Update on the Joint BMS and MCS Meeting

We are very pleased to announce that each of the major lectures to be delivered at the upcoming Joint Meeting of the British Microcirculation Society and the Microcirculatory Society, Inc., in Oxford, UK from 4-6 July 2012 will be compiled into a Special Commemorative Issue of Microcirculation. Each of the outstanding investigators listed below has agreed to submit a review article based on their lecture, and we believe that this represents an excellent opportunity to highlight not only the joint meeting, but also the new partnership between our two societies and their official journal. Listed below are the invited speakers and their lecture titles.

DMT Plenary Lecture
David D. Gutterman, MD; Medical College of Wisconsin, USA

‘Mechanisms of Flow-Induced Dilation in the Human Coronary Microcirculation: A Novel Pathway Linking TRP Channels, Reactive Oxygen Species and Potassium Channels’

Wiley-Blackwell Plenary Lecture

Dorian O. Haskard, MD; Imperial College London, UK

‘Fine Tuning the Regulation of Inflammation and Thrombosis at the Blood-Tissue Interface.’

PromoCell Plenary Lecture

Giovanni E. Mann, PhD; King’s College London, UK

‘Impaired Redox Signaling in Fetal Endothelial Cells in Pregnancy-Associated Diseases’

Keynote Symposium Lectures

Keith Channon, MD; University of Oxford, UK 

‘Coupling NO with Vascular Dysfunction.’

Timothy Curtis, Ph.D.; The Queen’s University of Belfast, UK 

‘Ca2+Signalling and the Control of Arteriolar Myogenic Tone.’

Kim Dora, Ph.D.; University of Oxford, UK

‘Endothelial Cell Microdomains and Conducted Vasodilatation.’

Michael A. Hill, Ph.D.; University of Missouri – Columbia, USA

‘Regional Variation in Arterial Myogenic Responsiveness and Links to Ion Channel Diversity/Function Conducted Responses in the Microcirculation.’

Mark T. Nelson, Ph.D.; University of Vermont, USA 

‘Astrocytic Control of the Brain Microcirculation.’

Steven S. Segal, Ph.D.; University of Missouri – Columbia, USA 

‘Intercellular Coordination of Blood Flow Control.'

Rhian M. Touyz, MD, Ph.D.; University of Glasgow, UK

‘Between TRP Melastatin Channels and NOXs – Implications in Vascular (Patho)biology.

Arthur Weston, Ph.D., D.Sc.; University of Manchester, UK

‘Role of Perivascular Adipose Tissue in the Regulation of the Microcirculation.’

We all look forward to seeing you in Oxford in July, 2012!