Synopsis

Once you have registered and paid your deposit for this conference, your place is not confirmed until approved by the conference chairs. Please allow 14 working days for approval which is sent in the form of an email from Fusion Conferences. Within this 14 working day period and thereafter, our usual Terms and Conditions will apply unless your registration is declined. In this case, we will issue a full refund. If you have any questions, please contact Jack.

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
• Novel models and technologies to study pulmonary fibrosis
• Mechanisms of repair in lung disease
• Pathways regulating Lung Development and dysregulated/activated in lung fibrosis
• Aging, Fibrosis and degenerative lung diseases
• Environmental impact on lung diseases
• Mechanotransduction In Lung Development and Fibrosis
• Aging and Lung Fibrosis

Confirmed Keynote Speaker

Mark Krasnow (Stanford University)

Confirmed Invited Speakers

Denise Al Alam (The Lundquist Institute)
Doug Brownfield (Mayo Clinic)
Oliver Eickelberg (University of Pittsburgh)
John Engelhardt (University of Iowa)
ASSESSING LUNG INJURY AND REPAIR USING TRANSGENIC FERRET MODELS
Andreas Günther (University of Giessen)
Cory Hogaboam (Cedars-Sinai)
Claudia Jackubzick (Dartmouth College)
Vlad Kalinichenko (University of Arizona College of Medicine, Phoenix)
Harry Karmouty-Quintana (UT Health Houston)
SINE OCULIS HOMEOBOX 1 (SIX1) A NOVEL PRO-FIBROTIC MEDIATOR
David Lagares (Harvard University)
Joo-hyeon Lee (University of Cambridge)
Claude Jourdan Le Saux (University of California San Francisco)
SECRETED FRIZZLED RELATED PROTEIN 2 CONTRIBUTES TO THE TRANSDIFFERENTIATION OF HUMAN ALVEOLAR EPITHELIAL TYPE II CELLS
Mitsuru Morimoto (RIKEN)
Enid Neptune (Johns Hopkins University)
Marko Nikolic (University College London)
Jayaraj Rajagopal (Massachusetts General Hospital)
Elizabeth Redente (National Jewish Health)
Jason Rock (Genentech)
Laila Roudsari (United Therapeutics)
FROM CELLS TO ORGAN: THE BUILDING BLOCKS FOR GENERATING FUNCTIONAL LUNG TISSUE
Herbert Schiller (Helmholtz Munich)
Jennifer Sucre (Vanderbilt University)
Xin Sun (UC San Diego)
Aleksandra Tata (Duke University)
Matthew James Thomas (Boehringer Ingelheim)
IN VITRO MODELS OF EPITHELIUM IN PULMONARY FIBROSIS
Andy Vaughan (University of Pennsylvania)
Ivonne Vazquez-Armendariz (University of Bonn)
Rachel Zemans (Michigan Medicine)

Student Offer

Take advantage of this fantastic opportunity for students! Fully paying ‘single’ or ‘shared’ registrants can bring a student for only €840. Unfortunately, Postdocs are not eligible for this offer. Both registration packages include; accommodation for the 04, 05, 06 October 2024 (on a shared basis for students) and a food and beverage package for the conference period. Once registered, please contact Jack Peters to obtain a special registration link for your student.

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 two fields together.

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