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]