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Mar 21 2016

ECTS PHD TRAINING 15-18 September 2013

University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Hosted by the Local Organising Committee
Local Organiser – Eric Hesse

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Many thanks to Sarah, Simona and Levi for their invaluable help.
Speaker slides are available within our Educational Resource Centre

Programme

Sunday 15th September
13:45-14:00 Introduction to the Course
Gudrun Stenbeck (London, UK)
14:00-14:45 Bone Development
Christine Hartmann (Munster, Germany)
14:45-15:30 Bone Cells: Osteoclasts
Cristina Sobacchi (Italy)
15:30-16:15 Bone Cells: Osteoblasts
Eric Hesse (Hamburg, Germany)
16:15-16:45 Coffee Break
16:45-17:30 Bone Cells: Osteocytes
Katharina Jähn (Hamburg, Germany)
17:30-18:15 Osteoporosis
Núria Guañabens (Barcelona, Spain)
18:15 End of Day
19:00 Dinner
Monday 16th September
09:00-09:45 PTH Signalling with Bone
Hank Kronenberg (Boston, US)
   
09:45-10:30 Vitamin D and Bone Health
Bente Langdahl (Arrhus, Denmark)
10:30-11:15 Innovative Skeletal Imaging Techniques
Claus Glüer (Kiel, Germany)
11:15-11:45 Coffee Break
11:45-12:30 Nanotechnology in Regenerative Medicine
Anna Tampieri (Farenza, Italy)
12:30-13:30 Micromechanics and Systems Biology of Bone
Christian Hellmich (Vienna, Austria)
13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:40 Student Presentations
15:40-16:00 Poster Viewing
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break with Posters
16:30-17:15 Mechanical Stimulation and Signal Transduction in Bone
Alexander Robling (Indiana, US)
   
17:15-18:30 Selling Your Science: Group Discussion
18:30-19:30 Dinner
19:30 Selling Your Science: Presentations
Tuesday 17th September
09:00-09:45 Human Skeletal Pathology
Christian Dierkes (Trier, Germany)
09:45-10:30 Bone Erosion in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Thomas Pap (Munster, Germany)
10:30-11:15 GWAS and Next Generation Sequencing
Fernando Rivadeneira (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
11:15-11:45 Coffee Break
11:45-12:30 Metabolomics
Simone Cenci (Milan, Italy)
12:30-13:30 Hypoxia and Bone Development
Geert Camerliet (Leuven, Belgium)
13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:30 Student Presentations
15:30-16:30 Structured Poster Viewing & Coffee
16:30-18:30 Workshops
Histomorphometry Grant writing Image analysis (Image J)
Eric Hesse &  Hiroaki Saito (Hamburg, Germany) Miep Helfrich &
Lynne Hocking (Aberdeen, UK)
Jenny Gregory (Aberdeen, UK)
19:00 Dinner
Wednesday 18th September
09:00-09:45 Epigenetic Landscaping in Healthy Bone and Disease
Andre van Wijnen (Minnesota, US)
09:45-10:30 Genetics of Musculoskeletal Disorders
Lynne Hocking (Aberdeen, UK)
10:30-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-11:45 miRNA Approaches
Hanna Taipaleenmäki (Hamburg, Germany)
11:45-12:30 Calcium Homeostasis and Transport
Gudrun Stenbeck (London, UK)
12:30-13:30 Concluding Remarks
Gudrun Stenbeck (London, UK)
13:30-14:30 Lunch

Sponsorship

The PhD Training Course was sponsored by Amgen, Servier and OsteoMetrics and further supported by our Corporate Members, who offer year-round support for all ECTS activities. We would like to extend our thanks to all of our sponsors.

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Mar 21 2016

ECTS PhD TRAINING 27-30 JUNE 2014

Thank you to everyone who participated in our 8th PhD Training Course in Oxford..

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ECTS PhD Training Course and Molecular Pharmacology Workshop Joint Session

Programme

Friday 27th June
13.30-13.45 Introduction to the Course
Gudrun Stenbeck (London, UK)
13.45-14.30 Bone cells osteoclasts
Andrea del Fattore (Rome, I)
14.30-15.15 Bone cells: osteoblasts
Tim Arnett (London, UK)
15.15-16.00 Bone cells: osteocytes
Jo Price (Bristol, UK)
16.00-16.30 Coffee Break
16.30-17.15 Osteoporosis – Antiresorptive Therapies
Bo Abrahamsen (Copenhagen, DK)
17.15-18.00 Calcium Homeostasis
Bente Langdahl (Aarhus, D)
18.00 End of day
19.00 Dinner
20.00 Speed Mentoring
Saturday 28th June
08.30-09.15 Breast cancer and bone metastasis
Larry Suva (Arkansas, US)
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09.15-10.00 Osteogenesis imperfecta
Francis Glorieux (Montreal, CA)
10.00-10.45 Osteoarthritis
Tonia Vincent (Oxford, UK)
10.45-11.15 Coffee Break
11.15-12.00 Autophagy in bone homeostasis
Miep Helfrich (Aberdeen, UK)
12.00-12.45 PTHrP
Jack Martin (Melbourne, AU)
13.00-13.45 Lunch
13.45-14.30 Neuroimaging of pain
Karolina Wartolowska (Oxford, UK)
14.30-15.45 Student Presentations
15.45-16.15 Poster viewing with coffee
16.15-16.45 Purinergic signalling in bone
Alison Gartland (Sheffield, UK)
16.45-17.15 Osteoporosis Drugs and PTH Signalling
Serge Ferrari (Geneva, CH)
17.15-18.00 Managing drug regulation in the biological era
Gordon Duff (Sheffield, Oxford, UK)
18.00 End of day
19.00 Dinner with MolPharm
Sunday 29th June<
08.30-09.15 Primary cilia, mechanosensing and skeletal pathologies
Valerie Cormier-Daire (Paris, F)
09.15-10.00 TRP channels & bone homeostasis
Geert Carmeliet (Leuven, BE)
10.00-10.30 Coffee break
10.30-11.15 Intravital imaging of metastasis
Jacco van Rheenen (Utrecht, NL)
11.15-13.00 Student Presentations
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.45 Ethics: Fraud and Misconduct in Biomedical Research
Janet Barrett (Gawsworth, UK)
14.45-15.15 Coffee Break
15.15-17.30 Workshops
Experimental design for your grant application Ins and Outs of qPCR
Miep Helfrich (Aberdeen, UK) Winnie Wu (Roche)
17.30-19.00 Poster viewing together with molecular pharmacology workshop
19.00 Dinner
Monday 30th June
08.55-09.00 Introduction to MolPharm
09.00-09.30 Advances in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
Andy Carr (Oxford, UK)
09:30-10:00 PTH: Past, Present and Future
John Potts (Massachusetts, USA)
10:00-10:30 The Biology of Ageing
Tom Kirkwood (Newcastle)
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:10 Epigenetics and disease
Udo Oppermann (Oxford, UK)
11:10-11:35 Locked Nucleic Acid (LNA)-Based Drug Therapies
Henrik Ørum (Copenhagen, DK)
11.35-12.00 Epigenetic Target Validation in Sarcomas and Bone Oncology
Edward Hookway
12.00-12.25 The role of epigenetics and miRNAs in regulating osteoblast differentiation
Jane Lian (Massachusetts, USA)
12.25-12.45 Mechanical Systems Biology of Bone
Ralph Müller (Zurich, CH)
13.00 Lunch

Sponsorship

The PhD Training Course is sponsored by MSD Merck and Co. And The Company of Biologists, and further supported by our Corporate Members; Amgen, Eli Lilly and Alexion, who offer year-round support for all ECTS activities. We would like to extend our thanks to all of our partners for their support for this key educational activity.

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Mar 17 2016

ECTS PhD TRAINING 13–16 September 2015

Local Organiser: Cristina Sobacchi

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Thank you to everyone who participated in our 9th PhD Training Course in Siena.

Programme

Sunday 13th September
15:00-15:15 Introduction to the Course
Gudrun Stenbeck (London, UK)
15:15-16:00 Bone Cells: Osteoblasts
Hans van Leeuwen (Rotterdam, NL)
16:00-16:45 Bone Cells: Osteocytes
Jenneke Klein-Nuland (Amsterdam, NL)
16:45-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-17:45 Bone Cells: Osteoclasts
Anna Teti (Rome, Italy)
17:45-18:30 Gene and epigenetic editing for the treatment of monogenic diseases
Angelo Lombardo (Milan, Italy)
18:30 End of Day
19:15 Dinner
20:30 Speed Mentoring
Monday 14th September
09:00-09:45 Osteoporosis
Bente Langdahl (Aarhus, Denmark)
09:45-10:30 BMD and fracture risk association
Jennifer Walsh (Sheffield, UK)
10:30-11:15 Hormone Replacement Therapy
Luigi Gennari (Siena, Italy)
11:15-11:35 Coffee Break
11:35-13:00 Student Presentations
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:45 Bone research in context: zebrafish as model organism
Ann Huysseune (Ghent, Belgium)
14:45-15:30 Vascular Calcification in Chronic Kidney disease
Cathy Shannahan (London, UK)
15:30-16:15 Circadian Clocks in Age Related Diseases
Qing-Jun Meng (Manchester, UK)
16:15-18:00 Structured poster viewing
18:00 End of Day
19:00 Dinner
20:00 Fire place discussion: The next stages of your career
Tuesday 15th September
09:45-10:30 Rare Bone Diseases
Cristina Sobacchi (Milan, Italy)
10:30-11:15 Skeletal Stem Cells
Paolo Bianco (Rome, Italy)
11:15-11:45 Coffee Break
11:45-12:30 Insulin and Bone
Colin Farquharson (Edinburgh, UK)
12:30-14:15 Lunch
14:15-16:00 Student Presentations
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-18:00 Workshops
Translating science into effective medicine Clinical Trial Design
Paolo Bianco (Rome, Italy) Jennifer Walsh (Sheffield, UK)
18:00 End of Day
19:00 Dinner
Wednesday 16th September
09:00-09:45 Osteoimmunology
Claudine Blin (Nice, France)
09:45-10:30 Immunsystem and Fracture Healing
Anita Ignatius (Ulm, Germany)
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:30 Stem cell transpantation in bone and cartilage disorders
Antonella Forlino (Pavia, Italy)
11:30-12:15 Animal Models for Cartilage Repair
Giuseppe Perettti (Milan, Italy)
12:15-12:30 Concluding Remarks
Gudrun Stenbeck (London, UK)

Sponsorship

The ECTS PhD Training Programme was supported by ECTS Corporate Members; Amgen, Eli Lilly and Alexion, who offer year-round support for all ECTS activities. We would like to extend our thanks to all of our partners for their support for this key educational activity.

Mar 10 2016

ECTS PhD TRAINING 2-5 July 2016

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Thank you to all speakers and delegates who attended the ECTS PhD Training Course in Oxford and contributed to another successful event.

 

PROGRAMME

SPEAKER PROFILES: PhD TRAINING, MolPharm

 

SATURDAY JULY 2
11:30 REGISTRATION OPEN – Mary Sunley Building
12:45 Lunch – Dining Hall
13:30-13:45 Introduction  – Astrid Bakker (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
13:45-14:30 Cell biology of bone – Gudrun Stenbeck (London, UK)
14:30-15:15 Clinical aspects of bone biology – Bente Langdahl (Aarhus, Denmark)
15:15-15:30 Break
15:30-16:15 The Wnt pathway – Astrid Bakker (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
16:15-17:00 Creating a good research question – Kassim Javaid (Oxford, UK)
17:00-17:10 Break and move to Bernard Sunley Building
17:10-18:10

JOINTLY WITH MOLECULAR PHARMACOLOGY WORKSHOP

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17:10 Musculoskeletal research in Oxford – Graham Russell (Oxford, UK)
 17:15 Changing paradigms in osteoarthritis – Tonia Vincent (Oxford, UK)
 17:30  Keynote lecture
Rare diseases: the scope, opportunities and regulatory aspects – Matt Warman (Boston, USA)
19:00 Dinner – Dining Hall
20:00 Speed mentoring
SUNDAY JULY 3
8.00 Breakfast – Dining Hall
PhD Sessions – Mary Sunley Building
9:15-10:00 Role of inflammation in tendinopathies – Stephanie Dakin (Oxford, UK)
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:00 Analysis of bone phenotypes in mouse models of skeletal disease, Duncan Bassett (London, UK)
11:00-11:45 SEM/TEM in bone – Miep Helfrich (Aberdeen, UK)
11:45-12:45 Optimizing data analysis – Kassim Javaid (Oxford, UK)
12:45-13.30 Lunch – Dining Hall
13:30-15:00 Facilitated student group workshop: applying lectures to your own research plan (3 groups: basic, cellular, clinical)
15:00-15:30 Break – Move to Bernard Sunley Building
15:30 – 18.00

JOINTLY WITH MOLECULAR PHARMACOLOGY WORKSHOP

Bernard Sunley Building

THERAPEUTIC DIRECTIONS IN RARE GENETIC DISEASES
15.30 Introduction and update on osteogenesis imperfecta – Francis Glorieux (Montreal, Canada)
15.50 Genetic approaches to identifying drug targets: ENU mutagenesis in skeletal research – Paul Potter (Harwell, UK)
16.10 Enzyme replacement therapy: lessons from hypophosphatasia in childhood – Michael Whyte (St Louis, USA)
16.30 Mineralization defects in neurofibromatosis type 1 and therapeutic implications –  Florent Elefteriou (Houston, USA)
16.50 Novel approaches to treating rare bone diseases – Melita Irving (London, UK)
17.10 Break
17.20 Keynote lecture
Oxygen sensing in animal cells: a new therapeutic opportunity? – Peter Ratcliffe (Oxford)
18:00-19:00 Poster viewing  – Junior common room bar annex
PRESENTATIONS – ODD NUMBERS
19:00 Dinner – Dining Hall
MONDAY JULY 4
08:00 Breakfast – Dining Hall
PhD Sessions – Mary Sunley Building
8:45-9:30 Cancer and bone – Larry Suva (Little Rock, USA)
9:30-10:15 The hypoxic cancer secretome – Alison Gartland (Sheffield, UK)
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-13:00 Student presentations (final year)
13:00-14:00 Lunch – Dining Hall
14:00-15:00 Facilitated student group workshop: data presentation: clinical versus basic with Q/A
15:10-15:30 Break – move to Bernard Sunley Building
15:30-17:10

JOINTLY WITH MOLECULAR PHARMACOLOGY WORKSHOP

Bernard Sunley Building

HIGHLIGHTS IN BONE BIOLOGY AND DISEASEDISEASES
 15:30 Introduction: historical perspective – John Potts (Boston, USA)
15:40 Recent insights into PTH action and therapeutic potential – Hank Kronenberg (Boston, USA)
16:10 Update on paget’s disease: genetics and treatments – Stuart Ralston (Edinburgh, UK)
16:40 Challenges in pain research: angiotensin ii type 2 receptor antagonists: pain relief & beyond – Tom McCarthy (Oxford, UK)
17:00 Break
17:05 Keynote lectures:

  • Genetics, epigenetics and the microbiome – Tim Spector (London, UK)
  • Strategies for enhancing drug discovery – Chas Bountra (Oxford, UK)
18:00-19:00 Poster viewing – Junior common room bar annexPRESENTATIONS – EVEN NUMBERS

19:00 Dinner – Dining Hall
20:15 Oxford by night – Informal Walking Tour – meet at Porters Lodge
TUESDAY JULY 5
08:00 Breakfast – Dining Hall
9:00– 10:30 Student group presentations of research projects developed during the course
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:45 Student group presentations of research projects developed during the course (continued)
11:45-12:00 Concluding remarks – Astrid Bakker (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
12:00 End of course 
12:55 Lunch for pre-booked students who are joining the Molecular Pharmacology Workshop
14:00 Molecular Pharmacology Workshop Sessions – Bernard Sunley Building
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