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Friday May28 2010
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Registration
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9:00 AM-7:00 PM |
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Welcome,
Introduction, and Awards: |
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Chair: Zahra
Zakeri, Queens College of C.U.N.Y, U.S.A |
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4:00-4:15pm |
Introduction and
welcome |
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Zahra Zakeri: Queens
College of C.U.N.Y., U.S.A |
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4:15-4:45pm |
On the origin
and evolution of programmed cell death |
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Jean-Claude
Ameisen, INSERM & Univ. Paris Diderot, France |
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Cell death and
different model systems
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Chair:
Katharina D’Herde; Univ. Ghent, Belgium |
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4:45-5:15pm |
Cell death in
yeast |
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Frank Madeo: Univ.
Graz, Austria |
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5:15-5:45pm |
Control of
cell death by bacterial infection |
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Thomas Rudel : Lehrstuhl für Mikrobiologie
Würzburg Germany |
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5:45-6:00pm |
A double stranded DNA
virus tool to cope with cell stress and death. |
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Covadonga Alonso:
INIA, Spain |
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6:00-:6:15 pm |
To be announced |
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Katja Fink : Singapore Immunology Network |
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6:15-6:45 pm |
Necrotic cell death
and the protective role of the heat shock response |
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Nektarios
Tavernarakis: Inst. Molec. Biol. Biotechnol., Greece |
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7:30pm |
Social hour, and
Dinner |
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Saturday May 29 2010 |
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Chair: Nader Maghsoudi: Shahid
Beheshti Univ. Iran |
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9:00-9:30am |
Huntington's disease: Multiple pathways to kill a
neuron |
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Frederic Saudou: Institut Curie, France |
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9:30-10:00am |
Developmental control of apoptosis and
proliferation by the Hippo pathway |
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Nic Tapon: London Research Institute UK |
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10:00-10:30am |
Regulating apoptosis in development and degenerative
diseases |
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Tom Cotter: Univ. College Cork, Ireland |
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10:30:11:00am |
Coffee Break |
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New approaches
in studying the dynamics of cell death and manipulating them: |
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Chair: Simone Fulda: Uniklinik Ulm, Germany |
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11:00-11:30am |
Linking between human apoptosis and genome stability gene
networks: an example for whole genome evolution |
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Rita M. C. de Almeida: Univ. Fed. Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil |
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11:30-12:00pm |
Programmed Cell Death: From single genes and
molecular pathways towards systems level studies |
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Adi Kimchi: Weizmann Inst., Israel |
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12:00-12:15 pm |
Short talk |
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12:15-12:30 pm |
Short talk |
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12:30-1:00 pm |
Omics approaches for discovery of cell death
biomarkers |
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Huseyin Mehmet: Merck, U.S. A |
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1:00-2:00pm |
Lunch |
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Regulation of cell death in cancer |
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Chair: Roya Khosravi-Far: Harvard Univ. USA |
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2:00-2:30 pm |
Sensitization of small cell lung carcinoma cells
to TRAIL-induced apoptosis |
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Boris Zhivotovsky: Karolinska Institutet, Sweden |
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2:30-3:00 pm |
Effects of photodynamic therapy
on cell death in two cancer cell lines |
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Marianne J Cronje: Univ. Johannesburg, South
Africa |
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3:-00-3:30 pm |
Ubiquitin-mediated regulation of cell survival |
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Pascal Meier: Institute of Cancer Research, UK |
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3:30-4:00 pm |
Coffee |
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Chair: Ray Birge, UMDNJ, USA |
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4:00-4:30 pm |
Caspase-9 promoter polymorphisms and ovary cancer |
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Melek Öztürk: Istanbul Univ. Turkey |
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4:30-5:00pm |
Retinoblastoma and targeted therapy |
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Mauro Piacentini: Univ. Di Roma Tor Vergata &
Hop. Spallanzani, Italy |
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5:00-5:30 pm |
Apoptotic properties of EGCG, a major component of
green tea, in HCT-116 human colon cancer cells |
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Semra Koçtürk: Dokuz Eylül Üniv., Turkey |
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5:30-7:30 pm |
Posters |
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7:30- |
Dinner |
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Sunday, May 30 2010 |
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Regulation of
cell death: |
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Chair:TBA |
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9:00-9:30am |
Keeping mitochondria in shape: A matter of life
and death |
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Luca Scorrano: Univ. Geneva, Switzerland |
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9:30-10:00am |
Apoptosis: From the beginning to the end of life |
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Seda Vatansever: Celal Bayar University, Turkey |
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10:00-10: 30 am |
Amplifiers of cell death signals? |
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Boris Turk: Stefan Institute, Slovenia |
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10:30-11:00am |
Coffee |
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Regulation of
cell death: |
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Chair : Gerry Melino Italy |
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11:00-11:30am |
Tolerance to cell death |
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Peter Krammer: Univ. Heidelberg, Germany |
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11:30-12:00noon |
Lipid metabolism and cell death |
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Marja Jäättelä: Danish Cancer Society, Denmark |
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12-12:30 pm |
Cellular senescence and immortality in liver
cancer |
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Mehmet Ozturk: Institut Albert Bonniot Grenoble, France |
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12:30-1:00 pm |
Oxidative stress signaling and cell death |
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Huveyda Basaga: Sabanci Univ. Turkey |
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1:00-2:00pm |
Lunch |
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Regulation of
cell death: |
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Chair : Marie Lise Gougeon: Institut Pasteur,
France |
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2:00-2:30 pm |
How caspases seal cell fates |
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Guy S. Salvesen: Burnham Inst., U.S.A |
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2:30-3:00 pm |
With or without AIF |
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Nazanine Modjtahedi: INSERM, Institut Gustave-Roussy,
France |
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3:00-3:30 pm |
Caspase-14 is required for epidermal cornification |
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Wim Declercq: Faculty of Medicine, Leuven, Belgium |
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3:30-4:00 pm |
Coffee |
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Workshop: |
How the women in the field can survive, network
and excel |
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4:00-4:15 pm |
Zahra Zakeri: Welcome and introductory remarks |
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4:15- 4: 30 pm |
What is holding back female scientists? |
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Speaker: Anna Ledin: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Stockholm, Sweden |
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4:30- 6:00 pm |
Moderator : Zahra Zakeri |
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Open forum and panel discussion:
Panelists: Anna Ledin; Roya Khosravi-Far; Fereshteh Motamedi;
Marie-Lise Gougeon; Marja Jäättelä; Simone Fulda;Melek Öztürk: Patrizia Agostinis |
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6:00-8:00 pm |
Posters --- (Workshop on regional collaboration) |
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8.00- |
Dinner |
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Monday May 31 2010 |
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Signalling in
cell death: |
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Chair: Patrizia Agostinis: Univ.
Leuven, Belgum |
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9:00-9:15am |
Presenting Award to Dr Eileen White: |
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Richard A. Lockshin: St. John’s University, U.S.A |
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9:30-10:00am |
Role of autophagy in cancer and therapy |
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Eileen White: Rutgers Univ. & Cancer Inst. of New Jersey,
U.S.A |
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10:00-10:30am |
New regulators of mammalian autophagy:
Implications for cell survival and death |
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Devrım Gözüaçık: Sabanci Univ. Turkey |
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10:30-11:00am |
Coffee |
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11:00-11:30am |
ASC Activity in Melanoma |
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Nesrin Özören: Boğaziçi University Turkey |
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11:30-11:45am |
Short talk |
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11:45-12:00pm |
Short talk |
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12:00-12:30pm |
Regulation of cardiac death and autophagy by local growth factors and
hormones |
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Sergio Lavandero: Univ. de Chile, Chile |
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12:30-1:00pm |
Peter Vandenabeele:
Univ. Ghent, Belgium |
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Molecular mechanisms of necrotic cell death |
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1:00-2:00pm |
Lunch and End of Meeting |