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DIKU Summer School in Fibrosis 2021

Fibroblasts in fibrosis research

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DIKU summer school in Fibrosis research
 

Bergen, Norway

Venue: June 9-11, 2021

Organizer: Donald Gullberg
All the sessions will be held live as Zoom webinar, and will be recorded and placed on a private YouTube channel.  A link to the videos on YouTube will be sent to all the participants of the Summer School.

Wednesday  - Fibroblasts 
Local time Bergen,
Norway (CEST*, UTC+2)
Speakers
Title
 
 8.30-9.15Donald Gullberg, University of Bergen
Fibroblasts in fibrosis research
 
9.30-10.15
10.30-11.15
Ritva Heljasvaara
Collagens and cell-collagen interactions
 
11.30-12.15Lunch 
12.15-13.00Sergey Plotnikov, UoT, Canada
Fibroblast cell migration
 
13.15-14.00Sergey Plotnikov, UoT, Canada
Traction Force microscopy
 
14.15-15.00Ronen Schuster, UoT, Canada
Myofibroblasts
 
15.00-17.00Demonstration lab work
Student group work
 

Thursday

 - Tissue fibrosis
 
9.15- 10.00Madeleine Durbeej-Hjalt, Lund Univ., Sweden
Laminin-muscular dystrophy     
 
10.15-11.00Andreas Romaine, UiO, Norway
Heart Fibrosis  1
 
11.15-12.00Lunch 
12.00-13.00Chris McCulloch, UoT, Canada
Methods for discovery of new proteins that mediate remodeling of the extracellular matrix 
 
13.15-14.00Wayne Carver, USC, USA
Heart Fibrosis  2
 
14.30-15.15Andrew Leask, USask, Canada
The multifaceted role of CCN proteins in fibrotic stroma
 
15.15-17.00Demonstrations/Lab work
Student group work   
 

Friday

 - Tumor fibrosis
 
9.15-10.00Daniela E. Costea, UiB
CAF heterogeneity 1
 
10.15-12.00Presentation of group work    
12.00-13.15Lunch 
13.15-14.00Roya Navab, UoT, Canada
CAF heterogeneity 2
 
14.15-15.00Roger Oria-Fernandez, UCSF, USA
Mechanostransduction in cancer
 
15.00-16.00Martin Decaris, Pliant Therapeutics, USA
Integrins in fibrosis  
 

*) CEST = Central European Summer Time