SOA 01 - VWF and Beyond

Moderator(s)

• TM

  Thomas McKinnon, BSc, PhD

  Senior Lecturer
  Immunology and Inflammation
  Imperial College London
  London, England, United Kingdom
• 

  Shannen Deconinck, PhD

  Dr.
  Chemistry
  Laboratory for Thrombosis Research, KU Leuven Campus Kulak Kortrijk, Kortrijk, Belgium
  Kortrijk, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Presentations:

• 8:00 AM – 8:20 AM

  Assembly Mechanism of Mucin and von Willebrand Factor Polymers
  

  Speaker: Gabriel Javitt, PhD – Weizmann Institute of Science
• 8:20 AM – 8:40 AM

  The Functions of Post Translational Modifications of von Willebrand Factor
  

  Speaker: Michael A. Laffan, MD – Centre for Haematology, Imperial College London, London, UK
• 8:40 AM – 9:00 AM

  Binding of Flow Activated VWF to GPIb
  

  Speaker: Hongxia Fu, PhD – University of Washington