16^th Gliwice Scientific Meetings, November 16-17, 2012

Scientific Program

 

Friday,  November 16^th, 2012

9.00 - 9.15                  Opening Ceremony

 

9.15 - 11.15                Session I

Structure of the nucleus and regulation of gene expression

Jan Brzeski (Copernicus Science Center, Warsaw)

Maize in the maze: a rough guide to the puzzling e  pigenetics of paramutation

Sergey Razin (Institute of Gene Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)

                   Folded chromatin domain instead of an active chromatin hub: a model based on reconsidered

                  essentials of the chromosome conformation capture procedure

Sławomir Kumala (McGill University, Montreal)

The influence of chromatin topology on the accessibility of DNA to damage.

Ronald Hancock (Laval University Cancer Research Centre, Québec)

New models of the nucleus and chromosomes

 

11.15 - 11.45             Coffee break

 

11.45 - 13.45              Session II

Cellular responses to ionizing radiation and stressing factors

(session co-organized by European Association for Cancer Research)

Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff (New York University School of Medicine, New York)

Microenvironment matters: contributions to  radiation carcinogenesis

Carmel Mothersill (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario)

Transmission of signals from irradiated rats to cage mates : an inter-animal bystander effect

Colin Seymour (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario)

The first cut is the deepest

Barbara Tudek (Institute of Biophysics and Biochemistry, Warsaw)

Repair of oxidative DNA damage during development of colon cancer

13.45 - 15.00             Lunch

15.00 - 16.00              Poster session

16.00 - 19.00              Session III

Proteomics

(session co-organized by Polish Society of Proteomics)

Andreas Rőmpp (Justus Liebig University, Giesen):

High resolution)² mass spectrometry imaging - comprehensive and specific histological information at cellular resolution

Jacek R. Wi¶niewski (Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried)

                            Quantitative study of colorectal cancer to a of 10,000 proteins using laser

                         depth microdissected formalin fixed and paraffin embedded tissue

              Marcus Macht (Bruker Daltonics, Bremen):

Proteomics through integrated MALDI and ESI

17.30 - 17.45 Coffee break

Jerzy Silberring (Department of Biochemistry and Neurobiology, AGH, Kraków)

Rapid analysis of drugs of abuse as an initial step towards predictive toxicology

Łukasz Marczak (Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Poznań)

Mass spectrometry based analysis of protein N-homocysteinylation

Joanna Polańska (Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice):

Detection and quantification of MALDI ToF spectral peaks by using Gaussian mixture decomposition

Piotr Widłak (Maria Skłodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center, Gliwice)

Mass profiling of cancer serum proteome - does it provide any useful information?

 

20.00 - 23.00              Social event

 

Saturday, November 17^th, 2012

 9.00 - 10.00              Meeting of Polish EACR group

 

10.00 - 12.00              Session IV

Selectively cytotoxic proteins

Mathieu H. Noteborn  (Biological Chemistry, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands)

Apoptin induces cell death by targeting various tumor processes

Malvash Tavassoli   (King's College London, Guy's Hospital Campus, London, UK)

Human Gyrovirus Apoptin shows a similar function to VP3/Apoptin

Stian Knappskog (University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway)

Inactivation of the TP53 gene or the p53 regulators Chk2 / ATM predicts resistance to anthracyclins in breast cancer            

Marek Los  (Linköping University, Linköping,  Sweden)

Modeling of interaction between BCR-ABL and apoptin - novel way for targeting the deregulated Abelson kinase activity

12.00 - 12.30              Lunch

12.30 - 15.00              Session V

Systems biology

Mieczysław Chor±ży (Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center, Gliwice)

The systems biology – introductory remarks

Izabela Makałowska (UAM, Poznań)

Retrogenes - trash or treasure?

Marek Rusin (Maria Skłodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center, Gliwice)

Cross-talk between p53 and Akt kinase pathways

          Joanna Janiszewska (Institute of Human Genetics, Poznań)

microRNAs and their importance in laryngeal carcinoma

Marek Kimmel (Rice University, Houston)

                     Variability and homeostasis in cycling cell populations

Andrzej ¦wierniak (Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice)

Extended model of interaction between tumour cells

                         

15.00-16.00                Session VI

Presentation of best poster communications

Closing remarks

 

16.00 - 17.00               Meeting of Polish EEMS group