BHF and JCI Symposium 2014: Recent Advances in Heart Failure
An international symposium hosted by King's College London British Heart Foundation Centre and The Journal of Clinical Investigation
15 -16 September 2014
Royal College of Physicians, London, UK
Programme: Monday 15 September
12:00-13:00 Registration and Lunch
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| 13:15-13:30 |
Welcome & Introduction
Professor Ajay Shah, King's College London and Professor Howard Rockman, Duke University School of Medicine, USA
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Session 1 Cell Signalling
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13:30-14:00
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BET bromodomain proteins in heart failure
Professor Saptarsi Haldar, Case Western Reserve University, USA
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14:00-14:30
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Titin as a signalling scaffold: disruptions in hereditary cardiomyopathies
Professor Mathias Gautel, King's College London
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14:30-15:00
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Targeting ERK activation in pathological hypertrophy
Professor Kristina Lorenz, Universität Würzburg, Germany
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15:00-15:30 Refreshments
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15:30-16:00
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HDAC4 and histone methylation during increased cardiac load
Professor Christoph Maack, Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes, Germany
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| 16:00-16:30 |
CamK oxidation and cardiac pathology
Dr Mark Anderson, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, USA
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16:45-18:30 Poster session over refreshments
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Programme: Tuesday 16 September
08:30-09:00 Refreshments
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Keynote lecture
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09:00-09:40
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The molecules and mechanisms of heart development, disease and regeneration
Professor Eric Olson, UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA
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Session 2 Mitochondria and Metabolism
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09:45-10:15
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What is the mitochondrial PTP?
Professor Paolo Bernadi, Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine, Italy
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10:15-10:45
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Mitochondrial Ca/cAMP crosstalk and ATP generation
Professor Tullio Pozzan, University of Padua, Italy
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10:45-11:15 Refreshments
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11:15-11:45
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The role of the creatine kinase system in heart failure
Dr Robert Balaban, National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute, USA
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11:45-12:15
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Ubiquitin ligase-mediated disruption of insulin signalling in metabolic syndrome
Professor Rui-Ping Xiao, Peking University, China
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| 12:15-12:45 |
Hypoxia-inducible miRNAs and regulation of fatty acid oxidation
Professor Leon de Windt, Maastricht University, Holland
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12:45-14:00 Lunchtime poster session
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Lunchtime ECR Talk
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| 13:30-14:00 |
Scientific publishing and a career as a science editor
Dr Sarah Jackson, JCI
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Session 3 Diagnostics and Therapeutics
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| 14:10-14:40 |
Post-genomics technologies for biomarker discovery
Professor Manuel Mayr, King's College London
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| 14:40-15:10 |
Genomics/phenotype correlation in human cardiomyopathy
Professor Stuart Cook, Duke Graduate Medical School Singapore
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| 15:10-15:40 |
Computational models of human heart failure: status and progress
Professor Nic Smith, University of Aukland, New Zealand
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| 15:40-16:10 Refreshments |
| 16:10-16:40 |
RNAi (gene) therapy for hereditary cardiomyopathy
Professor Christine Seidman, Harvard Medical School, USA
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| 16:40-17:10 |
Approaches to enhance SERCA function in vivo
Professor Roger Hajjar, Mount Sinai Hospital, USA
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| 17:10 |
Poster award presentation and concluding remarks
Professor Ajay Shah and Professor Howard Rockman
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Registration is now closed.