Interviews
Thomas Voit, President of Myology 2008 and Medical and scientific director of the Myology Institute (Paris, France)
Serge Braun, AFM scientific Director
Christophe Marcelle, France
Lecture : Skeletal muscle morphogenesis and growth. A bird's eye view (Tuesday 27 may)
Shin'ichi Takeda, Japon
Lecture : Characterization of adult progenitor cells in skeletal muscle (Tuesday 27 may)
Krysztof Jagla, France
Lecture : Genetic control of cell fate specification during myogenesis : learning from Drosophila (Tuesday 27 may)
Pascal Maire, France
Lecture : Six homoproteins control several steps of skeletal muscle development (Tuesday 27 may)
Romain Gherardi, France
Lecture : Muscle satellite cells and endothelial cells : close neighbours and privileged partners (Tuesday 27 may)
Giulio Cossu, Italy
Lecture : Toward the cell therapy for muscle dystrophies (Tuesday 27 may)
Christian Pinset, France
Lecture : Is there a future for muscle repair by cell therapy (Tuesday 27 may)
Marc Peschanski, France
Lecture : Human embryonic stem cells, a dual therapeutic toom fort monogenic diseases and senescence (Tuesday 27 may)
Michel Pucéat, France
Lecture : Cardiac commitment of human embryonic stem cells : towards the generation of cardiac progenitors for cell therapy of heart failure ( Wednesday 28 may)
Kenneth Chien, USA
Lecture : How to make a herat : multipotent cardiovascular progenitors in development and disease (Wednesday 28 may)
Denis Duboc, France
Lecture : Perindopril treatment in DMD and prevention of sudden death in laminopathies (Wednesday 28 may)
Gisèle Bonne, France
Lecture : Animal models in laminopathies (Wednesday 28 may)
Christelle Monville, France
Lecture : An in vitro beating heart model for functional assessment of pharmacological compounds and cell therapy (Wednesday 28 may)
Patricia Lemarchand, France
Lecture : Cardiac cell therapy : clinical trials (Wednesday 28 may)
Jean-Thomas Vilquin, France
Lecture : Myoblast transplantation from human embryonic stem cells and cardiac regeneration (Wednesday 28 may)
Nicolas Lévy, France
Lecture : Laminopathies in human and mouse : from gene defects to therapies (Wednesday 28 may)
Yvan Torrente, Italy
Lecture : Autologous transplantation of engineered muscle derived CD133+ stem cells (Wednesday 28 may)
Philippe Moullier, France
Lecture : Adeno-associated viral vector genomes as episomal chromatin in primate skeletal muscle (Wednesday 28 may)
Steve Wilton, Australia
Lecture : Splice intervention therapies for muscle diseases (Wednesday 28 may)
Martine Barkats, France
Lecture : AAV-mediated gene transfer in the central nervous system of a feline model of SMA (Thursday 29 may)
George Dickson, UK
Lecture : Antisense and RNAi technologies : from natural phenomena to new therapeutics (Friday 30 may)
Luis Garcia, France
Lecture : Muscle function recovery in dystrophic dog after exon skipping gene therapy (Friday 30 may)
Judith van Deutekom, The Netherlands
Lecture : Pre-clinical and clinical development of 20MePS antisense oligonucleotides for DMD (Friday 30 may)
Daniel Schümperli, Switzerland
Lecture : Correction of SMN2 splicing by a bifunctional U7 snRNA complements (Friday 30 may)
Christophe Béroud, France
Intervention : Knowledge bases to facilitate theraputic approaches (Friday 30 may)
Alexandra Belayew, Belgium
Intervention : Homeodomain transcription factors DUX4, PITX1 and DUX4C : new actors in the molecular mechanism of FSHD (Friday 30 may)
Carole Bérard, France
Lecture : The Motor Function Measure, an outcome measure adapted to most neuromuscular diseases (Friday 30 may)
François Boyer, France
Lecture : Conceptual approaches of the quality of life measurements used in medicine (Friday 30 may)
