The 53rd annual meeting of the Microcirculatory Society
will be held Saturday, April 1st through Tuesday, April
4th, 2006, in San Francisco, California.
Please
note that
there are several differences in the format of this
year's program compared to earlier years. As approved by
the Microcirculatory Society Council and by the general
membership, the Society will meet as a guest society of
the American
Physiological
Society,
within the structure of the Experimental
Biology,
2006.
As a result, poster sessions for the MCS meeting will be
held Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
The following are the highlights of
the program.
Saturday, April
1st:
8:00 AM -
Noon:
MCS
Executive Council Meeting
Marriott Hotel
(Pacific B
Room)
3:00 - 5:00 PM:
President's
Symposium
( Moscone
Convention Center, Room 131 )
Microcirculation,
Unanswered Questions.
Chair: Robert
Hester, MCS President
University of Mississippi, Jackson, MS
Speakers:
Drs. Eric Feigl, Dolly Mehta
Jayson Cyster, and Napoleone
Ferrarta.
5:15 - 6:00 PM:
Microcirculatory
Society General Business Meeting
( Moscone
Convention Center, Room 131 )
6:00 - 9:00 PM:
Society
Awards Reception and Banquet
( Moscone
Convention Center, Room 131 )
Sunday, April
2nd:
8:00 AM -
4:30 PM:
MCS
Poster Session I
( Moscone
Convention Center )
10:30 - 11:30
AM:
Landis
Award Lecture
( Moscone
Convention Center, Room 131)
Lessons for
Observations of Brain Microcirculation
with Emphasis on Consequences of Damaged
Endothelium.
William
Rosenblum, M.D.
Professor of Pathology
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
3:15 PM - 5:15
PM:
Young
Investigators Symposium
(Moscone
Convention Center, Room 252)
Regulation of
Cerebrovascular Function in Health and Disease.
Speakers:
Drs Jon Andresen, Rayna Gonzales, Holly Bauser,
Scott McEwen, Mary E. McCarty, and Benedek
Erdös.
Monday, April 3rd:
8:00 AM -
4:30 PM:
MCS
Poster Session II
(Moscone
Convention Center)
Tuesday, April 4th:
8:00 AM -
4:30 PM:
MCS
Poster Session III
(Moscone
Convention
Center)
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