Sunday - June 4
18:00 Welcome & Start of Meeting
18:15 Rooster Prize: Talks and Award Presentation
19:30 Reception (Rooftop Banquet Room)
Monday – June 5
07:30 Breakfast
08:30 Keynote Lecture: Paul Kubes (University of Calgary, Canada) (35 min presentation + 5 min discussion)
09:10 Session #1: HA Metabolism and Synthesis (Chairs: Davide Vigetti and Yu Yamaguchi)
09:10 Yu Yamaguchi (Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA)(20 min presentation + 5 min discussion)
09:35 Yi Zhu (Baylor College or Medicine, Houston, TX, USA)(20 min presentation + 5 min discussion)
10:00 3 15-minute talks chosen from abstracts (10 + 5)
10:45 Coffee Break
11:25 Session #2: Biophysics and Structural Biology of HA (Chairs: Jennifer Curtis and Jochen Zimmer)
11:25 Jochen Zimmer (University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA) (20 min presentation + 5 min discussion)
11:50 Julien Vermot (Imperial College London, UK)(20 min presentation + 5 min discussion)
12:15 4 15-minute talks chosen from abstracts
13:15 Lunch on your own
14:45 Session #3: HA in Signaling and Cellular Biology (Chairs: Soma Meran and Taasin Srivastava)
14:45 Speaker: Soma Meran (Cardiff University, UK) (20 min presentation + 5 min discussion)
15:10 Speaker: Harry Karmouty Quintana (UTHealth McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX, USA) (20 min presentation + 5 min discussion)
15:35 4 15-minute talks chosen from abstracts
16:35 Poster Preview #1
16:45 Break
17:30 Poster Session (with wine and cheese)
19:30 Dinner on your own
Tuesday - June 6
07:30 Breakfast
08:30 Endre Balazs & Janet Denlinger Award Lecture – 2021 Recipient Aaron Petrey (20 + 5)
09:00 Session #4: New Therapeutics and Biotechnological Applications of HA (Chairs: Nadine Nagy and Hideto Watanabe)
09:00 Nadine Nagy (Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA) (20 min presentation and 5 min discussion)
09:25 Helena Azevedo (Queen Mary University of London, London, UK) (20 min presentation and 5 min discussion)
09:50 3 15-minute talks chosen from abstracts
10:35 Coffee Break
11:25 Session #5: HA in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (Chairs: Jane Grande-Allen and Sundeep Keswani)
11:25 Sundeep Keswani (Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX, USA) (20 min presentation + 5 min discussion)
11:50 Jason Burdick (University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA) (20 min presentation + 5 min discussion)
12:15 3 15-minute talks chosen from abstracts
13:05 Poster Preview #2
13:15 Lunch and Free Time
17:30 Poster Session (with wine and cheese)
19:30 Dinner on your own
Wednesday - June 7
Dinner Cruise07:30 Breakfast
08:30 Keynote Lecture: Jonathan P. Sleeman (University of Heidelberg, Germany) (35 + 5)
09:10 Session #6: HA in Neurobiology (Chairs: Hedwich Kuipers and Jessica Kwok)
09:10 Jessica Kwok (University of Leeds, Leeds, UK) (20 min presentation + 5 min discussion)
09:35 Justin Dean (University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand) (20 min presentation + 5 min discussion)
10:00 3 15-minute talks chosen from abstracts
10:45 Coffee Break
11:25 Session #7: HA in Viral Biology (Chairs: Stavros Garantziotis and Paraskevi Heldin)
11:25 Stavros Garantziotis (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Durham, NC, USA) (20 min presentation + 5 min discussion)
11:50 Stephen Reeves (University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA) (20 min presentation +5 min discussion)
13:15 Lunch on your own
14:50 Session #8: HA in Cancer Biology (Chairs: Spencer Freeman and Melanie Simpson)
14:50 Spencer Freeman (Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada) (20 min presentation + 5 min discussion)
15:15 Kirsi Rilla (University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland) (20 min presentation + 5 min discussion)
15: 40 4 15-minute talks chosen from abstracts
16:40 Coffee Break
17:00 ISHAS Business Meeting/Informal Poster Viewing
18:45 Walk to Docks
19:30 Conference Dinner Cruise
Thursday - June 8
07:30 Breakfast
08:30 Session #9: HA in Inflammation and Immunology (Chairs: Mariah Grandoch and David Jackson)
08:30 Mariah Grandoch (University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany) (20 min presentation + 5 min discussion)
08:55 Hedwich Kuipers (Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA) (20 min presentation + 5 min discussion)
09:20 3 15-minute talks chosen from abstracts
10:05 Coffee Break
10:45 Session #10: HA in Development and Aging (Chairs: Edward Harris; Barbara Triggs-Raine)
10:45 Edward Harris (University of Nebraska, NE, USA) )(20 min presentation + 5 min discussion)
11:10 Kaylee Schwertfeger (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA)(20 min presentation + 5 min discussion)
11:35 3 15-minute talks chosen from abstracts
12:20 Short break
12:30 Endre Balazs & Janet Denlinger Award Lecture – 2023 Recipient (TBD) (20 + 5)
13:00 Prize Giving
13:10 Closing Remarks & End of Meeting