Program
Six sessions with scientific talks and discussions from nine world-leading experts
Friday, October 18, 2024
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
8:00 - 9:00 AM
Registration, Breakfast, & Poster Setup
Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, Exhibit Hall - 2nd Floor, 209 Victoria Street
9:00 - 11:00 AM
Poster Session
Unity Health Toronto Trainees & Research Associates
11:00 - 12:30 PM
Panel Discussion - Workshop: From Lab to Leadership - Scientist Insights
12:30 - 1:30 PM
Lunch - Mingling with Mentors
1:30 - 3:00 PM
Poster Session with Mentors
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Keynote Session: Fundamental Processes of Organ Repair After Injury
3:00 - 4:15 PM
Badge Pick-Up
Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, Exhibit Hall - 2nd Floor, 209 Victoria Street
4:15 - 4:40 PM
Opening Remarks and a Commemoration to Pat Keenan
Dr. Ori Rotstein (Unity Health Toronto)
Sean Keenan on behalf of the Keenan Family
4:40 - 4:45 PM
Speaker Introduction
Dr. Boris Hinz (Unity Health Toronto)
4:45 - 5:35 PM
Keynote Lecture: Wound healing: from fly to fish to mouse to man to cancer
5:35 - 5:50 PM
Session Discussion
6:00 - 6:30 PM
Guided Walk to Networking Event* Venue
7:00 PM
*Ticket required – will be obtained with conference badge at check-in.
Saturday, October 19, 2024
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Opening Session: Single Cell Contributions to Organ Repair and Fibrosis - the Big Picture
8:10 - 8:20 AM
Chair 1: Dr. Boris Hinz (Unity Health Toronto)
Speaker Introduction
8:20 - 9:00 AM
Using single cell genomics and spatial profiling to decode human liver injury and repair
Session 1: Mechanical Aspects of Organ Repair and Fibrosis
9:00 - 9:10 AM
Chair 2: Dr. Andras Kapus (Unity Health Toronto)
Speaker Introduction
9:10 - 9:50 AM
Mechano-therapies to treat lung fibrosis
9:50 - 10:30 AM
New insights into nuclear mechanobiology in physiology and disease
10:30 - 11:10 AM
Coffee Break
Session 2: What a Wounderful World: Skin and Kidney Repair and Fibrosis
11:10 - 11:20 AM
Chair 3: Dr. Darren Yuen (Unity Health Toronto)
Speaker Introduction
11:20 - 12:00 PM
Molecular pathways that drive diabetic kidney disease
12:00 - 12:40 PM
Immune-mediated tissue repair
12:40 - 2:10 PM
Lunch Break (including Conference Photograph on LKSKI Stairs)
Session 3: The Good and Bad of Regeneration
2:10 - 2:20 PM
Chair 4: Dr. Kelsie Thu (Unity Health Toronto)
Speaker Introduction
2:20 - 3:00 PM
Regression of cholestatic fibrosis
Dr. Tatiana Kisseleva (University of California San Diego, USA)
3:00 - 3:40 PM
Cancer and its associated fibroblasts
3:40 - 4:10 PM
Coffee Break
Session 4: Hearts: All You Need to Heal
4:10 - 4:20 PM
Chair 4: Dr. Kim Connelly (Unity Health Toronto)
Speaker Introduction
4:20 - 5:00 PM
At the heart of repair
5:00 - 5:45 PM
Wrap up: Open Discussion and Closing of the Symposium