Programme

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Wednesday, October 1st
15:00 - 19:00 Registration
Official Opening & ECDO Honorary Lecture
Chair: Nektarios TAVERNARAKIS [IMBB-FORTH, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece]
19:00 - 19:15 Welcome Address
19:15 - 20:00 ECDO Honorary Lecture
Gerry COHEN [University of Liverpool, UK]
BCL-2 Inhibitors and Cancer Chemotherapy
20:00     Welcome Reception

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Thursday, October 2nd
Session 1: Cell Death Molecular Mechanisms and Pathways
Chair: Marie-Lise GOUGEON [Institut Pasteur, Paris, France]
09:00 - 09:30 Gerry MELINO [MRC Toxicology Unit, Leicester, UK]
TAp73 Regulates Tumour Angiogenesis by Promoting Hypoxia-inducible Factor-1α Degradation
09:30 - 10:00 Jiri BARTEK [Danish Cancer Society, Kopenhagen, Denmark]
Cellular Responses to Genotoxic Stress: Mechanisms and Relevance for Tumorigenesis and Cancer Treatment
10:00 - 10:30 Boris TURK [Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia]
Lysosomes: at the Crossroad between Cell Death and Survival
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 Kodi RAVICHANDRAN [University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA]
Benefits of Apoptotic Cell Recognition and Cell Clearance
11:30 - 11:45 Short Talk 1:
Liming SUN [Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai, China]
Necrosome Core Machinery: MLKL
11:45 - 12:00 Short Talk 2:
Guy BROWN [University of Cambridge, UK]
Caspace-8 Inhibition Induces Necroptosis Specifically in Activated Microglia, Preventing their Phagoptosis of Neurons
12:00 - 12:30 Peter VANDENABEELE [VIB Inflammation Research Center, Gent, Belgium]
Molecular Mechanisms of Necroptosis: Old Paradigms Come Back
12:30 - 13:00 Carlos IBANEZ [Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden]
Genetic Dissection of Death Receptor Signalling
13:15 - 14:30 Lunch Break
Session 2: Inflammation
Chair: Peter VANDENABEELE [VIB Inflammation Research Center, Gent, Belgium]
14:30 - 15:00 Seamus MARTIN [Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland]
Cell Death and Inflammation
15:00 - 15:30 George KOLLIAS [BSRC "Alexander Fleming", Athens, Greece]
TNFR Signalling in the Mesenchyme and Physiological Roles in Chronic Inflammatory Disease
15:30 - 15:45 Short Talk 3:
Geert VAN LOO [Ghent University, Belgium]
A20 in Inflammatory Signaling and Pathology
15:45 - 16:15 Manolis PASPARAKIS [CECAD Research Center, Cologne, Germany]
RIP Kinases in Cell Death and Inflammation
16:15 - 16:45 Junyin YUAN [Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA]
Regulation of the RIP1 Kinase at the Crossroad of Cell Death and Inflammation
17:00 - 18:30 POSTER SESSION 1
17:00 - 18:00 ECDO Board Meeting
20:00     Gala Dinner

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Friday, October 3rd
Session 3: Degradation Processes and Cell Death
Chair: Mauro PIACENTINI [University of Rome, Italy]
09:00 - 09:30 Ding XUE [University of Colorado, Boulder, USA]
Targets of Caspases -- Death by A Few Cuts
09:30 - 10:00 David WALLACH [Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel]
Anti-inflammatory Functions of Caspase-8
10:00 - 10:30 Ivan DIKIC [Goethe University School of Medicine, Frankfurt, Germany]
Linear Ubiquitination in Cell Death Pathways
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 Kevin RYAN [Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow, UK]
Autophagy in Cell Death and Cancer
11:30 - 11:45 Short Talk 4:
Luizi LEANZA [University of Padua, Italy]
Targeting and Ion Channel for Selective Elimination of Cancer Cells in vivo
11:45 - 12:00 Short Talk 5:
Joseph OPFERMAN [St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, USA]
Identifying Strategies to Inhibit Anti-Apoptotic MCL-1 in Philadelphia Chromosome Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
12:00 - 12:30 Bertrand JOSEPH [Cancer Centrum Karolinska, Stockholm, Sweden]
The Return of the Nucleus: Epigenetic Control of Autophagy
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
Session 4: Autophagy
Chair: Alexander PINTZAS [National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece]
14:00 - 14:30 Guido KROEMER [INSERM, Paris, France]
Therapeutic Modulation of Autophagy
14:30 - 15:00 David RUBINSZTEIN [Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Cambridge, UK]
Autophagy - from Neurodegeneration to the Plasma Membrane
15:00 - 15:30 Patrice CODOGNO [INSERM, Paris, France]
STK38 Kinase is a New Beclin 1 Partner required for Autophagosome Formation
15:30 - 15:45 Short Talk 6:
Andreas VILLUNGER [Medical University Innsbruck, Austria]
Combined Loss of the BH3-only Protein Bim and Bmf Restores B Cell Development and Function in TACI-Ig Mice
15:45 - 16:00 Short Talk 7:
Sylvie LEFEBVRE [Inflammation Research Center, VIB, Ghent, Belgium]
The Kinase RIPK1 Acts as a Guardian of Skin Homeostasis
16:00 - 16:30 Patricia BOYA [Spanish National Research Council, Madrid, Spain]
Autophagy, Cell Death and Aging
16:30 - 18:30 POSTER SESSION 2
ECDO Keynote Lecture & General Assembly
Chair: Guido KROEMER [University Paris Descartes, Paris, France]
18:30 - 19:15 ECDO Keynote Lecture
Xin LU [The Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Oxford, UK]
From Cell Death to Sudden Death: Cardiotoxicity Revisited
19:15 - 19:30 Poster Awards
19:30 - 20:00 ECDO General Assembly

 Wed 1 Oct | Thu 2 Oct | Fri 3 Oct | Sat 4 Oct

Saturday, October 4th
Session 5: Ageing and Regeneration
Chair: Boris ZHIVOTOVSKY [Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden]
09:00 - 09:30 Frank MADEO [University of Graz, Austria]
From Dying Yeasts to Longevity Drugs
09:30 - 10:00 Daren BAKER [Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA]
Targeted Apoptosis to Improve Animal Healthspan
10:00 - 10:30 Brigitte GALLIOT [University of Geneva, Switzerland]
Cell Death, a Program to Regenerate in Hydra
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 Luca SCORRANO [University of Padova, Italy]
Keeping Mitochondria in Shape: A Matter of Life and Death
11:30 - 12:00 Thomas LANGER [University of Cologne, Germany]
Mitochondrial Quality Control and Neurodegeneration
12:00 - 12:15 Short Talk 8:
Anne HAMACHER-BRADY [German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany]
Canonical BH3-only Proteins Trigger Macroautophagy-independent, Ubiquitin-mediated Intramitochondrial Processing
12:15 - 12:45 Nektarios TAVERNARAKIS [IMBB-FORTH, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece]
Coordination of Mitophagy and Mitochondrial Biogenesis during Ageing
12:45 - 13:00 Closing Remarks

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