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Preliminary Programme

ELSO 2004 together with the SBCF

Nice, France
4-8 September 2004
combining the 8th International World Congress of Cell Biology

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SATURDAY, 4 September 2004

 

1500 – 1600

Press Conference

MAIA

 

Sub-Group Meetings:

 

 

 

1.  Interfacial water in cells

MEDI-TERRANEE 1&2

 

 

 

Chairpersons:  Ivan Cameron (San Antonio) and Denys Wheatley (Aberdeen)

1300 - 1310

Ivan Cameron (San Antonio)

 

General introduction

 

1310 - 1340

Gary Fullerton ( San Antonio)

 

 

Water structuring and behaviour

 

1340 - 1410

Peter Bogner (Kapsovar)

 

 

The state of water in erythrocytes:  the data

 

 

 

 

1410 - 1430

break

 

 

 

 

1430 - 1500

Attila Miseta (Pecs)

 

 

The state of water in erythrocytes:  a commentary

 

1500 - 1530

Frank Mayer (Göttingen)

 

 

Architecture and function of the cell:  Interrelations with water structure?

 

 

 

 

 

2.  Advances in image analysis for molecular and cellular imaging

CLIO

 

sponsored by Definiens

 

 

Chairperson :  Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin (Paris)

 

1300 - 1330

Malte Wachsmuth (Heidelberg)

 

 

Surveying the cell nucleus using correlation spectroscopy

 

1330 - 1400

Auguste Genovesio (Paris)

 

 

Multitarget tracking applications in microbiology

 

1400 - 1430

Kota Miura (Heidelberg)

 

 

Measurement of vesicle flow rates within cells by optical flow estimation

 

1430 - 1500

Alain Trubuil (Jouy-en-Josas)

 

 

Exploring 3D structures in confocal microscopy: some tools for de-noising, segmentation and visualisation

 

1500 – 1530

Maria Athelogou (Munich)

 

 

Cellenger technology and applications for cellbased high content image analysis

 

1530 - 1600

Jean-Baptiste Sibarita (Paris)

 

 

Imaging tools for the visualisation and the analysis of cellular compartments dynamics

 

 

 

3.  Chemical biology

ERATO

 

sponsored by Aventis, Applied Precision, Tecan, Corning and ChemDiv

 

 

Chairpersons:  Thomas Mayer (Martinsried) and Thorsten Berg (Martinsried)

 

1300 - 1320

Stephen Taylor (Manchester)

 

 

Probing the role of Aurora kinase activity with novel small molecule inhibitors

 

1320 - 1340

Jason Swedlow (Dundee)

 

 

The open microscopy environment: image informatics for

cellular microscopy and screening

 

1340 - 1400

Jeff Peterson (Philadelphia)

 

 

A chemical inhibitor of N-WASP stabilises its native

autoinhibited conformation

 

1400 - 1420

Carsten Schultz (Heidelberg)

 

 

Monitoring enzyme activities in living cells

 

1420 - 1440

Markus Koch (Dortmund)

 

 

Protein structure similarity clustering and natural product structure as guiding principles for compound library design

 

1440 - 1500

Thorsten Berg (Martinsried)

 

 

Approaches to the inhibition of transcription factors with small organic molecules

 

1500 - 1520

Thomas Mayer (Martinsried)

 

 

Small molecules: versatile tools to study mitotic kinesins

 

 

 

 

 

4.  Membrane domains in cell polarisation

HERMES

 

Chairpersons:  Viola Antonella (Padova) and Santos Manes (Cantoblanco)

 

1300 - 1320

Viola Antonella (Padova)

 

 

The role of lipid rafts in T cell activation

 

1320 - 1340

Santos Manes (Cantoblanco)

 

 

Lipid rafts organize signaling in migrating cells

 

1340 - 1400

Peter Hordijk (Amsterdam)

 

 

Polarised distribution and raft targeting of CXCR4 and Rac1 in chemotaxing cells

 

1400 - 1420

Miguel A. del Pozo (La Jolla)

 

 

Integrin regulation of membrane microdomain internalisation

 

1420 - 1500

Erich Gulbins (Essen)

 

 

Role of ceramide-enriched membrane domains

 

1500 - 1520

Roger Morris (London)

 

 

Prion protein: a distinctive raft for a distinctive job

 

 

 

 

 

5.  Heterogeneity within the endoplasmic reticulum

URANIE

 

Chairpersons:  Tim Levine (London) and Rosario Rizzuto (Ferrara)

 

1300 - 1320

Manuela Zaccolo (Padova)

 

 

Compartmentation of cAMP-mediated signaling in cardiac myocytes

 

1330 - 1350

Philippe Bastiaens (Heidelberg)

 

 

Imaging regulation of RTK phosphorylation in cells by PTP1B on the ER

 

1400 - 1420

Tim Levine (London)

 

 

A lipid-binding protein acting at a membrane contact site

 

1430 - 1450

Catherine Rabouille (Utrecht)

 

 

mRNA localisation dictates the usage of exocytic units in Drosophila oocytes

 

 

1500 - 1520

Toon de Kroon (Utrecht)

 

 

Equilibration of phospholipids between ER and mitochondria in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

 

1530 - 1550

Rosario Rizzato (Ferrara)

 

 

The ER-mitochondria calcium cross-talk

 

 

 

 

 

6.  Endocytosis-dependent intracellular distribution pathways

CALLIOPE

 

Chairpersons:  Christophe Lamaze (Paris) and Ludger Johannes (Paris)

 

1300 - 1320

Gerrit von Meer (Utrecht)

 

 

How cells use their sphingolipids

 

1320 - 1340

Wayne Lencer (Boston)

 

 

Cholera toxin co-opts a lipid-dependent sorting pathway from plasma membrane to ER

 

1340 - 1400

Agnes Saint-Pol (Paris)

 

 

Clathrin adaptor epsin R is required for retrograde sorting on early endosomal membranes

 

1400 - 1420

Marta Miaczynska (Dresden)

 

 

Endocytosis and signaling: a link through APPL proteins

 

1420 - 1440

Christine LeRoy (Toronto)

 

 

Compartmentalised TGFbeta receptor signaling  and degradation

 

1440 - 1500

Colin Crump (Cambridge)

 

 

Relocalisation of plasma membrane proteins to the TGN by Herpesvirus Glycoprotein M

 

 

 

7.  New insights into the physiological functions of PKD isoforms

GALLIENI 6

 

Chairpersons:  Klaus Pfizenmaier (Stuttgart) and Jo van Lint (Leuven)

 

1300 - 1325

Jo van Lint (Leuven)

 

 

Signaling through protein kinase D: the plot thickens

 

1325 - 1350

Peter Storz (Boston)

 

 

PKD in oxidative stress signaling

 

1350 - 1415

Thomas Seufferlein (Ulm)

 

 

Regulation of the subcellular localisation of PKD2

 

1415 - 1440

Frederic Bard (La Jolla)

 

 

PKD and its role in protein traffic

 

1440 - 1505

Holger Kalthoff (Kiel)

 

 

The role of PKD1 in apoptosis resistance and proliferation of

 

 

pancreatic tumour cells

 

1505 - 1530

Doreen Cantrell (Dundee)

 

 

Protein kinase D regulation and function in lymphocytes

 

1530 - 1555

Angelika Hausser (Stuttgart)

 

 

Expression and potential functional role of PKD in development

 

 

 

 

 

8.  Podosomes: Cytoskeletal regulation, signaling and function

MEDI-TERRANEE A34

 

 

Chairpersons:  Chi-Ming Hai (Rhode Island) and Mario Gimona (Santa Maria Imbaro)

1300 - 1320

Stefan Linder (Munich)

 

 

Overview:  podosomes as adhesion hot-spots of invasive cells

 

1320 - 1340

Elizabeth Genot (Bordeaux)

 

 

Podosomes in endothelial cells

 

1340 - 1400

Mario Gimona (Santa Maria Imbaro)

 

 

Calponin modules and podosome formation

 

1400 - 1420

Mark A. McNiven (Rochester)

 

 

Role of dynamin in the assembly and function of podosomes and invapopodia

 

1420 - 1440

Gareth E. Jones (London)

 

 

Phenotypic defects of WASP contribute to podosome instability

 

1440 - 1500

Pierre Jurdic (Lyon)

 

 

Podosome patterning along osteoclast differentiation and bone resorption

 

1500 - 1520

Chi-Ming Hai (Rhode Island)

 

 

MAP kinase signaling  and podosome formation in A7r5

 

 

vascular smooth muscle cells

 

 

 

 

 

9.  Molecular medicine of gastrointestinal disease

MEDI-TERRANEE 3

 

 

 

Chairperson:  Joachim Füllekrug (Heidelberg)

 

sponsored by Falk Foundation e.V.

1300 - 1330

Gunnar C. Hansson  (Gothenburg)

 

 

Assembly and processing of MUC2, the major gel-forming mucin of the intestine

 

1330 - 1400

Robert Ehehalt (Heidelberg)

 

 

Lipid based therapy of inflammatory bowel disease

 

1400 - 1430

Annette Baas (Utrecht)

 

 

LKB1: a master regulator of cell polarity

 

1430 - 1500

Jerrold R. Turner (Chicago)

 

 

Plugging the holes: The roles of the tight junction and cytoskeleton in maintenance of the mucosal barrier

 

1500 - 1530

Carsten Groetzinger (Berlin)

 

 

Cell biology of neuroendocrine tumor disease

 

1530  - 1600

Sandra Einerhand (Rotterdam)

 

 

Rotavirus pathogenesis and epithelial cell signaling

 

 

 

 

 

10.  Recent progress in glomerular biology

GALLIENI 3

 

Chairpersons:  Thomas Benzing (Freiburg) and Karl Tryggvason

 

1300 - 1330

Seppo Vainio  (Oulu)

 

 

Nephrogenesis regulated by Wnt signaling

 

1330 - 1400

Arindam Majumdar (Stockholm)

 

 

Zebrafish as a model system to study glomerular biology

 

1400 - 1430

Karl Tryggvason (Stockholm)

 

 

Glomerular diseases unravel the function of the filtration barrier of the kidney

 

1430 - 1500

Thomas Benzing (Freiburg)

 

 

Signaling by neph and nephrin proteins

 

1500 - 1530

Markus Möller (Heidelberg)

 

 

Protocadherin FAT1 interacts with Ena/VASP family proteins and is necessary for planar cell polarity

 

 

 

 

 

11.  Actin dynamics at the plasma membrane

EUTERPE

 

sponsored by Olympus

 

 

Chairpersons:  Kurt I. Anderson (Dresden) and Vic Small (Vienna)

 

1300 - 1320

Günter Gerisch (Martinsried)

 

 

Control of actin polymerisation at the cell cortex in Dictyostelium

 

1320 - 1340

Graham Dunn (London)

 

 

G-actin- and F-actin dynamics during lamellipodium protrusion

 

1340 - 1400

Christian Merrifield (Cambridge, UK)

 

 

Actin dynamics of endocytosis, integration of multiple signals

 

1400 - 1420

Marie France Carlier (Gif-sur-Yvette)

 

 

Reconstitution of actin dynamics to push things

 

1420 - 1440

Tim Newsome (London)

 

 

Dissection of actin regulation using pathogen motility         

 

1440 - 1500

Peter Messler (Olympus-Biosystems)

 

 

Applications of multi-line TIRF and wide-field fluorescence microscopy

 

 

 

 

 

12.  Lipid-binding domains in cell signaling

THALIA

 

Chairperson:  Daniela Corda (Santa Maria Imbaro, Chieti)

 

1300 - 1315

Daniela Corda (Santa Maria Imbaro, Chieti)

 

 

Phosphoinositide signaling

 

1315 - 1340

Pete Cullen (Bristol)

 

 

Lipid-binding domains in co-incidence sensing of endosomal microdomains defined by high curvature and 3-phosphoinositides

 

1340 - 1405

Pascale Cossart (Paris)

 

 

Role of lipid microdomains in Listeria entry into mammalian cells

 

1405 - 1430

Kees Jalink (Amsterdam)

 

 

Studying spatial and temporal aspects of (PIP2) with GFP-tagged pleckstrin homology domains

 

1430 - 1455

Anna Godi (Santa Maria Imbaro, Chieti)

 

 

Dual interactions of the FAPP PH-domain with phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate and ARF

 

1455 - 1520

Harald Stenmark (Oslo)

 

 

The function of FYVE domain proteins in endocytic membrane trafficking

 

 

 

 

1600 – 1730

Get Together with Wine and Beer

 

 

sponsored by the City of Nice

 

 

 

 

1800

Opening Lecture

APOLLON

 

Dr. Octavi Quintana Trias (EU Commission, Brussels)

 

 

Director for Health Research in DG Research

 

 

Provisional Title:

 

 

Creating the European Research Area - the Continuing Challenge

 

 

SUNDAY, 5 September 2004

 

 

 

Plenary Sessions:

 

 

 

 

1.  Membrane dynamics

APOLLON

 

Chairperson :  Jean Gruenberg (Geneva)

 

0900 - 0930

Rob Parton (Brisbane)

 

 

Caveolae, caveolins, and lipid rafts; linking lipid regulation and signal transduction

 

0930 - 1000

Judith Klumperman (Utrecht)

 

 

The role of coated membranes in protein traffic through the early secretory pathway

 

1000 - 1030

Aki Kusumi (Nagoya)

 

 

Single molecule observations revealed digital signal transduction in stabilized rafts

 

 

 

 

1030 - 1100

coffee break

 

 

 

 

 

2.  Controlling nuclear function

APOLLON

 

Chairperson:  Denis Duboule (Geneva)

 

1100 - 1130

Maria Carmo-Fonseca (Lisbon)

 

 

Splicing factor U2AF35 is required for normal cell cycle progression

 

1130 - 1200

Genevieve Almouzni (Paris)

 

 

Propagation of epigenetic states at the level of chromatin assembly

 

1200 - 1230

Titia de Lange (New York)

 

 

Protection of human telomeres

 

1300 - 1600

POSTER SESSIONS

RHODES/ EXHIBITION

 

Genome analysis and evolution

 

 

Signal transduction I

 

 

Cytoskeleton and cell motility I

 

 

Membranes, lipids and microdomains I

 

 

Intracellular transport from the ER to the cell surface I

 

 

Endocytosis I

 

 

Early development

 

 

Organelles

 

 

Molecular physiology

 

 

Programmed cell death

 

 

Viruses

 

 

Cancer biology I

 

 

Cell adhesion I

 

 

 

 

1330 - 1530

ELSO’s Career Development Committee Open Meeting

ATHENA

 

Plans for Framework Programme 7 and the ERC

 

 

sponsored by Science Careers

 

 

 

 

1330 - 1530

Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH Workshop

EUTERPE

 

Advanced 3D imaging solutions from Carl Zeiss and partners - technology for tomorrows application

 

1330 – 1340

Georg Weiss, Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH

 

 

Welcome

 

1340 – 1415

Kirsten Bachia, MPI, Dresden

 

 

Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy reveals membrane dynamics in cell and model membranes

 

1415 – 1445

Richard Ankerhold, Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH

 

 

The Carl Zeiss approach for spectral imaging in advanced live cell studies

 

1445 – 1500

Karl Kilborn, Intelligent Imaging Innovation

 

 

Quantifying cellular dynamics using ratio, FRET, and 4D techniques at video rates and above

 

1500 – 1520

Karin Schütze, P.A.L.M. Microlaser Technologies AG, Bernried

 

 

Focused lasers in cell biology

 

1520 - 1545

Rene Hessling, Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH

 

 

Innovation in Light Microscopy - From PlasDIC to the ApoTome

 

 

 

 

1400 – 1530

BD Biosciences Workshop

HERMES

 

Analysis of protein phosphorylation and cellular signaling events by flow cytometry

 

 

Minisymposia: 

 

 

1.  Mitosis

ERATO AND THALIA

 

Chairpersons:  Frank Uhlmann (London) and Maurizio Gatti (Rome)

1600 - 1630

Frank Uhlmann (London)

 

Orchestrating chromosome segregation and microtubule dynamics during budding yeast mitosis

 

EMBO YIP Lecture

 

1630 - 1700

Maurizio Gatti (Rome)

 

 

The role of the central spindle during Drosophila cytokinesis

 

1700 - 1730

Robert L. Margolis (Grenoble)

 

 

The role of the G1 tetraploidy checkpoint in the prevention of gross aneuploidy

 

1730 - 1800

Maryse Romao (Paris)

 

 

A kinetochore component is required for spindle integrity and for maturation of a spindle pole body in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

 

1800 - 1830

Katharina Ribbeck (Heidelberg)

 

 

NuSAP, a centromeric protein with microtubule-polymerising activity

 

 

 

 

 

2.  Cell biology of infectious diseases

GALLIENI 3

 

Chairpersons :  Jean-Pierre Gorvel (Marseille) and Peter Rottier (Utrecht)

 

1600 - 1630

Jean-Pierre Gorvel (Marseille)

 

 

Endoplasmic reticulum robbery by pathogenic Brucella

 

1630 - 1700

Peter  Rottier (Utrecht)

 

 

Assembly of the coronaviral spike

 

1700 - 1730

Gadi Frankel (London)

 

 

In the nck of time: enterohaemorrhagic (EHEC) and enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) infections

 

1730 - 1800

Christina Ehrhardt (Düsseldorf)

 

 

Rac1 and PAK1 are upstream of IKK-epsilon and TBK-1 in the viral activation of interferon regulatory factor-3 (IRF-3

 

1800 - 1830 

Delphine Muriaux (Lyon)

 

 

HIV-1 trafficking and assembly on intracellular endosomal vesicles

 

 

 

 

 

3.  RNA localisation and control

RISSO 8

 

Chairpersons:  Ralf-Peter Jansen (Munich) and Matthias Hentze (Heidelberg)

 

1600 - 1630

Ralf Jansen (Munich)

 

 

A proteomic approach to yeast localised mRNP complexes

 

1630 - 1700

Matthias Hentze (Heidelberg)

 

 

3’ meets 5’

 

1700 - 1730

Isabel Palacios (Cambridge, UK)

 

 

Localisation of oskar mRNA: a nuclear and cytoplasmic story

 

1730 - 1800

Cercina Onesto (Nice)

 

 

Poly (A) binding protein - Interacting Protein 2, a strong regulator of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor mRNA

 

1800 - 1830 

Philip Becht (Marburg)

 

 

A putative RNA-binding protein from Ustilago maydis is essential for fast polar growth

 

 

 

4.  Stem cells and regeneration

RISSO 6

 

Chairpersons:  Christine Mummery (Utrecht) and Emili Salo (Barcelona)

 

1600 - 1630

Christine Mummery (Utrecht)

 

 

Cardiomyocytes from human embryonic stem cells

 

1630 - 1700

Emili Saló (Barcelona)

 

 

The essential role of the neoblast stem cells during planarian regeneration

 

1700 - 1730

Charles David (Munich)

 

 

Interstitial stem cells in hydra

 

1730 - 1800

Daniel Aberdam (Nice)

 

 

Derivation of ectodermal and epidermal progenitor cells from murine embryonic stem cells and skin formation

 

1800 - 1830 

Stefan Constantinescu (Brussels)

 

 

Signaling renewal and differentiation in hematopoietic stem cells by engineered TpoR dimers with different interfaces and signaling outputs

 

 

 

 

 

5.  Evolutionary principles in cells and embryos

MEDI-TERRANEE 1&2

 

Chairpersons:  Denis Duboule (Geneva) and Vincent Laudet (Lyon)

 

1600 - 1630

Denis Duboule (Geneva)

 

 

A double cluster deletion reveals the role of Hox genes in vertebrate appendage development and evolution

 

1630 - 1700

Michael Schubert (Lyon)

 

 

Retinoic acid influences anteroposterior positioning of epidermal sensory neurons and their gene expression in a developing chordate (amphioxus)

 

1700 - 1730

Daniel Chourrout (Bergen)

 

 

Evolution with no return: the Oikopleura Hox gene complement

 

1730 - 1800

Jukka Jernvall (Helsinki)

 

 

Evolutionary regulation of tooth shape development

 

 

 

 

 

6.  Functional organization of the cell nucleus

GALLIENI 6

 

Chairpersons:  Karla Neugebauer (Dresden) and Tom Misteli (Bethesda)

 

1600 - 1630

Karla Neugebauer (Dresden)

 

 

In and out of Cajal bodies

 

1630 - 1700

Tom Misteli (Bethesda)

 

 

Nuclear architecture and disease

 

1700 - 1730

Wim Vermeulen (Rotterdam)

 

 

Spotlights on DNA repair actions

 

1730 - 1750

Alexander Kohlmaier (Vienna)

 

 

A chromosomal memory triggered by xist regulates histone methylation in X inactivation

 

1750 - 1810 

Jens S. Andersen (Odense)

 

 

Quantitative analysis of nucleolar proteome dynamics

 

1810 - 1830

Catherine Martin (Jouy-en-Josas)

 

 

Dynamics of centromeres and pericentric heterochromatin during early embryogenesis in the mouse

 

 

 

 

 

7. Signals in membrane traffic

ATHENA

 

Chairpersons:  Juan Bonifacino (Bethesda) and Blanche Schwappach (Heidelberg)

 

1600 - 1630

Blanche Schwappach (Heidelberg)

 

 

Recognition of arginine-based ER localisation signals

 

 

EMBO YIP Lecture

 

1630 - 1650

Bruno Antonny  (Valbonne)      

 

 

Control COPI dynamics by membrane curvature through a lipid packing sensing domain in ArfGAP1

 

1650 - 1710

Rainer Duden (Cambridge)

 

 

COP I coat proteins in Golgi-to-ER traffic: functional domains and novel interactors

 

1710 - 1730

Volker Haucke (Berlin)

 

 

EMBO YIP Lecture

 

 

Regulatory mechanisms in clathrin-mediated endocytosis at synapses

 

1730 - 1800

Linda Hicke (Evanston)

 

 

Regulation of receptor endocytosis by ubiquitination

 

1800 - 1830

Juan Bonifacino (Bethesda)

 

 

Role of clathrin and its adaptors in sorting of transmembrane proteins to lysosomes

 

 

 

 

 

8.  Signaling in development

HERMES

 

Chairpersons:  Alexander Schier (New York) and Danny Huylebroeck (Leuven)

 

1600 - 1630

Alexander Schier (New York)

 

 

Nodal signaling in vertebrate development

 

1630 - 1700

Lukas Sommer (Zürich)

 

 

Signal transduction pathways regulating neural crest stem cell development

 

1700 - 1720

Tomi Jukkola (Helsinki)

 

 

Fgfr1 dependent boundary cells between developing mid- and hindbrain

 

1720 - 1740

Natalia Arbouzova (Göttingen)

 

 

Drosophila Ken&Barbie represents a novel class of JAK/STAT pathway regulating proteins

 

1740 - 1800

Roland le Borgne (Paris)

 

 

Drosophila mind bomb regulates the endocytosis of Serrate and promotes Notch inductive signaling at the wing dorsal-ventral boundary

 

1800 - 1830

Danny Huylebroeck (Leuven)

 

 

Smads and Smad-interacting proteins in TGFbeta/BMP signaling in vertebrate development

 

 

 

 

 

9. Shaping life through apoptosis

RISSO 7

 

Chairpersons:  Hermann Steller (New York) and Christine J. Watson (Cambridge, UK)

 

1600 - 1630

Hermann Steller (New York)

 

 

Negative Regulation of Programmed Cell Death: Lessons from Drosophila

 

1630 - 1700

Christine J. Watson (Cambridge, UK)

 

 

Molecular Pathways controlling Apoptosis in Mammary Gland Involution

 

1700 - 1730

Pierre Golstein (Marseille)

 

 

Programmed cell death in Dictyostelium

 

1730 - 1800

Urzula Hibner (Montpellier)

 

 

Life/death decisions governed by epithelial cell polarity: the case of Fas signaling in hepatocyte

 

1800 - 1830 

Young Sook Yoo (Seoul)

 

 

AKT is required for survival and differentiation in PC12 cells treated with two cytokines, IFNg and TNF

 

 

MONDAY, 6 September 2004

 

Plenary Sessions:

 

 

 

 

3.  Actin and motility

APOLLON

 

Chairperson:  Daniel Louvard (Paris)

 

0900 - 0930

Pernille Rorth (Heidelberg)

 

 

Analysis of cell migration and guidance in Drosophila

 

0930 - 1000

Laura Machesky ( Birmingham)

 

 

Actin assembly scaffolds: The IRS-MIM family of signaling proteins

 

1000 - 1030

Rong Li (Cambridge, USA)

 

 

The role of the actin cytoskeleton in membrane-based transport and cell polarization in budding yeast

 

 

 

 

1030 - 1100

coffee break

 

 

 

 

 

4.  Signaling in disease

APOLLON

 

Chairperson :  Ralf Pettersson (Stockholm)

 

1100 - 1130

Jacques Pouyssegur (Nice)

 

 

Hypoxia signaling and tumour angiogenesis

 

1130 - 1200

Helena Edlund (Umeâ)

 

 

Beta cell function, lipotoxicity and diabetes

 

1200 - 1230

Philip Cohen (Dundee)

 

 

Signaling in disease

 

 

 

 

1200 – 1330

Showing of all bioclips submitted

MEDI-TERRANEE    1& 2

 

 

 

1200 – 1400

ELSO’s Career Development Committee

CLIO

 

Career Mentoring Lunch

 

1400 - 1530 

Till Photonics Workshop

EUTERPE

 

Making multiparametric fluorescence microscopy real

 

1300 - 1600

POSTER SESSIONS

RHODES/ EXHIBITION

 

Morphogenesis and differentiation I

 

 

Protein folding and degradation

 

 

Molecular microbiology

 

 

Bioinformatics / biological computing

 

 

Mitochondria, chloroplasts and peroxisomes

 

 

Molecular machines

 

 

Organization and function of the nervous system

 

 

Cells and tissues

 

 

Cell division

 

 

Molecular medicine

 

 

Parasitology

 

 

Novel approaches and methods

 

 

In and out of the nucleus

 

 

Extracellular matrix

 

 

Glycobiology

 

 

Plant biology

 

 

Other issues

 

Minisymposia:

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.  Microtubule motors

HERMES

 

Chairpersons:  Isabelle Vernos (Heidelberg) and Rob Cross (Oxted)

 

1600 - 1630

Isabelle Vernos (Heidelberg)

 

 

The chromosome-arm associated kinesin Xklp1 contributes to the determination of spindle microtubule density

 

1630 - 1700

Rob Cross (Oxted)

 

 

Weak states in the mechanisms of processive and non-processive kinesins

 

1700 - 1730

András Málnási-Csizmadia (Budapest)

 

 

Enzymatic mechanism of actomyosin

 

 

EMBO YIP Lecture

 

1730 - 1800

Sandrine Etienne-Manneville (Paris)

 

 

APC controls microtubule plus-end capture and cell polarity

 

1800 - 1830 

Paul D. Andrews (Dundee)

 

 

Aurora B protein kinase regulates MCAK’s microtubule depolymerisation activity and localisation at the mitotic centromere

 

 

 

 

 

11. Genome identity

MEDI-TERRANEE 1&2

 

Chairpersons:  Haig Kazazian (Philadelphia) and Thomas Cremer (Munich)

 

1600 - 1630

Haig Kazazian (Philadelphia)

 

 

L1 retrotransposons: Drivers of mammalian evolution and useful experimental tools

 

1630 - 1700

Thomas Cremer (Munich)

 

 

Cell type specific differences and evolutionary conservation of non-random radial higher order chromatin arrangements in primate cell nuclei

 

1700 - 1730

Xavier Estivil (Barcelona)

 

 

Segmental duplications: genomic plasticity, evolution and disease

 

1730 - 1800

Felipe Mora-Bermúdez (Heidelberg)

 

 

Mitotic Chromatin Condensation Quantitated by Fluorescence Microscopy in Living Cells

 

1800 - 1830 

Heinrich Leonhardt (Munich)

 

 

Making a difference with DNA methylation

 

 

 

 

 

12.  Polarity in plants and animals

RISSO 8

 

Chairpersons:   Frederic Berger (Lyon) and Thomas Lecuit (Marseille)

 

1600 - 1630

Frederic Berger (Lyon)

 

 

The plant formin AtFH5 is an actin nucleator involved in cytokinesis and polarity in Arabidopsis thaliana

 

1630 - 1700

Thomas Lecuit (Marseille)

 

 

Polarized junction remodelling underlying epithelial morphogenesis

 

 

EMBO YIP Lecture

 

1700 - 1730

Pierre Gonczy (Lausanne)

 

 

RIC-8 is a positive regulator of G alpha  during asymmetric division of C. elegans embryos

 

1730 - 1800

Yves Barral (Zürich)

 

 

A role for polarity factors in cytokinesis

 

 

EMBO YIP Lecture

 

1800 - 1830

David Strutt (Sheffield)

 

 

The role of the sevenpass transmembrane protein Frizzled in the long-range coordination of cell polarity in Drosophila

 

 

13. ECM and development

ERATO AND THALIA

 

 

Chairpersons:  Leena Bruckner-Tudermann (Freiburg) and Bjorn Olsen (Boston)

1600 - 1630

Leena Bruckner-Tuderman (Freiburg)

 

 

Shedding of epithelial transmembrane proteins: a novel aspect of basement membrane biology

 

1630 - 1700

Bjorn Olsen (Boston)

 

 

Vascular endothelial growth factor A (VEGF) controls multiple cellular processes in the developing vertebrate skeleton

 

1700 - 1730

Reinhard Fässler (Martinsried)

 

 

Integrin-mediated signaling during peri-implantation development of mice

 

1730 - 1750

Laurent Gagnoux  (Nice)

 

 

Proteolytic maturation of extracellular laminin 5 regulates keratinocyte adhesion, migration and proliferation

 

1750 - 1810 

Caroline Medioni (Nice)

 

 

Dynamics of the basement membrane in invading cells during Drosophila oogenesis

 

1810-1830

Ellen Van Obberghen-Schilling (Nice)

 

 

Regulation of cell-matrix adhesions and fibronectin matrix assembly in endothelial cells by ILK and Rho family GTP binding protein

 

 

 

 

 

14.   Neurogenesis

GALLIENI 6

 

Chairpersons:  Barry Dickson (Vienna) and Nobukata Hirokawa (Tokio)

 

1600 - 1630

Barry Dickson (Vienna)

 

1630 - 1700

Nobukata Hirokawa (Tokio)

 

 

Kinesin superfamily proteins, KIFs, key molecules for neuronal morphogenesis and functions

 

1700 - 1730

Carlos Ibanez ( Stockholm)

 

 

Trophic signaling in the developing nervous system

 

1730 - 1800

Allison Bardin (Paris)

 

 

Regulators of the Notch pathway signaling component, Neuralized

 

1800 - 1830 

Rolf Heumann (Bochum)

 

 

Regulation of neurogenesis by transgenic expression of activated Ha-Ras in adult hippocampus. Impact on spatial working memory

 

 

 

 

 

15.  New  technologies in cellular processes

RISSO 6

 

sponsored by Veeco

 

 

Chairpersons:  Hermann Gaub (Munich) and Daniel Müller (Dresden)

 

1600 - 1630

Hermann Gaub (Munich)

 

 

Parallel format single molecule force spectroscopy

 

1630 - 1700

Daniel Müller (Dresden)

 

 

Characterizing cell membranes across dimensions: From single molecule experiments to living cells using atomic force microscopy

 

1700 - 1730

Christoph Gerber (Zürich)

 

 

Nanomechanics: opening new frontiers for bio analyses and diagnostics

 

1730 - 1800

Jan Huisken (Heidelberg)

 

 

Selective plane illumination microscopy (SPIM) for “Biology’s new dimension

 

1800 - 1830 

Jochen Guck (Leipzig)

 

 

Feeling for cells with light

 

 

 

16.  Autophagy

RISSO 7

 

Chairpersons:  Beth Levine (New York) and Patrice Codogno (Villejuif)

 

1600 - 1630

Yoshinori Ohsumi (Okazaki)

 

 

Cellular Recycling System - Molecular mechanism and physiological function of autophagy

 

1630 - 1700

Beth Levine (New York)

 

 

Autophagy in development, tumor suppression, and innate immunity

 

1700 - 1730

Patrice Codogno (Villejuif)

 

 

Regulation of macroautophagy by proteins and lipids in mammalian cells

 

1730 - 1800

Andreas Brech (Oslo)

 

 

Programmed autophagy in the Drosophila fat body is induced by ecdysone and effected through the PI3K pathway

 

1800 - 1830 

Andrew Young (London)

 

 

Mammalian Atg9 localizes to the Golgi complex and peripheral membranes and is required for starvation-induced autophagy

 

 

 

 

 

17.  Cell signaling

ATHENA

 

Chairpersons:  Susan Pierce (Bethesda) and Ivan Dikic (Frankfurt)

 

1600 - 1630

Susan Pierce (Bethesda)

 

 

Regulation of the spatial organization of immune cell  receptors

 

1630 - 1700

Ivan Dikic  (Frankfurt)

 

 

EGF receptor endocytosis and signaling

 

1700 - 1730

Josef Penninger (Vienna)

 

 

Molecular adaptors and T-cell activation

 

1730 - 1755

Julien Colombani (Nice)

 

 

An interplay between TOR and Insulin/PI3K signaling pathways controls Drosophila growth

 

1755 - 1815

Christopher Loewen (London)

 

 

Phospholipid metabolism regulated by a transcription factor sensing phosphatidic acid on the endoplasmic reticulum

 

 

 

 

 

18. Cellular oscillations

GALLIENI 3

 

Chairpersons:  Albert Goldbeter (Brussels) and Ueli Schibler (Geneva)

 

1600 - 1630

Albert Goldbeter (Brussels)

 

 

Computational approaches to cellular rhythms

 

1630 - 1700

Ueli Schibler (Geneva)

 

 

The mammalian circadian timing system: From gene expression to disease

 

1700 - 1730

Olivier Pourquie (Kansas City)

 

 

Segmental patterning of the vertebrate axis

 

1730 - 1800

Cecilia Garmendia Torres (Orsay)

 

 

Nucleocytoplasmic oscillations of Msn2p in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

 

1800 - 1830 

Andrew Oates (Dresden)

 

 

Spatial patterning by temporal oscillations – lessons from zebrafish somitogenesis

 

 

TUESDAY, 7 September 2004

Plenary Sessions:

 

 

5.  From molecular medicine to drugs

APOLLON

 

Chairperson:  Ivan Baines (Dresden)

 

0900 - 0930

Jonathan Knowles (Basel)

 

 

From very good science to even better medicine

 

0930 - 1000

Michel Lazdunski (Nice)

 

 

Sensing with ionic channels

 

 

 

 

1000 - 1030

2004 ELSO Early Career Award and Lecture

APOLLON

 

Jan Ellenberg (Heidelberg)

 

 

sponsored by Elsevier GmbH and Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH

 

 

Nuclear envelope and chromosome dynamics in live cells

 

 

 

 

1030 - 1100

coffee break

 

 

 

 

 

6.  Morphogenesis

APOLLON

 

Chairperson:  Christian Sardet (Villefrance-sur-Mer)

 

1100 - 1130

Mark Krasnow (Stanford)  

 

 

Genetic dissection of epithelial tube formation and branching morphogenesis

 

1130 - 1200

Markus Affolter  (Basel)

 

 

Cell migration and cell rearrangements in tracheal branching morphogenesis

 

1200 - 1230

Jacques Prost (Paris)

 

 

Active gels, a new paradigm for cell dynamics

 

1300 - 1600

POSTER SESSIONS

RHODES/ EXHIBITION

 

Signal transduction II

 

 

Cytoskeleton and cell motility II

 

 

Membranes, lipids and microdomains II

 

 

Intracellular transport from the ER to the cell surface II

 

 

Endocytosis II

 

 

Nucleus and gene expression

 

 

Cell cycle and growth control

 

 

Morphogenesis and differentiation II

 

 

Cancer biology

 

 

Cell Adhesion II

 

1330 - 1430

ELSO’s Career Development Committee

ERATO AND THALIA

 

 

CDC Session on European charities that fund career development

 

 

 

1400 - 1530 

Scientific Volume Imaging Workshop

HERMES

 

Huygens deconvolution: an essential step

 

 

 

 

1400 - 1530

Leica / Qiagen Workshop

EUTERPE

 

Laser microdissection and downstream analysis

 

 

Minisymposia:

 

 

 

 

 

 

19.  Cell cycle

HERMES

 

Chairpersons:  Margarete Heck (Edinburgh) and Simonetta Piatti (Rome)

 

1600 - 1630

Margarete Heck (Edinburgh)

 

 

Invadolysin, a novel conserved metalloprotease links mitotic structural rearrangements and cell migration

 

1630 - 1700

Simonetta Piatti (Rome)

 

 

Controlling mitotic exit in budding yeast

 

1700 - 1730

Toru Hirota (Vienna)

 

 

Roles of condensin I and condensin II in mitotic chromosome assembly

 

1730 - 1800

Michael Bornens (Paris)

 

 

Cell adhesion and the control of the cell division axis

 

1800 - 1815

Martin Schwickart (Dresden)

 

 

Regulation of a meiosis-specific form of the APC/C

 

1815 - 1830

Tobias Oelschlaegel (Dresden)

 

 

Meiosis-specific regulation of the Anaphase Promoting Complex (APC)

 

 

 

 

 

20.  Actin and myosin

GALLIENI 6

 

Chairpersons:  Joel Vandekerckhove (Gent) and Folma Buss (Cambridge, UK)

 

1600 - 1630

Joel  Vandekerckhove (Gent)

 

 

A novel global non-gel based proteome approach identifies novel forms of actin in various human cells

 

1630 - 1700

Folma Buss (Cambridge, UK)

 

 

Myosin VI, intracellular functions and motor properties

 

1700 - 1730

James Sellers (Bethesda)

 

 

Regulation and mechanics of myosin V

 

1730 - 1750

Ohad Medalia (Martinsried)

 

 

Actin remodelling in filopodia and phagocytic CAP revealed by cryo-electron tomography

 

1750 - 1810

Stefan Linder (Munich)

 

 

Drebrin controls actin-rich, RhoGTPase-dependent adhesion rosettes and capillary network formation in migratory HUVEC

 

1810 - 1830

Julien Cau (London)

 

 

Cdc42 coordinately regulates two distinct polarity pathways during cell migration

 

 

 

 

 

21.  Patterns of growth and form in plants and animals

GALLIENI 3

 

Chairpersons:  Eric Thompson (Bergen) and Scott Poethig (Philadelphia)

 

1600 - 1630

Eric Thompson  (Bergen)

 

 

Pattern formation through cell cycle regulation in the marine chordate Oikopleura dioica

 

1630 - 1700

R. Scott Poethig (Philadelphia)

 

 

miRNAs, siRNAs, and developmental timing in Arabidopsis

 

1700 - 1730

Martin Hülskamp (Cologne)

 

 

Epidermal patterning in Arabidopsis

 

1730 - 1800

Eric Brouzes (Paris)

 

 

Morphotransduction during mesoderm invagination of the Drosophila melanogaster embryo

 

1800 - 1830 

Joerg Grosshans (Heidelberg)

 

 

Control of actin organization during Drosophila cellularization by RhoGEF2 and the Formin Diaphanous

 

 

22. Cell adhesion

ERATO AND THALIA

 

 

Chairpersons:  Martin Humphries (Manchester) and Shoichiro Tsukita (Kyoto)

1600 - 1630

Martin Humphries (Manchester)

 

 

Cooperation between integrin and syndecan signaling during cell migration

 

1630 - 1700

Shoichiro Tsukita (Kyoto)

 

 

Claudins and compartmentalisation in vertebrates

 

1700 - 1730