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Venue:

Doubletree Guest Suites Boston
400 Soldiers Field Road (map)
Boston, Massachusetts

October 10 - 1, 2008

October 10th: 9:00am to 5:00pm
October 11th: 9:00am to 5:00pm
Please join us after the meeting on October 10th for a reception and poster session.

Dr. Jonathan Epstein, M.D. and Dr. Edward Morrisey, Ph.D. in association with Abcam, Inc.

Contents:

• Topics
• Invited speakers
• Oral presentations selected from submitted abstracts
• Program
• Registration
• Posters
• Accommodation
• Directions to venue
• Public transportation
• Sponsorship
• Contact information

Topics:

• Early cardiovascular development
• Epigenetics
• Reprogramming and cardiac progenitors
• Genomics
• Molecular pathways and congenital heart disease
• Cardiac stem cells and regeneration

Invited speakers:

• Keynote: Cliff Tabin, Chairman, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
  Morphogenesis of the heart and other organs
• Margaret Buckingham, Department of Developmental Biology, Pasteur Institute, France
  Cardiac progenitor cells of the second heart field in the mouse embryo
• Deepak Srivastava, Gladstone Institute, UCSF
  microRNA regulation of cardiac stem cells and regeneration
• Benoit Bruneau, Gladstone Institute, UCSF
  Chromatin remodeling in heart development
• William Pu, Children's Hospital of Boston, Harvard Medical School
  Epicardial-derived Wt1+ progenitors contribute to the cardiomyocyte lineage in the embryonic and adult heart
• Debbie Yelon, Skirball Institute, New York University School of Medicine
  Signaling pathways that shape the heart field in zebrafish
• Stephen Duncan, Medical College of Wisconsin
  Control of cardiac development by Gata4 and Gata6
• Michael Parmacek, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
  Myocardin related transcription factors: Critical co-activators regulating heart and outflow tract development
• Nathan Lawson, University of Massachusetts Medical School
  Transcriptional control of endothelial cell identity
• Sean Wu, Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital
  iPS, ES, or endogenous cells in cardiac regeneration
• Kenneth Chien, Massachusetts General Hospital Cardiovascular Research Center
  Towards human models of human heart disease: The islet-1 heart progenitor story
• John Mably,  Children’s Hospital, Boston
  Genetic regulation of cardiac development in zebrafish
• Edward Morrisey, University of Pennsylvania
  Wnt signaling and regulation of cardiac and lung development
• Jonathan Epstein, University of Pennsylvania
  Notch signaling in cardiovascular development

Oral presentations selected from submitted abstracts:

• José Luis de la Pompa, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología
  Notch signalling in cardiac valve development
• Carolyn Gaydos, Tufts University
  Notch signaling regulates cell fate decisions during cardiac field formation in Xenopus laevis
• Lisa Chang, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Research Institute
  Contextual dependent reprogramming of the SWI/SNF complex allows it to differentially serve as a transcriptional co-regulator at promoters of the hypertrophied heart
• Ivan Moskowitz, University of Chicago
  Hedgehog-dependent atrial septum progenitors are required for cardiac septation
• Patricia Labosky, Vanderbilt University
  Progenitor pool size is not a critical determinant of cardiac neural crest function
• Rolf Bodmer, Burnham Institute for Medical Research
  Discovering cardiac disease genes in Drosophila
• Neil Chi, University of California, San Francisco
  Foxn4 directly regulates tbx2b expression for the evolutionary division of the vertebrate heart
• Steven Kattman, McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine
  Establishment of cardiac mesoderm is regulated by ActivinA and BMP4 during mouse and human ES and iPS cell differentiation
• Ian Scott, The Hospital for Sick Children
  Regulation of cardiac progenitor development by Agtrl1 signaling in zebrafish
• Benjamin Herdrich, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
  Regenerative healing following fetal myocardial infarction
• Laura Zelarayan, Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine
  Inhibition of ß-catenin attenuates left ventricular remodeling after myocardial infarction through enhanced cardiac stem cell differentiation

Program:

Full schedule also available for pdf download.

Registration:

The registration fee includes lunch and coffee on both days and a wine reception on October 10th. Register and submit your abstract online.

Students are categorized as those in full-time education at the time of registering. Proof of student status may be requested.

If you are paying via American Express, please contact Katie via email or at 617-577-4263 since we cannot take the cards online at the moment.

A full list of registered posters including title and presentor is available for download.

Posters will be judged. The winner will receive up to $150 off their registration for a future Abcam conference or an antibody from the Abcam catalog.

Posters must not be larger than four feet tall by four feet wide.

Flier: 

Download the flier for the meeting. (Warning - large file)

Feel free to print it out and distribute it at your organization.

Accommodation:

A block of rooms at the Doubletree Guest Suites Boston have been set aside. Please contact the hotel at 1-800-222-8733 and mention "Abcam" to reserve your room at a special rate. Rooms must be reserved by Monday, September 8, 2008 to take advantage of this special price. You can also reserve your room online.

Directions to venue:

The hotel is located just off I-90 (Mass Turnpike).

• East Bound: take Exit 18-Brighton/Cambridge.
• West Bound: take Exit 20-Brighton/Cambridge.

From Logan International Airport, exit via the Ted Williams Tunnel, follow sign to I-90W and take Exit 20-Brighton/Cambridge, after paying toll, bear right towards Cambridge. At second light turn right, hotel driveway is on your right.

A taxi from Logan International Airport is approximately $30.00.

Here are detailed instructions on how to get to the DoubleTree Hotel Boston. For maps please see the venue's website.

Public transportation:

The Doubletree is close to many MBTA bus stops. Visit the MBTA web site for more information.

Sponsorship:

If you are interested in sponsoring or exhibiting at this meeting, please contact us for more information.

Katie Sedat, Abcam Events Team
Phone: 617-577-4263

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