Inaugural UVA Pannexin Conference Schedule
Schedule for Pannexin Symposium
Friday, October 28th, 2016
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Jordan Hall Conference Center
8:30AM Breakfast
9:00AM – 10:40AM Session 1: Chaired by Douglas Bayliss
9:00AM – 9:40AM J. Kevin Foskett – University of Pennsylvania “Molecular Physiology of CALHM Ion Channels”
9:45AM – 10:10AM Doug Bayliss – UVA “Properties and Activation Mechanisms of Pannexin 1 Channels”
10:15AM – 10:25AM Chris Medina – UVA “Pannexin 1 in Allergic Airway Inflammation”
10:30AM – 10:40AM Carissa James – Virginia Tech “Alternate Translational Initiation Limits Gap Junction Formation During Epithelial-mesenchymal transition”
10:45AM -11:00AM Coffee Break
11:00AM – 12:30PM Session 2: Chaired by Brant Isakson
11:00AM – 11:40AM Dale W. Laird – University of Western Ontario “Pannexins: From Early Days to Emerging Links to Disease”
11:45AM – 11:55AM Roger Thompson – University of Calgary ” Pannexin-1 Modulates Glutamatergic Transmission by Regulating Synaptic Anandamide Concentration”
12:00PM – 12:10PM Leigh Anne Swayne – University of Victoria ” P2X7 Receptor Crosstalk Regulates ATP-induced Pannexin 1 Internalization”
12:15PM – 12:25PM Georg R. Zoidl – York University “Compensatory Regulation of Panx3 in the Vomeronasal Organ of the Panx1 Knockout Mouse”
12:30PM – 1:30PM Luncheon Break – Boxed Lunch Selections
1:30PM – 3:00PM Session 3: Chaired by Kodi Ravichandran
1:30PM – 2:10PM Doug R. Green – St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital “LC3-associated Phagocytosis: Two Ancient Pathways Collide in Innate Immunity”
2:15PM – 2:25PM Silvia Penuela – University of Western Ontario “Panx1 Channels Regulate Early Adipocyte Development and Fat Accumulation”
2:30PM – 2:40PM Miranda Good – UVA ” Pannexin1 in Endothelium Can Regulate Cerebral Myogenic Tone Development and Severity of Ischemic Stroke”
2:45PM – 2:55PM Ashish Sharma – UVA “Pannexin-1 Channels on Endothelial Cells Regulate Lung Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury”
3:00PM – 3:15PM Break
3:15PM – 5:00PM Session 4: Chaired by Norbert Leitinger
3:15PM – 3:55PM Simon C. Robson – Dana-Farber, Harvard Cancer Center “CD30 and Purinergic Signaling: Conditioning of Immune Responses in Inflammatory Disease”
4:00PM- 4:10PM Subramanian Senthivinayagam – UVA “Essential Role for Pannexin 1 (Panx1) in Cold/ß3-adrenergic activation of Brown Adipose Function”
4:15PM – 4:25PM Nicole Görldt – UVA ” Fibroblast CD73 Controls the Interstitial Adenosine Microenvironment, Inflammation and Fibrosis after Kidney Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury (IRI)”
4:30PM – 4:40PM Eduardo R. Lazarowski – University of North Carolina ” Pannexin 1 Contributes to Airway Epithelial Mucociliary Clearance”
4:45PM – 5:00PM Bimal Desai – UVA “Regulation of T-cell Development by Ion Channel TRPM7”
5:15PM – 7:15PM Poster Session from All submitted Abstracts and Dinner