TIME

EVENT

8:00 AM – 8:30 AM

Welcome Coffee & Onsite Registration

8:30 AM – 8:40 AM

Opening Remarks: Ryan Gray, University of Texas at Austin, USA

8:40 AM – 9:20 AM

Keynote Address — Claire Wyart (INSERM)

9:20 AM – 9:30 AM

Discussion

9:30 AM – 9:45 AM

[10+5]

Short Oral Presentation 1 – To be chosen from submitted abstracts.

9:45 AM – 10:00

[10+5]

Short Oral Presentation 2 – To be chosen from submitted abstracts.

10:00 AM

Coffee Break

Session I: Clinical Therapeutics of Scoliosis

Moderator: Florina Moldovan, CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center, Canada.

10:25 AM – 11:05 AM

Keynote Address  – René Castelein (UMC Utrecht)

11:05 AM – 11:15 AM

Discussion

11:15 AM – 11:30 AM

[10+5]

Short Oral Presentation 3 – To be chosen from submitted abstracts.

11:30 AM – 11:55 PM

[20+5]

Invited Speaker TBD

11:55 PM – 12:15 PM

[20]

Patient advocate discussion

12:15 PM – 1:30 PM

Lunch: on your own / Working lunch with Poster Presentations

SESSION II: Translational Studies of Scoliosis

Moderator: Bo Gao, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

1:30 PM – 1:55 PM

[20+5]

Ryan Gray (UT Austin) – Genetic interaction between Adgrg6 and Sox9 reveals a feedforward mechanism for postnatal spinal stability

1:55 PM – 2:10 PM

[10+5]

Short Oral Presentation 4 – To be chosen from submitted abstracts.

2:10 PM – 2:25 PM

[10+5]

Short Oral Presentation 5 – To be chosen from submitted abstracts.

2:25 PM – 2:40 PM

[10+5]

Short Oral Presentation 6 – To be chosen from submitted abstracts.

2:40 PM – 2:55 PM

[10+5]

Short Oral Presentation 7 – To be chosen from submitted abstracts.

2:55 PM – 3:20 PM

[20+5]

Nan Wu – PUMC – TBD

3:20 PM – 3:45 PM

Coffee Break

SESSION III: Genomic Approaches to Musculoskeletal and Spine Biology

Moderator: Ryan Gray, University of Texas at Austin, USA

3:45 PM – 4:10 PM

[20+5]

Nadja Makki (U Florida) – Massively parallel reporter assay for non-coding regulatory variant discovery in AIS.

4:10 PM – 4:25 PM

[10+5]

Short Oral Presentation 8 – To be chosen from submitted abstracts.

4:25 PM – 4:40 PM

[10+5]

Short Oral Presentation 9 – To be chosen from submitted abstracts.

4:40 PM – 4:55 PM

[10+5]

Short Oral Presentation 10 – To be chosen from submitted abstracts.

4:55 PM – 5:00 PM

Closing Remarks

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Annual Business Meeting – Awards

6:00 PM

Adjourn