Inaugural SOCRATES Scientific Meeting 2013 Programs & Speakers
Overview
24 October 2013, Thursday (Day 1)
| Time | Details |
|---|---|
| 0800 – 0850hrs | Registration & Coffee/ Tea |
| 0850 – 0855hrs | Welcome Speech Prof Chuen Neng Lee President SOCRATES Chairman, University Surgical Cluster, NUHS, SINGAPORE |
| 0855 – 0900hrs | Opening Address by Guest of Honour Mr Chuan Poh Lim Chairman, A*STAR, SINGAPORE |
| 0900 – 0930hrs | Clinical Applications for Extracellular Vesicles, An Overview Prof Ralf Huss Chief Scientific Officer, Apceth GmbH & Co. KG, GERMANY |
| SESSION I | Diagnostics Chairpersons: Dr Lim Sai Kiang / Prof Gerard Pasterkamp |
| 0930 – 1000hrs | Circulating miRNAs in Prognosis and Diagnosis of Cardiovascular Disease Prof Mark Richards Professor in Medicine and Director Cardiovascular Research Institute, NUHS, SINGAPORE |
| 1000 – 1030hrs | Plasma Vesicles in High Risk Pregnancy Prof Kok Hian Tan Chairman, Division of O&G, KKH Academic Chair of Singhealth Duke-NUS OBGYN ACP, SINGAPORE |
| 1030 – 1100hrs | Coffee / Tea Break |
| 1100 – 1130hrs | Protein Vesicle Content and Cardiovascular Disease Prof Dominique de Kleijn Surgery National University of Singapore; Preclinical Director, Cardiovascular Research Institute (CVRI), NUHS, SINGAPORE |
| 1130 – 1200hrs | Proteomics of Cancer Extracellular Vesicles Prof Richard J. Simpson La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science (LIMS) La Trobe University, AUSTRALIA |
| 1200 – 1230hrs Lunch Talk | Characterisation of Exosomes and Microvesicles using Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis Mr Ben Owen Product Specialist & Business Development Manager, Nanosight |
| 1230 – 1330hrs | Lunch |
| SESSION II | Educational Course by International Society of Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV) Chairpersons: Prof Dominique de Kleijn / Prof Mark Richard |
| 1330 – 1400hrs | Extracellular Vesicles: Nomenclature, History and Biological Importance Assoc Prof Yong Song Gho Division of Molecular and Life Sciences Pohang University of Science and Technology, SOUTH KOREA |
| 1400 – 1430hrs | Stem Cell Biology and Extracellular Vesicles Dr Sai Kiang Lim Research Director, A*STAR Institute of Medical Biology, SINGAPORE |
| 1430 – 1500hrs | Extracellular Vesicles in the Central Nervous System Asst. Prof Lawrence Rajendran Division of Psychiatry Research, ETH Zurich, Zurich, SWITZERLAND |
| 1500 – 1530hrs | Coffee / Tea Break |
| 1530 – 1600hrs | The Role of Extracellular Vesicles in Cancer and Potential for Therapy Prof Dwijendra Gupta Department of Bio-Chemistry, University of Allahabad, INDIA |
| 1600 – 1630hrs | Dissecting the Content of Exosomes and Other Extracellular Vesicles Prof Richard Simpson La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science (LIMS) La Trobe University, AUSTRALIA |
| 1630 – 1700hrs | Microvesicular Biomarkers of Glioma – A Model for Consortium Studies Assoc Prof Fred Hochberg Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School Neurologist, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA |
| 1900 – 2200hrs | SPEAKERS DINNER (By invitation) |
25 October 2013, Thursday (Day 2)
| Time | Details |
|---|---|
| SESSION III | Therapeutics Chairpersons: Prof Lee Chuen Neng / Prof Gert Storm |
| 0830 – 0900hrs | Registration & Coffee/ Tea |
| 0900 – 0930hrs | Genetic Approaches to Understand EV Biogenesis and Protein Budding Prof Stephen Gould Department of Biological Chemistry, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA |
| 0930 – 1000hrs | Biochemical Potential of MSC Exosomes Dr Ruenn Chai Lai Research Fellow, Exosomes and Secreted Nano-vesicles A*STAR Institute of Medical Biology, SINGAPORE |
| 1000 – 1030hrs | Vesicles and Kidney Failure Prof Marianne Verhaar Head Dept Nephrology and Hypertension, UMC Utrecht, NETHERLANDS |
| 1030 – 1100hrs | Coffee/ Tea Break |
| 1100 – 1130hrs | Synthetic Vesicles Prof Gert Storm Department of Pharmaceutics, Utrecht University, NETHERLANDS |
| 1130 – 1200hrs | Capturing EpCAM Positive Exosomes by Peptide Aptamer-Immobilized Materials Prof Kiyotaka Shiba Division Chief of Protein Engineering Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, JAPAN |
| 1200 – 1215hrs Selected Abstract | Protein Composition of Malassezia Sympodialis Extracellular Vesicles Prof Annika Scheynius Department of Medicine Solna, Translational Immunology Unit Karolinska University Hopsital, SWEDEN |
| 1215 – 1230hrs Selected Abstract | Urinary Exosomes for Cancer Biomarker Discovery Dr Lingzhi Wang Research Fellow, Experimental Therapeutics, Cancer Institute of Singapore, SINGAPORE |
| 1230– 1330hrs | Lunch |
| SESSION IV | Platforms Chairpersons: Prof Tan Kok Hian / Prof Marianne Verhaar |
| 1330 – 1400hrs | Biobanking & Applications (General) Prof Gerard Pasterkamp Department of Cardiology, UMC Utrecht, NETHERLANDS |
| 1400 – 1430hrs | Asian Biobanking Dr Mark Chan Yan Yee Cardiac Department, National University Heart Centre Singapore, SINGAPORE |
| 1430 – 1500hrs | Proteomics A/Prof Siu Kwan Sze Director of Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry Facility, School of Biological Sciences, NTU, SINGAPORE |
| 1500 – 1530hrs | Coffee/ Tea Break |
| 1530 – 1600hrs | Uncovering RNA biomarkers in Exosomes and Microvesicles: The Power of Deep RNA Sequencing Dr Alexander Lezhava Group Leader, Translational Research, Genome Institute of Singapore, SINGAPORE |
| 1600 – 1630hrs | Native and artificial extracellular vesicles: Characterizing and manipulating their properties – From single cells to single molecules Prof Horst Vogel Biophysical Chemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne SWITZERLAND |
| 1630 – 1700hrs | The US National Institute of Health (NIH) Extracellular RNA Communication Program Dr Danilo Tagle Associate Director for Special Initiatives, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, USA |
| Closure | |
| 1700 – 1710hrs | Closing Speech Prof Chuen Neng Lee President SOCRATES Chairman, University Surgical Cluster, NUHS, SINGAPORE |
| 1710 – 1830hrs | Networking Coffee / Tea (All are invited) |
Venue
Matrix, A*STAR Biopolis, Singapore
Date
24 – 25 October 2013
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