Program
Workshop Rome, June 18-20, 2009.
“The Role of Autophagy in Infectious Diseases and Cancer”
National Institute for Infectious Diseases “Lazzaro Spallanzani”
Chairs
Gian Maria Fimia and Mauro Piacentini
Thursday, June 18.
17.45 Welcome and Opening Remarks
Dr. Giuseppe Ippolito
Scientific Director of National Institute for Infectious Diseases “Lazzaro Spallanzani”
Molecular mechanisms of autophagy
18.00 Beth Levine (USA)
”Autophagy genes protect against cancer and infectious diseases”
18.30 David C. Rubinsztein (U.K)
”Autophagic clearance of Aggregate-Prone Proteins: relevance for disease pathogenesis and therapeutic strategies”
19.00 Sharon A. Tooze
”Trafficking and signalling in Autophagy”
19.30 Welcome cocktail
Friday, June 19.
9.30 Fulvio Reggiori (Netherlands)
”Autophagosomes and other double-membrane vesicles. all the same?”
10.00 Adi Kimchi (Israel)
”Mechanistic links between DAP-kinase and autophagy”.
10.30 Gian Maria Fimia (Italy)
”Regulation of Ambra1-dependent autophagy”
11.00 Coffee Break
Autophagy in Infectious Diseases
11.30 Vojo Deretic (USA)
”Links between innate and adaptive immunity and autophagy”
12.00 Audrey Esclatine (France)
”Insights into the mechanism of human cytomegalovirus-mediated inhibition of autophagy.”
12.30 Martine Biard-Piechaczyk (France)
”Autophagy during HIV-1 infection of CD4 T cells”
13.00 Lunch
Autophagy and Cancer
14.30 Marja Jäättelä (Denmark)
”Regulation of autophagy by kinases and phosphatases”
15.00 Guillermo Velasco (Spain)
”Role of autophagy in cannabinoid antitumoral action”
15.30 Hans-Uwe Simon (Switzerland)
”Cancer cell death regulation by autophagy”.
16.00 Coffee break
Autophagy and Cancer
16.30 Francesco Cecconi (Italy)
”Regulation of Ambra1-dependent autophagy in development and disease”
17.00 Walter Malorni (Italy)
“Xenophagy: an exacerbation of autophagy?
17.30 Anne Simonsen (Norway)
”Alfy is selectively required for protein accumulation-mediated autophagy”
18.00 Penny Lovat (UK)
”Oncogenic B-RAF signalling confers the resistance of metastatic melanoma to autophagy”
18.30 Matthias Peter (Switzerland)
”Selective degradation of ribosomes by a ubiquitin-dependent mechanism in yeast and mammalian cells “
19.00 Concluding remarks and network discussion
Mauro Piacentini
20.30 Dinner