CHD 1 | |||
| 3:25 pm | 3:50 pm | Anne Voss The histone acetyltransferase MOZ in cardiovascular and craniofacial development |
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| 3:50 pm | 4:15 pm | Janna Morrison Maternal nutrition and cardiac development in offspring before and after birth |
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| 4:15 pm | 4:40 pm | Hongjun Shi The Developing Mouse Heart is Susceptible to Hypoxia |
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| 4:40 pm | 4:55 pm | Mauro Costa A novel understanding of a complex disease: The interplay of Congenital Heart Disease and Obesity |
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| 4:55 pm | 5:10 pm | Stanley Artap The ETS transcription factor, Erg, regulates Bmp signaling and is important for endocardial-cardiomyocyte interactions during murine cardiogenesis |
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| 5:10 pm | 6:30 pm | Drinks and Poster Session | ||
| 7:00 pm | Dinner at Naughtons Parkville Hotel (directions) | |||
| Friday 5th December | ||||
| Speaker Session Chair: Richard Harvey (VCCRI) | Cardiac Development/CHD 2 | |||
| 9:00 am | 9:50 am | Keynote speaker: Benoit Bruneau |
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| 9:50 am | 10:15 am | Kelly Smith Transmembrane protein 2 (Tmem2) is required for cardiovascular development |
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| 10:15 am | 10:40 am | Rob Bryson-Richardson The Regulation of Gene Expression by Blood Flow in the Developing Heart |
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| 10:40 am | 10:55 am | Lauren Bourke The first mouse mutants of a novel epigenetic modifier Rearranged L-Myc Fusion (Rlf) display defects in heart development |
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| 10:55 am | 11:25 am | Morning tea | ||
| Speaker Session Chair: Leigh Coultas (WEHI) | Vascular 2 | |||
| 11:25 am | 11:50 am | Natasha Harvey Defining the role of GATA2 in lymphatic vessel growth and morphogenesis. |
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| 11:50 am | 12:15 pm | Ben Hogan PKD1/PCP signalling pathways control lymphatic vascular morphogenesis in vertebrate embryos |
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| 12:15 pm | 12:40 pm | Matt Francois Dissecting the molecular function of SOXF transcription factors during endothelial cell specification |
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| 12:40 pm | 12:55 pm | Genevieve Secker Characterisation of cell and non-cell autonomous roles of the Nedd4 ubiquitin ligase during vascular development |
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| 12:55 pm | 1:10 pm | Kaska Koltowska Precursor cell division generates distinct lymphatic and venous endothelial identities during secondary angiogenesis in zebrafish |
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| 1:10 pm | 2:15 pm | Lunch | ||
| 2:15 pm | 2:45pm | Business meeting | ||
| Speaker Session Chair: David Elliot (MCRI) | Stem cells & Regeneration 2 | |||
| 2:45 pm | 3:10 pm | Nadia Rosenthal Immune regulation of tissue regeneration |
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| 3:10 pm | 3:35 pm | Samir Taoudi Understanding the instruction of haematopoietic commitment during embryogenesis |
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| 3:35 pm | 3:50 pm | Celia Vandestadt The role of immunecells and vasculature in spinal cord regeneration in zebrafish |
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| 3:50 pm | 4:05 pm | Daniela Grassini Identification of novel regulators of cardiac morphogenesis by means of a large-scale forward genetic screen in the zebrafish |
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| 4:05 pm | 4:30 pm | Enzo Porrello Epigenetic control of cardiac development and regeneration |
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| 4:45 pm | Closing remarks & Presentation Awards | |||
| 5:00 pm | Meeting close | |||