Gliwickie Spotkania Naukowe 1998
27-28 listopada 1998

Gliwice Scientific Meetings
November 27-28, 1998

Structure and Function of the Genome

50^th Anniversary of Institute of Oncology in Gliwice

Friday, November 27

11.00 - 11.10         Opening Adddres - M. Chorąży

11.10 - 12.30        Mathematical Models in Biology

J. Nakielski (Katowice, Poland):
Tensorial model of growth and cell divisions in the root apex

A. Polański (Gliwice, Poland):
DNA statistics and the history of the population.

A. Świerniak (Gliwice, Poland):
Control of aminoacids concentration in cell populations as a potential technique of cancer cell-specific therapy.

12.30-12.45        Coffe break

12.45-14.00        Chromatin Structure and Gene Expression

W. Henning (Mainz, Germany):
Histone replacement variants.

A. Jerzmanowski (Warszawa, Poland):
Chromatin structures in transcriptional regulation.

14.00-15.00        Lunch

15.00-16.15        Chromatin Structure and Gene Expresion (continued)

K. Staroń (Warszawa, Poland):
Eukaryotic topoisomerase I.

R. Rzepecki (Wrocław, Poland):
Interactions of D. melanogaster karyoskeletal proteins - lamins and topoisomerase II with nucleic acids in vivo.

16.15-16.45        Coffe break

16.45-18.30         Genetic Polymorphism and Cancer

J. Ihnatowicz, L. Markiewicz (Gliwice, Poland):
The quantitative analysis of cancer epidemiology problems.

B. Jarząb (Gliwice, Poland):
Mutations of protooncogene RET and medullary thyroid carcinoma.

M. Rusin (Gliwice, Poland):
Polymorphism of DNA repair genes.

M. Wideł (Gliwice, Poland):
Individual radiosensitivity and DNA damage.

19.00 -           Dinner and get together party

Saturday, November 28

9.00-10.15         Chromatin Structure and Gene Expression (continued)

W. H. Strätling (Hamburg, Germany):
The nuclear protein ARBP/MeCP2.

J. Filipski (Paris, France):
Nuclease hypersensitive sites and meiotic double-strand breaks in human DNA cloned in yeast.

10.15-10.45        Coffe break

10.45-13.15        DNA Damage, Repair and Cellular Death

R. Drouin (Quebec, Canada):
UV- induced DNA damage distribution at the DNA sequence level.

R. Oliński (Bydgoszcz, Poland):
Oxidatively damaged DNA bases - relevance to mutagenesis and cancer.

A. Kulma (Wrocław, Poland):
Generation of transgenic potato plans differing in carbohydrate level by manipulation of 14-3-3 protein expression.

M. Milcarz (Wrocław, Poland):
Apoptotic-like effect of 14-3-3 protein overexpression in E. coli.

P. Widłak (Gliwice, Poland):
DFF, human enddonuclease activated during apoptosis.

13.15-14.00         Discussion and closing remarks

14.00                 Lunch

M. Bryś, M. Wójcik, A. Nawrocka, W.M. Krajewska (Łódź, Poland): "Androgen receptor expressions in breast and prostate neoplasms".

J. Chruściel, H. Niewiadomska, J. Błoński, P. Szymczyk, T. Robak, Z.M. Kiliańska (Łódź, Poland): "Ekspresja specificznego białka p44 w przebiegu B-komórkowej białaczki limfatycznej".

A. Mazurek, J. Michalska, G. Motykiewicz, E. Małusecka, M. Stróżyk (Gliwice, Poland): "Influence of organic extracts of airborne suspended matter on mitotic spindle apparatus".

M. Pietrowska, M. Rusin, J. Rogoliński, P. Widłak, J. Rzeszowska - Wolny (Gliwice, Poland): "Analysis of regulatory sequences from 5^'-end of chicken alfa-globulin gene domain".

E. Sykorowa (Brno, Czech Republic): "Telomere-subtelomere junctions in Silene latifolia".