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Saturday
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| 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm |
Arrival and Check-in
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| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm |
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
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| 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm |
Keynote Session: Lymphatic Vessels in Neglected Diseases
Discussion Leaders: Kerstin Wilhelm-Jüngling (Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Germany) and Malou van Zanten (St George's, University of London, United Kingdom)
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| 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm |
Michael Dellinger (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA)
"Vanishing Act: Lymphatic Vessels and Disappearing Bones"
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| 4:15 pm - 4:30 pm |
Discussion
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| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm |
Poster Session
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| 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm |
Dinner
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| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm |
The Lymphatic System and Its Role in Human Diseases
Discussion Leaders: Jennifer Frattolin (Imperial College London, United Kingdom) and Silvia Martin-Almedina (St George's, University of London, United Kingdom)
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| 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm |
William Repicci (Lymphatic Education & Research Network, USA)
"The Activism-Progress Nexus of Lymphatic Research"
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| 7:45 pm - 7:50 pm |
Discussion
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| 7:50 pm - 8:05 pm |
Dionysios Grigoriadis (St George's, University of London, United Kingdom) and Ege Ozkan Sackey (St. George's University of London, United Kingdom)
"Genotyping in a Population-Based Study Identifies a Genetic Association with Lipedema"
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| 8:05 pm - 8:10 pm |
Discussion
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| 8:10 pm - 8:25 pm |
Rafael Czepielewski (Washington University School of Medicine, USA)
"Mesenteric Lymphatic Collecting Vessel Obstruction by Tertiary Lymphoid Organs Is Associated with Disrupted Valves and Is a Feature of Murine Inflammatory Bowel Disease"
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| 8:25 pm - 8:30 pm |
Discussion
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| 8:30 pm - 8:45 pm |
Rahul Ravindran (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
"Exploring the Lymphatic System in the Persistence and Resolution of Intestinal Inflammation"
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| 8:45 pm - 8:50 pm |
Discussion
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| 8:50 pm - 9:05 pm |
Natalie Nielsen (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
"Cardiac Lymphatics Resolve Myocardial Edema in Increased Coronary Sinus Pressure Model"
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| 9:05 pm - 9:10 pm |
Discussion
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| 9:10 pm - 9:25 pm |
Jingna Xue (University of Calgary, Canada)
"Skin Inflammation Impairs Neutrophil Response to Staphylococcus aureus Infection via the Compromised Lymph Flow"
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| 9:25 pm - 9:30 pm |
Discussion
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Sunday
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| 7:30 am - 8:30 am |
Breakfast
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| 9:00 am - 11:00 am |
Healthy Lymphatics: Development, Structure and Function
Discussion Leaders: Nils Hansmeier (Charité - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Germany) and Sinem Karaman (Wihuri Research Institute / University of Helsinki, Finland)
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| 9:00 am - 9:10 am |
Magda Hernandez (Uppsala University, Sweden)
"Identification of a New Transcriptional Regulator of Collecting Lymphatic Vessel Morphogenesis"
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| 9:10 am - 9:15 am |
Discussion
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| 9:15 am - 9:25 am |
Janette Kazenwadel (University of South Australia, Australia)
"Lymphatic Endothelial Cell Identity Is Controlled by a GATA2 Bound Enhancer"
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| 9:25 am - 9:30 am |
Discussion
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| 9:30 am - 9:40 am |
Emilia Korhonen (University of Helsinki / Wihuri Research Institute, Finland)
"Angiopoietin-Tie Signaling in Postnatal Lymphatic Vessel Development"
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| 9:40 am - 9:45 am |
Discussion
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| 9:45 am - 9:55 am |
Xu Peng (Texas A&M University, USA)
"Deletion of Zonula Occludens-1 (Zo-1) in Vascular Endothelial Cells Causes Embryonic Lethality with Lymphatic Vessel Dilation"
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| 9:55 am - 10:00 am |
Discussion
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| 10:00 am - 10:10 am |
Pedro Vallecillo Garcia (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
"Osr1 Orchestrates Lymph Node Initiation and Vasculature Formation During Embryogenesis"
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| 10:10 am - 10:15 am |
Discussion
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| 10:15 am - 10:25 am |
Yang Lee (Boston Children's Hospital / Harvard Medical School, USA)
"Loss of Lymphatic Endothelial Foxc2 in Adult Mice Protects Against Diet-Induced Obesity by Promoting Lymphangiogenesis and Lacteal Junction Integrity"
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| 10:25 am - 10:30 am |
Discussion
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| 10:30 am - 10:40 am |
Anna Oszmiana (Centre for Cancer Biology, University of South Australia, Australia)
"FAT4 Plays a Role in the Establishment of Cell Polarity in Lymphatic Endothelial Cells by Regulating the Organization of Actin Cytoskeleton"
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| 10:40 am - 10:45 am |
Discussion
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| 10:45 am - 10:55 am |
Simon Stritt (Uppsala University, Sweden)
"Integrin αvβ3 Signaling Regulates Developmental Lymphangiogenesis in Mice"
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| 10:55 am - 11:00 am |
Discussion
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| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm |
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
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| 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm |
Lunch
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| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm |
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Lymphatic Research
Discussion Leaders: Anish Mukherjee (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) and Wenjing Xu (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
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| 1:30 pm - 1:40 pm |
Thu Hoang (Monash University, Australia)
"A Novel Cervical Lymph Cannulation Method in Rats to Evaluate the Lymphatic Clearance of Therapeutics from the Brain"
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| 1:40 pm - 1:45 pm |
Discussion
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| 1:45 pm - 1:55 pm |
Dimitrios Kalogiros (Centre for Mathematical Medicine and Biology, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom)
"Combining In Vitro Data and Mathematical Models to Characterize Chemokine Gradient Development in Lymphatic Interstitium"
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| 1:55 pm - 2:00 pm |
Discussion
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| 2:00 pm - 2:10 pm |
Daniel Watson (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
"Volumetric Imagining in Upper Limb Breast Cancer Related Lymphoedema Offers Insights Beyond Volume Measurement"
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| 2:10 pm - 2:15 pm |
Discussion
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| 2:15 pm - 2:25 pm |
Kevin Campbell (University of California, Davis, USA)
"Designing Endothelial Progenitor Cell Based Strategies to Promote Lymphangiogenesis"
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| 2:25 pm - 2:30 pm |
Discussion
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| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm |
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
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| 3:00 pm |
Seminar Concludes
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