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7.30 – 9.00:  Breakfast

9.00 – 11.00: Caspase-independent Death (Eric Baehrecke and Christophe Borner)

Stephen Tait: Caspase-independent cleavage of Bid at aspartate is essential for DNA damage-induced apoptosis.

Lucy Peltenburg: A serine protease is involved in the initiation of DNA damage-induced apoptosis.

Lotti Egger: Caspase-independent, apoptosis-like cell death and phagocytosis mediated by serine proteases.

Colin Adrain: Proteomic identification of novel Granzyme B substrates .

Georg Duenstl: A serine protease-dependent mechanism of death receptor-induced apoptosis after caspase arrest.

Nicole Fehrenbacher: Tumorigenesis-associated sensitization to tumor necrosis factor-mediated cell death depends on cathepsin B .

Marie Stampe Andersen: A novel sigma2-receptor ligand as an inducer of caspase-independent death of cancer cells in vitro and in vivo.

 

11.00 – 11.30: Coffee break

11.30 – 13.15: Autophagy and others (Pascal Meier and Miguel Martins)

Eric Baehrecke: Autophagy genes function in an alternative cell death pathway.

Maria Høyer-Hansen: Bcl-2 inhibits autophagy via its localization to the ER.

Jacques Landry: Heat shock-induced non-apoptotic cell death mediated by protein aggregation.

Vanessa Zuzarte-Luis: BMP5- a new player in the control of interdigital cell death acting hrough Smad and MAPK signalling patwhays.

Alvin Joselin: Functional characterization of ASAP complexes in Apoptosis and RNA processing.

Michelangelo Campanella: The coxsackievirus 2B protein suppresses apoptotic host cell responses by manipulating intracellular Ca2+ homeostasis.

 

13.15 – 15.00: Lunch

15.00 – 16.15: Neuronal Death / Ischaemia I (Ruggero De Maria and Klaus Schulz-Osthoff)

Katerina Sakoulas: Cytotoxicity of Cerebrospinal Fluid Samples from Human Infants with Cerebral Hypoxic-Ischaemic Injury Implicates CD95/Fas as a Major Component of the Inflammatory Response.

Kevin Lawrence: The cardioprotective effect of urocortin during ischaemia/reperfusion involves the prevention of apoptosis and mitochondrial damage.

Paul Townsend: BAG-1 proteins protect cardiac myocytes from simulated ischemia/reperfusion-induced apoptosis via an alternate mechanism of cell survival independent of the proteasome.

Huseyin Mehmet: Developmentally Regulated Changes in Apoptotic Stress-induced c-Jun N-Terminal Kinase Activation in the Oligodendrocyte Lineage

 

16.15 – 16.45: Coffee break

16.45 – 18.00: Neuronal Death / Ischaemia II (Huseyin Mehmet and Anastasis Stephanou)

Stefan Klussmann: Therapeutic Neutralization of CD95 Ligand Prevents Apoptosis and Promotes Axonal Regeneration and Functional Recovery after Spinal Cord Injury .

Adriana Eramo: TRAIL resistance of glioblastoma cells by epigenetic silencing of caspase 8.

Susanne Kleber: New trials downstream of CD95 in the CNS.

Lucia Ricci-Vitiani: Double level of protection from death receptors and inflammatory cytokines in neural stem cells.

 

18.00-20.00: Posters 1 to 28

20.00: Dinner