Extracellular Matrix in Health and Disease Symposium

Bjorn R. Olsen, MD, PhD

The Extracellular Matrix in Health and Disease Symposium will be held at Harvard on April 14-15, 2011. The conference concentrates on vascular biology and skeletal development, and includes a talk on fibrillin that links the two topics in a novel way. The linkage of vascular and osteogenic biology should yield a very thought provoking conference. Those working on osteogenesis and the role of the vasculature in cancer will find this conference of interest.

DATE and PLACE

Thursday, April 14, 2011, 5pm-9pm, Science Blast

REB Auditorium, 190 Longwood Avenue, Boston

• Scientists may present their latest data in 5 minutes using up to 3 slides

Friday, April 15, 2011, 8am-5pm, Symposium

Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston

• Session 1   8:15am-12:00pm 
  Skeletal Development and Disease
• Box Lunch and Poster Session 12:00pm-1:45pm
• Session 2   1:45pm -5:30pm 
  Vascular Biology and Pathology

REGISTRATION
Science Blast and Symposium: To register, click here.
Advanced registration $75; student registration(requires photo ID) $25.
After March 1, 2011: registration $100; student registration $50.
Donations are accepted on the registration website.

BUFFET DINNER HONORING DR. BJORN OLSEN
April 15, 2011, 6:00pm-10:00pm, Joseph B. Martin Conference Center
Cost is $50 payable on the registration site.
Dinner registration deadline is April 8.

ABSTRACTS
Science Blast and/or poster session
Abstract total 300 words, 1/2 page single spaced.
Please send abstracts to: Ksvoboda@bcd.tamhsc.edu and include "EMHDS Abstract" on the subject line. Please indicate your willingness to present a 5 minute Science Blast talk and/or a poster.

HOTEL
Rooms have been reserved at the Best Western Boston, the Inn at Longwood Medical.  To reserve a room and get the negotiated rate of $165 plus tax, please call 1-800-GOT-BEST and identify yourself as an attendee of the "Scientific Symposium at HSDM". Reservations must be made prior to March 24, 2011, and we recommend booking early as the Boston Marathon is held April 18, 2011.

For additional information, please see the informational flyer.

QUESTIONS

Call Susan Mitchell or Laura Broughton at 617-432-1401 or Kathy Svoboda at Baylor College of Dentistry, Texas A&M University, Marion Gordon at the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute, Rutgers University.