[Current]

[Previous meetings in Inverse Order]

CELL DEATH CLUB PRESENTS:

BI-MONTHLY CELL DEATH SOCIETY MEETINGS AT MSKCC

Wednesday, October 16 2002
1) Young Zhu, Ph.D. "Regulation of CDK5 in Cell Death" 
2) David Foster, Ph.D. Gene Center at Hunter College of City University of New York will talk on "Cell Death and Survival Mediated by Phospholipase D"

Wednesday November 6:
1) Hermann Steller, Ph.d. Rockefeller University. Title to be announced. 
 

May 1st:

1) Ray Birge, UMDNJ, "Integrins, Cell Death, and Phagocytosis"

2) Lin Lin, Queens College of CUNY, Regulation of Cdk5 in p53-related cell death pathway

April 3rd:

1) Irina Koritchneva Ph.D., from Program in Immunology at MSKCC
will talk on: 
"Retinoids in redox regulation of signaling: implication in apoptosis".

2) Scott Lowe (CSH): p53 Action During Tumor Development and Therapy

March 6th meeting (note correction of error)

1) Yuri Lazebnik, Cold Spring Harbor Labs: Oncogenes as a Trojan horse

2) Javier Negron, St. John's University: Acquisition of the ability to undergo apoptosis.




2) TBA?


June 5th:

1) Shoshana Paglin Ph.D., Dept of Radiation Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering.

2) TBA?Jill Buyonic from NYU on: "Apoptosis in fetal cardiocytes"

PARKING: 

YOU MAY USE THE MSKCC PARKING GARAGE, BUT THERE WILL BE A FEE.

Please call Dr. Zakeri's lab at 718: 997-3450 or Dr. Adriana Haimovitz-Friedman at 212:639-5109 to let us know how many will attend the meeting.

Happy Holidays and all the best for the year 2002.
Following is the schedule for the Cell Death Society Meetings :

The next meeting will take place on Feb 6th from 6:00-8:00 pm in the Rockefeller Research Laboratories Bldg at Memorial, which is located at 430 East 67th Street, between York and 1st Aves. The meeting will take place in Room RRL 116, located behind the elevators. Following are the speakers and topics for this date:

1) Shai Shaham, Ph.D., from Laboratory of Developmental Genetics, The Rockefeller University
will talk on:
"Cell death and differentiation in the nematode C. elegans."

2) Bruce Kristal from the Departments of Biochemistry and Neuroscience at Weill Medical College of Cornell University:
"Potential physiological modulators of the mitochondrial permeability transition in neurodegeneration".

Wednesday, November 7

NM 107 (last year's meeting place)

6:00-8:00 PM

1)  Aida Cremesti  Ph.D. from Signal Transduction Laboratory at MSKCC
will talk on:   " Ceramide enables Fas to cap and kill".

2)  Yuri Tjuvajev   MD PhD ,  Associate Attending in the Dept. of
Neurology will talk on:  "New Horizons in Molecular Imaging".

Coming Dec 5th:

1)   Irina  Koritchneva Ph.D., from Program in Immunology at MSKCC
will talk on:  "Retinoids in redox regulation of signaling:
implication in apoptosis".

2) Yuri Lazebnik  PhD,  Senior Scientist from Cold Spring Harbor Labs

Wednesday October 3 2001

1) Irina Koritchneva Ph.D., from Program in Immunology at MSKCC
will talk on: "Retinoids in redox regulation of signaling: implication in apoptosis".    

2) Aida Cremesti Ph.D. from Signal Transduction Laboratory at MSKCC
will talk on: " Ceramide enables Fas to cap and kill".

Rockefeller Research Laboratories Bldg at Memorial
430 East 67th Street, between York and 1st Aves. 
The meeting will take place in Room RRL 116

Wednesday, June 6, 2001

Richard N. Kitsis, M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY
Manipulating apoptosis in the myocardium

Terri Kagan, Queens College, CUNY and the Graduate School and University Center, CUNY, Flushing, NY
Novel Modulation of a lipid second messenger as a function of neurotrophin receptors

Wednesday, June 6, 2001
6:00 PM Pizza
6:30 PM Presentations begin

PLACE:

MSKCC, 1275 YORK AVE, NY, NY

ROOM NM107 (NEW MEMORIAL)

ENTER THROUGH THE 1275 YORK AVE. ENTRANCE.  TAKE THE ESCALATOR UP ONE FLOOR

PARKING: 

YOU MAY USE THE MSKCC PARKING GARAGE, BUT THERE WILL BE A FEE.

Please call Dr. Zakeri's lab at 718: 997-3450 or Dr. Adriana Haimovitz-Friedman at 212:639-5109 to let us know how many will attend the meeting.

Monica Driscoll?Rutgers University, New Jersey

?The other side of death: Molecular Genetics of Necrotic Cell Death in C. elegans?

Francois Paris?MSKCC, New York

?Endothelial Apoptosis is the Primary Lesion Initiating Radiation Damage to the Intestines?

DATE: MARCH 7, 2001

PLACE:

MSKCC, 1275 YORK AVE, NY, NY

ROOM NM107 (NEW MEMORIAL)

ENTER THROUGH THE 1275 YORK AVE. ENTRANCE.  TAKE THE ESCALATOR UP ONE FLOOR

PARKING: 

YOU MAY USE THE MSKCC PARKING GARAGE, BUT THERE WILL BE A FEE.

Wednesday  April 5th  6:30PM -8:00PM

Speaker: Michael Hengartner, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories
Title: Genetic control of physiological and DNA damage-induced apoptosis in the C. elegans germ line
Speaker: David Weinstein, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Title: OPA-1, a novel Schwann cell factor involved in neuronal survival and regeneration

6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.Wednesday, March 8, 2000:
Dr. David Weinstein, Albert Einstein College of Medicine: "OPA-1, a novel Schwann cell factor involved in neuronal survival and regeneration."
Dr. Silvia C. Finnemann, Rockefeller: "Key role for alpha v beta 5 integrin in phagocytosis by retinal pigment epithelial cells."

Peter Krammer, MD, Head of Tumorimmunology Program, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, will give a lecture on "Apoptosis in the Immune System" on Thursday, Feb 24th at 2pm in the HSS lecture hall (535 E. 70th Street, NY 10021).

Wednesday, December 1   6:30PM-8:00PM

"Transcription factor NF-kB and cell turnover in colonic epithelium "
Charles Giardina, University of Connecticut

"Retro-retinoids in the control of cell death and survival"
Irina Korichneva, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Wednesday, November 3, 1999
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Lessons from the Acid Sphingomyelinase Knockout Mouse. Richard Kolesnik, Head, Signal Transduction Laboratory, MSKCC. TRANCE, a TNF Family Member, activates Akt/PKB through a Signaling Pathway Involving TRAF6 and c-Src. Daniel Besser, Postdoctoral Fellow, RU. Cell Death Society Meeting. 301 Weiss. Pizza at 6:00 p.m. Contact Ray Birge, 327-7412. Please RSVP with number of people attending.

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Wednesday, September 15, 1999: 
1. David I Cohen, Queens College: A novel form of cell death from G2 phase triggered by HIV infection.
2. Leonidas Stafanis, Columbia Univ.: Caspase-dependent and independent death of cortical neurons

Wednesday, May 5, 1999

Dr. James M. McDonnell
The Rockefeller University "Solution Structure of the Pro-apoptotic molecule
BID: a structural basis for apopototic agonists and antagonists"

Dr. Paolo Salomini
Thomas Jeffereson University "Role of BAD in the BCR/ABL-mediated protection
from apoptosis"

6:00-6:30 PM Pizza, 6:30-8:00 PM Talks and Discussion
Rockefeller University, 130 York Ave.
Weiss Research Bldg., Room 301

Free parking after 5 PM at 66th St. and York Ave. Please car pool as parking space is limited.

Important notes:
To help plan for pizza and number of attendees, please call Dr. Zakeri's lab (718-997-3429) to indicate that you are coming.
If you want to receive information about the Cell Death Society, please contact Dr. Zakeri's lab to verify your phone, fax, and email listings. If you have a new email address and did not receive this message by email, please send it to lockshin@stjohns.edu or register on this page To join the society, please see announcement.

Remember Upcoming Conferences!
June 27--Gordon Conference
September: Cold Spring Harbor Conference
European meeting, in Israel--someone send info to webmaster_new, please
Keystone, April 99, applications now closed

Also, can anyone help some of the student inquiries in the discussion section?

March 3, 1999
1. Dr. Richard Flavell. Yale University "The role of caspases in apoptosis in vivo studied by gene targeting"

No meeting in February, 1999
(Conflict with other meetings)

Happy Holidays
Feliz Navidad
Heureux Noel et Bonne Annee
Froehlich Weinacht
Buon Natale
Gut YomTov, Hag Sameach
[Corrections and additions welcome]

December 2, 1998
1. Dr. Joseph Doyle, Rockefeller University
"Characterization of new genes in the regressing rat prostate"

2. Dr. Wen-Chieh Liao, Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering
"ATM inhibits DNA damage-induced apoptosis via ceramide synthase"

NOVEMBER 4, 1998
1. Dr. Matthew Albert:  The Rockefeller University.  "Resurrecting the dead:
Dendritic cells phagocytose and cross-present antigen derived from apoptotic
cells on MHC I" 
2. Chenghua Gu: Skirball Institute: New York University.  "Beta-adrenergic receptor initiated PKA-independent control of cell cycle arrest and apoptosis"

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1998
Dr. Serge Desnoyers, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories: "A poly (ADP-Ribose) polymerase from C. Elegans: A role in programmed cell death"
Dr. Sofiya Andjelic, Cornell University Medical College: "Dissection of pathways that promote and prevent apoptosis in B lymphocytes: A NF-kB connection"

Wednesday, May 6, 1998 "Apoptosis in oncogenically-transformed cells: Caspase activation in p53-dependent and independent pathways" Dr. Maria Soengas Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York.
"Neuronal survival, but not differentiation, requires direct activation of c-Ha-Ras by nitric oxide". Dr. Ken Teng Department of Hematology/Oncology Cornell-New York Hospital

Wednesday,April 8, 1998  Dr. Patricia L. Morris, The Population Council, The Rockefeller University "Who gets to go to the dance? Cytokine orchestration: survival of the male germ cell"
Dr. Carmel Hensey, Department of Genetics, Columbia University "A developmental timer regulates apoptosis in Xenopus embryos"

Wednesday, February 4, 1998 Ron Bose, Memorial Sloan Kettering "Ceramide generation by the reaper protein is not blocked by the Caspase inhibitor, p35" Erick J. Morris Department of Pharmacology UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Piscataway, NJ "Signal transduction of DNA damage-induced neuronal apoptosis".

Wednesday, December 3, 1997 Nancy Thornberry, Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, NJ Caspases: Killer Proteases Rosemary Kraemer, Cornell-New York Hospital, New York, NY Neurotrophins induce apoptosis of vascular smooth muscle cells expressing p75: Role in lesion development following vascular injury

Wednesday, November 5, 1997 Ute Moll, Stony Brook University  Sequestration of wild type p53 in human tumors  Wen-Chieh Liao, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center The Role of Ceramide Synthetase in Ionizing Radiation-Induced Apoptosis

Wednesday, December 3, 1997
Nancy Thornberry, Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, NJ
Caspases: Killer Proteases

Rosemary Kraemer, Cornell-New York Hospital, New York, NY
Neurotrophins induce apoptosis of vascular smooth muscle cells expressing p75:
Role in lesion development following vascular injury