Dundee ANGIONET MEETING 20-22 April 2009 | Angionet home page

The Dundee 2009 ANGIONET meeting will be in the Westpark Centre, Dundee on Monday 20 to Wednesday 22 April 2009.

Confirmed speakers (see below for the full schedule):

Andrew Baker, Glasgow Cardiovascular Unit
Katie Bentley - Cancer Research UK, London
Federico Bussolino - School of Medicine, University of Torino
Marcus Fruttiger - Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL
Peter Hoskins - Medical Physics, University of Edinburgh
Petros Koumoutsakos - Computational Science and Engineering Laboratory, ETHZ, Switzerland
J Krishnan - Imperial College
Quan Long - Bioengineering, Brunel
Xiao Yu Luo - Mathematics, Glasgow
Heiko Rieger - Theoretical Physics, Saarland University
Ana Schor - School of Dentistry, Dundee
Dominik Szczerba - Computer Vision Laboratory, ETHZ, Switzerland
Rebecca Shipley - Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Simon Tazzyman - School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, University of Sheffield

There will be opportunities for contributed oral presentations. We particularly encourage contributions from early-stage researchers. You can submit an abstract when you register.

There will be an excursion to Glamis Castle on the afternoon of Tuesday 21 April, followed by the conference dinner.

Registration

Please note that ANGIONET can cover reasonable costs for travel and accommodation within the UK, and there is no registration fee.
Follow this link to register for the Dundee 2009 ANGIONET meeting.

Travel:

There are scheduled flights to Dundee Airport from:

Otherwise, it is feasible to fly to Edinburgh and then to Dundee by rail or taxi (we can arrange this).

Schedule:

Monday 20 April 2009
10.00 Registration and refreshments
11.00 Mark Chaplain: Introduction and Overview
11.15 Federico Bussolino (University of Torino): Remodelling vascular tree
12.00 Ana Schor (School of Dentistry, Dundee): The role of MSF in the induction and survival of new blood vessels
12:45 Discussion
1.00 Lunch
2.30

Andrew Baker (Glasgow Cardiovascular Unit): Using viruses to manipulate cardiovascular phenotypes
3.15 Katie Bentley (Cancer Research UK, London Research Institute): Robustness of tip cell selection in sprouting angiogenesis
4.00 Afternoon tea
4:30 Rebecca Shipley (OCIAM, Oxford): Predicting the Dependence of Tumour Blood and Drug Perfusion on Vascular Structure
5.15 Close
7.30 Dinner
Tuesday 21 April 2009
9.00 Peter Hoskins (Medical Physics, Edinburgh): Measurement of haemodynamics and wall stress in arterial disease using imaging and image guided modelling
9.45 Quan Long (Bioengineering, Brunel): Numerical study of blood perfusion in 3D solid tumour with “normalized” microvasculature
10.30 Morning coffee
11.15 Xiao Yu Luo (Mathematics, Glasgow): The cascade instability structure in collapsible channel flows
12.00 J Krishnan (Chemical Engineering, Imperial): Mathematical modelling of eukaryotic  chemotaxis at the single cell level
12.45 Discussion
1.00 Lunch
2.30 Poster session
4.00 Excursion to Glamis Castle
7.00 Conference Dinner
Wednesday 22 April 2009
9.00 Marcus Fruttiger (Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL): What do blood vessels need to grow?
9.45 Heiko Rieger (Theoretical Physics, Saarland University): A theoretical model for vascular network remodelling
during tumour growth
10.30 Morning coffee
11.15 Dominik Szczerba (ETHZ, Switzerland): Implicit and Explicit Models of Vascular Networks in Tumors
12.00 Simon Tazzyman (Medicine, Sheffield): Visualising blood flow in human tumour xenografts grown in zebrafish embryos
12.45 Discussion
1.00 Lunch
2.30 Petros Koumoutsakos (ETHZ, Switzerland): Simulations of Tumor Induced Angiogenesis: The role of the extracellular  matrix structure and growth Factor isoforms
3.15 Concluding remarks and Meeting close
4.00 Afternoon tea

Enquiries:

If you have any further enquiries please contact:
Mark Chaplain (chaplain@maths.dundee.ac.uk) or Markus Owen (Markus.Owen@nottingham.ac.uk).