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 at stjohns.edu, lockshin at mindspring.comhttp://www.celldeath-apoptosis.org
Richard A. Lockshin
(lockshin at mindspring.com;lockshin at sjumusic.stjohns.edu)
check out Cell Death Soc web page:
http://rdz.stjohns.edu/~lockshin/index.html