PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
DEVELOPMENT AND REGENERATION OF BONES AND TEETH
JOINT RESEARCH COURSE SWEDISH and FINNISH GRADUATE SCHOOLS IN ODONTOLOGICAL SCIENCE
UMEÅ FEBRUARY 8-11 2011
Tuesday 8.2. Arrival
1700 Dinner
1900 Candle light lecture : Pancreatic development; the making of a scientist (Helena Edlund)
2000 Get-together
Wednesday 9.2.
0815-0945 From egg to organism – principles of developmental biology (Irma Thesleff)
0945-1015 Coffee
1015-1145 Development of the head and face (David Rice)
1200-1330 Lunch
1330 – 1500 Development of bone and cartilage in the embryo (David Rice)
1500-1630 Poster session + Coffee
1630– 1800 Tooth development (Irma Thesleff)
1830-1930 Dinner
1930 - Poster session continued, with wine etc.
Thursday 10.2.
0815- 0945 Differentiation and function of osteoblasts and osteocytes (Riku Kiviranta)
0945-1015 Coffee
1015-1145 Stem cells (Leif Carlsson)
1200-1330 Lunch
1330-1415 Development of skeletal stem cells (Pamela Robey)
1415-1500 Skeletal stem cells in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine (Pamela Robey)
1500–1530 Coffee
1530-1615 Tooth regeneration and stem cells (Irma Thesleff)
1615-1700 Bone extracellular matrix proteins in health and disease (Dick Heinegård)
1700-1900 Free time??
1900 Dinner
Evening party
Friday 11.2.
0830-0915 Differentiation and function of osteoclasts in health and disease (Ulf Lerner)
0915-1000 Bone as an endocrine organ important for energy metabolism (Ulf Lerner)
1000-1030 Coffee
1030-1115 Heterogeneity within osteoblasts and osteoclast in different parts of the skeleton (Vincent Everts)
1115-1200 Pharmacological treatments of the skeleton targeting osteoblasts or osteoclasts (Östen Ljunggren)
1200- Lunch
Departure
Lecturers:
Leif Carlsson, Professor - Umeå Center for Molecular Medicine, Umeå University [leif.carlsson@ucmm.umu.se]
Helena Edlund, Professor - Umeå Center for Molecular Medicine, Umeå University [helena.edlund@ucmm.umu.se]
Vincent Everts, Professor - Oral Cell Biology, Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA),
Universiteit van Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit [v.everts@acta.nl]
Dick Heinegård, Professor - Clinical Sciences, Section for Rheumatology, Molecular Skeletal Biology, Lund University, [Dick.Heinegard@med.lu.se]
Riku Kiviranta, MD,PhD,Medical Biochemistry and Genetics, University of Turku [riku.kiviranta@utu.fi]
Ulf Lerner, Professor – Oral Cell Biology, Umeå University and Center of Bone and Arthritis Research
Institute of Medicine at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, University of Gothenburg, [ulf.lerner@odont.umu.se]
Östen Ljunggren, Professor – Medical Sciences, Metabolics Bone Diseases, University of Uppsala [osten.ljunggren@medsci.uu.se]
David Rice, Professor- Institute of Dentistry, University of Helsinki [david.rice@helsinki.fi]
Pamela Robey, PhD –National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
Irma Thesleff, Professor - Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki [irma.thesleff@helsinki.fi]