A PhD Training course was held in Rome, Italy, and was attended by 54 enthusiastic students. Many thanks are extended to all who participated in this highly successful event. Details on the 2009 PhD training event will be announced soon.

Attendees

The 2008 course was attended by the following students:

Eveline Boudin (Wilrijk), Dorthe Brask-Rasmussen (Køge), Owen Cabon (Paris), Marta Capannolo ( L’Aquila), Mattia Capulli (L’Aquila), Karin Carlqvist (London), Emmanuel Coste (Edinburgh), Rachel Cox (Dublin), Hrvoje Cvija (Zagreb), Francois-Xavier Dieudonne (Paris), Bianca Donida (Segrate), Maria Ellegaard (Glostrup), Katja Fagerlund (Turku), Luis Fernandez de Castro Diaz (Madrid), Cecilia Halling Linder (Linköping), Torben Harsløf (Aarhus), Anne-Sofie Hobolt-Pedersen (Vejle), Behzad Javaheri (London), Susana Jurado (Barcelona), Michelle Key (London), Mohammad Ramine Khan (London), Solmaz Khoshniat (Nantes), Tina Kringelbach (Glostrup), John Logan (Edinburgh), Joana Lopes (Lisbon), Daniel Lozano (Madrid), C?tia Marques (Faro), Roslyn McConnell (Edinburgh), Alireza Moayyeri (Cambridge), Alaa Moustafa (London), Claudia Nicolaije (Rotterdam), Jessal Patel (London), Barbara Peruzzi (Rome), Marta Rafael (Faro), Gitte Roende (Hellerup), Robin Rumney (Sheffield), Aisha Sauer (Milan), Mittal Shah (London), Antonia Sophocleous (Edinburgh), Celic Tanja (Rijeka), Sarah Taylor (London), Zoran Trošt (Ljubljana), Kristina Ulrich Sørensen (Frederiksberg), Elise Verron (Nantes), Ning Wang (Sheffield), Emma Williams (Southampton), Viola Wöckel (Rotterdam), Guy Yoskovitz (Barcelona).

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PROGRAMME TOPICS – 1-4 SEPTEMBER 2008, ROME

Slides available to ECTS members only

Osteoclasts (Anna Teti – L’Aquila, Italy)

Osteoblasts (Pierre Marie – Paris, France)

Osteoporosis (Bente Langdahl – Aarhus, Denmark)

Other bone diseases (Maria Luisa Bianchi – Milan, Italy)

Osteocyte biology and function (Kalervo Väänenen – Oulu, Finland)

Pharmacological manipulation of osteocytes (Clemens Lowik – Leiden, Netherlands

Chondrocytes and cartilage – biology and function (Dick Heinegard – Lund, Sweden)

Osteoarthritis (Georg Schett – Erlangen, Germany)

Proteomics (Irina Kratchmarova – Odense, Denmark)

RNAs, MicroRNAs, siRNAS (Ian Clark – Norwich, UK)

Calcium, phosphate and magnesium regulation (Tim Arnett- London, UK)

Disorders of calcium, phosphate and magnesium metabolism (Richard Eastell – Sheffield, UK)

Vitamin D (Hans van Leeuwen – Rotterdam, Netherlands)

Wnt signalling (Roland Baron – Boston, USA)

Paget’s and other bone diseases (Stuart Ralston – Edinburgh, UK)

Cancer and bone (Peter Croucher – Sheffield, UK)

Which model for which study (Anne Marie Heegaard – Copenhagen, Denmark)

Career planning (Miep Helfrich – Aberdeen, UK)

Funding (Stuart Ralston – Edinburgh, UK)