RUBICON Symposium

Saturday 21st July 2018, 15:00 - 16:30

The Manchester Conference Centre at Pendulum Hotel, Sackville Street, Manchester

14:55-15:00

Welcome remarks

Anna Teti

Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences, University of L’Aquila, Italy

15:00-16:30

Scientific session

Chair: Bram van der Eerden

Department of Internal Medicine, ERASMUS Universitair Medisch Centrum Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

15:00-15:30

Paradoxical roles for ATF6alpha and beta in moderating disease severity in an ER stress-related cartilage pathology

Raymond Boot-Handford

Welcome Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, The University of Manchester, UK

15:30-16:00

Lipocalin 2: a new mechano-responding gene regulating bone homeostasis

Anna Teti

Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences, University of L’Aquila, Italy

16:00-16:30

Bone cell regulation of global energy metabolism

Christa Maes

Laboratory of Skeletal Cell Biology and Physiology (SCEBP), Skeletal Biology and Engineering Research Center (SBE), KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium