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Platelet Society Meeting - Aberdeen 2024 - Information for attendees

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April 26, 2024

Main Meeting Registration open

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Wednesday 24th April - ECR Meeting

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Time (BST)	Activity	Title	Speaker
10:00 – 10:30	Registration open
10:30 – 10:35	Welcome
10:35 – 10:45	Platelet Society ECR update
10:45 – 11:55	Oral presentations of posters from ECRs	Chairs: Ella Ykema & Kiera Cox
		Comparative Analysis of in vitro Platelet Productivity from Human Megakaryocytes Derived from Different Cell Sources Using Microfluidic Chips	Tagreed Almazyad
		Piezo1 as a platelet primer	Mohammad Ali
		Characterising the organisation and dynamics of the IMS and cytoskeleton in human iPSC-derived megakaryocytes and platelet production	Natasha Pavey
		PAI-1-driven hypofibrinolysis is associated with venous thrombosis in patients with COVID‑19 disease	Megan Simpson
		An optimised methodology for chemically generated human platelet knockouts using PROTACS	Justin Trory
		Differential effects of HIV integrase inhibitors on platelets	Renos Keniyopoullos
		Effects of curcumin on ROS production during platelet activation	Serena Rustichelli
		Quercetin, isoquercetin, and zafirlukast synergize with the P2Y12 antagonist, cangrelor, in the inhibition of platelet function	Sabeeya Khan
12:00 – 12:30	Lunch
12:30 – 13:15	Posters
13:00 – 13:15	Registration for afternoon delegates
	Wellbeing session and imposter syndrome	Chair: Jocelyn Auger
13:15 – 14:15		You are not a fraud: A scientist’s guide to the imposter phenomenon	Dr Marc Reid
14:20 – 16:40	Career talks/discussions		includes coffee break at 15:20
		A career in medical writing	Dr Karen Thompson
		A career in industry and spinning your own company out of a University	Dr Deborah O’Neil
		Navigating a journey between academia and other careers	Dr Brendan Gabriel
		A career in academia	Dr Nimesh Mody
		A career as a patent attorney	Richard Sulston
16:40 – 16:45	Prizegiving and close
17:00 – 18:00	Networking session
18:00	Dinner

Thursday 25th April

Time (BST)	Activity	Title	Speaker
10:00 - 11:00	Registration open
11:00 - 12:45	Main Meeting Session 1	Chairs: Sam Montague & Ami Vadgama
11:00 - 11:15	Welcome
11:15 - 11:45	Plenary 1	Immune-responsive platelets - lessons from humans and mice	Leo Nicolai, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany
11:45 - 12.45	Selected oral presentations
	11:45 - 12:00	Investigating the Role of Thromboinflammation in Post-Stroke Cognitive Decline	Rachel Jones
	12:00 - 12:15	Dual anti-platelet therapies are ineffective at preventing blockage of the coronary microcirculation following ischaemia reperfusion injury in mice.	Jo Mitchell
	12:15 - 12:30	Endothelial cell origin determines the fibrinolytic response to proinflammatory stimuli and downstream thrombus stability	Claire Whyte
	12:30 - 12:45	Platelet-derived Integrin and Remote ischaemic conditioning: a non-pharmacological approach to improve endothelial function and reduce platelet reactivity.	Sarah Jones
12:45 - 14:00	Lunch and Posters - Even numbered posters
14:00 - 15:30	Main Meeting Session 2	Chairs: Steve Thomas, Matt Hindle and Valentina Shpakova
14:00 - 14:30	Plenary 2	Platelets at the heart of everything	Alison Goodall
14:30 - 15:30	Selected oral presentations
	14:30 - 14:45	Phosphorylation of (Ser291) in the linker insert of Syk negatively regulates ITAM signaling in platelets	Satya Kunapuli
	14:45 - 15:00	Termination of thrombus growth through the dependence of platelet activation on distance to injury, an in-silico investigation	Ingo Bojak
	15:00 - 15:15	Generation of Novel PROTAC Tools For Targeting Protein Kinase Degradation in Human Platelets	Hetty Walker
	15:15 - 15:30	The tetravalent nanobody Nb17-2-Fc distinguishes low and high responders to FcγRIIA stimuli	Sam Montague
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee
16:00 - 17:00	Main Meeting Session 3	Chair: Amelia Drysdale
	Meet the Community - Industry	Flash talks by company sponsors
		Vincent Lachman	Pplus Products
		Natalia Dovlatova	Platelet Services
		Pip Timmins	Oxford Nanoimaging
	Meet the Community - Researchers	Platelet Society update
		Amanda Unsworth	Platelet Society
18:30	Evening Entertainment

Friday 26th April

Time (BST)	Activity	Title	Speaker
09:30 - 11:00	Main Meeting Session 4	Chairs: Julia Sandrin Gauer and Natasha Pavey
09:30 - 10:00	Plenary 3	The Platelet Synapse	Alice Pollitt
10:00 - 11:00	Selected oral presentations
	10:00 - 10:15	Chronic exposure to platelet primers induces platelet-neutrophil aggregates (PNAs) in vitro	Connor Webb
	10:15 - 10:30	Mitochondrial dynamics in megakaryocyte maturation and proplatelet formation	Harriet Allan
	10:30 - 10:45	Megakaryocytes derived from human CD34+ cells express and release Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor	Imane Boukhatem
	10:45 - 11:00	Altered procoagulant dynamics in histone-stimulated platelets	Ella Ykema
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee
11:30 - 13:00	Main Meeting Session 5	Chairs: Kirk Taylor and Azziza Zaabalawi
11:30 - 12:00	Plenary 4	Beyond bleeding: insights from inherited platelet disorders	Sarah Westbury
12:00 - 13:00	Selected oral presentations
	12:00 - 12:15	Statins inhibit platelet-induced colorectal cancer metastatic responses.	Deanna Howley
	12:15 - 12:30	Gender specific influence of birth weight on platelet function in later life	Joanne Dunster
	12:30 - 12:45	Development and optimisation of a novel 9-parameter flow cytometry panel for human platelet phenotyping	Daisie Yates
	12:45 - 13:00	Platelets sequester extracellular DNA, capturing tumour-derived and free fetal DNA	Lauren Murphy
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch and Posters
14:30 - 16:00	Main Meeting Session 6	Chairs: Jo Mitchell and Emma Faulkner
14:30 - 15:00	Plenary 5	CD36 a thrombotic agent provocateur par excellence	Khalid Naseem
15:00 - 16:00	Selected oral presentations
	15:00 - 15:15	Visualising the dynamics of movement of GPVI and CLEC-2 upon ligand engagement	Joanne Clark
	15:15 - 15:30	Intravital analysis of thrombus Ca2+ signalling dynamics using a novel genetically-encoded Ca2+ indicator mouse (MKPLT_Salsa6f).	Kirk Taylor
	15:30 - 15:45	Functional impact of platelet cold storage	Veena Chawan
	15:45 - 16:00	Sensitivity of a novel plasmin generation assay to TAFIa	Kieran Pocknell
16:00	Close of meeting and prizes

Useful Documents & Links

Documents & Links

Description	Link
Meeting Location - P&J Live, Aberdeen	Google Maps
Travel Information	Webpage
Map of local area	PDF
Local transport providors	PDF
Code of Conduct	PDF
List of Abstracts	PDF
Abstracts	PDF
List of Attendees	PDF
Platelet Society EDI pages	Webpage
Platelet Society Grants	Webpage
Platelet Society ECR pages	Webpage
Tourist information for Aberdeen	Webpage

Invited Speakers

Speaker Photo Links

Leo Nicolai Webpage
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Alison Goodall Webpage

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Alice Pollitt Webpage

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Sarah Westbury Webpage
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Khalid Naseem Webpage
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Speaker	Photo	Links
Leo Nicolai		Webpage Pubmed
Alison Goodall		Webpage Pubmed
Alice Pollitt		Webpage Pubmed
Sarah Westbury		Webpage Pubmed
Khalid Naseem		Webpage Pubmed

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The latest episode of Probably Platelets is now out! In this episode we talk to Dr Amanda Unsworth, platelet researcher and lecturer at the University of Leeds and current president of the Platelet Society.

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The latest episode of Probably Platelets is now out!

We have one final chat with Beth Webb as co-host and discuss the origins of the podcast.

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The latest episode of Probably Platelets is now out!

We chat with Joe Italiano, Associate Professor at Boston Children's Hospital and Medical school.

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Happy Valentine's day. What is the best way to share the love... Submit an abstract to the Platelet Society meeting in Manchester. Deadline today!
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The newest episode of the Probably Platelets Podcast is out now featuring one of our own Platelet Society ECR representatives, Jo Mitchell @JoMitchell88. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.

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