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COMPLETE TIMETABLE FOR THE CONFERENCE:
AT : El Escorial Monastery, near Madrid, Spain May 6th-9th 2,000
Chairperson: Zahra Zakeri
| Organizers: | Organizing Committee | Michael Hengartner | Mauro Piacentini |
| Zahra Zakeri | Raymond Birge | Juan Hurlé | Aviva Tolkovsky |
| Richard Lockshin | Luis Benitez-Bribiesca | Guido Kroemer | Jurg Tschopp |
| Carlos Martinez-A | Marie-Lise Gougeon | Peter Krammer | David Vaux |
| Douglas Green | Sten Orrenius | ||
| Arnold Greenberg | Barbara Osborne | ||
Schedule for conference (most speakers confirmed) |
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| Name | Session, Title |
May 6, 2000
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| Zahra Zakeri, Queens College of CUNY | Apoptosis in development and aging |
| Barbara Conradt, Max Planck Institut | The regulation of programmed cell death in C. elegans |
| Hermann Steller, MIT | Genetic control of apoptosis in Drosophila |
| Yun-Bo Shi, NIH | Thyroid hormone-regulation of apoptotic organ transformation during anuran metamorphosis: Role of cell-ECM interactions |
| Eric Baehrecke, Univ. Maryland | Steroid regulation of programmed cell death during Drosophila development. |
| John Abrams, Univ. Texas SWMC | Activators of apoptosis in Drosophila |
| Short talks | |
May 7, 2000
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| Aviva Tolkovsky, Cambridge Univ | A role for MAPK/ERK in sympathetic neuron survival: protection against a p53-dependent, JNK-independent induction of apoptosis by cytosine arabinoside |
| Claudio Franceschi, Univ. Bologna | Cell death in the immune system during aging |
| Rudolph Tanzi, Harvard Med | The Genetic Basis of Neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's Disease |
| Short talks | |
III. Extracellular Signaling (Luis Benitez-Bribiesca, Chair) |
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| Peter Krammer, German Cancer Research Inst | Molecular analysis of T cell sensitivity and resistance to CD95(APO-1/Fas) mediated apoptosis |
| Marcus Peter, Univ. Chicago | The signaling pathway of the death receptor CD95 |
| David Wallach, Weizmann Inst. | Control of Cell Death by Receptors of the TNF/NGF Family |
| Short talks | |
| Posters | |
IV. Intracellular Signaling (Mauro Piacentini, Chair) |
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| Guido Kroemer, CNRS & Infobiogen | Mitochondria in Apoptosis |
| Jean-Claude Martinou, Ares-Serono | Bid, Bax and cell death |
| Andreas Strasser, WEHI Institute | The role of BH3-only proteins in cell death |
| Roya Khosravi-Far, Harvard Med | Apoptosis induced by TRAIL |
| Seamus Martin, Trinity College | Ordering events in the cytochrome c/Apaf-1 pathway |
| Adi Kimchi, Weizmann Inst. | Novel apoptotic pathways discovered by the isolation and characterization of the DAP genes |
| Short talks | |
May 8, 2000
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| Marie-Lise Gougeon, Inst. Pasteur | Apoptosis in AIDS. Mechanisms involved in the destruction and the reconstitution of the immune system under anti-viral therapies |
| Carol Thiele, NIH | Mechanisms of Resistance to Cell Death in Cancer cells; Neurotrophins and Neuroblastoma |
| Boris Zhivotovsky, Karolinska Inst. | Tumor Radiosensitivity and Apoptosis |
VI Cell Survival (Barbara Osborne, Chair) |
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| Carlos Martinez-A, Center Biomolec. Res. | Mechanism of Bcr-Induced Cell Death: Regulation by Bcl-2 and Cd40 |
| Angelita Rebollo, Center Biomolec. Res. | Role of the Aiolos transcription factor in the control of cell death and Bcl-2 expression |
| Christoph Borner, Univ. Fribourg | Bcl-2 family members: old concepts and some new surprises |
| J. Marie Hardwick, Johns Hopkins Univ | Inhibition of virus-induced neuronal apoptosis by Bax |
| Short talks | |
| Posters | |
VII Proteolysis and other degradative mechanisms (Douglas Green, chair) |
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| Gerry Melino, Univ. of Rome | Functional Study of p73 |
| Lloyd Greene, Columbia Univ. | Ras, caspases, and reductants in neuronal cell death |
| Margot Thomé, Univ. Lausanne | Anti-apoptotic strategies of lymphotropic viruses |
| Pierre Henkart, NIH | Assessment of Caspase Activities in Intact Apoptotic Thymocytes using Cell Permeable Fluorogenic Caspase Substrates |
| Maria Soengas, Cold Spring Harbor Labs | Apaf-1 and caspase-9 in p53-dependent apoptosis and tumor inhibition |
| Sophie Roy, Merck-Frosst | Regulation of Caspase-3 Maturation |
| Short talks | |
May 9, 2000
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| Robin Anderson, Univ. Melbourne | Hsp70 may block activation of effector caspases |
| Tak Mak, Univ. Toronto | Predicted and unexpected results of caspase knockouts |
| Arnold Greenberg, Univ. Manitoba | Granzymes and apoptosis: Identification of regulatory molecules in a cell free system |
| Katherina d'Herde, Univ. Gent | Subtypes of active cell death in the granulosa of ovarian atretic follicles |
| Alan Jones, Univ. North Carolina | Regulation of programmed cell death by a secreted ‘trigger’ protease during terminal differentiation |
| Raymond Birge, Rockefeller Univ | Role of the avb5 Integrin pathway in the phagocytosis of apoptotic cells |
| Wilfried Bursch, Univ. Vienna | Programmed cell death (PCD): apoptosis, autophagic PCD or others? |
| Short talks | |
| Wrap-up | Richard Lockshin |
Workshop on
phagocytosis: (fee $150 plus extra stay. Contact us for further information) |
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| May 9 | |
| Michael Hengartner, Cold Spring Harbor Labs; Giovanna Chimini, INSERM-CNRS de Marseille Luminy; N C Franc,Harvard Medical School; Susan M Abmayr, Pennsylvania State University | |
| Valerie Fadok, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver; John Savill, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh; Patrick Williamson, Amherst College; Short talks | |
| May 10 | |
| Mark J Walport, Imperial College School of Medicine, London. | |
| Philippe F. Devaux, Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, CNRS; Philippe Chavrier, Centre d'Immunologie INSERM-CNRS de Marseille; Short talks | |
| Schedule of talks and posters | Registration Info | Abstract Submission Info |
| Workshop Info | Brochure in several formats | Submit Application (Secure) |