We invite all our members and other interested parties to join us for an afternoon full of exciting matrix talks and networking.
Deadline for abstract submission: October 11, 2024
Deadline for registration: October 30, 2024
Best oral presentation: DSMB will award the best young investigator oral presentation (marked with * in programme) with a travel award worth 2000 kr generously sponsored by Tebubio
The DSMB annual meeting is free for all members of the Danish Society for Matrix Biology and the Danish Biochemical Society. If you wish to sign up for this event, please first register as a member.
Program
13.00 – 13.05 Welcome
13.05 – 13.45 Andrea Heinz (LEO Foundation Center for Cutaneous Drug Delivery, Department of Pharmacy, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
“Elastic fibers – molecular assembly and ageing”
13.45 – 14.05 Elena Vidal-Calvo (Centre for Translational Medicine and Parasitology, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of Copenhagen & VAR2 Pharmaceuticals ApS, Copenhagen, Denmark)
“Clinical potential of oncofetal-chondroitin sulfate glycosaminoglycans, agnostic tumor target for pan-cancer therapies”
14.05 - 14. 25 Chiara Tremolanti (Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden)
“The Role of Heparan Sulfate Sulfatases in the Development of Midbrain Dopaminergic Neurons”
14.25 – 14.40 Johanna Kate Farley* (Lund University, Sweden)
“A mechanistic role of syndecan-1 and calcium in epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition”
14.40 – 14.55 Emma-Marie Bredtoft* (Nordic Bioscience & KeyBioscience & Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
"Inhibiting local active BIGH3 attenuates pathological TGF-B-induced fibrosis progression in vitro"
14:55 – 15:30 Coffee break (funded by European Union Horizon 2020)
15:20 – 15:30 DSMB AGM
15:30 – 15:50 Kevin Baker (Center for Cancer Immune Therapy, Herlev Hospital, Denmark)
"Hypoxia-regulated ECM changes alter key immune cell population phenotypes in the tumor microenvironment"
15:50 – 16:10 Casper Søndenbroe (Institute of Sports Medicine Copenhagen, Bispebjerg Hospital, Denmark)
“Muscle Fibroblasts and Stem Cells Stimulate Motor Neurons in An Age and Exercise-Dependent Manner”
16:10 – 16:25 Asta Skovgaard Eriksen* (Institute of Sports Medicine Copenhagen, Bispebjerg Hospital, Denmark)
"The Effect of Dynamic Loading and Unloading on Non-Myogenic Muscle Resident Cells in Vitro"
16.25 – 16.40 Ask Møbjerg* (Institute of Sports Medicine Copenhagen, Bispebjerg Hospital, Denmark)
"An in vitro model to investigate the influence of mechanical loading on the mammalian tenocyte circadian"
16.40 – 16.55 Danielle Steffen* (Institute of Sports Medicine Copenhagen, Bispebjerg Hospital, Denmark)
"Single nucleus resolution of the human hamstring tendon response to acute heavy resistance exercise"
16.55 – 17:10 Sara Jørgensen* (Department of Vascular Surgery, Rigshospitalet & Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
"IGF-1 treatment of ex vivo cultured atherosclerotic plaques decreases synthesis of MMP-9"
17.10 – 17.20 Closing remarks
17.20 – 18.00 Networking with light refreshments
