<< back12th Biennial Midwest Platelet Conference

October 2-4, 2008
Lexington, KY

Time	Event
	Thursday October 2nd
5:00 – 7:00PM	WELCOME RECEPTION AND REGISTRATION Hyatt Regency Hotel
	Friday October 3rd
7:00 – 8:00	Breakfast, Registration, Poster set-up, Thoroughbred Prefunction Area Lexington Convention Center
8:00	Welcome Jay A. Perman, MD Dean College of Medicine and Vice-President for Clinical Affairs
8:00 – 12:00	SESSION 1: PLATELET CELL BIOLOGY, BIOCHEMISTRY, AND SIGNALING Thoroughbred Meeting Room
	Xiaoping Du, MD, PhD University of Illinois at Chicago "Regulation of directions of integrin outside-in signaling"
	Dean Mosher, MD University of Wisconsin "Allosterisms of thrombospondins"
	Leslie Parise, PhD University of North Carolina "Identification of new antiplatelet targets via chemical proteomics"
	Edward Plow, PhD Cleveland Clinic "Kindling the flame of integrin activation with kindlins"
	Eugene A. Podrez, PhD Cleveland Clinic "Platelet Scavenger Receptors Class B as Modulators of Thrombosis"
12:00 – 2:00	LUNCH AND POSTER VIEWING Thoroughbred Prefunction Area
2:00 – 5:30	SESSION 2: PLATELETS AND THROMBOSIS Thoroughbred Meeting Room Gilbert C. White, Blood Center of Wisconsin
	Tatiana Byzova, Associate Professor Cleveland Clinic “Integrin signaling on platelets and endothelium”
	William Fay, MD University of Missouri “Role of Platelet Factor V in Hemostasis and Thrombosis”
	Lisa Jennings, PhD University of Tennessee Health Science Center - Memphis “Tetraspanin Regulation of Platelet Activation and Thrombus Stability”
	Steve Lam, PhD University of Illinois at Chicago "Talin-Integrin Interaction"
	Jane Hoover Plow, PhD Cleveland Clinic “Genetic modifiers of thrombosis”
	Jordan Shavit, MD University of Michigan “Genetic modifiers of von Willebrand Disease”

6:00 – 10:00	OPTIONAL SOCIAL EVENT: WOODFORD RESERVE Versailles, KY BOURBON DISTILLERY TOUR DINNER & BLUE GRASS BAND

	Saturday October 4th
7:00 – 8:00	Breakfast Thoroughbred Prefunction Area
8:00 – 1:00	SESSION 3: INFLAMMATION AND VASCULAR DISEASE Thoroughbred Meeting Room

	Magdalena Chrzanowska-Wodnicka, PhD Blood Center of Wisconsin “Regulation of angiogenesis by Rap1”
	William Frazier, PhD Washington University "The role of thrombospondin-1 and CD47 in platelets: NO explanation"
	Nigel Mackman, Professor University of North Carolina "Tissue factor, microparticles and thrombosis."
	Debra K. Newman, PhD Blood Center of Wisconsin "Insights into the role of PECAM-1 in atherosclerotic and thrombotic disease.”
	Timothy O’Toole, PhD University of Louisville "Environmental pollutants and cardiovascular pathology"
	J Evan Sadler, MD PhD Washington University "VWF packaging and secretion by endothelial cells"
	Jerry Ware, PhD University of Arkansas "The platelet paradigm in hemostasis and cancer"

1:00	LUNCH AND DEPARTURE

<< back12th Biennial Midwest Platelet Conference

October 2-4, 2008 Lexington, KY

October 2-4, 2008
Lexington, KY