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5/12 (Mon) 8:30-10:30 A+B

International Symposium 1
Mitochondria, Protein homeostasis and Cell Death
Chair
Derek Hausenloy, Kinya Otsu

  • Richard Kitsis
    Unifying Cell Death Programs in Myocardial Infarction
    Richard Kitsis
  • Sonia Singh
    Targeting the JAK1-STAT3 pathway to treat cardiac proteinopathy
    Sonia Singh
  • Asa Gustafsson
    Extracellular Vesicles and Cellular Quality Control Mechanisms in Cardioprotection
    Asa Gustafsson
  • Luca Scorrano
    Mitochondrial Shape, Autophagy, and Heart Failure: a Triad to Combat.
    Luca Scorrano
  • Petra Kienesberger
    Role of lipid phosphate phosphatases in cardiac energy metabolism and function
    Petra Kienesberger
  • Sauri Hernandez
    ND-13 confers cardioprotection by inhibiting mitochondrial fission and preserving mitochondrial bioenergetics via the RhoA-ROCK1-Drp1
    Sauri Hernandez

5/12 (Mon) 8:30-10:30 201+202

International Symposium 2
New mechanisms to protect against heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
Chair
David Lefer, Sean Davidson

  • Johannes Backs
    Targeting Class IIa HDAC signaling in cardiometabolic disease
    Johannes Backs
  • Rebecca Ritchie
    Cyclic GMP as a therapeutic target for HFpEF
    Rebecca Ritchie
  • Taketaro Sadahiro
    Trans-differentiation of cardiac fibroblasts reveals a new molecular mechanisms for HfpEF
    Taketaro Sadahiro
  • Brandon Biesiadecki
    Tyrosine kinase phosphorylation of troponin I is a novel mechanism to increase myocardial relaxation
    Brandon Biesiadecki
  • Judy  de Haan
    Unique immunometabolic treatment strategies to protect against HFpEF
    Judy de Haan
  • awaiting
    PCSK5 Promotes Angiogenesis and Cardiac Repair After Myocardial Infarction
    Dan Meng

5/12 (Mon) 8:30-10:30 203

International Symposium 3
Interorgan communications in heart failure
Chair
Doan Ngo, Yu Ying

  • Yukiteru Nakayama
    Multi-organ cross-talk via innate immune memory in heart failure
    Yukiteru Nakayama
  • Gabriele Schiattarella
    Liver/adipose tissue-Heart cross talk in HFpEF and Cardiometabolic disease
    Gabriele Schiattarella
  • Stefanie Dimmeler
    Hematopoietic mutations and cardiac fibrosis
    Stefanie Dimmeler
  • zoltan_varga
    Immune checkpoint signaling and heart failure
    Zoltan Varga
  • Daniela Carnevale
    Brain-heart cross talk in HF
    Daniela Carnevale
  • Jane Yu
    Deletion of Piezo1 in adult cardiomyocytes accelerates cardiac senescence and causes premature death
    Jane Yu

5/12 (Mon) 16:05-18:05 A+B

International Symposium 4
Shaping the cardiac proteome in health and disease
Chair
Lucie Carrier, Ying Ge

5/12 (Mon) 16:05-18:05 201+202

International Symposium 5
E-C Coupling: channels, regulators and key players
Chair
Ana-Maria Gomez, Yoshihiko Saito

  • Marek Michalak
    Endoplasmic reticulum stress and excitation-contraction coupling machinery
    Marek Michalak
  • Long-Sheng Song
    Junctophilin-2 Regulation of Cardiac E-C Coupling and Transcription
    Long-Sheng Song
  • Shi-Qiang Wang
    GRK2 regulation of beta-adrenergic signaling and Ca2+ handling in the heart
    Shi-Qiang Wang
  • Jeffrey Erikson
    S-Nitrosylation of CaMKII and cardiac arrhythmia
    Jeffrey Erikson
  • Emiliano Medei
    IL-1β enhances susceptibility to atrial fibrillation in mice by acting through resident macrophages and promoting caspase-1 expression
    Emiliano Medei
  • awaiting
    PEGylated isoprenaline reveals distinct functions of cardiac β-adrenergic receptors located in the T-tubule vs. outer surface membrane
    George Madders

5/12 (Mon) 16:05-18:05 203

International Symposium 6
Regulation of endogenous cardiac regeneration
Chair
Lena Ho, Florian Weinberger

  • Mauro Giacca
    RNA therapies for cardiac regeneration
    Mauro Giacca
  • Eldad Tzahor
    Advancing Cardiac Therapeutics
    Eldad Tzahor
  • Eva van Rooij
    Creating a repair permissive heart
    Eva van Rooij
  • Diana Nascimento
    A switch in cardiac fibroblasts hinders regeneration after neonatal myocardial infarction
    Diana Nascimento
  • Caitlin C. O'Meara
    Modulating cell polarity to promote cardiomyocyte regeneration
    Caitlin C. O'Meara
  • Mona Malek Mohammadi
    Ventricular crosstalk activates regenerative mechanisms in the contralateral ventricle in neonatal mice
    Mona Malek Mohammadi

5/13 (Tue) 8:15-10:15 A+B

International Symposium 7
New players in mitochondrial calcium regulation
Chair
Lea Delbridge, Yi Zhu

  • Livia Hool
    Manipulating the L-type calcium channel to alter mitochondrial function in diastolic heart disease
    Livia Hool
  • Diego De Stefani
    TMEM65 controls mitochondrial Ca2+ extrusion
    Diego De Stefani
  • Nina Kaludercic
    Targeting mitochondrial ROS formation in cardiac pathology
    Nina Kaludercic
  • Melanie Paillard
    Reticulum-Mitochondria Ca2+ Coupling in Metabolic HFpEF: A Liver-Heart Crosstalk
    Melanie Paillard
  • Toshiyuki Yano
    A new facet of myocardial necroptosis: crosstalk with mitochondrial dynamics and autophagy
    Toshiyuki Yano
  • Candice Todd
    A porcine model of prolonged cardiac arrest and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation following myocardial infarction. A Pilot Feasibility Study
    Candice Todd

5/13 (Tue) 8:15-10:15 201+202

International Symposium 8
Health and Disease Mechanisms of Women’s Heart
Chair
Lorrie Kirshenbaum, Kika Sucharov

  • Inna Rabinovich-Nikitin
    The cardiac pathophysiological outcomes of shift work during pregnancy
    Inna Rabinovich-Nikitin
  • Ana Filipa Ferreira
    Cardiovascular (reverse) remodeling induced by pregnancy
    Ana Filipa Ferreira
  • Maggie Lam
    Proteogenomic insights into dimorphic exon usage in aging hearts
    Maggie Lam
  • Rudolf de Boer
    Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction in humans and mice: what does sex have to do with it?
    Rudolf de Boer
  • Raffaele Coppini
    Sex differences in cardiac electrophysiology and drug response
    Raffaele Coppini
  • Anja Helmer
    Sex differences in left ventricular recovery and corresponding gene expression in a rat model of cardiac donation after circulatory death
    Anja Helmer

5/13 (Tue) 8:15-10:15 203

International Symposium 9
Cardiac Hippo-YAP signaling
Chair
Metin Avkiran, Emilio Hirsch

  • Enzo Porrello
    Phosphoproteomic deconvolution of signaling pathways controlling cardiomyocyte proliferation
    Enzo Porrello
  • James Martin
    Targeting Hippo-YAP signaling in heart failure
    James Martin
  • Mei Xin
    Beta adrenergic and YAP crosstalk regulate cardiomyocyte proliferation
    Mei Xin
  • Dominic Del Re
    The role of YAP in cardiac fibrosis
    Dominic Del Re
  • awaiting
    Wnt5a-YAP signaling axis mediates mechanotransduction in cardiac myocytes
    Ichiro Shiojima
  • Kendrick Yiu
    Investigating the role of an orphan nuclear receptor NR4A1 in atrial fibrillation
    Kendrick Yiu

5/13 (Tue) 14:50-16:50 A+B

International Symposium 10
Modulators of cell-cell communication in heart failure
Chair
Don Bers, Susmita Sahoo

  • Paula Longhi
    Crosstalk between adipose tissue and the heart in atrial fibrillation
    Paula Longhi
  • Julie McMullen
    Impact of heart-derived factors from the protected and failing heart
    Julie McMullen
  • Jose Angel Nicolas  Avila
    Macrophages as protectors of mitochondrial quality in the heart and beyond
    Nicolas Avila Jose Angel
  • Kristin Stanford
    Exercise-induced interorgan communication
    Kristin Stanford
  • Ichiro Manabe
    Innate immune memory and organ cross-talk in heart failure
    Ichiro Manabe
  • Sarah Hilderink
    Proteomics of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy extracellular vesicles elucidates detrimental effects of in vitro HCM cardiomyocyte secretome on endothelial cells and cardiomyocytes
    Sarah Hilderink

5/13 (Tue) 14:50-16:50 201+202

International Symposium 11
Spatial organization of protein synthesis in the myocardium
Chair
Llewelyn Roderick, Tim Kamp

  • Marie-Jo Moutin
    The tubulin code as spatial regulator - what we can learn from the brain and the use of cell-free systems
    Marie-Jo Moutin
  • Izhak Kehat
    Localized protein translation in the heart
    Izhak Kehat
  • Benjamin L. Prosser
    Microtubule-mediated spatial control: directing translation and remodeling in the myocardium
    Benjamin L. Prosser
  • Gail A. Robertson
    Coordinated cotranslational association of ion channels mRNA in the heart
    Gail A. Robertson
  • Julia Gorelik
    Beta 1 and beta 2 receptor translation dynamics in healthy and failing heart
    Julia Gorelik
  • awaiting
    Blood-based Protein Markers Associated with Myocardial Interstitial Fibrosis
    Leonoor Wijdeveld

5/13 (Tue) 14:50-16:50 203

International Symposium 12
Mechanistic insights of the role of impaired cardiac metabolism in driving heart failure
Chair
Yasuchika Takeishi, Junjie Xiao

  • Christoph Maack
    Mechano-energetic uncoupling in HFrEF and HFpEF
    Christoph Maack
  • Verónica Eisner
    Mitochondrial crystae dynamics in the aging heart
    Verónica Eisner
  • Alexander Pinto
    New mechanistic insights into cardiac fibrosis and heart failure in diabetes emerging from cutting-edge computational biology and single-cell omics
    Alexander Pinto
  • Giulia Guerra
    Doxorubicin Damages the Heart Inducing Metabolic Rewiring: a Multi-Omics Journey Through Anthracycline Cardiotoxicity
    Giulia Guerra
  • Chrishan Ramachandra
    Heart Failure in a Dish: Empagliflozin's Metabolic and Contractile Benefits in Patient Derived iPSC Cardiac Models
    Chrishan Ramachandra
  • Abraham Méndez Fernández
    Mitochondrial bioenergetics and ATP synthase
    Abraham Méndez Fernández

5/13 (Tue) 17:05-19:05 A+B

International Symposium 13
Regulatory mechanisms of intracellular Ca2+ signalling and excitability via intracellular organelle cross-talk
Chair
Gerardo Garcia-Rivas, Michelle Munro

  • Bjorn C. Knollmann
    RyR2 as an antiarrhythmic drug target
    Bjorn C. Knollmann
  • Mario Delmar
    Arrhythmogenic Remodeling of Intracellular Calcium Dynamics in ARVC
    Mario Delmar
  • Deli Zhang
    Critical role of mitochondrial remodeling in cardiac arrhythmia
    Deli Zhang
  • Ayako Takeuchi
    Impact of Ca2+ crosstalk between mitochondria and sarcoplasmic reticulum in cardiomyocyte during workload transition
    Ayako Takeuchi
  • Hideaki Inazumi
    Critical role of NRSF-GNAO1 pathway in regulating Ca2+ signaling in ventricular myocytes
    Hideaki Inazumi
  • Shanmugasundaram Pakkiriswami
    Adaptation to mitochondrial calcium overload varies between left and right ventricles
    Shanmugasundaram Pakkiriswami

5/13 (Tue) 17:05-19:05 201+202

International Symposium 14
Drug targets in Heart Failure
Chair
Walter J Koch, Lauren May

  • Simon Lebek
    Targeting CAMKII to mend the failing heart
    Simon Lebek
  • Tim McKinsey
    HDACs as target for therapy in heart failure
    Tim McKinsey
  • Lilei Zhang
    Treating heart failure with novel REV-ERB agonist
    Lilei Zhang
  • Priscila Sato
    GRK2 and Cardio-metabolic signaling in Heart Failure
    Priscila Sato
  • Atsushi Hoshino
    Development of genome editing tools based on deep mutational scanning
    Atsushi Hoshino
  • Marion Delaunay
    Targeting HDAC11 to reverse obesity and metabolic dysfunction in mice
    Marion Delaunay

5/13 (Tue) 17:05-19:05 203

International Symposium 15
Targeting metabolism to prevent heart failure progression: HFrEF vs HFpEF
Chair
Joan Heller Brown, Yumiko Oishi

  • Jenny van Eyk
    Myocardial proteome defines the continuum in human HFpEF
    Jenny van Eyk
  • Rong Tian
    Mitochondria in HFpEF
    Rong Tian
  • Luc Bertrand
    Targeting glucose-derived O-GlcNAcylation pathway in heart failure
    Luc Bertrand
  • Mahmoud Abdellatif
    Targeting nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide for the treatment of HFpEF
    Mahmoud Abdellatif
  • Ming Xu
    The protective role of exercise on children metabolic syndrome
    Ming Xu
  • Jae Woo Jung
    One Carbon Metabolism Defect In Human Failing Hearts
    Jae Woo Jung

5/14 (Wed) 8:15-10:15 A+B

International Symposium 16
Non-Myocyte Contributors to Arrhythmia
Chair
Bianca Brundel, Karin Sipido

  • Jim Bell
    Cardiac adiposity and arrhythmias
    Jim Bell
  • Arjun Deb
    Fibroblasts regulate cardiac excitability and arrhythmogenesis
    Arjun Deb
  • Molly O'Reilly
    Exploring the role of neuronal dysfunction in inherited arrhythmia syndromes
    Molly O'Reilly
  • Patrizia Camelliti
    Fibroblast-Myocyte interactions and their impact on cardiac electrophysiology
    Patrizia Camelliti
  • Sebastian Clauss
    Macrophages and Electrical conduction in the Heart
    Sebastian Clauss
  • Tandy Meier
    Impact of tachypacing and mechanical load on fibroinflammatory cross-talk between cardiomyocytes and non-myocytes in engineered heart tissue
    Tandy Meier

5/14 (Wed) 8:15-10:15 201+202

International Symposium 17
Mechanisms of cardiac dysfunction in diabetic heart disease
Chair
Anupam Mittal, Charles Steenbergen

  • Jonathan Kirk
    Cardiomyocyte myofilament glycation in diabetes
    Jonathan Kirk
  • Junichi Sadoshima
    Mitophagy & the diabetic heart
    Junichi Sadoshima
  • Kim Mellor
    Glycophagy and glycogen in diabetic cardiomyopathy
    Kim Mellor
  • Melanie White
    Multi-omics approaches to investigating diabetic cardiomyopathy
    Melanie White
  • Lisa Heather
    Metabolite-mediated PTM’s driving Diabetic Cardiomyopathy
    Lisa Heather
  • Qingzhong Xiao
    Neutrophil Elastase: A Novel Therapeutic Target for Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction
    Qingzhong Xiao

5/14 (Wed) 8:15-10:15 203

International Symposium 18
Cutting-edge research on genomics and omics
Chair
Fadi Charchar, Emily Wong

  • Gianluigi Condorelli
    Non-coding RNAs as epigenetic markers of myocardial diseases
    Gianluigi Condorelli
  • Roger Foo
    Genome and omics analyses in CVDs
    Roger Foo
  • awaiting
    Single-cell and spatial omics analysis to develop cardiovascular precision medicine
    Seitaro Nomura
  • Eddy Kizana
    Cardiotropic AAV variants
    Eddy Kizana
  • Miguel Torres
    Transcriptional Regulation of Cardiomyocyte Polyploidization
    Miguel Torres
  • Atsuko Okazaki
    Genetic Landscape and Prognostic Factors in Pediatric Mitochondrial Cardiomyopathy: A 20-Year Comprehensive Study
    Atsuko Okazaki

5/14 (Wed) 14:00-16:00 A+B

International Symposium 19
Current status of cardiac regeneration therapy: from preclinical study to clinical trial
Chair
Jop Van Berlo, Kaoru Ito

  • Keiichi Fukuda
    Current status of human iPS cell derived cardiomyocyte transplantation to the patients with severe heart failure due to ischemic heart disease in LAPiS study
    Keiichi Fukuda
  • Wolfram-H Zimmermann
    iPS-cell derived engineered heart muscle in patients with advanced heart failure
    Wolfram-H Zimmermann
  • Wataru Kimura
    Nucleotide and lipid dynamics in postnatal regeneration and stress response
    Wataru Kimura
  • Charles Murry
    Can Academics Make a Stem Cell Drug?
    Charles Murry
  • Monika Gladka
    Novel Molecular Targets for Cardiac Repair in Post-Infarcted Heart
    Monika Gladka
  • Zhan Chen
    A Drug-Elicitable Alternative-Splicing Module (DreAM) for Tunable AAV Expression and Controlled Myocardial Regeneration
    Zhan Chen

5/14 (Wed) 14:00-16:00 201+202

International Symposium 20
Metabolic reprogramming to prevent and treat heart failure
Chair
John Elrod, Dunja Aksentijevic

5/14 (Wed) 14:00-16:00 203

International Symposium 21
Sex matters in Cardiovascular Metabolism
Chair
Eiki Takimoto, Cuello Friederike

5/14 (Wed) 16:15-18:15 A+B

International Symposium 22
Epigenetic Regulation of Cardiac Stress
Chair
Elena Aisha Binti Azizan, Wei Kong

  • Thomas Vondriska
    Histone variants as mechanical stress sensors
    Thomas Vondriska
  • Liming Pei
    Epigenetic insights into cardiac biology and disease
    Liming Pei
  • Li Qian
    Epigenetic regulation of direct cardiac reprogramming
    Li Qian
  • Jan Lammerding
    New insights into the pathogenic mechanism of cardiac laminopathies and the therapeutic effect of LINC complex disruption
    Jan Lammerding
  • Sam El-Osta
    Epigenetics in cardiovascular health and disease
    Sam El-Osta
  • Chang Jie Mick Lee
    Validating functional cardiomyocyte-specific histone-acetylated variant enhancers in human ES-derived cardiomyocytes using a STARR-Seq Approach
    Chang Jie Mick Lee

5/14 (Wed) 16:15-18:15 201+202

International Symposium 23
Cardiac Ca2+ handling as a therapeutic target
Chair
Davor Pavlovich, Cecilia Mundina

  • Eduardo Bertero
    Mitochondrial calcium signaling and redox homeostasis in cardiac health and disease.
    Eduardo Bertero
  • Stephan Lehnart
    The Ca2+-sensitive protein Dysferlin protects cardiomyocyte nanodomains in ischemic heart disease
    Stephan Lehnart
  • Manfra Ornella
    Assembly and disassembly of cardiomyocyte structure during development and disease.
    Manfra Ornella
  • Niels Voigt
    Impaired intracellular buffering as arrhythmogenic substrate in cardiomyocytes from patients with Afib
    Niels Voigt
  • Luis Gonano
    Modulation of Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Ca2+ release and uptake: focus on the Ca2+ waves and Ca2+ alternans relationship
    Luis Gonano
  • Jin O'Uchi
    Pathological impact of SARS-CoV-2 viroporin on the cardiomyocyte function
    Jin O'Uchi

5/14 (Wed) 16:15-18:15 203

International Symposium 24
Mediators of protein phosphorylation in cardiac disease
Chair
Satomi Akahane, Huangtian Yang

  • Maria Kontaridis
    Role of TRPM4 in Cardiac Disease and Arrhythmogenesis
    Maria Kontaridis
  • Xander Wehrens
    Interleukin-6 signaling as an upstream mediator of altered RyR2 phosphorylation in post-operative atrial fibrillation
    Xander Wehrens
  • Alessandra Ghigo
    Beta-adrenergic regulation of cardiac function through PI3K signaling
    Alessandra Ghigo
  • Kate Weeks
    The cardiac phosphatome in metabolic heart disease & failure
    Kate Weeks
  • Nicole Purcell
    PHLPPs in cardiac physiology & pathophysiology
    Nicole Purcell
  • Hariharan Subramanian
    AKAP1 silencing-based gene therapy for the prevention of cardiac hypertrophy
    Hariharan Subramanian