Tuesday, 27th of May 2008

This program is permanently updated according to the answers of the solicited speakers.

Session of the day : Stem cells

morning : stem cells

8h30
9h15
Plenary lectureplenary lecture (auditorium)

 
“Skeletal muscle morphogenesis and growth. A bird’s eye view”


Lecturer
: Christophe Marcelle, France

Chairpersons : Margaret Buckingham and Dominique Daegelen
9h15
10h00
Plenary lectureplenary lecture (auditorium)

 
“Characterization of adult progenitor cells in skeletal muscle”


Lecturer
: Shin'ichi Takeda, Japan

Chairpersons
 : Margaret Buckingham and Dominique Daegelen
10h00
10h30
BreakBreak
10h30
12h00
Parallel symposiaparallel symposia
 
“Molecular correlates of myogenic differentiation”(Amphithéâtre Callelongue)

Chairperson : George Karpati

Krzysztof Jagla (France) : Genetic control of cell fate specification during myogenesis : learning from Drosophila

Giovanna Marazzi (France) : The identification of a novel resident population of stem cells in postnatal skeletal muscle-PICs


Pascal Maire (France) : Six homeoproteins control several steps of skeletal muscle development
 
“Development and ageing” (Salle Endoume)


Chairperson : Anne Galy 

Marisa Jaconi (Switzerland) : Embryonic stem cells for the therapy of the infarcted heart


Romain Gherardi (France) : Muscle satellite cells and endothelial cells : close neighbours and privileged partners

Gillian Butler-Browne (France) : Identification of biomarkers of human muscle aging and senescence
 
“Clinical application of stem cells” (Auditorium)


Chairpersons : Stéphane Blot and Vincent Mouly

Didier Montarras (France) : In vivo gene expression profiling of muscle satellite cells


Giulio Cossu (Italy) : Toward the cell therapy for muscular dystrophies

Christian Pinset (France) : Is there a future for muscle repair by cell therapy ?
12h00
13h00
Lunchlunch break

13h00 14h30
Breakposter walk (salle les goudes)

afternoon : young investigators symposium

14h30 17h00
Syposium Young investigators symposium (auditorium)


Opening by Serge Braun, AFM scientific director

Chairperson : Serge Braun

- Sandra Duque (France) : Transduction of lower motor neurons using peripheral injection of AAV Vectors

- Judith Homs (Spain) : Tropism characterization of different viral vectors in peripheral nervous system

- Céline Baligand (France) : Muscle perfusion and bioenergetics measured in vivo in the mouse by functional 1H-NMR imaging and 31P-NMR spectroscopy

- Anne Friedrich (France) : MS2PH-DB : toward the integration of protein structural behaviour to study phenotypic impacts of mutations

- Aurélie Jory (France) : Skeletal Muscle cell fate decisions in the embryo and the role of Numb

- Sébastien Durand (France) :  Use of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) inhibitors to correct genetic pathologies

- Perrine Castets (France) : Expression of selenoprotein N in mice during development

- Hiba Noureddine (France) : Anchoring of acetylcholinesterase in membranes by prima

- Alexandre Ottaviani (France) : CTCF and A-type lamins couple insulation and perinuclear localization in the D4Z4 subtelomeric element in  FSHD

- Julie Reutenauer (Switzerland) : Urocortins improve skeletal muscle structure and function of dystrophic MDX mouse via a cyclic AMP/PKA dependant pathway

17h00 17h30
Breakbreak
17h30
18h30
Plenary lecturePlenary lecture (auditorium)

“Human embryonic stem cells, a dual therapeutic tool for monogenic diseases and senescence”

Lecturer : Marc Peschanski, France

Chairperson : Odile Boespflug