<< back12th Biennial Midwest Platelet Conference

October 2-4, 2008
Lexington, KY

Time	Event
	Thursday October 2nd
6:00 – 8:00PM	WELCOME RECEPTION AND REGISTRATION Hyatt Regency Hotel, Regency West Ballroom, 1^st Floor
	Friday October 3rd
7:00 – 8:00	Breakfast, Registration, Poster set-up, Thoroughbred Meeting Room and Prefunction Area Lexington Convention Center
8:00	Welcome Thoroughbred Meeting Room Wally Whiteheart, PhD, University of Kentucky Jay A. Perman, MD, University of Kentucky Dean College of Medicine, Vice-President for Clinical Affairs
8:05 – 12:00	SESSION 1: PLATELET CELL BIOLOGY, BIOCHEMISTRY, AND SIGNALING Thoroughbred Meeting Room Moderators: Gilbert C. White, MD, Blood Center of Wisconsin Stanley D'Souza, PhD, University of Louisville
8:05 - 8:35	Edward Plow, PhD Cleveland Clinic "Kindling the flame of integrin activation with kindlins"
8:35 - 9:05	Xiaoping Du, MD, PhD University of Illinois at Chicago "Regulation of directions of integrin outside-in signaling"
9:05 - 9:35	Stephen Holly, PhD University of North Carolina "Identification of new antiplatelet targets via chemical proteomics"
10:05 - 10:30	Break
10:30 - 11:00	Dean Mosher, MD University of Wisconsin "Allosterisms of thrombospondins"
11:00 - 11:30	Eugene A. Podrez, PhD Cleveland Clinic "Platelet Scavenger Receptors Class B as Modulators of Thrombosis"
11:30 - 11:45	Subhashini Srinivasan, University of Illinois (LeBreton Lab) “2MeSAMP inhibits human platelet aggregation through a Gi-independent increase in platelet cAMP levels “
11:45 - 12:00	Kelly O’Brien, University of Illinois at Chicago (Du Lab) “The role of Akt3 in Platelet Activation”
12:00 – 2:00	LUNCH AND POSTER VIEWING Thoroughbred Prefunction Area
2:00 – 5:30	SESSION 2: PLATELETS AND THROMBOSIS Thoroughbred Meeting Room Moderators: Bill Dean, PhD, University of Louisville Rebekah Waikel, PhD, Eastern Kentucky University
2:00 - 2:30	Lisa Jennings, PhD University of Tennessee Health Science Center - Memphis “Tetraspanin Regulation of Platelet Activation and Thrombus Stability”
2:30 - 3:00	Tatiana Byzova, Associate Professor Cleveland Clinic “Integrin signaling on platelets and endothelium”
3:00 - 3:30	William Fay, MD University of Missouri “Role of Platelet Factor V in Hemostasis and Thrombosis”
3:30 - 3:45	Haruhito Uchida, PhD, University of Kentucky (Daugherty Lab) “Impact of uPA and uPAR on AngII-induced abdominal aortic aneurysms in Ldlr-/- mice”
3:45 - 4:00	Payaningal Somanath PhD, Cleveland Clinic, (Byzova Lab) “PKBa differentially regulates hypoxia- and tumor-induced angiogenesis involving mTOR and forkhead transcription factors”
4:00 - 4:20	Break
4:20 - 4:50	Steve Lam, PhD University of Illinois at Chicago "Talin-Integrin Interaction"
4:50 - 5:20	Jane Hoover Plow, PhD Cleveland Clinic “Genetic modifiers of thrombosis”
5:20 - 5:50	Jordan Shavit, MD University of Michigan “Genetic modifiers of von Willebrand Disease”
6:00	OPTIONAL SOCIAL EVENT: BOURBON DISTILLERY TOUR DINNER & BLUE GRASS BAND WOODFORD RESERVE Versailles, KY
	Saturday October 4th
7:00 – 8:00	Breakfast Thoroughbred Prefunction Area
8:30 – 12:30	SESSION 3: INFLAMMATION AND VASCULAR DISEASE Thoroughbred Meeting Room Moderators: Peter Newman, PhD, Blood Center of Wisconsin Alan Daugherty, PhD, University of Kentucky
8:30 - 9:00	J Evan Sadler, MD PhD Washington University "VWF packaging and secretion by endothelial cells"
9:00 - 9:30	Magdalena Chrzanowska-Wodnicka, PhD Blood Center of Wisconsin “Regulation of angiogenesis by Rap1”
9:30 - 10:00	William Frazier, PhD Washington University "The role of thrombospondin-1 and CD47 in platelets: No explanation"
10:00 - 10:30	Jerry Ware, PhD University of Arkansas "The platelet paradigm in hemostasis and cancer"
10:30 - 10:50	Break
10:50 - 11:20	Nigel Mackman, Professor University of North Carolina "Tissue factor, microparticles and thrombosis."
11:20 - 11:50	Debra K. Newman, PhD Blood Center of Wisconsin "Insights into the role of PECAM-1 in atherosclerotic and thrombotic disease.”
11:50 - 12:20	Timothy O’Toole, PhD University of Louisville "Environmental pollutants and cardiovascular pathology"
12:20 - 12:35	Mark Larson, PhD Augusta College "Effects of omega3 fatty acids on platelet function"
12:40	CLOSING REMARKS
	DEPARTURE

<< back12th Biennial Midwest Platelet Conference

October 2-4, 2008 Lexington, KY

October 2-4, 2008
Lexington, KY