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Notch Signaling in Development, Regeneration & Disease
August 12-17, 2012
Bates College
Lewiston, ME
Chair:
Raphael Kopan

Vice Chair:
Alain Israel

The goal of the proposed Gordon Research Conference on Notch signaling in development, regeneration and disease is to provide a stimulating, international and cross disciplinary forum for the dissemination and discussion of new research, concepts and therapeutic opportunities at the forefront of Notch related biology. The Notch signaling pathway is a central mediator of short-range inter-cellular communication in metazoans, under study since 1914 in Drosophila, and in all other model organisms since the 1980s. Alteration in Notch activity underlie or contribute to a growing list of developmental syndroms (Alagille, Spondylocostal Dysostosis, aortic valve disease), adult onset diseases (CADASIL, Alzheimer's disease, various heart and valve malformations, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis) and cancers, expending the interest in this pathway well beyond scientists interested in developmental and cell biology to those interested in stem cells, cancer biology and therapy. The meeting will bring together a diverse community of scientists working in every model organism and on nearly every organ system from academia, biotech and the pharmaceutical industry. We aim to create a forum in which cutting edge technologies, ideas and discoveries can be exchanged. Most importantly, we aim to integrate students and postdocs in this academically intense and free environment into the study of Notch signaling.


Contributors

SUNDAY
2:00 pm - 9:00 pmArrival and Check-in (Office Closed 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 7:35 pmWelcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff
7:35 pm - 9:30 pmLife Around Notch
Session Chair and Discussion Leader: Rafi Kopan
7:35 pm - 8:05 pmDavid Holtzman (Washington University)
"Advances in the early diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease"
8:05 pm - 8:15 pmDiscussion
8:15 pm - 8:45 pmJudith Kimble (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
"Notch signaling and regulation of germ line stem cells: a bit of history and two new key target genes"
8:45 pm - 9:00 pmDiscussion
9:00 pm - 9:25 pmOlivier Pourquié (IGBMC, France)
"Somitogenesis"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pmDiscussion
MONDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmThe Cell Biology Of Notch Signaling
Session Chair and Discussion Leader: Francois Schweisguth (Pasteur Institute, Paris, France)
9:00 am - 9:20 amRyoichiro Kageyama (Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto, Japan)
"Hes1 oscillation in neural stem cell differentiation"
9:20 am - 9:30 amDiscussion
9:30 am - 9:50 amDavid Sprinzak (TAU, Israel)
9:50 am - 10:00 amDiscussion
10:00 amCoffee Break
10:30 am - 10:50 amHugo Bellen (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX)
10:50 am - 11:00 amDiscussion
11:00 am - 11:20 amMartin Baron (University of Manchester, UK)
"Endocytic regulation of alternate routes to Notch activation"
11:20 am - 11:30 amDiscussion
11:30 am - 11:50 amFrancois Schweisguth (Pasteur Institute, Paris, France)
"Real time imaging of Notch activity in Drosophila"
11:50 am - 12:00 pmDiscussion
12:00 pm - 12:20 pmThomas Vaccari (IFOM - FIRC, Milan, Italy)
"Control of Notch signaling activation at the endosome"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pmDiscussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmNotch in Vascular Biology
Session Chair and Discussion Leader: Walter Teagan (Vanderbilt, TN)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pmHolger Gerhardt (London Research Institute, UK)
"Time to branch? - Dynamic patterning of vascular networks by Notch"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pmDiscussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pmRalf Adams (Max Planck Institute, Münster, Germany)
"Notch signaling in the vasculature"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pmDiscussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pmYoshiko Takahashi (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan)
"Dynamic cell rearrangements during vascular development"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pmDiscussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pmMichael Potente (Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany)
"Controlling the dynamics of endothelial Notch signaling - the sirtuin connection"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pmDiscussion
TUESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmNotch in Stem and Progenitor Cells
Session Chair and Discussion Leader: Anna Bigas (IMIM, Barcelona, Spain), Co-Chair: Alessandra Audia (London Research Institute, UK)
9:00 am - 9:20 amTaka Maeda (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA)
"Notch suppression by LRF in adult HSC maintenance and lymphoid lineage fate determination"
9:20 am - 9:30 amDiscussion
9:30 am - 9:50 amIrma Conboy (UCSF)
"How do muscle stem cells know where and when to wake up?"
9:50 am - 10:00 amDiscussion
10:00 amGroup Photo / Coffee Break
10:30 am - 10:50 amAndy Groves (Baylor College, TX)
"The role of Notch signaling in sensory hair cell development and regeneration"
10:50 am - 11:00 amDiscussion
11:00 am - 11:20 amBen Ohlstein (Columbia U, NY)
"Notch in the drosophila adult stem cell niche"
11:20 am - 11:30 amDiscussion
11:30 am - 11:50 amKhalid Salaita (Emory U, GA)
"Elucidating the biophysical mechanisms of Notch activation"
11:50 am - 12:00 pmDiscussion
12:00 pm - 12:20 pmPaolo Dotto (UNIL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
"Loss of mesenchymal CSL signaling leads to multifocal epithelial tumors and field cancerization"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pmDiscussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmRegulating Notch Activity in Disease
Session Chair and Discussion Leader: Ingrid Espinoza (UMMC Cancer Institute, MS)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pmChris Seibel (Genentech, San Francisco, CA)
"Therapeutic modulation of Notch Signaling using Monoclonal Antibodies"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pmDiscussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pmGavin Thurston (Regeneron, Tarrytown, NY)
"The role of Dll4-Notch signaling in tumor angiogenesis"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pmDiscussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pmChristy Fryer (Novartis, Boston, MA)
"Screening for inhibitors of Notch signaling"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pmDiscussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pmYibin Kang (Princeton U, NJ)
"Notch signaling in breast cancer metastasis"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pmDiscussion
WEDNESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmImmunology
Session Chair and Discussion Leader: Mallika Valapala (Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD)
9:00 am - 9:20 amShahin Raffi (Cornell U, NY)
"Vascular niche mediates regeneration of Notch-dependent stem cells"
9:20 am - 9:30 amDiscussion
9:30 am - 9:50 amFreddy Radtke (ISREC, Lausanne, Switzerland)
"Anti-tumor activity induced by loss of Notch proteins in the epidermis"
9:50 am - 10:00 amDiscussion
10:00 amCoffee Break
10:30 am - 10:50 amIvan Maillard (U of Michigan)
"Notch signaling in alloimmunity"
10:50 am - 11:00 amDiscussion
11:00 am - 11:20 amIannis Aifantis (NYU)
"Cyclin D/CDK functions in Notch-mediated hematopoietic differentiation and transformation"
11:20 am - 11:30 amDiscussion
11:30 am - 11:50 amWarren Pear (U Penn)
"General or foot soldier: Notch functions on the helper T cell battlefield"
11:50 am - 12:00 pmDiscussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pmBusiness Meeting
Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmIssues Arising Session
Session Chair and Discussion Leader: Alain Israel (Pasteur)
7:30 pm - 7:40 pmSally Dunwoodie (Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Darlinghurst, Australia)
"A Mechanism for Gene-Environment Interaction in the Etiology of Congenital Scoliosis"
7:40 pm - 7:45 pmDiscussion
7:45 pm - 7:55 pmAlan Zhu (Cleveland Clinic)
"Polycomb-mediated epigenetic silencing of Notch gene transcription is controlled by stuxnet"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pmDiscussion
8:00 pm - 8:10 pmThomas Klein (Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany)
"The role of the tumoursuppressor Lgd in protein trafficking of the Notch receptor"
8:10 pm - 8:15 pmDiscussion
8:15 pm - 8:25 pmMasanori Aikawa (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA)
"The role of Dll4-Notch signaling in shared mechanisms for atherosclerosis and metabolic disorders"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pmDiscussion
8:30 pm - 8:40 pmBrandon Hadland (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle)
"Activation of Notch signaling facilitates ex vivo expansion of marine hematopoietic progenitors from embryonic sources"
8:40 pm - 8:45 pmDiscussion
8:45 pm - 8:55 pmGopinath Suchitra (Stanford, CA)
"Regulation of Notch signaling by FoxO3 in muscle stem cells during regeneration"
8:55 pm - 9:00 pmDiscussion
9:00 pm - 9:10 pmLaura Asnaghi (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD)
"The Notch ligand Jag2 as new target to prevent tumor invasion in uveal melanoma cells"
9:10 pm - 9:15 pmDiscussion
9:15 pm - 9:25 pmTom Gridley (Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Scarborough, ME)
"Notch signaling is required for oocyte nest breakdown and primordial follicle formation"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pmDiscussion
THURSDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmTranscription, Chromatin and Notch
Session Chair and Discussion Leader: Irv Bernstein (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle), Co-Chair: Ramon Diaz (Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, CA)
9:00 am - 9:20 amAdolfo Ferrando (Columbia University, NY)
"NOTCH signaling in lymphoid development and transformation"
9:20 am - 9:30 amDiscussion
9:30 am - 9:50 amJon Aster (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA)
"Notch regulation of gene expression in T cell leukemia"
9:50 am - 10:00 amDiscussion
10:00 amCoffee Break
10:30 am - 10:50 amBrad Bernstein (Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA)
"Notch - chromatin collaborations in cancer"
10:50 am - 11:00 amDiscussion
11:00 am - 11:20 amSarah Bray (U Cambridge, UK)
"Decoding the Notch signal"
11:20 am - 11:30 amDiscussion
11:30 am - 11:50 amJane Johnson (UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX)
"Notch independent function of Rbpj in Neuronal Subtype Specification"
11:50 am - 12:00 pmDiscussion
12:00 pm - 12:30 pmStructural Analysis of Components in the Notch Signaling Pathway
Session Chair and Discussion Leader: Lan Zhou (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH)
12:00 pm - 12:20 pmStephen Blacklow (Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA)
"Progress Toward Decoding Structure-Function Relationships in Mind Bomb1"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pmDiscussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmStructural Analysis of Components in the Notch Signaling Pathway (continued)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pmRhett Kovall (U Cincinnati, OH)
"Crystal Structures of the CSL-MINT and CSL-Hairless Corepressor Complexes"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pmDiscussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pmPenny Handford (University of Oxford, UK)
"Molecular basis of Notch-ligand interactions"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pmDiscussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pmPamela Stanley (Albert Einstein, NY)
"Roles for glycans in Notch Signaling"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pmDiscussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pmHamed Jafar-Nejad (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX)
"Regulation of Notch signaling by O-glycans"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pmDiscussion
FRIDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 amDeparture

Funding for this conference was made possible (in part) by Grant 1 R13 HD072990-01 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention by trade names, commercial practices or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

 
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