“CELLULAR INTERACTIONS IN INFLAMMATION AND CANCER”
CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLOGICAS
Madrid, December 3-4, 2007
Monday, December 3
9.15-9.30
Welcome
FIRST SESSION: CELLULAR INTERACTIONS IN CANCER PROGRESSION
Discussion Leader: Francisco Sánchez-Madrid
9.30-10.10
Margaret Frame
A new role for focal adhesion kinase in linking integrins to the Arp2/3 complex.
10.10-10.30
Joaquin Teixidó
Chemokines and metalloproteinases in melanoma metastasis
10.30-10.50
Miguel A. del Pozo
Integrins and Caveolin-1 in Cell Migration, Endocytosis and Cell Growth
Coffee break
11.20-12.00
John Collard
The Par/Tiam complex and cell polarity
12.00-12.20
Amparo Cano
Cooperation of Snail and lysyl oxidase like-2 (LOXL2) in tumour progression
12.20-12.40
Angeles García-Pardo
Cellular interactions and function of MMP-9 in B-cell chronic lymphocytic
leukemia
12.40-12.55
Stephanie Brooking (Senior Business Development specialist RNA
Europe, Ambion-Applied Biosystems)
siRNA AMBION New Generation
13.00-14.40
Lunch
Discussion Leader: Paul Frenette
14.50-15.10
Miguel Quintanilla
A role for the TGF- co-receptor endoglin as a suppressor of malignancy
15.10-15.30
Piero Crespo
Site-specific Ras-ERK signals in the regulation of migration
15.30-15.50
María Montoya
Rab8 involvement in cell migration and invasion. Role of Rho GTPases.
21.00 Dinner
Tuesday, December 4
SECOND SESSION: CELLULAR INTERACTIONS IN HOMEOSTASIS AND
INFLAMMATION.
Discussion Leader: Margaret Frame
9.10-9.50
Reinhold Förster
Control of homeostatic lymphocyte and dendritic cell trafficking by chemokine receptor CCR7
9.50-10.10
Mario Mellado
Chemokine receptor dimerization: several faces of a single molecule
10.10-10.30
José Luis Rodríguez-Fernández
Which is the function of the immunological synapse of dendritic cells?
Coffee break
10.50-11.30
John Kehrl
GPCR Signaling and B lymphocyte trafficking through lymph nodes
11.30-12.10
Paul Frenette
Physiological trafficking of stem cells controlled by the nervous system
12.10-12.30
Santos Mañes
Old and new players in chemoattractant-induced leukocyte polarization
12.30-12.50
Paloma Sánchez-Mateos
Polarized clathrin-mediated endocytic dynamics at the uropod of moving lymphocytes
13.00-14.40
Lunch
Discusión Leader: Xosé Bustelo
14.40-15.20
Francisco Sánchez-Madrid
Nanoscale molecular interactions and dynamics of endothelial adhesive platforms in
primary living cells
15.20-15.40
Miguel López-Botet
NK cell receptors in the innate immune response to human cytomegalovirus infection
15.40-16.00
Angel Corbí
RUNX factors contribute to macrophage activation and adhesion molecule expression
16.00-16.20
Alicia García-Arroyo
MT1-MMP is required for macrophage fusion in osteoclasts and foreign body
giant cells
End of Meeting