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Scientific Program |
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13
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15:00 -
17:00 |
Registration |
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17:00 -
17:10 |
Welcome and Introductory Remarks (Gennaro D'Urso and Bill Burhans) |
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Keynote Lecture |
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17:10 -
18:10 |
"Programmed and altruistic aging and death"
Valter
Longo, USC, Los Angeles |
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18:10 |
Reception |
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14 |
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Session 1 -Genetic Pathways and Biochemical Mechanisms
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09:00 -
09:40 |
"New yeast homologues of mammalian apoptosis regulators"
Frank Madeo, University of Graz, Austria |
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09:40 -
10:20 |
"Dualistic role of apoptosis-inducing factor AIFl in
programmed cell death and survival of yeast PMR1 mutants"
Hans Rudolph, University of Stuttgart, Germany |
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10:20 -
11:00 |
"Cellular Redox Homeostasis and Responses to Reactive Oxygen
Species"
Ian Dawes, University of New South Wales, Australia |
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Coffee break |
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11:20 -
12:00 |
"The survival factor SVF1 plays a role in oxidative stress,
sphingoid base, and survival responses in
Saccharomyces cerevisiae"
Jennifer Brace, University of Chicago, USA |
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12:00 -
12:40 |
"Degradation of nuclear pore complex proteins by Pep4p during yeast cell death"
David Goldfarb, University of Rochester, USA |
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Lunch |
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Session 2 - Yeast Models of apoptosis in aging
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14:00 -
14:40 |
"Sphingolipid content affects plant defensin sensitivity and
chronological life-span in yeast"
Karin Thevissen, Center for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis,
Katholieke Universiteit, Belgium |
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14:40 -
15:20 |
"Chromosome or chromatin condensation preludes life or death
in stationary yeast cells"
Zhaojie Zhang, University of Wyoming, USA |
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Coffee break |
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15:40 -
16:20 |
"Fructose -1,6-bisphosphatase mediates cellular responses to
DNA damage and aging in
Saccharomyces cerevisiae''
Stefan Wolf, Institut für Pharmazie und Molekulare
Biotechnologie,
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany |
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16:20 -
17:00 |
"Stress responses, genome evolution and aging in budding
yeast"
Bill Burhans, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, USA |
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17:00 -
17:15 |
"The aging transcriptome of human skin and of yeast cells - a comparison"
Michael Breitenbach, Salzburg University, Austria |
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15
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Session 3 - The role of mitochondria in yeast apoptosis |
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09:00 -
09:40 |
"Mitochondrial fission proteins regulate programmed cell
death"
J.
Marie Hardwick, Johns Hopkins University, USA |
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09:40 -
10:20 |
"Endonuclease G mediates life and death of yeast"
Sabrina Büttner, Institute for Molecular Biosciences, Karl-Franzens
University of Graz, Austria |
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Coffee Break |
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10:40 -
11:20 |
"Approaching Saccharomyces cerevisiae active cell death
pathways"
Paula Ludovico, University of Minho, Portugal |
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11:20 -
12:00 |
"Yeast mother cell-specific aging and mitochondrial function'
Michael Breitenbach, Salzburg University, Austria |
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12:00 -
12:40 |
"Amiodarone as a tool to screen for pro-apoptotic proteins"
Fedor Severin, BIOTEC, TU Dresden, Proteomics and Cellular
Machines, Germany |
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Lunch |
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13:30 -
16:30 |
Poster Session |
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16
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Session 4 - Inducers of apoptosis |
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09:00 -
09:40 |
"mRNA decapping and apoptosis in yeast"
Cristina Mazzoni, University of Rome, Italy |
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09:40 -
10:20 |
"Death by snake poison - and other fates of yeast'
Kai-Uwe Fröhlich, University of Graz, Austria |
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10:20 -
10:40 |
CoffeeBreak |
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10:40 -
12:20 |
"Specifically localized apoptosis-like regulated cell death in
yeast
colonies: Importance for long-term colony development”
Zdena Palkova, Charles University, Czech Republic |
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12:00 -
12:40 |
To be announced
Carlo Bruschi, ICGEB Laboratories, Italy |
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12:40 -
13:00 |
"Evidence for caspase-like activity in
S.
pombe"
Gennaro D'Urso, University of Miami, USA |
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Free afternoon |
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19:10 |
Dinner |
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17
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Session 5 -
Programmed cell death in yeast and higher eukaryotes |
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09:00 -
09:20 |
"Apoptosis in underdeveloped creatures: human and mouse"
Guido Kroemer, Institut Gustave Roussy, France |
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09:20 -
09:50 |
"Parkinson's disease-related protein, alpha-syn-nuclein,
induces apoptosis in yeast"
Stephan Witt, Louisiana State University Health Sciences
Centre, USA |
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09:50 -
10:20 |
"Suppressive effect of Elongation Factor 2 on apoptosis
induced by
HIV-1 viral protein R in fission yeast
(Schizosaccharomyces
pombe)
and human cells"
Richard Zhao, University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA |
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Coffee break |
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10:40 -
11:20 |
Yeast model to analyze the cell death events of harpinPss-mediated
plant hypersensitive response (HR)"
V.L. Vasudev, University of Hyderabad, India |
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11:20 -
12:00 |
"Effects of mammalian PKC-alpha, -delta, -epsilon and -zeta in
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
acetic acid-induced apoptosis: an
approach for the study of apoptosis regulation by individual
PKC
isoforms"
Lucilia Saraiva, University of Minho, Portugal |
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12:00 -
12:30 |
General Discussion |
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13:30 |
Departure |
