| Session |
Presentation |
Presenter |
| Ursula Ravens: Commitment to the heart |
Ca-Homeostasis and Excitation-Contraction Coupling. |
D A Eisner
(Manchester,GB)  |
| Keynote lecture |
Stem cells in perspective. |
E Marban
(Los Angeles,US) |
| Mechanisms of ion channel regulation |
Cardiac repolarisation remodelling and arrhythmogenesis. |
S Nattel
(Montreal,CA) |
| Frontiers in imaging |
Subdiffraction imaging with STED microscopy. |
G Moneron
(Gottingen,DE) |
| Toll-like receptors: role in cardiovascular disease |
Role of Toll-like receptors in endothelial and vascular function. |
J A Mitchell
(London,GB) |
| Vascular development and angiogenesis |
Intussusceptive angiogenesis (splitting) versus sprouting: two modes of vascular patterning. |
V Djonov
(Fribourg,CH) |
| New opportunities in stem cell research |
Human stem cells as model for cardiac differentiation and disease. |
K Guan
(Goettingen,DE) |
| Hypoxia sensing |
Cardioprotection by hypoxia and hypoxia-inducible factors. |
K Eckardt
(Erlangen,DE) |
| Dissecting the vulnerable plaque |
Apoptosis within the atherosclerotic plaque. |
E Thorp
(New York,US) |
| Mitochondria and cardioprotection |
Mitochondrial connexin 43 and ischaemic preconditioning. |
M Ruiz-Meana (Barcelona,ES) |
| Reverse remodelling in cardiovascular pathology |
Reverse remodelling of the left ventricle after surgical treatment of aortic stenosis. |
A Leite-Moreira
(Porto,PT) |
| Developmental biology of the heart: genetic and signalling control mechanisms |
The role of the DiGeorge candidate gene Tbx1 in conotruncal development. |
A Baldini
(Naples,IT) |
| The Ca2+ universe |
Beneficial effects of CaMKII inhibition in the human failing heart |
N Fluschnik
(Goettingen,DE) |
| Lipids, liver, vessels, heart: unravelling the interactive network |
Why is a fatty liver dangerous for the heart. |
M-R Taskinen
(Helsinki,FI) |
| Platelet ADP receptors |
Basic pharmacology of interfering drugs. |
R F Storey
(Sheffield,GB) |