Program

Wednesday 15.01.2025

12:00-14:30 Registration

Coffee available (Foyer)

14:30-15:00 Welcome (Sela Arabella)

Inge Herrmann, Joel Zindel, Wiebke Solass

15:00-16:30 Opening Session: Medical, Biological, and Engineering Perspective on the Peritoneal Cavity.

Uli Dietz (confirmed), Kantonsspital Olten, Anatomy and physiology of the peritoneum: the fully immersive view of a robotic surgeon.

Paul Kubes (confirmed), Queens University, Peritoneal Immunity and injury repair.

Jingjing Wu (confirmed), MIT, The effect of biomaterials on scarring.

16:30-17:00 Coffe Break

17:00-19:00 Peritonitis, Sepsis and Biofilm

Guido Beldi (confirmed)*, University of Bern, Peritonitis: The clinical perspective, from microbial-host mutualism to clinical disease.

Andrew J Macpherson (confirmed), University of Bern, Mucosal and Serosal Immunology, Parallels and Differences.

tba, From microbiome composition to functional engineering, one step at a time.

tba, Microbial Sensors

Tba, Short talk chosen from abstracts

Tba, Poster flash talks

19:00-20:00 Social Hour with Lite Bites at the venue, Foyer

19:30-22:00 Poster Session at the venue or hotel, Foyer

until 22:00 Registration for Workshops

Thursday, 16.01.2024

08.00-11.00 Repair, Scarring, and Leakage

tba, A clinical perspective on post-surgical repair and the balance between leakage and scarring.

Sabine Werner (confirmed)*, ETH Zürich, The principles of tissue damage and repair: lessons learned in the skin.

Yuval Rinkevich (confirmed), Helmolz Zentrum Munich, The role of fascia and transfer of extracellular matrix in tissue scarring and fibrosis.

Philip Smith (confirmed), Roche, Targeting impaired tissue repair in inflammatory bowel disease

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

Edoardo Mazza (confirmed), ETH Zürich, Stretching and Tearing of Soft Collagenous Tissues.

Justin Deniset (confirmed), University of Calgary, Pericardial immune responses to injury: from mouse to patients"

Julia Bayer (confirmed), UniBE, Short talk: Macrophage-derived Spp1 as universal pro-scarring signalling circuit.

Alexander Anthis (confirmed), ETHZ/Empa, Short talk: Engineering new bi-functional sealant patches.

11.00-13.00 On own for lunch

13.00-16.00 Workshop Diavolezza: Engineering Peritoneal Devices

Vaclav Liska (confirmed), University of

Pilsen and Inge Herrmann (confirmed)

13.00-16.00 Workshop Lake of Staz: Career round table for junior scientists

Phil Smith, Discovery Area Leader,

Roche (confirmed)Sabine Werner, Head of Department D-BIOL, ETHZ (confirmed)

Guido Beldi, Clinician Scientis, UniBE/Insel (confirmed)

13.00-16.00 Workshop Muottas Muragl: Mesothelial to Mesenchymal Transition in repair, scarring, and cancer.

Wiebke Solass (confirmed)

Yuval Rinkevich (confirmed)

13.00-16.00 Workshop San Gian: Human and mice, differences and commonalities in peritoneal immune cell populations.

Nan Zhang (confirmed)

Paul Kubes (confirmed)

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-19:00 Devices and Engineering Solutions in Serosal cavities

tba, Clinical Perspective exemplified by Intraperitoneal Hernia Mesh: the Future of intraperitoneal Devices.

Paola Luciani (confirmed), University of Bern, Drug delivery to specifically target the serosal space.

Marc Reymond (confirmed), CapnoPharm, solutions for intraperitoneal drug delivery.

Traverso lab, (confirmed), MIT Devices, Implants and Insulin pump

tba, Short talk chosen from abstracts

19:00-21:00 Networking Dinner

21:00-22:00 Optional Informal Campfire Discussions

Friday, 17.01.2024

08:00-09:45 Peritoneal Cancer

Wiebke Solass (confirmed), University of Bern, Peritoneal cancers

(tbc), Mesothelial to mesenchymal transition Mesothelioma clinical talk

Nan Zhang (confirmed), Wistar Institue, The role of Peritoneal Immunity in Ovarian Cancer growth and dissemination.

Tba, Short talk chosen from abstracts

09:45-10:15 Coffee break
10:15-12:30 Endometriosis

Michael Müller* (confirmed), Translational Biology of Endometriosis: from biomarkers to ICG-augmented surgery.

Krina Zondervan (confirmed), University of Oxford, The genetic basis of endometriosis.

Erin Greaves (confirmed), Warwick Medical School, Macrophage heterogeneity and macrophage-nerve crosstalk in peritoneal endometriosis.

Tba, Short talk chosen from abstracts

12:30-13:15 Lunch at the venue
13:15-15:00 Mixed Session and Awards

Out of the Box: (tbc), circadian clock

Tba, Short talk chosen from abstracts

Prices (best poster, best short talk)

ARS** price for best talent