The Meeting will take place in Belfast at the Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine, School of Medicine Dentistry and Biomedical Science, Queen’s University Belfast.
Thursday, June 20th, 2024
Friday, June 21st, 2024
Thursday, 20th of June 2024
12.00-1.20 -: Lunch from
ALL PRESENTATIONS ARE 25 MIN + 5 MIN Q&A
Session 1: Calcification and eye diseases
1.20-2.00 – Andras Varadi: Introduction of the works in the Varadi group
Viola Pomozi: Challenges with the calcifying diabetic mouse model
Krisztina Fülöp: Metabolic landscape of diabetes-related ectopic calcification
Eszter Kozak: Pharmacokinetics and safety of oral pyrophosphate in systemic sclerosis patients – a pilot study
2.00-2.30 – Bettina Schock: Systemic Sclerosis: Skin versus Lung – what is worse?
2.30-2.50 – Pietro Bertelli: Characterisation of the eye of the ENPP1-Δ9 mutant mice
2.50-3.00 – Jamie Mitchell: Observations of brain calcification in the ENPP1-Δ9 mutant mice
3.00-3.30 – Comfort and Coffee Break
Session 2: Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum
3.30-4.00 – Tamas Aranyi: Incomplete penetrance in PXE: revisited*
4.00-4.30 – Robbe Derudder: Activation of the autotaxin – lysophosphatidic acid receptor pathway contributes to the pathogenesis of pseudoxanthoma elasticum*
4.30-5.00 – Olivier Vanacker: Genetic counselling challenges in ectopic calcification *
5.00-5.30 – Herve Kempf: Tracheal calcification: surprise, surprise !!
5.30-6.00 – Imre Lengyel: Calcification and age-related macular degeneration
Session 3: The Patients
6.00-6.30 – Marta Jacinto: Patients: burden or way to success?*
6.30-7.00 – Sharon Terry: All for one and one for all*
RECEPTION WITH FINGERFOOD AT WWIEM
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8.30-9.00 – Coffee+Biscuits
Session 5: Calcification in chronic diseases
9.00-9.30 – Jessica Bertrand: Enzymatic regulation of CPP or BCP formation in cartilage and synovium*
9.30-10.00 – Sonia Nasi: Cartilage calcification: From models to novel therapeutic avenues*
10.00-10.30 – Vicky McRea: Investigating a role for testosterone in cardiovascular calcification*
10.30-11.00 – Georges Leftheriotis: Cardiovascular calcifications: from rare diseases to treatments*
11.00-11.30 – Coffee break
11.30-12.00 – John Hulleman: Characterizing and reducing HAP in a primary cell culture model of age-related macular degeneration
12.00-12.30 – Joyce Liao: Ectopic calcification of the eye and key findings from research in optic disc drusen
12.30-13.00 – Flora Szeri: Circulatory ectopic mineralisation regulators in health and disease*
13.00-13.30 – Sara Risseeuw: Ophthalmology in Pseudoxhantoma Elasticum
13.30-14.30 – Lunch break
Session 6: Methods for detecting and studying calcification
14.30-15.00 – Sergio Bertazzo: Pathological calcification: A hard look at soft tissue diseases
15.00-15.30 – Dimitrios Lamprou: 3D printed models for calcification studies
15.30-16.00 – Richard Thompson: Approaches for imaging retinal calcification
Dinner from 7.00 pm at the Dear’s Head pub https://www.thedeersheadbelfast.com/
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Poster and Oral PRIZES will be awarded
Instructions for abstracts:
200 word abstract, excluding title, authors, and affiliation