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ESH International Conference MECHANISMS OF CELL DEATH AND DISEASE: ADVANCES IN THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION AND DRUG DEVELOPMENT

ESH International Conference MECHANISMS OF CELL DEATH AND DISEASE: ADVANCES IN THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION AND DRUG DEVELOPMENT
October 14 - October 18, 2010 - Cascais, Portugal
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Thursday, October 14, 2010
18h00-19h00 Opening presentation V. Dixit (San Francisco)
19h30

Welcome reception

20h00 Dinner
Friday, October 15, 2010
Session I - Death receptors - Chair: K.M.  Debatin (Ulm)
08h30-09h10 Apoptosis regulation in the CD95 system P. Krammer (Heidelberg)
09h10-09h50 Role of CD95 in T-cell silencing K.M. Debatin (Ulm)
09h50-10h30 Signalling within the TNF family D. Wallach (Rehovot)
10h30-11h00 Coffee break
11h00-11h40 The TRAIL-caspase connection G. Cohen (Leicester)
11h40-12h20 Understanding TRAIL sensitivity H. Walczak (London)
12h20-13h00 Death ligands designed to kill K. Pfizenmeier (Stuttgart)
13h00-14h30 Lunch
Session II: Death Receptors - Chair G. Cohen (Leicester)
14h30-15h10 Targeting pro-apoptotic receptors in cancer.
The therapeutic potential of APO2L/TRAIL

P. Holland (Seattle)

15h10-15h50

Inducing apoptosis with TRAIL receptor antibodies

R. Humphreys (Rockville)
15h50-16h30 Therapeutic potential of APG101 (CD95Fc) in graft versus host disease and tissue damage H. Fricke (Heidelberg)
16h30-17h00 Coffee Break
17h00-17h40 ApoFLIP: a novel bioactive peptide that restarts the apoptotic machinery in cancer cells R. Khosravi-Far (Boston)
17h40-18h20 Round table:
Death receptor signalling, sensitivity and resistance in the clinical setting
20h00 Dinner
21h15-22h15 Poster Session (1)

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Session III:  IAP Inhibitors - Chair: T. McDonnel (Houston)
08h30-09h10 Targeting IAPs for theraupeutic intervention D. Vucic (San Francisco)
09h10-09h50 Smac-mimetics/IAPs inhibitors as proapoptotic agents for cancer therapy E. Mastrangelo (Milano)
09h50 - 10h30 IAPS as targets for cancer therapy S. Fulda (Ulm)
10h30-11h00 Coffee Break
11h00-11h40 IAPs and beyond

J. Silke (Victoria)

11h40-12h20

XIAP inhibition in apoptosis

J. Gillard (Montreal)
12h20-13h00 Theraupetic targeting of IAPs D. Porter (Cambridge-US)
13h00-14h30 Lunch

14h30-19h00

Free time and visit to Cascais
20h00 Dinner
21h15-22h15 Poster Session (2)

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Session IV: Biomakers - Chair: T. McDonnel (Houston)
09h00-09h40 Biomarker - based approaches of targeted therapy for lung cancer elimination: the BATTLE clinical trials I Wistuba (Houston)
09h40-10h20

Assessments of biologic pathways as predictors of response to therapy in breast cancer

W. Fraser Symmans (Houston)
10h20-10h50 Coffee Break
10h50-11h30 Biomarkers for mechanism-driven pro-apoptotic drugs C. Dive (Manchester)
11h30-12h10

Biomarker roundtable
C. Dive, T.J. McDonnell, W. Fraser-Symmans, I. Wistuba

12h10-13h30 Lunch
Session V: Updates and New Targets - Chair: V. Dixit (San Francisco)
13h30-14h10 Ubiquitin and the control of cell death P. Meier (London)
14h10-14h50 Structural determinants of polyubiquitin chain recognition D. Komander (Cambridge, UK)
14h50-15h30

Ubiquitin specific proteases as drug targets

F. Colland (Paris)
15h30-16h00 Coffee break
Chair: J.A. Hickman (Croissy sur Seine)
16h00-16h40

Discovery of new inhibitors of the Bcl-2family of proteins

G. Lessene (Melbourne)
16h40-17h20 Navitoclax (ABT-263), a clinical update G. Gordon (Abbott Park, Chicago)
17h20-18h00 Tumour suppressor and tumour maintenance genes S. Lowe (Cold Spring Harbor)
20h00 Conference Dinner

Monday, October, 18, 2010

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Hotel Quinta da Marinha Resort

Quinta da Marinha

2750-715 Cascais

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