Synopsis

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Lung development is governed by epithelial-mesenchymal interactions. These pathways are recapitulated during injury and repair. This conference will focus on understanding key processes underlying lung development, injury and repair in the context of age, environment and species, with the hope of better understanding disease development and to discover novel therapeutic approaches.

We will highlight critical issues on lung epithelial biology such as stem cells and regenerative medicine, while expanding sessions to encompass themes such as single cell analytical approaches, cell-cell communication, dissect the biological distinctions mesenchymal proliferation as a repair mechanism and fibrosis; present the impact of new tools in single cell analysis on understanding lung development, repair, and disease; and characterize epithelial-mesenchymal interrelationships that maintain lung homeostasis and orchestrate repair and regeneration. The entire program has been designed to achieve a better understanding of the key clinical research issues and how they relate to basic mechanistic investigation.

Key Sessions

• Keynote and Emerging Topics
• Monogenic lung diseases
• Mechanotransduction in lung development and fibrosis
• Novel in vivo and in vitro models of IPF
• Stem cell niche interactions in lung health and disease
• In vivo and in vitro models of lung development
• Aging and Lung Fibrosis

Student Offer

Take advantage of this fantastic opportunity for students! Fully paying academics can bring a student for only $785. Unfortunately, Postdocs are not eligible. Both registration packages include; accommodation for the 19, 20, 21 May 2022 (on a shared basis for students) and a food and beverage package for the conference period. Once registered, please contact Amy Johnson to obtain a special registration link for your student. 

Confirmed Invited Speakers

Wellington Cardoso (Columbia University)
ONTOGENY AND PLASTICITY OF THE AIRWAY STEM CELL COMPARTMENT IN DEVELOPMENT AND DISEASE
Brent Carter (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Rachel Chambers (University College London)
Jichao Chen (MD Anderson Cancer Center)
SIGNALING ROLES OF ALVEOLAR TYPE 1 CELLS TOWARD THE LUNG MESENCHYME
Tushar Desai (Stanford Child Health Research Institute)
CARTOGRAPHY OF DYNAMIC WNT SIGNALING IN IPF
Susanne Herold (Justus Liebig University Giessen)
LUNG ORGANOID MODELLING TO STUDY MESENCHYMAL-EPITHELIAL INTERACTIONS
Gisli Jenkins (Imperial College London)
Carla Kim (Boston Children's Hospital / Harvard Medical School)
ORGANOID MODELING OF LUNG DISEASE AND LUNG CANCER
Darrell Kotton (Boston University and Boston Medical Center)
Melanie Koenigshoff (University of Pittsburgh)
LUNG EPITHELIAL CELLS AND THE FIBROTIC NICHE
Vibha Lama (University of Michigan)
Joo-Hyeon Lee (University of Cambridge)
THE NICHES FOR ALVEOLAR REGENERATION AND DISEASE
Yuru Liu (University of Illinois at Chicago)
REGULATION OF ALVEOLAR TYPE II CELLS DURING LUNG HOMEOSTASIS AND REPAIR
Parviz Minoo (University of Southern California)
"UNDER CONSTRUCTION, ALVEOLAR EPITHELIAL NICHE”: IMPLICATIONS FOR REGENERATIVE CAPACITY IN IMMATURE LUNGS
Edward Morrisey (University of Pennsylvania)
Paul Noble (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center)
Ana Pardo-Saganta (CIMA - University of Navarra)
DECIPHERING NOVEL EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL INTERACTIONS INVOLVED IN PULMONARY FIBROSIS
Jin-Ah Park (Harvard University)
COLLECTIVE EPITHELIAL CELL MIGRATION BY THE UNJAMMING TRANSITION (UJT) IN THE ABSENCE OF THE EPITHELIAL–MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION (EMT)
Tien Peng (University of California, San Francisco)
OF MICE AND MEN: SPECIES-SPECIFIC MECHANISMS OF BASAL CELL METAPLASIA IN THE ALVEOLI
Jay Rajagopal (Massachusetts General Hospital)
FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY IN THE AIRWAY EPITHELIUM
Steve Rowe (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
THE ROLE OF Muc5b IN A FERRET MODEL OF IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY FIBROSIS
Amy Ryan (Firth) (University of Iowa)
David Schwartz (University of Colorado)
IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY FIBROSIS: A GENETIC AND EPIGENETIC DISEASE INITIATED BY MUC5B
Dean Sheppard (University of California, San Francisco)
PULMONARY FIBROSIS: HOW EPITHELIAL CELLS AND FIBROBLASTS DRIVE EACH OTHER MAD
Debora Sinner (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center)
MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR MECHANISMS MEDIATING DIFFERENTIATION OF THE LARGE AIRWAYS
Jason Spence (University of Michigan)
EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL INTERACTIONS GOVERNING PROGENITOR CELL FATE IN THE DEVELOPING HUMAN LUNG
Xin Sun (University of California, San Diego)
LUNG INTEROCEPTION: HOW THE LUNG SENSE AND RESPOND TO CUES
Nan Tang (National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing)
Victor Thannickal (Tulane University School of Medicine)
CELLULAR BIOENERGETICS IN EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL INTERACTIONS
Daniel Tschumperlin (Mayo Clinic)
DOPAMINE SIGNALING IN FIBROSIS RESOLUTION
Jeffrey Whitsett (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center)
Jianwen Que (Columbia University)
FIBROBLAST-TO-MYOFIBROBLAST CONVERSION AT THE SINGLE-CELL LEVEL

Target Audience 

• Lung developmental biologists
• Stem cell researchers
• Fibrosis researchers
• Pulmonary fibrosis researchers

Educational Need

It is known that lung developmental pathways are reactivated in pulmonary fibrosis, yet few if any meetings bring lung developmental biologists and researchers studying lung fibrosis together. This meeting will provide a unique opportunity to bring these 2 fields together.

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