Programme Schedule: “Programmed Cell Death in Biology and Medicine”

DAY 1 (June 21st, 2012)

9:30 – 10:00 Registration

MORNING SESSION
Chair: / Vsevolod A. Tkachuk
(Faculty of Medicine, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia)
10:00 - 10:30 / Welcome address
10:30 – 11:00 / Guido Kroemer
(InstitutGustaveRoussy, France)
Immunogenic cell death in cancer therapy
11:00 - 11:30 / Vladimir Skulachev
(Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Moscow State University, Russia)
Rechargeable mitochondria-targeted antioxidants SkQs as antiapoptotic and antiphenoptotic drugs
11:30 – 12:00 / Gerry Melino
(University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, Italy)
Loss of p63 and its miR205 target results in enhanced cell migration and metastasis in prostate cancer
12:00 - 12:30 / Coffee-break
AFTERNOON SESSION
Chair: / Sten Orrenius
(Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden)
12:30 – 13:00 / Sergey Nedospasov
(Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology of the RAS, Russia)
Tumor Necrosis Factor: distinct functions specified by distinct cellular sources
13:00 - 13:30 / Alexander Ishov
(University of Florida, USA)
Daxx and USP7: novel regulators of genomic stability, mitosis and taxanes sensitivity
13:30 – 14:00 / Inna Lavrik
(German Cancer Research Center, Moscow State University Germany/Russia)
Towards understanding the regulation of CD95 signaling by quantitative biology
14:00 – 15:30 / Lunch / Poster Session
15:30 – 16:00 / Peter Bozhkov
(Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and Linnean Center for Plant Biology, Sweden)
Death without apoptosis: How do plant cells die?
16:00 – 16:30 / Zahra Zakeri
(Queens College Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA)
Manipulation of cellular components by RNA virus
16:30 – 17:00 / Andrey B. Vartapetian(
Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow)
Phytaspases: A plant alternative to animal caspases(Selected Abstract)
17:00 – 17:30 / Martin Bushell
(University of Leicester, UK)
Translational repression is the primary and critical step for microRNA mediated regulation

DAY 2 (June 22nd, 2012)

MORNING SESSION
Chair: / Richard A. Lockshin
(Department of Biological Sciences, St. John's University, New York, USA)
10:00 – 10:30 / Mauro Piacentini
(National Institute for Infectious Diseases "LazzaroSpallanzani", Italy)
Type2 Transglutaminase is involved in the autophagy-dependent clearance of ubiquitinated proteins
10:30 – 11:00 / Vladimir Gogvadze
(KarolinskaInstitutet, Moscow State University, Sweden/Russia)
Targeting mitochondria with α-tocopherylsuccinate stimulates
neuroblastoma cell death irrespective of MycN expression
11:00 - 11:30 / Hans-Uwe Simon
(University of Bern, Switzerland)
Programmed cell death pathways in neutrophils
11:30 – 11:50 / Ludmila B Buravkova
(Institute of Biomedical Problems RAS, Moscow, Russia)
Photodynamic therapy-induced apoptosis in vascular wall-associated cells in vitro(Selected Abstract)
11:50 – 12:10 / Alexander P. Savitsky
(A.N. Bach Institute of Biochemistry, RAS, Moscow, Russia)
Visualization of caspase-3 activity. Computer simulations of substrate structure and life-time imaging of live cells(Selected Abstract)
12:10 - 12:45 / Coffee-break
AFTERNOON SESSION
12:45 - 13:15 / Boris Zhivotovsky
(KarolinskaInstitutet, Moscow State University, Sweden/Russia)
A calcium-calmodulin-dependent pathway in regulation of cell death
13:15 – 13:45 / Marie-Lise Gougeon
(Institut Pasteur, France)
Innate sensing of viral infection and programmed cell death
13:45 – 14:15 / Peter Vandenabeele
(Ghent University, Belgium)
Molecular mechanisms of necroptosis, a regulated form of cellular explosion
14:15 - 14:30 / Closing remarks