INTEC warmly welcomes you at our third annual meeting! This year, our annual meeting is organized by the team of Léonor Cancela and will take place in Faro, Portugal on September 12-13 2024. During this year’s meeting the masks will fall off as to whether calcification should be considered a friend or a foe in health and disease of patients. The local organizing committee has put together a titillating program for you to enjoy, with several esteemed experts in different aspects of calcification research and management as invited speakers. As usual, we have also reserved several presentation slots for early career researchers based on their abstract submissions. Because the workshop we organized during last year’s meeting was such a success, we have continued this tradition during the 2024 meeting with two exciting workshops on presentation skills and on science communication. Focussing on young researchers, the workshops are of course open to all interested to learn more about these topics. And talking about traditions: also this year there will be a meeting dinner followed by music and dance. In other words: there are many ways and opportunities to put your best foot forward during the 2024 INTEC annual meeting. We look forward to meeting you in Faro!
Programma
Day 1: Animal models and human pathologies
- 09.30 am: Registration open
- 10.00 am: Welcome - Olivier Vanakker and Leonor Cancela
- 10.15 am: Calcific Aortic Valve Disease (CAVD): expression analysis of osteoblastic biomarkers and calcium content - Antonello Forlino, University of Pavia, Italy
- 10.45 am: The Japanese medaka fish as model for human chondrodysplasias and heterotopic ossification disorders - Christophe Winkler, National University of Singapore
- 11.15 am: Matrix gla protein mutations in vascular and cartilaginous tissues: new insights from genetic studies - Monzur Murshed, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- 11.45 am: Modeling developmental capacity and constraint in skeletal differentiation in Akt and PROS somatic mosaic activation in the zebrafish - Matthew Harris, Harvard Medical School, USA
- 12.15 am: In Memoriam: Pedro Valdivielso
- 12.30 pm: Lunch
- 14.00 pm: Oral presentations early career researchers - selected from the abstracts
- 15.30 pm: Networking
workshop 1: Science communication - for early career researchers (separate registration needed) - 18.30 pm: Closure of the first day
- 20.00 pm: Dinner and dance
Day 2: Human case studies
- 09.00 am: Patients: partners for life - Marta Jacinto PXE, Association of PXE Patients, Portugal
- 09.30 am: Soft tissue ectopic calcifications associated to rare skeletal diseases - Martine Cohen-Solal, INSERM-Hopital Lariboisiere, Paris, France
- 10.00 am: Calcific tendinitis, a concise review - Antonio Camacho, Hospital Sao Jose, Lisboa, Portugal
- 10.30 am: Coffee breack
- 11.00 am: Case studies on debilitating ectopic soft tissue ossifications and calcifications - Arun Kumar Kaliya Perumal, Nanyang Technological University, Signapore
- 11.30 am: Oral presentation industrial partners
- Andreas Pasch (Calciscon)
- Wolfgang Link (Refoxy Pharma)
- Joao Caldeira (Thermo Fisher Scientifi)
- 12.15 pm: Closure
- 12:45 pm: Lunch
- 14.00 pm: Consortium meeting (for consortium members)
Workshop 2: presentation skills for erarly career researches (separate registration needed)
Praktische informatie
- The meeting will take place in room 1.4 (meeting) and 1.5 (workshop) of the Pedagogic building
- Registration and abstract submission
- Free for INTEC members
- Non-member: master (PhD student or medical internà: 60 euro
- Non-member and sponsors: 100 euro
