Epithelial Research Group

Programme

Final programme.pdf

Invited Speakers

Development of Epithelial Structures

• Stem cells and the organisation of the gut
  Nick Wright Barts & the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, UK www
  
  
• Conversion of pancreas to liver
  David Tosh University of Bath, UK www
  
  
• Nephronophthisis - disease mechanisms of a ciliopathy
  John Sayer Newcastle University, UK www
  
  
• Branching morphogenesis: a closer view using live imaging
  Markus Affolter University of Basel, Switzerland www
  
  
• Signaling to the cytoskeleton by pH sensing
  Diane Barber University of California San Francisco, USA www

Physiology and Pathophysiology of Epithelial Solute Transport

• Molecular imaging of P-glycoprotein activity at the human and non-human primate blood-brain and blood-placental barriers
  Jashvant Unadkat University of Washington Seattle, USA www
  
  
• Disorders of neutral amino acid transport
  Stefan Broer Australian National University, Australia www
  
  
• Aquaporin water channels: from atomic structure to malaria
  Peter Agre John Hopkins University, USA www
  
  
• Intestinal sugar absorption via GLUT2: from mice to humans
  Edith Brot-Laroche Cordelier Research Center, France www
  
  
• Epithelial zinc transport and its regulation in health and disease
  Dianne Ford Newcastle University, UK www

Epithelia Under Stress

• Title: TBC
  Richard Boucher University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, USA www
  
  
• Pathophysiology of epithelial Ca²⁺ signalling
  Ole Petersen University of Liverpool, UK www
  
  
• Title: TBC
  Marshall Montrose University of Cincinnati, USA www
  
  
• Creating selectivity in paracellular transport
  James Anderson University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, USA www
  
  
• Title: TBC
  Tomas Ganz University of California Los Angeles, USA www

Biller Prize Lecture

• The physiological roles of urea transporters
  Gavin Stewart University College Dublin, Ireland www

Meeting Poster

Meeting poster pdf