Tuesday, June 10th, 2014
17:00 – 19:00 Opening Lectures
Keynote Lecture 1: Thomas Braun (Bad Nauheim, Germany): Regenerative capacity of striated muscle tissue
Keynote Lecture 2: Leslie Leinwand (Boulder, USA): Molecular basis of inherited cardiomyopathies
20:00
Dinner and get together
Wednesday, June 11th, 2014
Session 1: Intermediate Filaments
8:30
Gisèle Bonne (Paris, France): Lamin A/C myopathies: molecular insight from cell and animal models
9:00
Omar Skalli (Memphis, USA): The role of synemin in normal and diseased muscle
9:30
Yassemi Capetanaki (Athens, Greece): Myospryn: a multi-functional protein associated with desmin
10:00
talks selected from Abstracts
10:30
Coffee and Discussion
Session 2: IF-Associated Proteins
11:00
Gerhard Wiche (Vienna, Austria): Plectinopathies: from cell and animal models to the evaluation of treatment strategies
11:30
Gloria Conover (Galveston, USA): Nebulin – getting it clear with desmin
12:00
talks selected from Abstracts
13:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:30 Poster Session I with Coffee and Discussion
Session 3: Protein quality control
15:30
Roy Quinlan (Durham, UK): The functional role of B-crystalline for muscle maintenance
16:00
Wolfgang Rottbauer (Ulm, Germany): VCP & VCP binding partners: lesson from functional genomics in zebrafish
16:30
Marco Sandri (Padova, Italy): Regulation of the autophagic system in striated muscle waisting
17:00
talks selected from Abstracts
18:30
Dinner
20:00
After-Dinner-Talk Ueli Aebi (Biozentrum Basel) Actin: from Structural Plasticity to Functional Diversity
Thursday, June 12th, 2014
Session 4: Motor proteins
8:30
Jennifer Morgan (London, UK): Mouse muscle stem cells: Different satellite cells?
9:00
Folma Buss (Cambridge, UK): The role of myosins in autophagy
9:30
Theresia Stradal (Braunschweig, Germany): Molecular regulation of actin-based cellular protrusions
10:00
Dietmar Manstein (Hannover, Germany): From molecular structure to the pathophysiology of motor protein-linked diseases
10:30
Peter Gunning (Sydney, Australia): Actin- and tropomyosin-associated myopathies
11:00
Coffee and Discussion
Session 5: Titin
11:30
Wolfgang Linke (Bochum, Germany): Titin and its role in cell signalling
12:00
Anders Oldfors (Gothenburg, Sweden): Clinic, genetic and pathiophysiological aspects of HMERF
12:30
talks selected from Abstracts
13:00
Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:30 Poster Session II with Coffee and Discussion
Session 6: Filamin C
15:30
Rudolf Kley (Bochum, Germany): Proteomic profiles in myofibrillar myopathies
16:00
talks selected from Abstracts
17:00
Coffee and Discussion
17:30 - 18:30 Highlights from the Posters (Chair: Harald Herrmann)
18:30 - 19:30 Plenary talk: Matthias Rief (Munich, Germany): Mechanics of single molecules
20:00
Social event
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