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Program joint meeting of the Dutch and German Vascular Biology societies

Wednesday 03.11.2021

12.00 – 12.45

Welcome and Registration

12.45 – 13.00

Opening, Rabea Hinkel and Ferdinand le Noble

13:00 – 15.00

Session 1: Seeing is Believing – emerging imaging modalities

Chairs: Axel Pries

13:00 – 13:10

Introduction of Nobel Laureate by Prof. Axel Pries and Prof. Stefan Treue

13:10 – 13:50

Key-note by Stefan Hell: Nobel Laureate: Molecular resolution in fluorescence microscopy

13:50 – 14:10

Friedemann Kiefer: Regional lymphatic vessel specializations

14.10 – 14.30

Katie Bentley: Mouse retinal cell behaviour in 3D/4D using light sheet microscopy

14.30 – 14.50

Jan Huisken: Fast and gentle imaging of vascular patterning in zebrafish with light sheet microscopy

14.50 – 15.00

Cathrin Hansen: FLIM imaging of the BBB

15.00 – 15.30

Coffee Break

15.30– 16.00

Key-note by Shahin Rafii: Engineering adaptable and Hemodynamic Human Endothelial Cells for Organogenesis
Chairs: Karina Yaniv and Bianca Nitzsche

16.00 – 17.40

Session 2: Molecular control of endothelial cell behavior

Chairs: Liz Jones, Ferdinand le Noble

16.00 – 16.20

Lars Jakobsson: Arteriovenous malformation - learning from individual cells

16.20 - 16.40

Sarah de Val: Using gene enhancers to understand vessel development in the heart and beyond.

16.40 – 17.00

Rui Benedito: Exclusionary zoning during angiogenesis

17.00 – 17.20

Katrien de Bock: Endothelial metabolism in the muscle microenvironment

17.20 – 17.40

Mariona Graupera: PI3 kinase in the vasculature: isoforms matter

17.40 – 18.00:

Coffee Break

18.00 – 18.30:

Key-note by Jim Faber: Collaterals—nature’s endogenous bypass vessels: physiology, genetics and Darwin

Chair: Ferdinand le Noble

18.30 – 20:30

Poster Session 1: iincluding Drinks and Dinner
Location DPZ foyer and side-rooms

20:30 >>>

Informal get together with Drinks & DJ

Thursday 04.11.2021

09.00 – 11.00

Session 3

DZHK-session: Coronary vascular remodeling and cardiac regeneration:

Chairs: Ebba Brakenhielm, Guido Krenning

09.00 – 09.30

Key-note by Jeroen Bakkers: Heart regeneration: Lessons from zebrafish

09.30 – 09.50

Andrew Baker: Defining mechanisms that control vascular remodeling

09.50 – 10.10

Riikka Kivela: Remodeling of the cardiac endothelial cell transcriptome by cardiovascular disease risk factors and exercise

10.10 – 10.30

Eldad Tzahor: Fixing a broken heart

10.30 – 10.50

Ralf Adams: formation of arteries by specialized endothelial tip cells

10.50 – 11.00

Sara Lelek-Greskovic: Wnt in cardiac regeneration

11.00 – 11.30

Coffee Break

11.30 – 13.00

Session 4:

DZHK-session: Therapeutic targeting of vascular networks
Chairs: Sara de Val, Friederike Cuello

11.00 – 11.50

Paul Quax: 14Q32 microRNAs and snoRNAs in the regulation of ischemia driven neovascularization

11.50 – 12.10

Christian Kupatt: When microvessels shrink.... Reasons and remedies of capillary rarefaction

12.10 – 12.30

Tim Chico: therapeutic targeting of neurovascular coupling using novel zebrafish models

12.30 – 12.50:

Niels Riksen: Innate immune cell reprogramming in atherosclerosis

12.50 – 13.00

Roland Immler: K+ channels in neutrophil recruitment

13.00 - 13.10

Thijs Sluiter: Myeloid PHD2 knockouts in vein grafts

13.10 – 14.30

Lunch Break & Poster Session 2

14.30 – 15.30

Session 5: Hermann Rein Award presentations

Chairs: Rabea Hinkel, Bodo Levkau

14.30 - 14.45

Guillermo Luxan: MI and the bone vascular niche

14.45 - 15.00

Christian Helker: Apelin in spouting angiogenesis

15.00 - 15.15

Julia Hinterdobler: Mental stress and atherosclerosis

15.15 - 15.30

Andreas Van Impel: Fibroblasts and Vegfc processing

15.30 - 18.15

Session 6: Aletta Jacobs session

Chairs: Kristina Lorenz, Laura Zelarayan-Behrend

15.30 – 16.00

Key-note by Christiana Ruhrberg: Semaphorin regulation of organ vascular development

16.00 – 16.20

Ebba Brakenhielm: Cardiac lymphangiogenesis in cardiovascular diseases – influence of gender

16.20 – 16.40

Susanne Fleig: Loss of endothelial Notch signaling promotes tertiary lymphoid structure formation in parenchymatous organs

16.40 -17.00

Karina Yaniv: Lymphatic development

17.00 – 17.45

Coffee break

17.45 – 18.15

ntroduction Aletta Jacobs awards for junior female researchers
Chair: Ferdinand le Noble, Susanne Lutz

17:45 – 17.55

Jasmin Kneuer: Long non-coding RNA Heat4 promotes vascular regeneration

17.55 – 18:.05

Caroline Kohnle: Long non-coding RNA MIRIAL controls endothelial cell and mitochondrial function

18.05 - 18.15

Lian Feenstra: Calciprotein particles induce EC dys- function by impairing the endothelial NO metabolism

18.15 – 18.45

Key-note by Kristy Red-Horse:
Modeling blood flow in regenerating and non-regenerating hearts

Chair: Susanne Lutz, Sabine Steffens

19.00: >>

Poster session 2: including dinner & drinks HR and AJ award ceremonies

Friday 05.11.2021

09.00 – 11.30

Session 7: COVID19 – impact on microvascular and cardiac function

Chairs: Andre Fischer, Ed Eringa

09.00 – 09.20

Maximillian Ackermann: COVID19: vascular inflammation, thrombosis and intussusceptive angiogenesis

09.20 – 09.30

Anne Cuypers: Tumor vessel co-option probed by single cell analysis

09.30 - 10.00

Key note by Stefanie Dimmeler

Single cell analysis to decipher endothelial responses to injury

10.00 - 10.10

Karlijn Rombouts: VSMC disorders and aneurysm

10.10 - 10.20

Nadine Thomas: S1P regulates GLUT-mediated

glucose uptake in red blood cells (RBCs)

10.20 – 10.40

Liz Jones: Microvascular changes in the COVID infected heart

10.40 – 11.00

Stefan Pohlmann: SARS-CoV-2 entry into cells and its inhibition

11.00 – 11.20

Wolfram Zimmermann: COVID19 Induced Heart Muscle Damage

11.20 – 11.30

Lasti Erfinanda: CFTR and edema formation in lung infection

11.30 – 12.30

Coffee – Lunch break

12.30 - 15.30

Session 8: Biomechanics in the cardiovascular system

Chairs: Christian Kupatt, Johannes Backs

12.30 – 13.00

Key-note by Christopher Chen: Mechanoregulation of structure and function: a story of adhesions and the cytoskeleton

13.00 – 13.10

Apeksha Shapeti: Angiogenic invasion and 3D forces

13.10 – 13.20

Eva Faurobert: Mechanotransduction in CCM

13.20 – 13.30

Johannes Gahn: Klf4 and AVM pathogenesis

13.30 – 13.45

Coffee break

13.45 – 14.15

Key-note by Carlijn Bouten: Scaffold-driven in situ vascular tissue engineering

14.15 - 14.25

Margo Daems: Smad1/5 and arterial differentiation

14.25 - 14.35

Freddy Suarez Rodriguez: Jagged and shear stress signaling

14.35 - 14.45

Nadine Bauer: Quantitative hypoxia imaging in vivo

14.45 - 15.15

Key note by Stephan Huveneers

Endothelial stiffness in health and disease

15.15– 15.30

Award ceremony for best poster, best oral communication  

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