| SATURDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Keynote Session |
| Discussion Leader: Michaela Wenzel (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany) |
| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm | Michael Zasloff (Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA)
"Too wonderful to be true: the story of wound healing in the dolphin"
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| 4:15 pm - 4:30 pm | Discussion |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I (presenters with last names A-M) |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | AMPs: Structure-Activity Relationship |
| Discussion Leaders: Anne van der Does (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden) and Sohini Mukherjee (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, USA) |
| 7:30 pm - 7:50 pm | Kathi Scheinpflug (Leibniz-Institut Für Molekulare Pharmakologie, Germany)
"Lord of the peptide rings - a small cyclic peptide and its mode of antimicrobial action"
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| 7:50 pm - 8:00 pm | Discussion |
| 8:00 pm - 8:20 pm | Paulina Schmitt (Catholic University of Valparaiso, Chile)
"Structural determinants of a-defensin-mediated anti-inflammatory activities"
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| 8:20 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 8:50 pm | Zvi Hayouka (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
"New approach for assessing sequence-activity relationships among antimicrobial peptides: synthesis and evaluation of sequence-random peptide mixtures"
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| 8:50 pm - 9:00 pm | Discussion |
| 9:00 pm - 9:20 pm | Divakara S. S. Murthy Uppu (JNCASR, India)
"Development of Synthetic Macromolecular Mimics of Antimicrobial Peptides as Therapeutics"
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| 9:20 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| 9:30 pm - 10:30 pm | Get-together |
| SUNDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | AMPs: Host Defense and Immunomodulatory Activities |
| Discussion Leaders: Guðmundur Hrafn Guðmundsson (University of Iceland, Iceland) and Teruaki Nakatusji (University of California, San Diego, California, USA) |
| 9:00 am - 9:20 am | Lingjuan Zhang (University of California, San Diego, California, USA)
"Adipose tissue participates in host defense against bacterial infection by secreting cathelicidin"
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| 9:20 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am | Catherine James (University College London, Institute for Women's Health, UK)
"Variation in beta defensin one genotype is associated with preterm birth"
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| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:20 am | Maria Dolores Salvado Duro (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)
"The human antimicrobial peptide LL-37 induces angiogenesis via COX-1-dependent PGE2 synthesis in endothelial cells" |
| 10:20 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 10:50 am | Praveen Papareddy (Lund University, Sweden)
"A C-terminal peptide of tissue factor pathway inhibitor 2 protects against Gram-negative bacterial sepsis through boosting of complement activation and selective inhibition of coagulation"
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| 10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session II (presenters with last names N-Z) |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | AMPs in Health and Therapy |
| Discussion Leader: Jia Sun (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden) |
| 1:30 pm - 1:50 pm | Michael Yeman (David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California-Los Angeles, USA)
"NDV-3 Vaccine Induction of Host Defense Peptides in a MRSA Model of Murine SSSI"
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| 1:50 pm - 2:00 pm | Discussion |
| 2:00 pm - 2:20 pm | Guðmundur Hrafn Guðmundsson (University of Iceland, Iceland)
"Antimicrobial peptides in therapy - a realistic alternative?"
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| 2:00 pm - 2:20 pm | Discussion |
| 2:30 pm - 2:45 pm | Closing remarks by GRC conference chair Gill Diamond (UMDNJ-New Jersey Dental School, USA) |
| 2:45 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill out GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Gordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm. |