Pre-Conference Meeting for Trainees Organizers: Nicholas Chavkin, Yale University and Thanh Theresa Dinh, Stanford UniversitySunday, October 14 - 1:00-5:00pmRequires an additional registration fee of $25. Program will consist of a guest speaker, a discussion or presentation on career development and abstracts presentations from graduate students and postdocs. Refreshments will be served *Session organizers will select the abstracts for presentation and the authors must be registered for this session. Wednesday, October 17 - 2:00-4:00pm Earl P. Benditt Award LectureReengineering the tumor microenvironment to improve cancer treatment: Bench to bedsideRakesh K. Jain, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School Judah Folkman Award in Vascular Biology LectureMolecular and cellular mechanisms of blood vessel growthChristiana Ruhrberg, University College London Springer Junior Investigator Award Lecture TBD - award is based on abstract submission and an applicationClick here for application information Recipients have not yet been determined Tuesday, October 16 - 4:30-6:30pmHands-on worskhop to access, visualize and analyse IDG-specific data -- requires additional registration fee and there will be a limited number of attendees Signaling in Vascular InflammationThursday, October 18 - 8:00am-12:00pm Timothy Hla, Boston Childrens Hospital, Harvard Medical SchoolNovel approaches to control vascular inflammation with S1P-based therapeuticsMatthias Nahrendorf, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical SchoolMyeloid cells in … Continue reading →

Alternative Titles:Pteridophyta, cryptogam, pteridophyte, seedless vascular plant, vascular cryptogam Lower vascular plant, formerly pteridophyte, also called vascular cryptogam, any of the spore-bearing vascular plants, including the ferns, club mosses, spike mosses, quillworts, horsetails, and whisk ferns. Once considered of the same evolutionary line, these plants were formerly placed in the single group Pteridophyta and were known as the ferns and fern allies. Although modern studies have shown that the plants are not in fact related, these terms are still used in discussion of the lower vascular plants. Vascular plants are those that possess a specialized conducting system for the transport of water, minerals, and food materials, as opposed to the more primitive bryophytesmosses and liverwortswhich lack such a system. They include both the seed plantsangiosperms and gymnosperms, the dominant plants on Earth todayand plants that reproduce by sporesthe ferns and other so-called lower vascular plants. The pteridophytes represent the oldest of land plants. In their early evolution (during the Devonian and Carboniferous periods, 416 million to 299 million years ago), there were many forms that are now extinct. The sphenophytes, for example, were once a large and diverse group of herbs, shrubs, vines, and trees but are now limited to … Continue reading →