Apoptosis Symposium
Date: 20th August, 2010
Venue: Information Technology Building at NUI, Galway, lecture theatre IT125
Confirmed speakers:
Prof. Simone Fulda, Ulm University, Germany (http://www.uniklinik-ulm.de/index.php?id=13517&L=1)
Prof. Colin Duckett, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA (http://web.mac.com/csd66/lab/Home.html )
Prof. Peter Vandenabeele, University of Ghent, Belgium (http://www.vib.be/Research/EN/Research+Departments/Department+for+Molecular+Biomedical+research/Peter+Vandenabeele/ )
Prof. Carmen Garrido, INSERM, Dijon, France (http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/INSERM-866/index.html)
Prof. Afshin Samali, NUI Galway (http://www.apoptosis.ie/samali.html )
Prof. Jochen Prehn, Royal College Surgeons Ireland, Dublin (http://www.rcsi.ie/researchdb/research_piprofile.jsp?uid=8)
Prof. Seamus Martin, Trinity College, Dublin (http://www.tcd.ie/Genetics/martin_research.php)
Prof. Thomas Cotter, University College Cork (http://www.ucc.ie/ucc/depts/biochemistry/staff/tcotter.html)
Dr. Howard Fearnhead, NUI Galway (www.nuigalway.ie/ncbes/researchers/howardfernhead.htm )
Dr. Adrienne Gorman, NUI Galway ( http://www.apoptosis.ie/gorman.html )
Dr, Eva Szegezdi, NUI Galway (http://www.apoptosis.ie/szegezdi.html )
Dr. Sanjeev Gupta, NUI Galway (http://www.apoptosis.ie/sanjeev.html )
Dr. Ralf Zwacka, NUI Galway (www.nuigalway.ie/ncbes/researchers/ralfzwacka.htm )
Programme
8.30 |
Registration open |
9.00 |
Meeting open by Prof Afshin Samali |
Intracellular regulation of apoptosis –chairperson: Howard Fearnhead |
9.15 |
Colin Duckett, University of Michigan |
IAP proteins at the interface of apoptosis and intracellular signalling* |
9.45 |
Tom Cotter, University College Cork |
Redox regulated cell survival pathways |
10.15 |
Adrienne Gorman, NUI Galway |
Pro-survival signalling by Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) |
10.30 |
Ayswaria Deepti |
Hsp70 protects from ER stress-induced apoptosis via enhancing Ire1a-XBP1 signalling |
10.45 |
Coffee/Poster viewing |
Apoptosis in disease: cancer and degeneration – chairperson: Eva Szegezdi |
11.15 |
Simone Fulda, Ulm University |
Targeting IAP proteins in cancers: From molecular mechanisms to therapeutic avenues* |
11.45 |
Carmen Garrido INSERM, Dijon |
Anti-apoptotic HSP70 : a target in cancer therapy |
12.15 |
Jochen Prehn, Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland |
Stress signalling by AMPK: Time to live and a time to die |
1.00 |
Lunch/Poster viewing |
Advances in apoptosis research I – chairperson: Adrienne Gorman |
2.15 |
Peter Vandenabeele, University of Ghent |
TNF-induced necrosis, multiple regulation of RIP1 kinase activity |
2.45 |
Seamus Martin, Trinity College Dublin |
Bcl-2 family proteins as modulators of oncogenic Ras-induced cell death |
3.15 |
Sanjeev Gupta, NUI Galway |
Perk-dependent repression of miR-17 family during ER stress |
3:30 |
Coffee/Poster viewing |
Advances in apoptosis research II – chairperson: Afshin Samali |
4.00 |
Howard Fearnhead, NUI Galway |
A non-apoptotic role for caspase-9 in muscle differentiation |
4.15 |
Eva Szegezdi, NUI Galway |
Targeting cancer with TRAIL |
4.30 |
Ralf Zwacka, NUI Galway |
Ambushing disseminating tumour cells with mesenchymal stem cells and TRAIL |
5:00 |
Panel Discussion on ‘Synergies in Apoptosis and Cell death Research in Ireland’ |
5:45 |
Closing of meeting |
*: The speaker’s visit was sponsored by NUI, Galway’s Millennium Fund
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