Apoptosis 2003 Meeting
Dear colleague, We have the pleasure to announce the organization of our fifth molecular and cellular biology meeting entitled : APOPTOSIS 2003 - From signaling pathways to therapeutic tools. form Wednesday January 29 to Saturday February 1st 2003
(European Conference Center-Luxembourg)
http://www.transduction-meeting.lu We are encouraging potential participants to submit papers for oral and poster presentations. More then 40 additional talks will be added chosen from registered participants. - Speakers are invited to contribute to a regular number issue of
Biochem Pharmacol (referenced by Medline, ISI-Current Contents);
- Speakers and authors of posters are invited to submit papers for a
future volume of the Annals of the New York Acad Sci (Medline, ISI-Current
Contents); abstracts and full text will also be published in the Annals
Online (available through HighWire Press);
- Prior to the meeting, all abstracts will be available online at http://www.pharma-transfer.com Our website contains additional information about Luxembourg, selected hotels, our expo and includes a link to a secure credit card payment site. We will only accept online registrations and abstract submissions for this meeting : http://www.transduction-meeting.lu Looking forward to meeting you in Luxembourg,
Yours sincerely,
Marc Diederich -------------------
Register before the meeting is sold out !
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Reduced registration deadline : November 30, 2002
Abstract Deadline : December 31st, 2002
Registration deadline : January 15th, 2003
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ONE full meeting registration = TWO participants
(Offer ends November 30, 2002, see website for details)
(One abstract per person is possible)
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Scientific program
Wednesday January 29th, 2002
Afternoon Keynote talk
Stanley Korsmeyer (Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA)
Oral Session 1 : Cell death and development
Michael O. Hengartner (University of Zurich) : The nematode C. elegans as a model system to study engulfment
Sara C. Ahlgren (California Institute of Technology) : Apoptotic signaling molecules during neural crest development Pierre Golstein (Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, France) : Cell death in Dictyostelium discoideum Kate Hardy (Imperial College, London, UK) : Cell death during human preimplantation embryo development Jean-Claude Ameisen (EMI-U 9922 INSERM/Universite Paris 7, France) : On the origin, evolution and nature of programmed cell death Thursday January 30, 2002
Morning Oral Session 2A : Mitochondria as regulators of apoptosis
Guido Kroemer (Institut Gustave Roussy, France) : Essential role of the mitochondrial apoptosis-inducing factor in programmed cell death Andreas Strasser (The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Victoria, Australia) : Bcl-2 family in cell-death control. Philippe Bouillet (The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Victoria, Australia) : Bim and related proteins Jean-Claude Martinou (University of Geneva, Switzerland) : Bid and Bax
Oral Session 2B : Apoptotic signal transduction pathways
Roger Davis (Worcester, Massachusetts) : Role of kinases in apoptotic signal transduction.
Helen Beere (La Jolla, USA) : Stressed to death: regulation of apoptotic signaling pathways by the heat shock proteins Jakob Troppmair (University of Wuerzburg) : Apoptosis suppression by Raf: novel connections Thomas J. Povsic (Duke University Medical Centre, Durham, USA) : beta-arrestins and apoptotic signalling
Oral Session 2C : Satellite Meeting I
Abraham Amsterdam (Weizman Institute of Science, Revohot, Israel) : Novel genes modulated by gonadotropins: new perspectives in the control of ovarian cell death
Hakan Billig (Department of Physiology, Goteborg, Sweden) : Progesterone receptor mediated regulation of apoptosis in ovarian cells John Peluso (University of Connecticut Health Centre, USA) : Basic Fibroblast growth factor regulation of granulosa cell apoptosis Atan Gross (Department of Biological Regulation, Revohot, Israel) : Exploring the role of caspases in determining the fate of ovarian follicles Thursday January 30, 2002
Morning
Oral Session 3A : Inhibitors and activators of apoptosis
Bharat Aggrawal (Anderson Cancer Centre) : Regulation of Proliferation, Survival and Apoposis by Members of
the TNF Superfamily Masataka Mori (Kumamoto University School of Medicine) : Nitric Oxide- and ER Stress-mediated Apoptosis Young-Joon Surh (Seoul National University) : Chemopreventive Dietary and Medicinal Phytochemicals and cell death Craig Thompson (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Bcl-XL and inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptors
Oral Session 3B : Receptors as cell death mediators
Peter H. Krammer : (German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg) : CD95(APO-1/Fas) signaling: the role of FLIP.
Ulf R. Rapp (University of Wuerzburg) : Neurotrophin Receptor-interacting Mage Homologue Is an Inducible Inhibitor of Apoptosis Protein-interacting Protein That Augments Cell Death Rudi Beyaert (University of Ghent, Belgium) : Cross-talk between NF-kB activating and apoptosis-inducing signalling proteins
Oral Session 3C : Apoptosis in human pathologies
Thomas Mandrup-Poulsen (Steno Diabetes Centre, Denmark) : Apoptotic signal transduction pathways in diabetes Decio L. Eizirik (ULB, Belgium) : Microarray analysis of apoptosis in pancreatic beta-cells
Oral Session 3D : Satellite I
Friday January 31, 2002
Morning Oral Session 4A : Caspases :
Jurg Tschopp (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) : Control of caspase activation by FLIP and ASC Klaus Schulze-Osthoff (University of Münster, Germany) : Caspases: more than just killers ? Seamus Martin (Trinity College, Ireland) : Ordering caspase activation events in apoptosis
Oral Session 4B : Transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of apoptosis
Richard Pestell (Ney York, USA) : Apoptosis and histone deacetylases in hormone signaling.
J. Don Chen (Department of Biochemistry and Mol. Pharmacology, Worcester, MA, USA) : Steroid/nuclear hormone receptors and apoptosis John Hiscott (McGill University, Canada) : Multiple Signaling Pathways Regulating the Activation of IRF-3 Paul J. Coffer (University Medical Centre, Utrecht, The Netherlands) : Forkhead transcription factors and regulation of apoptosis Martin Holcik (Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Canada) : Translational upregulation of X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis (XIAP)
Oral Session 4C: Cell death and cardiovascular diseases
Claudio Napoli (University of Naples, Italy; University of San Diego, California, USA) : Oxidation of LDL and apoptosis
Dipak K. Das (Cardiovascular Research Centre, Farmington, USA) : Yong J. Geng (Center for Cardiovascular Biology and Atherosclerosis Research, Houston, USA) : Apoptosis in Atherosclerosis and Heart Failure Oral Session 4D : Glutathione and Apoptosis
to be announced Friday January 31, 2002
Afternoon Oral Session 5A : Apoptosis and chromatin structure
Piotr Widlak (Department of Experimental and Clinical, Poland) : Modeling apoptotic chromatin condensation; is it so simple ? Yoshihiro Higuchi (Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Japan) : DNA fragmentation associated with apoptosis and necrosis induced by oxidative stress
Oral Session 5B : p53
Gerry Melino (University of Rome, Italy) : The p53 family
Patrick Lee (University of Calgary, Canada) : Cell cycle and p53-mediated apoptotic response Clemens Schmitt (Max-Delbrück-Center, Germany) : Contribution of p53 and p16INK4a to the outcome of cancer therapy.
Oral Session 5C : Cell death and cell cycle
Karen Vousden (National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, USA) Proliferation, cell cycle and apoptosis in cancer.
Claude Prigent (CNRS - Université de Rennes, France) : The oncogene aurora-A kinase phosphorylates and inhibits proteins involved in apoptosis Kelly L. Jordan-Sciutto (University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, USA) : Altered distribution of cell cycle transcriptional regulators during Alzheimer?s disease Saturday, February 1st, 2002
Morning Oral Session 6A : Apoptosis and tissulary functions
Herve Chneiweiss (College de France, Paris, France) : Keeping TNF-induced apoptosis under control in astrocytes Alberto Ortiz (Dialisis Fundacion Jimenez Diaz, Spain) : Role and regulation of apoptotic cell death in the kidney.
Oral Session 6B : Cell death and blood diseases
Lucia Altucci (Seconda Universita di Napoli, Italy ) : Retinoic acid-induced apoptosis in leukemia cells
Tom Cotter (Dept. of Biochemistry, Cork, Ireland) : BCR-ABL in the regulation of apoptosis in chronic myeloid leukaemia Barbara Walzog (Dept. of Physiology, University of Munich, Germany) : A role for apoptosis in the control of neutrophil homoeostasis in the circulation
Oral Session 6C : Cell death and neurodegenerative diseases
Luc Buee (IMPRT, Lille, France) : Tau pathology and apoptosis
Anne Eckert (Biozentrum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany) : Increased apoptotic cell death in sporadic and genetic Alzheimer's disease Mark S. Kindy (Department of Physiology and Neuroscience, Charleston, USA) : Stroke and apoptosis/excitosis Moussa Youdim (Eve Topf and National Parkinson Foundation; Haifa, Israel) : Rasagiline and Parkinson's disease: the essentiality of Bcl-2, PKC and proteasome activation in neuroprotection Oral Session 6D: Pharmacology of Apoptosis
Caroline Dive (University of Manchester, UK) : Apoptosis and cancer chemotherapy Paul Harkin (Department of Oncology, Queen's University Belfast, N. Ireland Ray) : Sid D. Ray (Long Island University, Brooklyn, USA) : Lessons Learned From Drug and Chemically-Induced Apoptotic Death in the Liver and Kidneys In Vivo ---------------
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