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Tissue engineering of
cartilage and bone
Chair: Arnold Caplan
- Deals with the best source of cells for tissue
engineering of cartilage and bone
- Includes recent research findings on the most
effective cell scaffolds
- Reviews the best preclinical models for these
technologies
- Discusses the sort of outcome measures that
should be used in clinical trials
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Development of the cardiac conduction system
Chair: Roger Markwald
- Covers current understanding of the structure
and function of the pacemaking and conduction system (PCS)
- Highlights molecular and cellular mechanisms
regulating embryological development of the PCS
- Pinpoints the relevance of present day
knowledge to clinical medicine with discussion on potential treatments for
heart disease
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Autism: neural basis and treatment
possibilities
Chair: Michael Rutter
- Assesses the evidence for a real increase in
the autistic spectrum disorders and discusses possible explanations
- Analyzes fundamental psychological deficits in
individuals with autism
- Shows latest data on the contributions of
different regions of the brain to autism
- Summarizes current approaches, both drug and
intervention, to the treatment of autism spectrum disorders
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Generation and effector functions of regulatory
lymphocytes
Chair: Jean Francoise-Bach
- Reviews up-to-date technologies for cloning
and culturing 'suppressor cells'
- Discusses current understanding of the
phenotypes and effector functions of these cells
- Covers molecular interactions of
suppressor/regulatory T cells with APCs
- Topics range from physiological control of
autoimmunity to therapeutic applications expecially in relation to Type I
diabetes
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Molecular clocks and light
signalling
Chair: Michael Menaker
- Presents evidence to challenge the classical
view that circadian rhythms are regulated by a centralized clock
- Contrasts the role of the molecular clock in
humans, mice and flies
- Brings the reader up-to-date with the current
understanding of clock genetics and molecular regulation of circadian
rhythms
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Immunoinformatics:
bioinformatic strategies for better understanding of immune function
Chair: Hans-Georg Rammensee
- Reviews the birth of a new field:
immunoinformatics uses bioinformatics approaches to analyze immunological
data
- Assesses the complexity of immunological
functioning using mathematical models and computer science
- Encompasses key developments in
immunoinformatics including immunological databases, sequence analysis,
simulation of lab experiements and statistical support for immunogenomics
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Retinal dystrophies: functional genomics to gene
therapy
Chair: Shomi Bhattacharya
- Covers the development of new approaches in
therapeutics for retinal dystrophies, including gene therapy, growth factors
and retinal cell transplantation
- Presents the most up-to-date research
strategies including the manipulation of biochemical pathways not previously
known to be important in retinal degeneration
- Topics range from molecular genetics of gene
therapies to clinical genetic studies and include coverage of the functional
genomics of retinal diseases
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