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Dear Colleagues,

Please find the final scientific program, including the list of the symposia, the organizers, and the invited and selected speakers. You can also find poster symposia and additional program topics (to orient further poster submission). Please note that we most welcome any other stress-related topics as late abstract-posters in this meeting:

 

Core Module 1: Stress proteins – molecular stress

  • 1A. Small Hsps (August 26th Sunday morning)
    (Organizers and chairs: Andre-Patrick Arrigo, and Robert M. Tanguay)

    Speakers:

    - Andre-Patrick Arrigo (Lyon, France)
    10:30-10:55 Hsp27 (HspB1) as a therapeutic target [Read the abstract]

    - Jacques Landry (Quebec City, Canada)
    10:55-11:25 HspB8 forms with Bag3 a chaperone complex stimulating macroautophagy: possible involvement in protein quality control [Read the abstract]

    - Nicolette H. Lubsen (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
    11:25-11:55 Recovery of macromolecular synthesis after stress: the role of small heat shock protein [Read the abstract]

    11:55-12:15 Coffee break

    - Robert M. Tanguay (Quebec, Canada)
    12:15-12:40 Regulation of small heat shock proteins in ageing and resistance to stress [Read the abstract]

    - Balázs Sümegi (Pécs, Hungary)
    12:40-12:55 Inhibition of apoptotic cell death by a novel 16.2 kD heat shock protein via Hsp90 mediated lipid rafts stabilization and Akt activation pathway [Read the abstract]

    - Ram Nagaraj (Cleveland, USA)
    12:55-13:10 Modulation of the Chaperone-like Function of Small Heat Shock Proteins by Methylglyoxal [Read the abstract]

    - Masafumi Yohda (Tokyo, Japan)
    13:10-13:25 Two small heat shock proteins of a fission yeast function in different manner to cope with wide range of temperatures and various denatured proteins [Read the abstract]

Poster presentations with abstracts

Speakers:

- Ronald Ullers (Geneva, Switzerland)
15:30-16:00 Functional interplay among the major chaperone machines of e. coli [Read the abstract]

- Bernd Bukau (Heidelberg, Germany)
16:00-16:30 The Hsp70 chaperone network [Read the abstract]

- Elisabeth A. Craig (Madison WI, USA)
16:30-17:00 Networks of Hsp70 and J-protein chaperones [Read the abstract]

17:00-17:20 Coffee break

- Kevin A. Morano (Houston TX, USA)
17:20-17:50 Hsp110 protein chaperone function in yeast [Read the abstract]

- Luciano Brocchieri (Gainesville FL, USA)
17:50-18:10 Evolution and diversity of human Hsp70: implications for health and disease [Read the abstract]

- Michiaki Yamashita (Yokohama, Japan)
18:10-18:30 Heat shock cognate protein HSC70 as a regulator of the Activin/Nodal/TGF-ß-Smad2 signalling pathway during zebrafish development [Read the abstract]

Poster presentations with abstracts

  • 1C. HSF activation (August 25th Saturday morning)
    (Organizer and chair: Lea Sistonen)

    Related chapter in the proceedings books can be downloaded HERE.

Speakers:

- Lea Sistonen (Turku, Finland)
9:30-10:00 Multi-site post-translational modifications and functional interplay of HSF1 and HSF2 [Read the abstract]

- M. Gabriela Santoro (Rome, Italy)
10:00-10:30 HSF1 activation and the control of apoptosis in chemoresistant cancers [Read the abstract]

- Akira Nakai (Ube, Japan)
10:30-11:00 Roles of HSF1 in inflammatory and immune response [Read the abstract]

11:00-11:20 Coffee break

- Valérie Lallemand-Mezger (Paris, France)
11:20-11:50 HSF2 and the proliferation of the neuronal precursors and migration of neurons in the developing cortex- normal and stress conditions [Read the abstract]

- Elisabeth Christians (Toulouse, France)
11:50-12:10 Developmental activity of HSF1 revealed by loss of function experiments [Read the abstract]

- András Orosz (Salt Lake City, USA)
12:10-12:30 Dual roles of Heat Shock Factor 1 (HSF1) in Cardioprotection, Pathologic Hypertrophy and Heart Failure in Transgenic Mice [Read the abstract]

Poster presentations with abstracts

  • 1D. Extracellular chaperones (August 26th Sunday morning)
    (Organizer and chair: Stuart Calderwood)
  • Related chapter in the proceedings books can be downloaded HERE.

Poster presentations with abstracts

 

Poster symposia:

 

ADDITIONAL TOPICS

  • Hsp60
  • Hsp70
  • Hsp90
  • Cochaperones
  • Hsp crystallography and structures
  • Hsp-s and protein targeting
  • Stress of single molecules
  • In silico models of Hsp action

 

Core Module 2: Stress and cellular functions

  • 2B. Membrane-regulation of the stress response (August 25th Saturday afternoon)
    (Organizer and chair: László Vígh  and John L. Harwood)

    Related chapter in the proceedings books can be downloaded HERE. (László Vígh)

    Related chapter in the proceedings books can be downloaded HERE. (John L. Harwood)

  • 2C. Non-coding RNAs and cellular stress (August 26th Sunday morning)
    (Organizer: Subhash C. Lakhotia, chair: Evgeny Nudler)

Speakers:

- Poul Valentin Hansen (Odense, Denmark)
10:30-11:00 Regulation of the sE envelope stress response by small RNAs [Read the abstract]

- Caroline Jolly (Grenoble, France)
11:00-11:30 Stress-induced nuclear bodies and transcription of repeated sequences [Read the abstract]

- Evgeny A. Nudler (New York NY, USA)
11:30-12:00 Eukaryotic RNA Thermosensor [Read the abstract]

12:00-12:20 Coffee break

- Subhash C. Lakhotia (Varanasi, India)
12:20-12:50 Non-coding hsrw RNA and post-transcriptional processing in stressed cells [Read the abstract]

Poster presentations with abstracts

  • 2D. ER stress (August 25th Saturday afternoon)
    (Organizers and chairs: Gábor Bánhegyi and Amy S. Lee)

    Related chapter in the proceedings books can be downloaded HERE.

  • 2F. Quality control and stress-related protein networks (August 25th Saturday morning)
    (Organizer and chair: Wolfgang Voos)
  • Related chapter in the proceedings books can be downloaded HERE.

 

Poster symposia:

 

ADDITIONAL TOPICS

  • Stress-related protein degradation
  • Stress and intestinal barriers
  • Stress and cell movement
  • Stress proteins and the cell cycle
  • Cold shock
  • Thermotolerance, cross-talk in stress resistance
  • Extremophiles

 

Module 3: System level interdisciplinary approaches

Poster symposia:

 

ADDITIONAL TOPICS AT THE SYSTEM LEVEL

  • Chaperone networks
  • Networks and stress resistance
  • Stress proteomics

 

 

Module 4: Plant stress

  • 4A. Plant Oxidative stress (August 25th Saturday morning)
    (Organizer and chair: Imre Vass)
  • Related chapter in the proceedings books can be downloaded HERE.

  • 4B. Biotic stress and disease resistance in plants (August 25th Saturday afternoon)
    (Organizer and chair: Terry Graham)

    Related chapter in the proceedings books can be downloaded HERE.

    Speakers:

    - Terry Graham (Columbus OH, USA)
    15:30-16:00 Use of Gene Silencing and Metabolomics to Characterize Interactive Stress and Defense Pathways in Soybean [Read the abstract]

    - Jean Greenberg (Chicago IL, USA)
    16:00-16:30 Engagement and modification of the plant host stress machinery: a virulence strategy of the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae [Read the abstract]

    - Brad Day (East Lansing MI, USA)
    16:30-17:00 Innate Immunity in Plants: The Role of NDR1-Actin Dynamics in Plant Defense Signaling [Read the abstract]

    17:00-17:20 Coffee break

    - John Hamilton (Durham, United Kingdom)
    17:20-17:50 Elucidation of fumonisin B1-induced cell death signalling in Arabidopsis thaliana [Read the abstract]

    - Nele Horemans (Antwerpen, Belgium)
    17:50-18:10 Dehydroascorbate uptake is impaired in the early respons of Arabidopsis plant cell cultures to cadmium [Read the abstract]

    Poster presentations with abstracts

 

Poster symposia:

 

 

Module 5: Stress at level of the organism

 

Poster symposia:

 

ADDITIONAL TOPICS

  • Gravity stress
  • Stress of fish
  • Stress of domestic animals
  • Stress of viral infections
  • Acute phase response
  • Shear stress
  • Hsp-s in development
  • Radiation stress – electrosmog

 

 

Module 6: Stress in medicine

  • 6A. Sick Chaperones and chaperonopathies (August 25th Saturday afternoon)
    (Organizer and chair: Alberto J. L. Macario)

    Related chapter in the proceedings books can be downloaded HERE

  • 6C. Hsp90 inhibitors and their clinical applications (August 26th Sunday morning)
    (Organizers and Speakers: Francis Burrows, Len Neckers, Neal Rosen, Paul Workman)
  • Related chapter in the proceedings books can be downloaded HERE

    Speakers:

    - Francis Burrows (San Diego CA, USA)
    10:30-11:00 Small-molecule Hsp90 Inhibitors: Applications in Cancer and Neurodegenerative diseases [Read the abstract]

    - Len Neckers (Bethesda MD, USA)
    11:00-11:30 Acetylation as a dynamic regulator of Hsp90 function: Implications for further development of pharmacologic Hsp90 inhibitors [Read the abstract]

    - Neal Rosen (Boston MA, USA)
    11:30-12:00

    12:00-12:20 Coffee break

    - Paul Workman (Sutton, UK)
    12:20-12:50 Drugging the cancer chaperone: Preclinical discovery and clinical development of Hsp90 inhibitors [Read the abstract]

    - Pranoti Mandrekar (Worcester, MA, USA)
    12:50-13:10 Alcohol exposure regulates HSF-1 and heat shock proteins 70 and 90 in murine macrophages: implication in TNFa production [Read the abstract]

    - Kathleen Gabrielson (Baltimore, USA)
    13:10-13:30 HSP90 and ErbB2 in the Cardiac Response to Doxorubicin Injury [Read the abstract]

  • 6D. Stress, Hsps and autoimmunity (August 26th Sunday morning)
    (Organizer and chair: Willem van Eden, Georg Wick)

    Related chapter in the proceedings books can be downloaded HERE

Speakers:

- Willem van Eden (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
10:30-11:00 Stress proteins are inducers of anti-inflammatory regulatory T cells [Read the abstract]

- Salvo Albani (La Jolla CA, USA)
11:00-11:30 Heat shock proteins as immunomodulators [Read the abstract]

- Georg Wick (Innsbruck, Austria)
11:30-12:00 What makes arterial endothelial cells a target for the autoimmune attack in the earliest stages of atherosclerosis? [Read the abstract]

12:00-12:20 Coffee break

- Yaakov Naparstek (Jerusalem, Israel)
12:20-12:50
Protective anti-inflammatory antibodies to HSP65 induce an activation and repression cascade of the IL-10 promoter

- Parvaneh Rafiee (Milwaukee, WI, USA)
12:50-13:10 Heat Shock Modulates Inflammatory Activation of Human Intestinal Microvascular Endothelial Cells (HIMEC) [Read the abstract]

- Pavel Stocki (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
13:10-13:30 A novel role of HSP70 as a modulatory agent for dendritic cells phenotype and function [Read the abstract]

Poster presentations with abstracts

  • 6E. Stress and the metabolic syndrome: hypertension, atherosclerosis, obesity and diabetes (August 24th Friday afternoon)
    (Organizers and chairs: Jan Eriksson and R. Paul Robertson)
  • Related chapter in the proceedings books can be downloaded HERE.

Speakers:

- Eric Brunner (London, UK)
15:30-16:00 Work stress, metabolic syndrome and disease in the Whitehall II study [Read the abstract]

- Jan Eriksson (Gothenburg, Sweden)
16:00-16:30 Neurendocrine factors in the metabolic syndrome [Read the abstract]

- Nader G. Abraham (New York, USA)
16:30-17:00 Role of stress response genes, including HO-1, in Type 1 diabetes and diabetic complications [Read the abstract]

17:00-17:20 Coffee break

- R. Paul Robertson (Seattle WA, USA)
17:20-17:50 Chronic oxidative stress as a mechanism for continual deterioration of beta cell function in type 2 diabetes [Read the abstract]

- Mark Febbraio (Melbourne, Australia)
17:50-18:20 Hsp70: a therapeutic target to treat obesity-induced insulin resistance [Read the abstract]

Poster presentations with abstracts

Speakers:

- Jean-Marc Cavaillon (Paris, France)
9:30-10:00 Leukocyte reprogrammation after endotoxin encounter [Read the abstract]

- Robert S. Munford (Dallas TX, USA)
10:00-10:30 Infection-induced stress: prolonged immunosuppression in animals that cannot detoxify endotoxin [Read the abstract]

- Istvan Vermes (Enschede, The Netherlands)
10:30-11:00 Immuno-neuro-endocrine adaptation in critically ill patients [Read the abstract]

11:00-11:20 Coffee break

- Marius C. Wick (Innsbruck, Austria)
11:20-11:50 In vivo imaging of the effect of bacterial endotoxins on arterial endothelial cells: molecular imaging of heat shock protein 60 expression [Read the abstract]

Poster presentations with abstracts

  • 6H. Stress in the development of schizophrenia (August 26th Sunday morning)
    (Organizer and chair: Kunio Yui and Michio Suzuki )

    Related chapter in the proceedings books can be downloaded HERE.

 

Poster symposia:

 

ADDITIONAL TOPICS

  • Gender differences in pathophysiological stress
  • Hsps and wound healing
  • Stress and myocardial protection
  • Pre- and postoperative stress

 

 

Module 7: Psychosocial stress

  • 7A. Stress, cognitive function and behavior (August 24th Friday afternoon)
    (Organizers and chairs: József Haller  and Jeansok Kim)

    Related chapter in the proceedings books can be downloaded HERE.

  • 7B. Psychosocial stress and disease (August 24th Friday morning)
    (Organizer and chair: Holger Ursin)
  • Related chapter in the proceedings books can be downloaded HERE

  • 7C. Psycho-neuro-immunology (August 24th Friday morning)
    (Organizer and chair: Judit Szelényi)

    Related chapter in the proceedings books can be downloaded HERE

    Speakers:

    - Judit Szelényi (Budapest, Hungary)
    9:30-10:00 Alterations of the catecholamine-cytokine balance in depression [Read the abstract]

    - Robert Dantzer (Urbana IL, USA)
    10:00-10:30 Cytokine actions in the brain as a mechanism for the increased prevalence of depression in diseases with an inflammatory component [Read the abstract]

    - Georges Maestroni (Locarno, Switzerland)
    10:30-11:00 Long photoperiod-induced glucocorticoid resistance and decreased negative selection in double-positive thymocytes of female but not male mice. Mechanisms and possible implication in the geographical distribution of autoimmune diseases [Read the abstract]

    11:00-11:20 Coffee break

    - Christopher L. Coe (Madison WI, USA)
    1:20-11:50 Maternal stress and the prenatal programming of infant immunity [Read the abstract]

    - Eva Peters (Berlin, Germany)
    11:50-12:10 Stress triggered neuronal plasticity in spleen in interaction with immunocytes [Read the abstract]

    Poster presentations with abstracts

  • 7D. Cultural differences, cultural changes and stress (August 24th Friday afternoon)
    (Organizer and chair: Mária Kopp)

    Related chapter in the proceedings books can be downloaded HERE.

  • 7E. Dental Stress (August 24th Friday afternoon)
    (Organizer and chair: Tibor Károly Fábián)

    Related chapter in the proceedings books can be downloaded HERE.

  • 7G. Stress and Reproduction: From Sexual Dysfunction to Spontaneous Abortion (August 24th Friday morning)
    (Organizer and chair: Pablo Nepomnaschy)
  • Related chapter in the proceedings books can be downloaded HERE.

    Speakers:

    - Pablo Nepomnaschy (Research Triangle Park, NC USA)
    9:30-10:00 Stress-Triggered Reproductive Supression: an Evolved Adaptation? [Read the abstract]

    - Eyal Sheiner (Be’er-Sheva, Israel)
    10:00-10:30 The relationship between psychological stress and fertility [Read the abstract]

    - George Mastorakos (Athens, Greece)
    10:30-11:00 The Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal and the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Gonadal axes interplay in reproduction [Read the abstract]

    11:00-11:20 Coffee break

    - Petra C. Arck (Berlin, Germany)
    11:20-11:50 Stress during pregnancy: consequences for mother and child [Read the abstract]

    - Cláudio Oliveira (Sao Paulo, Brasil)
    11:50-12:10 Reproduction of southern muriquis in captivity (Brachyteles arachnoides): endocrinological assessment of reproductive function by measurement of fecal steroid metabolites [Read the abstract]

    - Bernard Wallner (Vienna, Austria)
    12:10-12:30 The impact of secondary sex characteristics (SSC) and social behavior to cortisol and sexual hormones in female primates [Read the abstract]

  • 7H. Yoga and Stress - Oral section cancelled

 

Poster symposia:

 

ADDITIONAL TOPICS

  • Stress and hair growth
  • War stress
  • Stress of aging: a psychosocial perspective
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