Programme

 

Sunday May 28th

Registration (15.00 onward)

Welcome Reception (20.00 on ward)

Monday May 29th

9.00-11.15

Death in Cancer

Chairs - Jan Paul Medema and Ricky Johnstone

Ricky Johnstone, Defining the apoptotic pathways underlying histone deacytelase inhibitor-mediated tumor therapy.

Elza de Bruin, Role of intrinsic and radiotherapy-induced apoptosis in rectal cancer patients.

Dario Lombardi, Cytotoxic activity of normal and cancer neural stem cells through the production of death receptor ligands.

Arturo Sala, The double life of ApoJ/clusterin: an antiapoptotic protein inhibitor of neuroblastoma metastasis.

Mileidys Perez Alea, Cancer stem cells contribute to the aggressive behaviour of human epithelial colon cancer.

Maria Giovanna Francipane, Autocrine production of IL-4 confers resistance to chemotherapy and CD95-induced cell death in cancer cells.

Valeria Coppola, miR-15 and miR-16 induce apoptosis by targeting BCL2 in prostate cancer.

 

11.15-11.45

coffee break

 

11.45-13.15

Alternative Pathways

Chairs - Eric Baehrecke and Marja Jäättelä

 

Catherine Stenson, A more serine way to die? Investigating the role of serine proteases in leukaemic cell death.

Mads Gyrd-Hansen, Apoptosome-independent activation of lysosomal cell death pathway by caspase-9.

Mads Daugaard, Hsp70-2 controls the expression level of a potent cancer cell survival protein, Lens Epithelium Derived Growth Factor (LEDGF/p75).

Mélanie Denizot, Autophagy is involved in CD4+ T cell death triggered by HIV-1 envelope proteins.

Katja Simon, Autophagy and the immune system in vivo.

13.15-14.45

lunch

 

14.45-16.00

Alternative Pathways (discussion session)

Chairs - Eric Baehrecke and Marja Jäättelä

 

Eric Baehrecke, Genetic regulation of autophagic programmed cell death.

Marja Jäättelä, Disruption of the lysosomal pH gradient combined with the inhibition of autophagosome formation, a new strategy for anti-cancer therapy?

Discussion on the role of alternative pathways in cell death

 

16.00-20.00

Poster Session + drinks

Posters (names A-L)

 

20.00

dinner

 

Tuesday May 30th

9.00-11.00

Caspase Regulation and Targets

Chairs -

 

Ina Lavrik, The role of two new c-FLIP proteins in life and death of cells.

Aura Kaunisto, Specific phosphorylation regulates the ubiquitylation and turnover of c-FLIP(S)

Christina Falschlehner, Caspase-3 and BID are differentially processed by Caspase-8 and Caspase-10.

Rüdiger Arnold, The caspase-3 target HPK1: A Molecular Switch between Life and Death in Hematopoietic Cells.

Magnus Olsson, A functional connection between p53 and Caspase-2 is essential for apoptosis induced by DNA damage.

Gavin McStay, In situ trapping of activated initiator caspases reveals a role for caspase-2 in heat shock-induced apoptosis.

Enrique Pérez-Payá, Small molecule inhibitors of apaf-1-related caspase-3/-9 activation that control mitochondrial-dependent apoptosis.

 

11.00-11.30

coffee break

 

11.30-13.15            

 

Death Receptors               

Chairs –

 

Thomas Kaufmann, Pro-Apoptotic BH3-only Bcl-2 Family Member Bid Is Required for FasL- but not for TNF-Mediated Fatal Hepatocyte Death and Dispensable for DNA Damage-Induced Apoptosis and Cell Cycle Arrest.

Brian Ferguson, Structural and biochemical analysis of the death domain complex formed at the Fas receptor.

Fiona Kimberley, Abnormal disulphide linked oligomers, global misfolding and intracellular retention of receptors underlies pathology in Tumour Necrosis Factor Receptor Associated Periodic Syndrome (TRAPS).

Thomas Brunner, Loss of TRAIL protects from Fas (CD95)-induced hepatoxicity and lethality.

Anne Grosse-Wilde, The apoptosis-inducing TRAIL-receptor is a metastasis suppressor in a multi stage skin tumor mouse model.

Marion Macfarlane, Receptor-selective trail mutants reveal that primary lymphoid tumor cells signal to apoptosis via TRAIL-R1: implications for therapy.

 

13.30-14.30

lunch

 

14.30-21.30

Trip to castle + dinner

 

Wednesday May 31st

8.45-11.00

BH3 molecules

Chairs - Andreas Villunger and Philippe Bouillet

 

Philippe Bouillet, Mouse models to decipher the role of the BH3-only proteins in triggering apoptosis.

Verana Labi, The BH3-only protein Bmf has overlapping functions with Bim during cell death induction and B-cell development.

Paul Ekert, Cell death provoked by loss of Interleukin-3 signalling is independent of Bad, Bim, and PI3 Kinase/AKT, but depends in part on Puma.

Stephen Tait, Unconventional ubiquitination of Bid is required for its pro-apoptotic activity.

Miriam Erlacher, Combined loss of Bim and Puma mirrors the effects of Bcl-2 overexpression in some but not all forms of cell death.

Eric Eldering, Distinct expression levels of Noxa in peripheral versus lymph node chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells are linked with survival capacity.

Nuno Lages Alves, The Noxa/Mcl-1 axis regulates susceptibility to apoptosis under glucose limitation in dividing T cells.

Bernhard Gillisen, Nbk induces apoptosis via an ER pathway in a Bax-dependent manner.

 

11.00-11.30

coffee break

 

11.30-13.30

Mitochondrial Structure and Death

Chairs - 

Lisa Bouchier-Hayes, Bax-mediated membrane permeabilization can occur in cells in the absence of mitochondrial membrane proteins.

Jerry Chipuk, Mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization is directly regulated by the mitochondrial fission machinery.

Cristina Muñoz-Pinedo, Coordinate release of mitochondrial inter-membrane space proteins during apoptosis revealed by real time single cell analysis.

Patrice Petit, Cloning of the human cardiolipin synthase and effects of its knowkdown on cell death progression : a switch between apoptosis and necrosis.

Eric C.C. Cheung, Dissociating the dual roles of apoptosis inducing factor (AIF) in apoptosis and maintaining mitochondrial structure.

Franziska Mullauer, Betulinic acid induced cell death in cancer cells.

David Dickens, Identification of MAP4K3 as a putative tumor suppressor using an RNAi screen.

 

13.30-15.00

lunch

 

15.00-16.00

BH3-Mitochondria (discussion session)

Andreas Villunger

 

16.00-20.00

Poster Session + drinks

Posters (names M-Z)

 

20.00

dinner

 

Thursday June 1st

9.00-10.45

Nuclear Aspects of “Death”

Chairs -

 

Vincenzo De Laurenzi, FLASH is an essential component of cajal bodies and is required for histone transciption and S-phase progression.

Brent Derry, Regulation of p53 by multiple SCF-based E3 ligases in C. elegans.

Catarina Grandela, Regulation of apoptosis of by p53 in human embryionic stem cells.

Paolo Salomoni, The role of Daxx in stress-induced cell death.

Paul Townsend, STAT-1: a modulator of apoptosis and cell cycle checkpoint responses.

Michael Ausserlechner, Regulation of Puma/bbc3 and Bcl-2 by p16INK4A sensitizes leukemia cells to Glucocorticoid- and Fas-induced apoptosis.

 

10.45-11.15

Lymphocyte-Associated Death

Chairs - Nigel Watherhouse

 

Ueli Nachbur, Post-transcriptional regulation of FasL killing activity by lipid rafts.

Ilia Voskoboinik, Unravelling the mechanism and function of perforin, a key effector molecule of the cytotoxic lymphocytes.

Nigel Waterhouse, Inhibition of caspases blocks granzyme B induced apoptosis in Bcl-2 over-expressing cells and promotes clonogenic survival

Michael Bots, The role of serine protease inhibitor SPI-6 in dendritic cells.

Carmen Ruiz-Ruiz, Regulation of primary T lymphocytes resistance to TRAIL-induced apoptosis

 

13.00-14.30

lunch

14.30-16.00

IAP family members

Chairs - 

 

John Silke, Role of IAPs in TNF superfamily (TNFSF) signaling.

Martin Leverkus, Inhibition of IKK2 sensitizes human keratinocytes to (TNF)-induced apoptosis independent of cIAP2 upstream or at the level of caspase 8.

Markus Rehm, Effector caspase activation as an all-or-none response and its control by X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis protein (XIAP) - a quantitative systems biology analysis.

Paulo Ribiero, DIAP2, The drosophila orthologue of XIAP, controls the effector caspase DRICE through a novel mechanism.

Davina Twiddy, The ~700-kDa apoptosome complex directly processes caspase-7, which is then sequestered by XIAP into a stable ~200-kDa complex.

 

17.00-19.00

1st EWCD Football Cup (mixed)

 

20.00

BBQ and party

 

Friday June 2nd:

departure

 

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