17:00 h
Registration
19:00 h
Reception
19:30 h
Friedrich C. Luft (Berlin, Germany)
Welcome
20:00 h
Kari Alitalo (Helsinki, Finland)
VEGF and receptors in angiogenesis vs. lymphangiogenesis
21:00 h
Candle Light Dinner
07:00 h
5 km around the Dölln Lake
Session I
Factors and receptors
Chair:
08:30 h
Urban Deutsch (Bad Nauheim, Germany)
Regulation of vascular morphogenesis by tie receptors
09:10 h
Chitra Suri (Tarrytown, USA)
The angiopoietin familiy: essential players in the angiogenesis field
09:50 h
Ingo Flamme (Cologne, Germany)
HIF2-alpha in vascular development
10:30 h
Coffee & Posters
Session II
Vessel formation
Chair:
11:00 h
Gerhard Christofori (Vienna, Austria)
Molecular mechanisms of tumor angiogenesis and tumor invasion
11:40 h
Peter Carmeliet (Leuven, Belgium)
Endothelial vs smooth muscle cells in blood vessel formation: regulation of hypoxia
12:20 h
Duncan Stewart (Toronto, Canada)
Role in nitric oxide in angiogenesis
13:00 h
Eli Keshet (Jerusalem, Israel)
Mechanisms of vessel regression
13:40 h
Lunch break
Friday, September 4, 1998 - Afternoon
Session III
Differentiation
Chair:
14:20 h
Francoise Dieterlen (Paris, France)
Primordial development of vascular endothelium in the embryo
15:00 h
Hartwig Wolburg (Tübingen, Germany)
The pecten oculi of the chicken as a model for vascular differentiation and barrier maturation
15:40 h
Walter Birchmeier (Berlin, Germany)
Branching and alveolar morphogenesis of epithelia cells induced by different receptor tyrosine kinases, c-met and c-erbBs
16:20 h
Coffee & Posters
Session IV
Kidney
Chair:
16:50 h
Peter Ekblom (Uppsala, Sweden)
Tube formation and the extracellular matrix: A comparison between epithelial and vessel development
17:30 h
Ariel Gomez (Charlottesville, USA)
Development in the kidney vasculature
18:10 h
Andreas Kispert (Freiburg, Germany)
WNT signals in kidney development
Evening program
Dinner and Concert at the Dölln Lake
07:00 h
5 km around the Dölln Lake
Session V
Tubes
Chair:
08:30 h
Elisabetta Dejana (Milan, Italy)
Endothelial cell-to-cell functions and tubulogenesis
09:10 h
Werner W. Franke (Heidelberg, Germany)
The endothelial cytoskeleton: The diversity of plaque-bearing junctions
09:50 h
Carla Boccaccio (Turin, Italy)
Signal transduction and activation of transcription by HGF for tubule formation
10:30 h
Coffee & Posters
Session VI
Branches
Chair:
11:00 h
Hellmut G. Augustin (Göttingen, Germany)
Multicellular spheroids for the study of endothelial cell differentiation
11:40 h
Jill Jarecki (Stanford, USA)
Hypoxic control of airway branching in drosophila is mediated by the branchless FGF
12:20 h
Thomas C. Skalak (Charlottesville, USA)
Arteriolar Network Pattern Formation: Role of Hemodynamic Stress
13:00 h
Lunch break
Saturday September 5, 1998 - Afternoon
Session VII
Networks
Chair:
14:20 h
Gabriele Bergers (San Francisco, USA)
Angiogenesis Studies in a Transgenic Mouse Model of Multistep Carcinogenesis
15:00 h
Peter H. Burri (Bern, Switzerland)
Intussuspective microvascular growth A multifaceted process increasing capillary network complexity
15:40 h
Olga Hudlicka (Birmingham, U.K.)
Growth of vessels in adult skeletal muscles under physiological circumstances
16:20 h
Coffee & Posters
16:50 h
Mark A. J. Chaplain (Dundee, U.K.)
Mathematical modelling of endothelial cell migration: Dynamic fractal pattern-formation in tumor-induced angiogenesis
Session VIII
Genetics
Chair:
17:30 h
Miikka Vikkula (Brussels, Belgium)
Genetic analysis of vascular dysmorphogenesis
18:10 h
Douglas Marchuk (Durham, USA)
Molecular genetics of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia
18:50 h
Final remarks
Evening program: Dinner
