"Synthesizing bioinformatic, expression microarray, and genome-wide association analyses to discover pathways regulating the human growth plate"

     Jeffrey Baron
     National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA


"GH/IGF-I signalling within the growth plate: established concepts and current insights"

     Colin Farquharson
     The Roslin Institute, Division of Developmental Biology,
     University of Edinburgh, UK


"Update on the dual role of estrogen in longitudinal bone growth"

     Ola Nilsson
     Center for Molecular Medicine and Pediatric Endocrinology Unit 
     Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
     At present: Pediatric Endocrine fellow/Eunice Kennedy Shriver National
     Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, USA


“Nutrition and Growth”

     Moshe Phillip
     Schneider Children's Medical Center
     Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Petah Tikva, Israel


“Impact of chronic inflammation on the growth plate”

     Lars Sävendahl
     Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Karolinska Institute and University Hospital
     Stockholm, Sweden


“Intraspecies variation in growth rates: Growth plate morphology and role of growth plate regulators”

     Marianna Tryfonidou
     Department of Clinical Sciences of Companion Animals, Utrecht University,
     Utrecht, The Netherlands


“Genes and mechanisms behind mineralization in physiological and pathological states”

     Dov Tiosano
     Meyer Children's Hospital, The Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Haifa, Israel


“Mechano-signaling in chondrocytes, does the primary cilium play a role?”

    Efrat Monsunego-Ornan
    The Hebrew University, Rehovot, Israel


“A clinician's journey through the growth plate: from stem cells to apoptosis”

     Jan-Maarten Wit
     Department of Pediatrics, Leiden University, Medical Center Leiden,
     The Netherlands