ISBM 2026 - Program at a Glance
Saturday, July 4th, 2026
| 14:00 – 16:00 | Early Career Investigator Meeting |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Registration Opens |
| 19:00 – 20:00 | Welcome Reception |
| 19:00 – 20:15 | Session: Welcome and Highlights of ISBM 2026 |
| ISBM President – Dr. Michelle McDonald | |
| 20:15 – 21:15 | Inaugural Hartmut H. Malluche Memorial Lecture Speaker |
| Dr. Isidro Salusky – A Life in Bone: Honoring the Legacy of Dr. Hartmut H. Malluche | |
Sunday, July 5th, 2026
| 8:30 – 9:50 | Session I: Osteocytes, Lacunocanalicular Network and Mechanosensing |
| Dr. Tamara Alliston - Multiscale Modeling of Osteocyte Mechanosensing in Bone | |
| 9:50 – 10:10 | Coffee and Tea Break |
| 10:10 – 11:30 | Poster Oral Session I (Even) + Poster Viewing Session I (Even) |
| 11:30 – 12:40 | Session II: Spatial Omics |
| Dr. Neashan Mathavan - Forces and Function: Spatial Omics in Bone Mechanobiology | |
| Dr. Robert Tower - Spatial Omics Insights into Cellular Niches and Tissue Regeneration | |
| 12:40 – 14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 – 15:10 | Session III: Bone Vascularization and Microstructure |
| Dr. Anjali Kusumbe - Specialized Vascular Niches Regulating Bone Formation and Repair | |
| Dr. Warren Grayson – Investigating the Neurovascular Contribution to Bone Healing | |
| 15:10 – 15:30 | Coffee and Tea Break |
| 15:30 – 16:50 | Session IV: Clinical Imaging Assessment in Inflammatory Diseases |
| Dr. Kathryn Stok – Advanced Imaging Approaches for Preclinical Assessment of Inflammatory Musculoskeletal Diseases | |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Keynote Lecture |
| Dr. Christa Maes - Seeing Stem Cells in Context: In Situ Visualization and Analysis of Tissue Function | |
| 18:30 – | Social Event with Dinner (Paid by Attendees) |
Monday, July 6th, 2026
| 8:30 – 9:50 | Session V: Computational AI Assessment of Bone Remodeling and Fracture |
| Dr. Steven Boyd - Computational Imaging and AI-Based Analysis of Bone Fracture Risk | |
| Dr. Nicolas Newell - Towards In Vivo Quantification of Spinal Deformations and Strains Using MRI and CT-Based Digital Volume Correlation | |
| 9:50 – 10:10 | Coffee and Tea Break |
| 10:10 – 11:30 | Poster Oral Session II (Odd) + Poster Viewing Session II (Odd) |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | Session VI: Emerging Paradigms in Bone Research |
| Dr. Chrissy Hammond - Mechanical Regulation of Bone Cell Fate: Emerging Paradigms in Skeletal Biology | |
| Dr. Atsuhiko Hikita - Spatiotemporal Analysis of Cell and Matrix Dynamics During Bone Remodeling in an In Vitro Model | |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Session VII: Bone Marrow Microenvironments and Functions |
| Dr. Erica Scheller - Marrow Adipocytes and Bone Homeostasis | |
| Dr. Peter Maye - Introducing the Rodent Open Science Skeletal Archive (ROSSA) | |
| 15:00 – 15:20 | Coffee and Tea Break |
| 15:20 – 16:10 | Special Session – Bone Tumors |
| Dr. Alison Gartland – Bone Cancers from Dinosaurs to Dogs: Seeing is Believing | |
| 16:10 – 17:20 | Session VIII: Mechanoregulation of Bone Development & Regeneration |
| Dr. Niamh Nowlan - How Mechanical Forces Shape Skeletal Development | |
| 18:30 – | Gala Dinner (Great Hall, People’s Palace) |
Tuesday, July 7th, 2026
| 8:30 – 9:45 | Concurrent Training Workshops I: |
| 1A – From Sample Processing to Bioinformatics: Practical Workflows in Spatial Omics (Wet and Dry Lab Perspectives) | |
| 1B – Application of MicroCT Imaging in Musculoskeletal Research | |
| 1C – Basic Bone Histomorphometry | |
| 9:45 – 11:00 | Concurrent Training Workshops II: |
| 2A – Advanced Bone Histomorphometry | |
| 2B – Intravital Imaging of Bone: Opportunities, Challenges, and Emerging Applications | |
| 2C – Micro-CT in Bone Research: From Core Principles to Advanced Applications | |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Networking Coffee Break |
| 11:30 – 12:45 | Concurrent Training Workshops III: |
| 3A – Automated Workflows for Reproducible Image Analysis with XamFlow | |
| 3B – Tissue Clearing & Nerves in Bone | |
| 3C – Multiplex Immunostaining & Lineage Tracing | |
| 12:45 – 13:00 | Concluding Remarks |
