Programme Schedule: “Programmed Cell Death in Biology and Medicine”
DAY 1 (June 21st, 2012)
9:30 – 10:00
Registration
MORNING SESSION
Chair:
Vsevolod A. Tkachuk
(Faculty of Medicine, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia)
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 – 11:00
Welcome address
Guido Kroemer
(Institut Gustave Roussy, France)
Immunogenic cell death in cancer therapy
11:00 - 11:30
Vladimir Skulachev
(Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Moscow State University,
Russia)
Rechargeable
mitochondria-targeted
antioxidants
SkQs
as
antiapoptotic and antiphenoptotic drugs
11:30 – 12:00 Gerry Melino
(University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, Italy)
Loss of p63 and its miR205 target results in enhanced cell migration
and metastasis in prostate cancer
12:00 - 12:30
Coffee-break
AFTERNOON SESSION
Chair:
Sten Orrenius
(Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden)
12:30 – 13:00
13:00 - 13:30
13:30 – 14:00
14:00 – 15:30
15:30 – 16:00
16:00 – 16:30
16:30 – 17:00
17:00 – 17:30
Sergey Nedospasov
(Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology of the RAS, Russia)
Tumor Necrosis Factor: distinct functions specified by distinct cellular
sources
Alexander Ishov
(University of Florida, USA)
Daxx and USP7: novel regulators of genomic stability, mitosis and
taxanes sensitivity
Inna Lavrik
(German Cancer Research Center, Moscow State University
Germany/Russia)
Towards understanding the regulation of CD95 signaling by
quantitative biology
Lunch / Poster Session
Peter Bozhkov
(Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Linnean Center for Plant
Biology, Sweden)
Death without apoptosis: How do plant cells die?
Zahra Zakeri
(Queens College Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA)
Manipulation of cellular components by RNA virus
Andrey B. Vartapetian (
Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University,
Moscow)
Phytaspases: A plant alternative to animal caspases (Selected Abstract)
Martin Bushell
(University of Leicester, UK)
Translational repression is the primary and critical step for microRNA
mediated regulation
DAY 2 (June 22nd, 2012)
MORNING SESSION
Chair:
Richard A. Lockshin
(Department of Biological Sciences, St. John's University, New York, USA)
10:00 – 10:30
10:30 – 11:00
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 – 11:50
11:50 – 12:10
12:10 - 12:45
Mauro Piacentini
(National Institute for Infectious Diseases "Lazzaro Spallanzani", Italy)
Type2 Transglutaminase is involved in the autophagy-dependent
clearance of ubiquitinated proteins
Vladimir Gogvadze
(Karolinska Institutet, Moscow State University, Sweden/Russia)
Targeting mitochondria with α-tocopheryl succinate stimulates
neuroblastoma cell death irrespective of MycN expression
Hans-Uwe Simon
(University of Bern, Switzerland)
Programmed cell death pathways in neutrophils
Ludmila B Buravkova
(Institute of Biomedical Problems RAS, Moscow, Russia)
Photodynamic therapy-induced apoptosis in vascular wall-associated
cells in vitro (Selected Abstract)
Alexander P. Savitsky
(A.N. Bach Institute of Biochemistry, RAS, Moscow, Russia)
Visualization of caspase-3 activity. Computer simulations of substrate
structure and life-time imaging of live cells (Selected Abstract)
Coffee-break
AFTERNOON SESSION
12:45 - 13:15
Boris Zhivotovsky
(Karolinska Institutet, Moscow State University, Sweden/Russia)
A calcium-calmodulin-dependent pathway in regulation of cell death
13:15 – 13:45
13:45 – 14:15
14:15 - 14:30
Marie-Lise Gougeon
(Institut Pasteur, France)
Innate sensing of viral infection and programmed cell death
Peter Vandenabeele
(Ghent University, Belgium)
Molecular mechanisms of necroptosis, a regulated form of cellular
explosion
Closing remarks