Programme (updated 10/04/2015) Thursday, April 16th 12h00 – 19h00 Arrival and registration 19h00 – 21h00 Get-together with diner Friday, April 17th 08h45 – 09h00 09h00 – 09h35 Opening Session: (01) 09h35 – 12h40 09h35 – 10h10 Narla, Mohandas (NY Blood Centre, USA) Red Cells: Past, Present and Future. Session 1: (02) 10h10 – 10h30 (03) Biogenesis to Maturation. Erythropoiesis Kinet, Sandrina (Université de Montpellier, FRA) Metabolic control of erythroid differentiation. Fowler, Velia (The Scripps Research Institute, USA) Red Blood Cell Cytoskeletal Dynamics from 10h30 – 10h50 (04) Blanc, Lionel (Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, USA) Pomalidomide Modulates Transcription Networks Regulating Human Erythropoiesis and Globin Switching: Implications for Treatment of Hemoglobinopathies.. 10h50 – 11h20 Coffee break 11h20 – 11h40 (05) Peters, Luanne (The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, USA) Novel genetic modifiers of embryonic globin expression in adult mice. 11h40 – 12h00 (06) Flatt, Joanna (Bristol Institute for Transfusion Sciences, GBR) The expression of homozygous South-East Asian Ovalocytic band 3 throughout erythropoiesis. 12h00 – 12h20 (07) Reihani, Niloofar (Institut National de la Transfusion Sanguine, FRA) Gaucher disease : An unexpected dyserythropoiesis 12h20 – 12h40 product. (08) Akker van den, Emile (Sanquin Institute, NLD) From in vitro erythropoiesis to a transfusion 13h00 – 14h00 Lunch 14h00 – 15h00 Poster Session with coffee 15h00 – 18h40 Session 2: Red Cell Physiology (1) 15h00 – 15h35 (09) Discher, Dennis (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Phagocytosis involves much more than just ‘Eat Me’ molecules: Cell rigidity and shape override CD47’s “self”-signaling in phagocytosis. 15h35 – 15h55 (10) Svetina, Sasa (University of Ljubljana, SVN) The primary determinant of the lateral distribution of the skeleton of the deformed red blood cell is the change of the membrane geometry. 15h55 – 16h15 (11) Minetti, Giampaolo (Università di Pavia, ITA) Differential remodeling of plasma membrane and membrane-skeletal components during in vivo aging of human erythrocytes. 16h15 – 16h45 Coffee break 16h45 – 17h20 (12) Grygorczyk, Ryszard (Université de Montreal, CAN) Hemolysis is a primary ATP-release mechanism in human erythrocytes. 17h20 – 17h40 and disease. (13) Huisjes, Rick (University Medical Center Utrecht, NLD) Red blood cell-derived vesicles in health 17h40 – 18h00 (14) by Human Erythrocytes. Vitvitsky, Victor (University of Michigan, USA) A Novel Pathway for Hydrogen Sulfide Oxidation 18h00 – 18h20 (15) Wesseling, Mauro (University of Saarland, DEU) Measurement of Ca2+ content and PS exposure in human red blood cells: some related problems. 18h20 – 18h40 (16) Le Van Kim, Caroline (Institut National de la Transfusion Sanguine, FRA) The laboratory of excellence GR-Ex, a unique french consortium investigating the red blood cell from genesis to death. 19h00 Dinner Saturday, April 18th 09h00 – 12h40 Session 3: Red Cell Pathophysiology (Malaria, anemia…) 09h00 – 09h35 (17) Low, Philip S. (Purdue Center for Drug Discovery, USA) Characterization of a tyrosine kinase signaling pathway in erythrocytes and its role in development of a new therapy for malaria. 09h35 – 10h10 (18) Lasonder,Edwin (Plymouth University, GBR) The malaria phospho proteome of red blood cells. 10h10 – 10h30 blood cells. (19) Lavazec, Catherine (Institut Cochin, FRA) Mechanical properties of P. falciparum-infected red 10h30 – 11h00 Coffee break 11h00 – 11h20 (20) Ostuni, Mariano (Institut National de la Transfusion Sanguine, FRA) Translocator protein (TSPO) ligands stimulate protoporphyrin IX transport and reactive oxygen species production leading to the inhibition of P. falciparum growth into red blood cells. 11h20 – 11h40 (21) Langsley, Gordon (Institut Cochin, FRA) cAMP regulation of redox status in young versus old red blood cells compared to Plasmodium falciparum-infected red blood cells. 11h40 – 12h00 (22) Mouro-Chanteloup, Isabelle (Institut National de la Transfusion Sanguine, FRA) Stomatindeficient red blood cells (RBCs) exhibit a decrease of the anion exchanger (AE1) activity. 12h00 – 12h20 (23) Da Costa, Lydie (Hopital R. Debré, FRA) Diamond-Blackfan anemia, lost in translation? 12h20 – 12h40 (24) Yaddanapudi, Ravindranath (Wayne State University School of Medicine, USA) A case of KLF1 E325K CDA with transfusion dependent anemia - results from Exome sequencing studies. 13h00 – 14h00 Lunch 14h30 – 16h25 Session 4: 14h30 – 15h05 (25) 15h05 – 15h25 (26) oxygen carrying capacity. Red Cell Physiology (2) Bernhardt, Ingolf (University of Saarland, DEU) Membrane transport: a historical overview. Bogdanova, Anna (University of Zurich, CHE) Role of calcium in regulation of red blood cell 15h25 – 15h45 disease (1). (27) Egée Stéphane (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, FRA) Cationic conductances in health and 15h45 – 16h05 disease (2). (28) Amsellem, Anais (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, FRA) Cationic conductances in health and 16h05 – 16h25 (29) Sadowska-Bartosz, Izabela (University of Rzeszow, POL) Effect of glycation by glucose and ascorbic acid on human erythrocytes. 16h25 – 16h45 (30) 19h00 Kaestner, Lars (University of Saarland, DEU) Initial steps to get hands on rare anaemias. Cocktail Banquet Sunday, April 19th 09h00 – 12h40 Session 5: Red Cell Pathophysiology (Sickle Cell Disease) 09h00 – 09h35 (31) Hebbel, Robert P. (University of Minnesota Medical School, USA) The red cell and sickle disease pathology: Key unanswered questions. 09h35 – 10h10 (32) Elion, Jacques (Institut National de la Transfusion Sanguine, FRA) Implication of adenosine signalling pathways in sickle cell disease pathophysiology. 10h10 – 10h30 RBC. (33) Malik, Punam (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, USA) Angiotensin and the sickle 10h30 – 11h00 Coffee break 11h00 – 11h20 (34) alloimmunization. Yazdanbakhsh, Karina (New York Blood Center, USA) Immune control of sickle cell 11h20 – 11h40 (35) El Nemer, Wassim (Institut National de la Transfusion Sanguine, FRA) Microfluidics for investigating red blood cell mechanical properties. 11h40 – 12h00 (36) Lefevre, Sophie (Institut National de la Transfusion Sanguine, FRA) Investigating morphological, mechanical and adhesive properties of sickle red blood cells. 12h00 – 12h20 (37) pathways in sickle cells Alper, Seth L. (Harvard Medical School, USA) Revisiting volume regulatory and dehydration 12h20 – 12h40 (38) Gibson, John (University of Cambridge, GBR) KCl cotransport in red blood cells from patients with HbSC disease: predictors of severity 13h00 – 14h00 Lunch 14h00 – 15h00 Poster Session with coffee 15h00 – 18h40 Session 6: Senescence, Storage, Transfusion 15h00 – 15h35 (39) Singh, Shailja (Institut Pasteur, FRA) Signals and molecular arsenals involved in red blood cell entry by the human malaria parasite. 15h35 – 16h10 (40) Bruce, Lesley ( Bristol Institute for Transfusion Sciences, GBR) Potassium concentration in stored red cell units - the effect of familial pseudohyperkalaemia. 16h10 – 16h30 (41) Noizat-Pirenne, France (Etablissement Français de Sang, FRA ) The sickle cell disease environment affects old stored red blood cells : consequences for blood transfusion. 16h30 – 17h00 Coffee break 17h00 – 17h20 (42) Colin-Aronovicz, Yves (Institut National de la Transfusion Sanguine, FRA) Storage lesions 17h20 – 17h40 (43) Magon, Nicholas (University of Geneva, CHE) Molecular mechanisms of erythrocyte aging. 17h40 – 18h00 (44) Tarasev, Michael (Blaze Medical Devices Ann Harbor, USA) Use of RBC Mechanical Fragility to assess blood damage due to medical devices, drugs,cell environment or pathologies. 18h00 – 18h20 (45) Storry, Jill (Lund University, SWE) Biochemical characterisation of the newly-discovered erythroid protein SMIM1/Vel . 18h20 – 18h40 Business meeting 19h15 Dinner Monday, April 20th Leave after breakfast Posters: (50) Back de, Djuna Immune Adherence Clearance is dependent on RBC adhesion molecules. (51) Bianchi, Paola Usefulness of laser-assisted optical rotational cell analyser (LORRCA) in the diagnosis of hereditary haemolytic anemias. (52) Bouyer, Guillaume Phosphoproteome analysis of Plasmodium-falciparum infected human red blood cells (53) Brust, Matthias Clustering of red blood cells in microcirculation. (54) Cueff, Anne VDAC phenotypic plasticity in RBC membranes: monomers or dimers ? (55) Danielczok, Jens Evidence for PIEZO 1 involvement in pressure-dependent Ca2+- increase in human red blood cells. (56) Flormann, Daniel Rheological and optical investigation of red blood cell aggregation. (57) Hannemann, Anke The clinical significance of KCl cotransport in red blood cells from patients with HbSC disease. (58) Hertz, Laura The LPA Signalling Pathway in Red Blood Cells. (59) Koralkova, Pavla Three novel missense mutations in PIEZO1 in eight patients with dehydrated hereditary stomatocytosis – implications for genotype-to-phenotype correlation. (60) Meinderts, Sanne Antibody-mediated phagocytosis of red blood cells by human neutrophils. (61) Pellegrin, Stéphanie Manipulation of Red Cell Membrane Protein Expression. (62) Petkova-Kirova, Polina An automated system to study ion channels in red blood cells.