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Cardiac Conduction Mini-Meeting
CARDIAC CONDUCTION MINI-MEETING
at the
AAA Annual Meeting at EB 2004
April 17-21 - Washington, DC
CHOREOGRAPHY OF THE HEART BEAT:
THE CARDIAC PACEMAKING AND CONDUCTION SYSTEM
Supported by educational grants from March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation
and National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH
Chairs: Michiko Watanabe (Case Western Reserve Univ.) and
Robert Gourdie (Medical Univ. of South Carolina)
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NEW IN 2004! This 2-day mini-meeting, featuring a separate poster session, will look at the anatomy, physiology, development,
pathology, and repair of the pacemaking and cardiac conduction system.
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The cardiac pacemaking and conduction system (PCS) is vital for generating and synchronizing the heart beat. Dysfunction of this critical system can result in conduction disturbance, arrhythmias, and sudden death. Recent advances in technology, PCS development, cellular organization, and electrophysiology suggest new paradigms and open up exciting avenues for research in PCS biology. This meeting offers a cross-disciplinary forum for basic scientists, clinicians, and biomedical engineers working in disparate aspects of the PCS to share their knowledge and insights.
Topics include the developmental biology, molecular and cell biology, morphology, electrophysiology, and pathology of the developing and mature cardiac pacemaking and conduction system.
Sunday, April 18
THE ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE MATURE PACEMAKING AND CARDIAC CONDUCTION SYSTEM
10:30 am - 1:00 pm, Room 207B
Chair: Igor Efimov (Case Western Reserve Univ.)
Igor Efimov (Case Western Reserve Univ.)
AV Nodal Structure and Function
Mark Boyett (Univ. of Leeds)
SA Nodal Function
Omer Berenfeld (SUNY Upstate Medical Univ.)
Inward Rectifier Channels and Atrial Fibrillation
Tatsuo Shimada (Oita Medical Univ., Oita)
Structural Differences in the Cytoarchitecture and Intercalated Discs Between the Working Myocardium and Conduction System
David Rosenbaum (Case Western Reserve Univ.)
The Nature and Significance of Electrophysiological Heterogenities in the Heart
POSTER VIEWING: CARDIAC PACEMAKING AND CONDUCTION SYSTEM
1:00 - 2:00 pm, Room 207B
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PACEMAKING AND CARDIAC CONDUCTION SYSTEM I
2:00 - 4:30 pm, Room 207B
Co-chairs: Michiko Watanabe and Florence Rothenberg (Case Western Reserve Univ.)
Takashi Mikawa (Weill Medical College of Cornell Univ.)
Induction and Patterning of the Purkinje Fiber Network
Robert Gourdie and Brett Harris (Medical Univ. of South Carolina)
Regulation of Gap Junctional Coupling in Cardiac Conduction/Nkx-2.5 and Conduction System Development
Glenn Fishman (New York Univ. School of Medicine)
Mapping the Cardiac Conduction System in Mouse—Factors for Induction
Daniel Gros (Univ. de la Mediterranee)
Imaging of the Cardiac Conduction System in the Mouse
Kiyomasa Nishii (Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka)
Deletion of the Gap Junction Protein Connexin45 Causes Abnormal Heart Conduction Rhythm in the Embryo
Monday, April 19
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PACEMAKING AND CARDIAC CONDUCTION SYSTEM II
8:00 - 10:00 am, Room 207B
Chair: Robert Gourdie (Medical Univ. of South Carolina)
David Sedmera (Medical Univ. of South Carolina)
Developmental Transitions in Electrical Activation Patterns in Chick Embryonic Heart
John B.E. Burch (Fox Chase Cancer Center)
Transcriptional Regulation in the Developing Cardiac Conduction System
Michiko Watanabe and Florence Rothenberg (Case Western Reserve Univ.)
Transitions in the His-Purkinje System Function
Ivan Moskowitz (Harvard Medical School)
The Role of the T-box Transcription Factor TBX5 in Conduction System Development
THE PATHOLOGY AND REPAIR OF THE PACEMAKING AND CARDIAC CONDUCTION SYSTEM
10:30 am - 1:00 pm, Room 207B
Chair: David Lathrop (NHLBI, NIH)
Patrick Jay (Children's Hospital, Boston)
Nkx2-5 Mutation Causes Anatomic Hypoplasia of the Conduction System
Woodrow Benson (Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center)
Genetics of AV Conduction Disease in Humans
Jill Buyon (New York Univ. School of Medicine)
Autoimmune Associated CHB: Maternal Anti-SSA/Ro-SSB/La Antibodies and Apotosis of Fetal Cardiocytes
Robert Clancy (New York Univ. School of Medicine)
Autoantibody Associated CHB: TGFß in the Pathway from Antibody Insult to Scarring
Richard Robinson (Columbia Univ.)
Genes, Stem Cells, and Biological Pacemakers
Vinciane Gaussin (UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School)
ALK3 is Necessary for Atrio-ventricular Conduction System Development
POSTER VIEWING: CARDIAC PACEMAKING AND CONDUCTION SYSTEM
1:00 - 2:00 pm, Room 207B
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and other important information about the
AAA Annual Meeting at EB 2004.
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