ASMB 2016 Biennial Meeting Scientific Program
The ECM Microenvironment: A Regulatory Force in Aging and Disease
November 13-16, 2016
St. Petersburg, Florida

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Program-at-a-Glance

Sunday, November 13th

1:00-2:30pm Guest Symposia and Trainee Led Sessions
Guest Symposium I: Tissue Engineering Regenerative Medicine International Society-Americas (TERMIS-AM)
Trainee Led Session: Extracellular Matrix Dynamics in Development and Disease
Trainee Led Session: Cilia, Inflammation, and Fibrosis in the Kidney and Liver
2:45-4:15pm Guest Symposia and Trainee Led Sessions
Guest Symposium II: CCN Society
Trainee Led Session: ECM in Vascular Development
Trainee Led Session: Unveiling the Mechanisms of Novel ECM-Modifying Proteases: Focus on Substrates
4:30-6:45 pm President’s Welcome and Award Talks

6:45-8:00 pm Opening Reception

8:00-8:45 pm Keynote Lecture – Judith Campisi, Buck Institute for Research on Aging

Monday, November 14th

7:30-8:30 am Career Mentoring Breakfast (RSVP required, space limited)

8:30-10:00 am Plenary I: Linking Metabolic Disease with the ECM Microenvironment

10:30-12:00 pm Plenary II: ECM dysfunction in Aging and Fibrosis

12:00-12:30 pm ASMB Business Meeting

12:30-2:30 pm Poster Session I – Lunch

2:30-4:00 pm Concurrent Sessions
Concurrent A: ECM Proteomics, Structure, Assembly, and Cross-linking
Concurrent B: Signaling from the ECM: Cell Matrix Interactions and ECM Growth Factor Regulation
Concurrent C: Tumor Microenvironment

4:30-6:00 pm Concurrent Sessions
Concurrent D: Basement Membranes
Concurrent E: Proteoglycans and Glycosylation
Concurrent F: ECM: Immunity, Inflammation, and Infection

Tuesday, November 15th

7:30-8:30 am Women Mentoring Women Breakfast (RSVP Required, space limited)

8:30-10:00 am Plenary III: ECM in Regenerative Medicine and the Stem Cell Niche – Featuring the ISMB Distinguished Investigator Award Lecture

10:30-12:00 pm Plenary IV: Novel Mechanisms of ECM Regulation

12:00-2:00 pm Poster Session II – Lunch

2:00-3:30 pm Concurrent Sessions
Concurrent G: ECM in Fibrosis: Liver, Lung, Kidney
Concurrent H: ECM in Cardiovascular Disease
Concurrent I: Integrins and Novel Receptor Systems

4:00-5:30 pm Concurrent Sessions
Concurrent J: Proteases and Their Inhibitors
Concurrent K: Mechanobiology
Concurrent L: ECM in Musculoskeletal Diseases

7:00-11:00 pm Banquet – Dali Museum
(Advanced ticket purchase required.)

Wednesday, November 16th

7:30-8:30 am Volunteer Breakfast (All current and future volunteers welcome.)

9:30-11:00 am Plenary V: Therapeutics to Regulate ECM in Diseases – Featuring the ISMB-ASMB Ruth Chiquet-Ehrissman Memorial Lecture

11:30am -1:00 pm Concurrent Sessions
Concurrent M: ECM in Wound Healing and Skin Diseases
Concurrent N: ECM in Morphogenesis
Concurrent O: ECM in Exosomes: Intercellular Communication