PROGRAM TIMETABLE
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SUNDAY, September
16, 2007 |
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15:30 - 18:00 |
REGISTRATION |
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19:00 - 19:30 |
WELCOME COCKTAIL |
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MONDAY, September 17, 2007 |
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8:30 - 9.00 |
REGISTRATION |
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9:00 -
9:45 |
OPENING SESSION
Chair: Sam Sideman & Rafael
Beyar & Faruk Arinç
GREETINGS & WELCOMING REMARKS
Faruk Arinç, Secretary
General of ICHMT & Prof. , Middle East Technical
University
Transport Phenomena :Engineering and medical sciences
Rafi Beyar, Prof Technion IIT
& Director, Rambam Medical Center
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
Cardiac
Control Pathways Signaling and Transport Phenomena
S. Sideman |
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9.45 -
10:30 |
OPENING ADDRESS
Mind
over molecule: Activating biological demons
Denis Noble |
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10:30 - 11:00 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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SESSION
I: SIGNALING PATHWAYS AND TRANSPORT PHENOMENA
Chair: Rafael Beyar |
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11:00 - 11:30 |
The
Death of Transcriptional Chauvinism in the
Control and Regulation of Cardiac Contractility
S. Sadayappan, J. Robbins |
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11:30
- 12:00 |
Genetic
Mechanisms Controlling Cardiovascular
Development
J. Bentham, S. Bhattacharya |
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12:00 - 15:00 |
LUNCH BREAK |
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SIGNALING
PATHWAYS AND TRANSPORT PHENOMENA - II
Chair: Ed Lakatta |
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15:00 -15:30 |
MicroRNAs
Control Gene Expression:
Importance for Cardiac Development and
Pathophysiology
D. Catalucci, M. V. G. Latronico,
G. Condorelli |
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15:30
-16:00 |
Neonatal
and Adult Cardiovascular Pathophysiological
Remodeling and Repair: Developmental Role of Periostin
R.R. Markwald, T. Borg |
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16:00
-16:30 |
Ca2+
Oscillation Frequency Decoding in Cardiac Cell
Hypertrophy: Role of Calcineurin/NFAT as Ca2+ Signal
Integrators
F.Grisan, V. Robert, M. Colella, T. Pozzan |
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16:30 -17:00 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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POSTER
PRESENTATIONS
Chair: Roger Markwald |
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17:00
-17:10 |
Effects
of Ca2+ and K+ Changes during Dialysis on Ventricular
Repolarization Duration: in vivo and in silico Analysis
S. Severi , E. Grandi, C. Pes, F.
Grandi, A. Santoro |
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17:10
-17:20 |
Gender
Related Differences in Local Ca2+ Release in Normal
and Diabetic Rat Cardiomyocytes: Electrophysiological
and Molecular Approach
N. Yaras, E. Tuncay, N. Purali, B. Sahinoglu,
G.
Vassort, A. Lacampagne, B. Turan |
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17:20 -17:30 |
The
Effect of Strontium Activation on the Regulation
of Cross Bridge Recruitment in the Rat Cardiac Muscle
C. Levy, A. Landesberg |
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17:30
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Sarcomere
Lengthening Decreases the Rate of Cross-Bridge
Cycling. Implications for the Inhomogeneous Myocardium.
M. Yadid, A. Landesberg |
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17:40 -17:50 |
Nitric
Oxide Consumption by Circulating Neutrophils
in Sickle Cell Disease
M. Aslan, D. Canatan |
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19:00 - 19:30 |
SOCIAL COCKTAIL |
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TUESDAY, September 18,
2007 |
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SESSION
II: INTRA-CELLULAR TRANSPORT & ENERGETICS
Chair: Charles Antzelevitch |
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8:30 - 9:00 |
A
New Beginning for Normal Automaticity of the
Cardiac Pacemaker
E.D. Lakatta |
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9:00 -
9:30 |
Shear
Fluid/Blood Force and the Role of Mitochondrial
Ca2+ signaling of Rat Cardiac Myocytes
S. Belmonte, M. Morad |
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9:30
-10:00 |
Sarcomere
Mechanics in Uniform and Nonuniform
Cardiac Muscle
H.E. ter Keurs,
A. Landesberg, Y. Wakayama, Y.M. Zhang, Y. Sugai,
M. Miura, G. Price, Y. Kagaya, P.A. Boyden, B. DM
Stuvyers |
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10:00 -10:30 |
The
Key Role of Ca2+ in Coupling Cardiac Metabolism
with Regulation of Contraction, in Silico Model
Y. Yaniv, W.C. Stanley, G.M. Saidel, M.
Cabrera, A. Landesberg |
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10:30 -11:00 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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SESSION
III: IONS & METABOLITES MEMBRANE TRANSPORT
Chair: Martin Morad |
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11:00 -11:30 |
Modulation
of Cardiac Performance by Motor Protein
Gene Transfer
T.J. Herron, J.M. Metzger |
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11:30 -12:00 |
Atrial-selective
Sodium Channel Block as a Strategy for
Suppression of Atrial Fibrillation
A. Burashnikov, J.M. Di Diego, A.C. Zygmunt,
L. Belardinelli, C. Antzelevitch |
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12:00 -12:30 |
Molecular
Basis of Cardiac Action Potential Repolarization
Y. Rudy |
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12:30 - 14:30 |
LUNCH BREAK |
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14:30 - 18:30 |
EXCURSION Antalya:
port, museum, etc. |
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WEDNESDAY,
September 19, 2007 |
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SESSION
IV: BLOOD -TISSUE EXCHANGE
Chair: Andrew McCulloch |
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8:30 - 9:00 |
Regional
Cellular Demands, Blood Flow, and Transport
Phenomena in the Contracting Heart
J.B. Bassingthwaighte, B.E. Carlson,
G.M. Ramond, E. Butterworth |
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9:00 - 9:30 |
Regulation
of Endothelial Transport
A.B. Malik |
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9:30 -10:00 |
Controlling
Cardiac Transport and Plaque Formation
Z. Aronis, S. Raz, E.J.P. Martinez, S.
Einav |
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10:00 -10:30 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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SESSION
V: SYSTEM BIOLOGY AND MULTI-SCALE TRANSPORT MODELS
Chair: Denis Noble |
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10:30 - 11:00 |
Multiscale
and Modular Analysis of Cardiac Energy
Metabolism
J.H.G.M. van Beek |
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11:00
- 11:30 |
Discovering
Regulators of the Drosophila Cardiac
Hypoxia Response Using Automated Phenotyping
Technology
J.D. Feala, J.H. Omens, G. Paternostro,
A. McCulloch |
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11:30 - 12:00 |
Molecular
Mechanisms of Intracellular Transport:
From Biology…to Physics
Bruno Goud |
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12:00
- 12:30 |
Multi-scale
Model of Respiration during Exercise
H. Zhou, N. Lai, G.M. Saidel, M. Cabrera |
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12:30 – 15:00 |
LUNCH BREAK |
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SESSION
VI: CLINICAL ASPECTS
Chair: Joseph M. Metzger |
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15:00 - 15:30 |
Mapping
Preconditioning’s Signaling Pathways:
An Engineering Approach
J.M. Downey, T. Krieg, M.V. Cohen |
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15:30 - 16:00 |
Targets
for Cardioprotection and Neuroprotection
S.J. Sollott |
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16:00 - 16:30 |
Control
of Cardiac Rate by “Funny” Channels
in Health
and Disease
B. Andrea, D. Di Francesco |
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16:30 - 17:00 |
COFFEE BREAK |
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17:00 - 17:30 |
Controlling
Ischemic Cardiovascular Disease from
Basic Mechanisms to Clinical Management
R. Beyar |
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17:30 - 18:00 |
Experimental
Molecular and Stem Cells Therapies in
Cardiac Electrophysiology
L. Gepstein |
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20:00 - 22:00 |
GALA DINNER |
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THURSDAY, September 20,
2007 |
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DEPARTURE |
SCIENTIFIC
ADVISORY COMMITTEE:
Prof Charles Antzelevitch,
PhD, Mason Medical, Utica NY USA
Prof James B. Bassingthwaighte, MD,
PhD, Nat Resource Center, BME, UW Seattle, USA
Prof Rafael Beyar, MD, DSc, Fac MD
& BME, Technion & Rambam MED center,. Haifa,
Israel
Prof Gianluigi Condorelli, MD, PhD,
Nat. Inst. Molecular Genetics (INGM), Milan, Italy
Prof James Downey, PhD, Physiology,
Univ S Alabama, Mobile, AL, USA
Prof Amir Landesberg, MD, DSc, Dept
Biomed Eng, Technion, Israel Inst Tech. Haifa, Israel
Prof Andrew Marks, MD Physiol &
Cell Biophys Columbia Univ, NY, USA
Prof Roger Markwald, PhD Cell Biol,
Med Univ SC, Charleston SC, USA
Prof Andrew D McCulloch, PhD Bioengineering
Dept, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, USA
Prof Martin Morad, PhD, Pharmacology
Dept, Georgetown Univ, Washington DC, USA
Prof Denis Noble, PhD, Oxford Cardiac
Electrophysiol, Oxford, UK
Prof Yoram Rudy, MD, PhD, Cardiac Bioelectricity,
Washington Univ,St Louis MO, USA
Prof Ketty Schwartz, PhD INSERM, Federal
Inst Research, Paris, France
Prof Sam Sideman, DSc, DSc Hon, Heart
Research Center, BME, Technion, Israel.
Prof Raimond Winslow, MD, BME Johns
Hopkins Sch Med, Baltimore, MD, USA
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