Satellite to the 35th European Symposium on Calcified Tissues
Barcelona, Spain, May 24-28, 2008

Many thanks are extended to the speakers for providing slides of their talks which are available here by clicking on the speaker name (NB not all slides available).

Bone remodelling and its regulation
Roland Baron (Boston, USA)

Markers of bone resorption (including cathepsin K)
Christian Meier (Basel, Switzerland)

Markers of bone formation
Nuria Guañabens (Barcelona, Spain)

FGF-23, OPG and RANKL
Bill Fraser (Liverpool, UK)

Importance of biological variability of bone markers in clinical practice
Luisa Alvarez (Barcelona, Spain)

New biochemical markers of cartilage
Patrick Garnero (Lyon, France)

Bone markers in osteoporosis: fracture prediction
Pierre Delmas (Lyon, France) (Replaced by Richard Eastell)

Bone markers in osteoporosis: treatment monitoring
Richard Eastell (Sheffield, UK)

Bone markers in renal osteodystrophy
Ana Monegal (Barcelona, Spain)

Bone markers in Paget’s disease
Pilar Peris (Barcelona, Spain)

Some of the presentations of the ECTS/IBMS training course are available for you as PDF files.

Katy Schmidt – JOINT DEVELOPMENT DURING EMBRYOGENESIS

George Schett – JOINT TISSUES: CARTILAGE, SYNOVIUM, BONE AND TENDON

Richard Aspden – JOINT FAILURE: BASIC SCIENCE AND BIOMARKERS

Mary Goldring – NOVEL TREATMENTS INCLUDING THE ROLE OF CELL-BASED THERAPIES

John Loughlin – GENETIC RISK FACTORS IN JOINT DISEASE

Saturday 7 May 2011, 09:00-16:30

ECTS/IBMS member              € 95

Non-Member                           € 145

Aims and learning outcomes

By the end of the course participants should have enhanced their understanding of:

the formation and function of joints
joint pathologies and their origin
current and novel approaches to treatment in osteoarthritis
the difficulties in performing trials in this complex disorder and how to overcome these

Who should attend?

This course will be of interest to basic scientists and clinicians with an established interest in joint disorders, as well as those moving into this field. Students and allied health professionals are also warmly invited. While the focus of the clinical and translational part of the course is on osteoarthritis, there are general presentations on joint form and function that will appeal to a much wider audience. The discussion session at the end will also benefit from wider audience participation.

Programme

COURSE ORGANISERS

Klaus Klaushofer (Vienna, Austria)
Richard Eastell (Sheffield, UK)
Bente Langdahl (Aarhus, Denmark)

COURSE OVERVIEW

Histomorphometry has long been a very powerful tool in the resources of clinicians and basic researchers alike. It provides a wealth of information on tissue health and dynamics but has a drawback in that the information it provides is a ‘snapshot’ of the condition of the tissue at the time of biopsy.

This disadvantage is overcome when histomorphometry is combined with other techniques such as immunohistochemistry, µCT, FTIRI and computer modeling, providing a more complete picture of the tissue’s condition over time.

The purpose of this training course is to provide a state of the art overview of all these techniques, their outcomes, and what can be deduced from this information from bench to bedside. The course is designed to be of interest to rheumatologists, endocrinologists, orthopaedic surgeons, veterinarians, and basic researchers.

The ECTS Training Course has been accredited by the European Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME) to provide 6 hours of European external CME credits. Each medical specialist should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

The EACCME is an institution of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS), www.uems.net. EACCME credits are recognized by the American Medical Association towards the Physician’s Recognition Award (PRA). To convert EACCME credit to AMA PRA category credit, contact the AMA.

SPEAKERS

Peter Fratzl (Potsdam, Germany)
Introduction

Ellen Hauge (Aarhus, Denmark)
Histomorphometry – View Slides

Reinhold Erben (Vienna, Austria)
Species differences in histomorphometry – View Slides

Marc McKee (Montreal, Canada)
Immunolocalization of extracellular matrix proteins in mineralized tissues by light and electron microscopy

Philippe Zysset (Vienna, Austria)
Bone mechanical properties assessed from microCT and nanoindentation

Himadri Gupta (Potsdam, Germany)
Synchrotrone-based investigations of bone material

Richard Weinkamer (Potsdam, Germany)
Bone mineralization density distribution (BMDD) – Computer modeling of mineralization kinetics – View Slides

Eleftherios Paschalis (Vienna, Austria)
Vibrational spectroscopic methods – FTIRI and Raman – View Slides

An additional registration fee of €95 for Members and €145 for Non-Members is payable for the training course.

Please tick the box on the registration form to book a place.

Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon
Hosted by the ECTS Lisbon 2013 Congress Local Organising Committee

Thank you to all who participated in our first ECTS PostDoc Training Course

Many thanks to Inês Perpetuo and Joana Lopes for their invaluable hel

Speaker slides available soon

Programme

Prague Congress Centre
Club H, Level 1
ECTS POSTDOC TRAINING 16 & 17 May 2014
Prague Congress Centre
Club H, Level 1

Thank you to everyone who took part in the second ECTS PostDoc Training Course.

Speaker slides will be available soon

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