Wednesday, April 23, 2025
09h00 | Welcome Coffee- Registration |
09h45 | Introduction by organizing committee |
SESSION 1 | Lymphatic Development | Chair : Oliver Stone |
10h00 | Karina Yaniv | Formation and Malformations of Lymphatic Vessels |
10h30 | Taija Makinen | Decoding lymphatic vessel heterogeneity and function at the single-cell level |
11h00 | Stefan Schulte-Merker | New genes in old pathways: lymphatics in zebrafish, mice and men |
11h30 | Short com : David Grainger |
11h45 | Short com : Sanjay Sunil Kumar |
12h00 | Short com : Francizka Lehne |
12h15 – 13h30 | Lunch break |
SESSION 2 | Molecular Mechanisms | Chair : Kaska Koltowska |
13h30 | Barbara Garmy-Susini | Novel therapeutic options for secondary lymphedema |
14h00 | Kathleen Caron | Meningeal Lymphatics in Migraine Pain |
14h30 | Mathias François | Gene repression at work: Trim28 a novel regulator of lymphangiogenesis |
15h00 | Short com : Claudia Carlantoni |
15h15 | Short com : Hannah Arnold |
15h30 | Short com : Silvia Martin Almedina |
15h45 | Coffee break |
SESSION 3 | Immune Crosstalk | Chair : Cornelia Halin Winter |
16h15 | Maria Ulvmar | Lymph Node Vasculature: Key to Immune Regulation and Disease Progression |
16h45 | Antoine Louveau | Regulation of social behavior by meningeal lymphatic vasculature during neurodevelopment |
17h15 | Short com : Kelly De Korodi |
17h30 | Short com : Bojana Jakic |
17h45 | Short com : P. Yves Von Der Weid |
18h00 | Short com : Adam Lokman |
18h15 – 19h30 | Poster session |
Thursday, April 24, 2025
SESSION 4 | Interorgan Communication | Chair : Friedemann Kiefer |
09h00 | Tatiana Petrova | Mechanisms of intestinal lymphatic specialization |
09h30 | Kari Alitalo | Translational insights into lymphangiogenic growth factors |
10h00 | Lenka Rossmeislova | Interplay between human adipocytes and lymphatic endothelial cells |
10h30 | Short com : Karina Hadrian |
10h45 | Short com : Theo Lemarcis |
11h00 | Coffee Break |
SESSION 5 | Lymphatics in Cancer & Metabolism |
11h30 | Gilles Pages | Comparative effects of proton and photon irradiation on the molecular and cellular profiles of triple-negative breast cancer: the crucial impact of VEGFC on tumor microenvironment remodeling |
12h00 | Lothar Dieterich | Lymph node lymphatic endothelial control of tumor immunity and progression |
12h30 | Short com : Kerstin Wilhelm Jüngling |
12h45 | Short com : Päivi Ojala |
13h00 | Short com : Muyun Gong |
13h15 – 14h15 | Lunch break |
14h15 – 15h15 | Posters session |
15h00 – 17h00 | Free time |
SESSION 6 | Microenvironment | Chair : Maike Frye |
17h00 | Agnès Noel | Altered trafficking of VE-cadherin and lymphatic vessel architecture attenuate lymphedema |
17h30 | Anne Eichmann | Leveraging lymphatics to improve health |
18h00 | Mariona Graupera | Insights on PI3K mutations in lymphatic malformations |
18h30 | Short com : Mickael M Orlich |
18h45 | Short com : Florent Morfoisse |
19h00 | Short com : Ana Angulo |
19h30 | Gala Dinner |
Friday, April 25, 2025
SESSION 7 | Lymphatic Diseases | Chair : Barbara Garmy-Susini |
09h00 | Stanley Rockson | Pharmacology for Lymphedema: Treating a Systemic Disease |
09h30 | Miikka Vikkula | Novel insights into the pathophysiology of lymphedema |
10h00 | Alessandra Bura-Riviere |
10h30 | Short com : Joseph Turner |
10h45 | Short com : Pia Ostergaard |
11h00 | Coffee break |
SESSION 8 | New Tools & Technologies | Chair : Ebba Brakenheim |
11h30 | Felipe Opazo | Strategies for imaging multiple targets using engineered Nanobodies with erasable signals |
12h00 | Rene Hägerling | Spatial Deep Phenotyping of human and murine tissues using lightsheet imaging and nanobody technology |
12h30 | Christine Duthoit |FlashRNA®: an innovative solution leveraging the potential of RNA for tomorrow’s therapies. Now available for Theralymph |
13h00 | Short com : Sara Cascione |
13h15 | Short com : Zoltàn Jakus |
13h30 | END OF THE MEETING |
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