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
7:30 Breakfast
8:30 Keynote Lecture: Paul Kubes (University of Calgary, Canada) (35 min presentation + 5 min discussion)
9:10 Session #1: HA Metabolism and Synthesis
- 2 25-minute invited talks (20 + 5); 3 15-minute talks chosen from abstracts (10 + 5)
10:45 Coffee Break
11:25 Session #2: Biophysics and Structural Biology of HA
- 2 25-minute invited talks; 4 15-minute talks chosen from abstracts
13:15 Lunch on your own
14:45 Session #3; HA in Signaling and Cellular Biology
- 2 25-minute invited talks; 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
7:30 Breakfast
8:30 Endre Balazs & Janet Denlinger Award Lecture – 2021 Recipient Aaron Petrey (20 + 5)
9:00 Session #4: New Therapeutics and Biotechnological Applications of HA
- 2 25-minute invited talks; 3 15-minute talks chosen from abstracts
10:35 Coffee Break
11:25 Session #5: HA in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
- 2 25-minute invited talks; 4 15-minute talks chosen from abstracts
13:05 Poster Preview #2
1:15 Lunch and Free Time
17:30 Poster Session (with wine and cheese)
19:30 Dinner on your own
Wednesday - June 7
8:30 Keynote Lecture: Jonathan P. Sleeman (University of Heidelberg, Germany) (35 + 5)
9:10 Session #6: HA in Neurobiology
- 2 25-minute invited talks; 3 15-minute talks chosen from abstracts
10:45 Coffee Break
11:25 Session #7: HA in Viral Biology
- 2 25-minute invited talks; 4 15-minute talks chosen from abstracts
13:15 Lunch on your own
14:50 Session #8: HA in Cancer Biology
- 2 25-minute invited talks; 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
7:30 Breakfast
8:30 Session #9: HA in Inflammation and Immunology
- 2 25-minute invited talks; 3 15-minute talks chosen from abstracts
10:05 Coffee Break
10:45 Session #10: HA in Development and Aging
- 2 25-minute invited talks; 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