CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Inaugural Joint Annual Scientific Meeting of:
AVBS  ANZMS  AAVBM

Australian Vascular Biology Society
Australia New Zealand Microcirculation Society
Asia Australia Vascular Biology Meeting
September 19-22, 2019, Sydney AUSTRALIA

Asia/Australia Vascular
Biology Meeting
Thursday September 19th [WCI 2019 Joint Plenary Sessions]
The meeting will commence with a joint session co-hosted with WCIICC Sydney is easily accessible by public transport, including light rail, ferry and train and is only a 10-minute walk from Central and Town Hall trainstations. Secure parking is available and conveniently located within the Darling Harbour precinct. For further information, visit the ICC Sydney website.

13:30 – 15:00

07.30 – 09.00

Registration

09.30 – 10.15

Plenary 5
Vishva Dixit

10.15 – 11.00

Plenary 5
Elaine Holmes

11.00 – 11.30

Morning Tea

11.30 – 12.15

Plenary 6
Joint WCI/Vascular Biology Session
Ken Walsh12.15 – 13.00

Plenary 6
Paul Kubes

13:00 – 13:30

Presentation of Awards and Closing Ceremony

Transfer from ICC to Holme Building,
Science Road, University of Sydney NSW 2006

Thursday September 19th [University of Sydney, Holme Building]

Friday September 20th15.00 – 15.30

Registration

09.00 – 10.45

15.30 – 15.45

Welcome to AAVBM/AVBS/ANZMS Joint Meeting
AVBS/ANZMS - Society Presidents Natasha Harvey andGeorges Grau
AAVBM meeting coordinators – Natasha Harvey, Simone
Schoenwaelder and Ben Hogan

15.45 – 17.25

15.45
16.05
16.25
16.45
17.05
17.30 – 18.00

Session 1: Building the vasculature
AAVBM/AVBS/ANZMS Joint Session
Chairs: Natasha Harvey and Ben Hogan
Naoki Mochizuki Japan
Injune Kim Korea
Li-Kun Phng Japan
Jono Astin New Zealand
Yoshiaki Kubota JapanECR Session 1: Short talks selected from abstracts
6 x 5 minute talks selected from the most outstanding
abstracts; students
and postdocs.

18.00 – 18.30

Plenary 1
Chair: Georges Grau
Jenny Gamble, Australia - Endothelium and aging

18.30 – 20.00

BBQ dinner

20.00 – 22.00

Posters and discussion

09.00
09.20
09.40
10.00
10.20

Session 2: Lymphangiogenesis
AAVBM/AVBS/ANZMS Joint Session
Chairs: Tara Karnezis and Gou Young Koh
Mathias Francois Australia
Tetsuro Watabe Japan
Tara Karnezis Australia
Masanori Hirashima Japan
Natalie Trevaskis Australia

10.45 – 11.15

Coffee break

11.15 – 13.00

Session 3: Angiogenesis
AAVBM/AVBS/ANZMS Joint Session
Chairs: Emma Gordon and Ho Jeong Kwon

11.15
11.35
11.55
12.15
12.35

Young Guen Kwon Korea
Xuri Li China
Christina Bursill Australia
Goo Taeg Oh Korea
Kyoko Hida Japan

13.00 – 14.00

Lunch break

14.00 – 15.40

Session 4: Inflammation and the vasculature
AAVBM/AVBS/ANZMS Joint Session
Chairs: Mary Kavurma and Jin Han

14.00
14.20
14.40
15.00
15.20
15.40 – 16.10

Connie Wong Australia
Veronique Angeli Singapore
Hironori Nakagami JapanMichael Hickey Australia
Masayuki Yoshida Japan
Coffee break16.00 – 17.40

16.00
16.20
16.4017.00
17.20Session 5: Stem cells and the vasculature
AAVBM/AVBS/ANZMS Joint Session
Chairs: Claudine Bonder and Masayuki Yoshida
Susan Nilsson Australia
Yoo Wook Kwon Korea
Jaeho Kim Korea
Andrew Murphy Australia
Samir Taoudi Australia

17.45 – 18.45

Plenaries 2 and 3
Chairs: Michael Hickey and Natalie Trevaskis
Paul Kubes, Canada - Immunology of microcirculation
Nobuyuki Takakura, Japan

Selected from Abstracts x 2
12.45 – 13.5

Lunch break
Lunch workshop for ECR grant funding

13.45– 15.15 Session 8: Atherothrombosis and thrombo-inflammation
AVBS/ANZMS Joint Session
Chairs: Simone Schoenwaelder and Elizabeth Gardiner
13.5
Freda Passam
14.05 Elizabeth Gardiner14.25 Mike Wu
Selected from Abstracts x 2
15.15 – 15.45Coffee breakSaturday September 21st
09.00 – 10.45

Session 6: Diabetes and the vasculature
AVBS/ANZMS Joint Session
Chairs: Shane Thomas & John O’Sullivan

09.00 Emad M El-Omar
09.20 Tim Murphy
09.40 James McFadyen
10.00 Dino Premilovac
Selected from Abstracts x 2
10.45 – 11.15

Coffee break

11.15 – 12.45 Session 7: Mechanosensing in the blood and vasculature/devices
AVBS/ANZMS Joint Session
Chairs: Arnold Ju & Zhiyong Li
11.15 Alpha Yap
11.35 Charles Cox
11.55 Sara Baratchi

15.45 – 17.15

Session 9: Cerebrovascular biology and disease
AVBS/ANZMS Joint Session
Chairs: Michael De Silva and Chris Sobey

15.45 Simon Hawke
16.05 Felix Marsh
16.25 Rebecca Lim
Selected from Abstracts x 2
17.15 – 18.45 Session 10: Microvasculature adaptations (in pregnancy andperinatal outcomes)
AVBS/ANZMS Joint Session
Chairs: Sarah Marshall and Laura Parry
17.15 Sarah Marshall
17.35 Ian Wright17.55 Rebecca Dyson
Selected from Abstracts x 2Sunday September 22nd
09.00 – 10.30

Session 11: Vascular Remodelling and mechanisms(smoothmuscle/endothelium/nerves).
AVBS/ANZMS Joint Session
Chairs: Marianne Tare and David Wilson
09.00 Ashish Misra
09.20 Maria Jelinic
09.30 Chen Leo
09.40 Yugeesh Lankadeva
Selected from Abstracts x 1

10.30 – 11.00

Coffee break

11.00 – 12.00

Session 12: The tumour vasculature
AVBS/ANZMS Joint Session
Chairs: Ruth Ganss and Sian Cartland
11.00
11.30
11.40

12.00 – 13.00

Ruth Ganss
Claudine Bonder
Elham Beheshti

Plenaries 4 and 5
Chairs: Elham Beheshti & Georges GrauDolores Di Vizio (USA) – Extracellular vesicles and tumour
microenvironment
Steven Stacker (Australia) - TBA
13.00 – 13.15

Awards and closing

13.15 – 13.45 Lunch and departure