From owner-celegans@net.bio.net Wed Jul 08 23:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: lockshin@mindspring.com (Richard A. Lockshin) Newsgroups: bionet.celegans Subject: Final Schedule Cell Death Meeting 7/17-18 Date: 9 Jul 1998 06:19:05 -0700 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises, Inc. Lines: 137 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: wmorgan@acs.wooster.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <6o2g09$d7g@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Subject: Final Schedule July 17-18 meeting Attached is the final schedule for the July 17-18 meeting "Mechanisms of Cell Death" Participants in the society may still register at the discount price. See annnouncement at http://www.celldeath-apoptosis.org/july98.htm and fax your information to Zahra Zakeri at 718: 997-3417. MECHANISMS OF CELL DEATH A Symposium Presented by the Cell Death Society July 17-18, 1998 FRIDAY JULY 17 8:00 Registration: Coffee 8:45-8:55 Opening Remarks Zahra Zakeri, Queens College of CUNY 8:55-9:00 Address by Dr. Benjamin Mojica, Department of Health, NYC on behalf of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani 9:00-9:15 Overview Richard A. Lockshin, St. John's University Session I: THE MACHINERY OF DEATH: A COMMAND TO DIE Chair: Yuri Lazebnik, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories , NY, USA 9:15-9:40 Programmed cell death: Evolutionary considerations Pierre Golstein, Marseille-Luminy, France 9:40-9:50 Discussion 9:50-10:15 TRAF proteins in the immune system Yongwon Choi, Rockefeller University 10:15-10:25 Discussion 10:25-10:45 Coffee Break 10:45-11:10 Acquired resistance to apoptosis during tumorigenesis Douglas Hanahan, U.C.S.F. 11:10-11:20 Discussion 11:20-11-45 Regulation of apoptosis by viral transforming proteins Eileen White, Rutgers University 11:45-11-55 Discussion 11:55-12:10 DnaseY: A rat Dnasel-like gene coding for a constitutively expressed chromatin-bound endonuclease Qing Liu, NRC, Ottawa, Canada 12:10-12:20 Discussion 12:20-1:40 Lunch Session II: THE MACHINERY OF DEATH: REGULATION OF CELL DEATH Chair: Gerry Melino, University di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy 1:40-2:05 On the relationship between metabolism, immune recognition, and cell death Karen Newell, Univ. of Vermont 2:05-2:15 Discussion 2:15-2:40 Lipid mediators: An insight into mechanisms of apoptosis Lina Obeid, Duke University 2:40-2:50 Discussion 2:50-3:15 A genetic dissection of apoptosis in Drosophila Kristin White, Harvard Med. School 3:15-3:25 Discussion 3:25-3:40 Mechanisms of DNA damage-induced neuronal apoptosis Erick Morris, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, N.J. 3:40-3:50 Discussion 3:50-4:05 Requirement of CASPASE activity for inhibiting TNFa- induced necrosis Ming Li, Columbia University, NY 4:05-4:15 Discussion 4:15-6:00 Coffee and POSTERS SATURDAY, JULY 18 Session III: CELL CYCLE REGULATION AND CELL DEATH Chair : Marianna Sikorska National Research Council, Ottawa. Canada 9:00-9:25 Regulation of cell death in development Juan Hurle, Santander, Spain 9:25-9:35 Discussion 9:35-10:00 Apoptosis during Xenopus development Jean Gauthier, Columbia University 10:00-10:10 Discussion 10:10-10:35 The role of cell death in aging Huber Warner, NIA 10:35-10:45 Discussion 10:45-11:05 Coffee Break 11:05-11:30 Caspase gene regulation and human longevity Eugenia Wang, Bloomfield Center for Research on Aging, Montreal, Canada 11:30-11:40 Discussion 11:40-11:55 The antiapoptotic CLN3 gene is differentially expressed in development and cancer and exerts its effect by modulating ceramide formation downstream R-M Boustany, Duke University Medical Center, NC. 11:55-12:05 Discussion 12:05-1:40 Lunch Session IV: CELL DEATH IN DISEASE Chair: Mauro Piacentini, Univesita di Roma tor Vergata, Italy. 1:40-2:05 Apoptosis and AIDS pathogenesis Luc Montagnier, INSERM Paris, France and Queens College of CUNY 2:05-2:15 Discussion 2:15-2:40 Apoptosis of myocytes during coxsackievirus R3-induced myocarditis results in dilated cardiomyopathy Sally A. Huber, Univ. of Vermont 2:40-2:50 Discussion 2:50-3:15 Oncogene-induced apoptosis Gerard Evan, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London 3:15-3:25 Discussion 3:25-3:40 Modulation of apoptosis by oncogene and tumor suppressor genes Scott Lowe, Cold Spring Harbor Labs 3:40-3:50 Discussion 3:50-4:05 TPA modulation of LNCP cells response to radiation is mediated through ceramide synthases activation Adrianna Haimovitz-Friedmann, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center,NY 4:05-4:15 Discussion 4:15-4:30 Different mode of cell death induced by oxidant insult Lin Mantell, Winthrop-University Hospital, NY 4:30-4:10 Discussion 4:40-4:55 Apoptotic cell s are targeted antigens in SLE-like disease Dror Mevorach, Cornell University 4:55-5:25 Closing remarks Barbara Osborne, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA 5:25-5:30 Formal closure Zahra Zakeri, Queens College of CUNY Richard A. Lockshin lockshin@stjohns.edu, lockshin@mindspring.com http://www.celldeath-apoptosis.org Richard A. Lockshin (lockshin@mindspring.com;lockshin@sjumusic.stjohns.edu) check out Cell Death Soc web page: http://rdz.stjohns.edu/~lockshin/index.html .