Day 1 - June 17

  Session 1 Nitric Oxide, Nitrite and Mitochondria
Chairs: Eddie Weitzberg, Jon Lundberg
     
  8:00 AM - 8:15 AM Welcome and Opening
Eddie Weitzberg, Jon Lundberg
     
  8:15 AM - 9:10 AM Keynote Lecture
Nitric Oxide and Mitochondria: An Overview

Salvador Moncada
     
  9:10 AM - 9:50 AM Nitrite and Mitochondria: An Overview
Sruti Shiva

     
  9:50 AM - 10:10 AM Refreshments

     
  Session 2 Nitrite Bioactivation
Chairs: Ernst van Faassen, Andrey Kozlov
     
  10:10 AM - 10:40 AM Mechanisms of Nitrite Reduction to Nitric Oxide in the Vessel Wall
Jay Zweier

     
  10:40 AM - 11:10 AM Heme Globins as Six-to-five Coordinate Regulated Nitrite Reductases and Primordial NO Synthases
Mark Gladwin

     
  11:10 AM - 11:40 AM Impact of the Nitrite Reductase Sctivity of Myoglobin in Myocardial Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury
Tienush Rassaf

     
  11:40 AM - 12:10 PM The Chemical and Biological Relationships Between Nitrite, Nitrate, Nitric Oxide, and Nonheme Iron
Jack Lancaster

     
  12:10 PM - 1:40 PM Lunch

     
  Session 3 Nitrite Biochemistry
Chairs: Peter Ford, Bruce Freeman
     
  1:40 PM - 2:10 PM Role of S-nitrosylation in the Integrated Response to Hypoxia
Jonathan Stamler

     
  2:10 PM - 2:40 PM Nitrite Reductase Activity of Hemoglobin and Cytochrome C
Daniel Kim-Shapiro

     
  2:40 PM - 3:10 PM The Structural Biology of the Hemoglobin-Nitrite Interaction
George Richter-Addo

     
  3:10 PM - 3:30 PM Refreshments

     
  3:30 PM - 4:00 PM The Use of Sol-gel and Glassy Matrices to Expose Molecular Level Mechanisms Associated with Nitrite Reductase and Nitrite Anhydrase Activity of Hemoglobins
Joel Friedman

     
  4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Fatty Acid Transduction of Nitric Oxide and Nitrite Signaling - Anti-Inflammatory Nitro-Fatty Acids
Bruce Freeman

     
  Session 4 Abstract Presentations
Chairs: Martin Feelisch, Angela Fago
     
  4:30 PM - 4:40 PM The Protective Effect of Nitrite on Liver Ischemia Reperfusion Injury During Transplantation
John Lang

     
  4:40 PM - 4:50 PM Nitrite Protection Against Morbidity and Mortality Associated with Inflammatory Shock in Mice
Anje Cauwels

     
  4:50 PM - 5:00 PM Dietary Nitrite has a Sustained Blood Pressure Lowering Effect which is Abolished by an Antiseptic Mouthwash
Mattias Carlstrom

     
  5:00 PM - 5:10 PM Nitrite Homeostasis and Blood Pressure Regulation: A Role for Blood Cell eNOS
Katherine Wood

     
  5:10 PM - 5:20 PM Whole Body UVA-Irradiation Lowers Systemic Blood Pressure by Release of Nitric Oxide from Intracutaneous Nitrite
Christoph Suschek

     
  Closing
     
  5:20 PM - 5:35 PM Closing Comments

     
  5:35 PM - 7:20 PM Poster Viewing

     
  8:00 PM - 11:00 PM Banquet Dinner

     
     
     
     

Day 2 - June 18

  Session 5 Nitrite and Blood Flow
Chairs: Mark Gladwin, Alan Schechter
     
  8:00 AM - 8:05 AM Welcome and Opening
Eddie Weitzberg, Jon Lundberg
     
  8:05 AM - 8:35 AM Erythrocyte and Endothelial Nitrite Reduction to NO in Hypoxia: Role for NOS and XOR
Amrita Ahluwalia
     
  8:35 AM - 9:05 AM The Nitrite Reductase and Anydrase Activity of Hb-based Oxygen Carriers
Pedro Cabrales

     
  9:05 AM - 9:35 AM Red Blood Cells and Vascular Nitrite Metabolism
Rakesh Patel

     
  9:35 AM - 10:05 AM Nitrite Up High – Dynamics of NO-Related Metabolites on Ascent to Mt. Everest
Martin Feelisch

     
  10:05 AM - 10:25 AM Refreshments

     
  Session 6 Dietary Nitrate in Health and Disease
Chairs: Jon Lundberg, Chris Kevil
     
  10:25 AM - 10:55 AM Could Dietary Nitrate Contribute to the Pathogenesis of Gastro-oesophageal Junction Adenocarcinoma?
Keneth McColl

     
  10:55 AM - 11:25 AM Nitrate - The Good Side
Nigel Benjamin

     
  11:25 AM - 11:55 PM Role of Bacteria in Bioactivation of Dietary Nitrate
Joel Petersson

     
  11:55 PM - 12:25 PM Dietary Nitrite and Nitrate as Indispensable Nutrients
Nathan Bryan

     
  12:25 PM - 1:25 PM Lunch

     
  Session 7 Nitrate and Nitrite Therapeutics
Chairs: Malte Kelm, Eddie Weitzberg
     
  1:25 PM - 1:40 PM Uses of Saltpeter (Potassium Nitrate) in Early Chinese Medicine
Tony Butler
     
  1:40 PM - 2:10 PM Nitrite and Myocardial Reperfusion Injury
David Lefer

     
  2:10 PM - 2:40 PM Nitrate, Nitrite and Solid Organ Transplantation
Kenneth McCurry

     
  2:40 PM - 3:10 PM Dietary Nitrate and the Cardiovascular System: Human Studies
Andrew Webb

     
  3:10 PM - 3:30 PM Refreshments

     
  3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Inhaled Nitrite and Pulmonary Hypertension/Vascular Injury
Brian Zuckerbraun

     
  4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Dietary Doses of Nitrite Improve Renal Injury in l-name-induced Hypertensive Rats
Kichiro Tsuchiya

     
  4:30 PM - 5:00 PM Differential Cellular Reduction of Nitrite During Hypoxia
Chris Kevil

     
  Session 8 Hot Topics
Chairs: Amrita Ahluwalia, Rakesh Patel
     
  5:00 PM - 5:25 PM Special Guest Speaker
Valentin Reutov

     
  5:25 PM - 5:40 PM Nitrite Protection in Lung Injuries
Erik Swenson

     
  5:40 PM - 5:55 PM Dietary Nitrate in Japanese Traditional Foods Lowers Diastolic Blood Pressure in Healthy Volunteers
Tanja Sobko

     
  5:55 PM - 6:10 PM Nitrite Bioactivation in Cardiomyocytes
Andrey Kozlov

     
  6:10 PM - 6:25 PM Dietary Nitrate and Exercise
Andrew Jones

     
  Closing
     
  6:25 PM - 6:40 PM Closing Comments

     
    Meeting Concludes