Applications for this meeting must be submitted by June 20, 2010. Please apply early, as some meetings become oversubscribed (full) before this deadline. If the meeting is oversubscribed, it will be stated here. Applications will still be accepted for oversubscribed meetings. However, they will only be considered by the Conference Chair if more seats become available due to cancellations.
The goal of the 2010 Gordon Research Conference on Proteoglycans will be to bring together leading national and international scientists to present their latest findings in proteoglycan research. Topics that will be discussed include mechanisms regulating the production and assembly of the proteoglycans core proteins as well as their turnover. The role of proteoglycans in development, skeletal pathology, cancer, stem cells, regenerative medicine, inflammation, cardiovascular disease, and angiogenesis will also be addressed. The most recent progress within these areas with attention to the generation of both novel tracking assays and treatment regimens for diseases caused by abnormal proteoglycan function will be presented. Particular emphasis will be given to new insights into basic molecular mechanisms and to translational efforts designed to understand the role of proteoglycans in human disease as well as their use in prevention and novel therapeutics.
A list of preliminary session topics and speakers is displayed below (discussion leaders are noted in italics). The detailed program is currently being developed by the Conference Chair and will be available by March 11, 2010. Please check back for updates.
- Late Breaking Developments / Frontiers in Proteoglycan Research in Health and Disease
(Renato Iozzo / Jeffrey Esko / Bjorn Olsen)
- GAG Synthesis, Assembly and Function: Spanning the Phyla; Basic to Applied
(Jeffrey Esko / Henry Roehl / Maurizio Pacifici / Hannes Bülow / Brett Crawford)
- Angiogenesis, Cardiovascular Biology and Pathology
(Thomas Wight / Jens Fischer / Jane Grande Allen / Suneel Apte)
- Development
(Matthew Hoffman / Xinhua Lin / Jorge Filmus / Nancy Schwartz / Sarah Knox)
- Stem Cells: Identity and Function
(Catherine Merry / Bruce Caterson / Brian Bigger / Lianchun Wang)
- Skeletal Biology: Biomarkers and the Bone: Cartilage Interface
(Tim Hardingham / Martha Gray / Morten Karsdal / John Whitelock / Shiro Ikegawa)
- Inflammation: From Tolerance to Autoimmunity
(Carol DeLa Motte / Liliana Schaefer / Richard Stevens / Paul Bollyky)
- Cancer
(Ralph Sanderson / Israel Vlodavsky / Andreas Friedl / Melanie Simpson)
- Regenerative Medicine and Therapeutics
(Robert Linhardt / David McQuillan / Robert Mecham / Yu Yamaguchi)