9th Biannual Meeting | Vienna, Austria

The ninth bi-annual meeting was hosted at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) of the Austrian Academic of Sciences (ÖAW) in Vienna by Dr. Josef Penninger and Dr. Salim A. Seyfried. The meeting took place in Vienna starting on May 4, and concluding the evening of May 5, 2026.

Lodging may be secured at either of the two hotels listed below.

Hotel:

Rioca: https://www.rioca.eu/en/viennaposto2/

Send lodging requests directly to vienna-posto2@rioca.edu to secure the special rate of 174 EUR/night for Copacabana room.

Meeting Venue:

Dr. Bohr-Gasse 2
1030, Vienna, Austria

Last revised October 2, 2026.

Monday, May 4, 2026

Schedule for Monday, May 4, Vienna Time Zone. Legible from left to right.
Time (EST)	Speaker	Topic
12:00 - 12:30 PM	Arrival
12:30 - 01:15 PM	Lunch at IMP/IMBA Cafeteria
01:15 - 01:30 PM	Penninger/Seyfried	Welcome
01:30 - 02:30 PM	Tim Clausen	Dysregulation of RNF213 by Moyamoya disease mutations
02:30 - 03:00 PM	Gwenola Boulday	Rnf213 L4067P mutation
03:00 - 03:30 PM	Coffee Break
03:30 - 04:30 PM	Sasha Mendjan	Cardioids unravel human cardiogenesis and disease
04:30 - 05:00 PM	Emanuel Tenorio	Decoding Diamond Blackfan Anemia
05:00 - 05:30 PM	Clement Quintard	A multi-organoid-on-chip model
05:30 - 06:30 PM	Free Time
06:30 PM	Dinner

Tuesday, May 5, 2026

Schedule for Tuesday, May 5, Vienna Time Zone. Legible from left to right.
Time (EST)	Speaker	Topic
09:00 - 09:30 AM	Elissa Khadra	Moyamoya and MYH11
09:30 - 10:00 AM	Li-Kun Phng	Moyamoya: Characterization of fibroblasts
10:00 - 10:30 AM	Payel Chatterjee	Moyamoya model in Zebrafish
10:30 - 11:00 AM	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 AM	Eugeniusz Tralle	TIE2 Variants in VMs
11:30 - 12:00 PM	Hossein Yarmohammadi	STK3 variants and Hippo-pathway
12:00 - 12:30 PM	Clement Quintard	A multi-organoid-on-chip model
12:30 - 01:15 PM	Lunch at IMP/IMBA
01:30 - 02:00 PM	PI meeting (seminar room 1-014/16)
02:00 - 02:30 PM	PI meeting (seminar room 1-014/16)
02:30 - 03:00 PM	Coffee break/open forum
03:00 - 03:20 PM	Coffee break/open forum
03:30 - 04:00 PM	Stephen Spurgin	Pulmonary vascular development
04:00 - 04:30 PM	Tuli Pramanik	WWC2
04:30 - 05:30 PM	Jocelyn Salvador, Mariana De Niz, Danielle Pi	How can endothelial cells proliferate under flow
05:30 - 06:00 PM	Luisa Iruela-Arispe	Is there a unifying theme in vascular anomalies?