DATES
Thursday 29th, October 2009
VENUES
VCCRI, Lowy Packer Building, 405 Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst
09:30 - 09:50
Robert Kelly, Developmental Biology Institute of Marseilles-Luminy, France Title: Retrospective clonal analysis of the murine ventricular conduction system.
Chair: Richard Harvey
| 09:50 - 10:10 | Vincent Christoffels, Heart Failure Research Centre, Department of Anatomy & Embryology, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Title: Genetic lineage analysis of the pacemaker and atrioventricular conduction system. |
| 10:10 -10:30 | Owen Prall, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourne, Australia Title: Signalling between cardiac and neural progenitors during development. |
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10:30 - 11:00 |
Morning Tea |
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| 11:00 - 11:20 |
Hot Topic: Epicardial contribution to the myocardium? Implications for congenital heart disease. Moderator: Robert Kelly |
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| 11:20 - 11:40 | Christine Biben, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Melbourbe, Australia Title: nodal signalling in left/right patterning. | Chair: Richard Harvey |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Jose Perdomo, Dept. of Medicine St George Hospital, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Title: SUMO modification of cardiac transcription factors. |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | Stella Lee, Developmental Biology Division, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Sydney, Australia Title: Characterising the SUMOylation of the cardiac transcription factor Nkx2-5. |
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12:20 - 13:20 |
Lunch |
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| 13:20 - 13:40 | Brian Black, Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, USA Title: An MEF2C-dependent transcriptional pathway controls outflow tract endocardial cushion development. | Chair: Nadia Rosenthal |
| 13:40 - 14:00 | Romaric Bouveret, Developmental Biology Division, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Sydney, Australia Title: Building transcriptional regulatory networks for heart development. |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Nadia Rosenthal, EMBL Mouse Biology Unit, Rome, Italy, and Australian Institute of Regenerative Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Title: FGF signalling in heart development and disease. |
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14:20 - 14:40 |
Afternoon Tea |
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| 14:40 - 15:00 |
Hot Topic Somatic mutations in CHD - real or artifact? Presenter and Moderator: Tanya Butler, Kids Heart Research, The Children's Hospital Westmead, NSW, Australia |
Chair: Nadia Rosenthal |
| 15:00-15:20 | Shuomo Bhattacharya, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford University, UK Title: Expressivity and penetrance of mutations affecting heart development. |
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