09:00 - 11:45
Wed-signalling pathways
Room: Large Conference Room
Session 4: Signalling pathways & metabolism  
Chair/s:
Christian Zuppinger, Marijke Brink
09:00 - 09:05
Introduction
 
09:05 - 09:35
Targeting protein O-GlcNAcylation, a new step towards the treatment of cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure
Presenter: Luc Bertrand
Pole of Cardiovascular Research, IREC Institute, UCLouvain, Brussels
 
09:35 - 10:05
Phosphoinositide 3-kinase gamma at the crossroad between autophagy and metabolic control in doxorubicin-induced cardiomyopathy
Presenter: Emilio Hirsch
Medical School of the University of Torino, Italy
 
10:05 - 10:35
Heart regeneration in the Mexican cavefish
Presenter: Mathilda Mommersteeg
University of Oxford, UK
 
10:35 - 10:45
Break
 
10:45 - 11:05
Disruption of the homo-dimerization of the mitochondrial complex IV improves heart regeneration but negatively affects skeletal muscle mass
Presenter: Carolina García-Poyatos
Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC). Madrid, Spain, Institute of Anatomy, Bern University. Bern, Switzerland
 
11:05 - 11:25
An intrinsic mechanism of metabolic regulation modulates the cardiac response to stress
Presenter: Matteo Sorge
Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Health Sciences, University of Torino, Italy
 
11:25 - 11:45
Disruption of sarcoplasmic reticulum-mitochondrial contacts underlies contractile dysfunction in experimental and human atrial fibrillation: a key role of mitofusion 2
Presenter: Deli Zhang
Department of Physiology, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam Cardiovascular Sciences, The Netherlands