FALL MEETING Mechanisms of Cell Death
CELL DEATH SOCIETY The Death Poets' Society)
Date:
Saturday, October 12, 1996
8:45AM-6:00 PM
Queens College of C.U.N.Y.
Music Building
Lefrak Hall
Flushing, Queens, N.Y.
Speakers:
Session I
Opening Remarks
Chair: Zahra Zakeri
Samuil Umanski
LXR Biotechnology, Inc., Richmond, CA
Relationship between cell death and proliferation.
Jean-Claude Ameisen
Universite de Paris, Paris, France
On the evolutionary origin of programmed cell death and its role in host-
pathogen interactions
Coffee Break
Session II
Chair: Raymond Birge
Michael Hengartner
Cold Spring Harbor Labs, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Programmed cell death in C. elegans
Barbara A. Osborne
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Regulation of apoptosis in the thymus
Gabriel Nunez
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Regulation of Cell Death by Bcl-2 Gene Family
Lunch
Session III
Chair: Richard Lang
David Vaux
Walter & Elisa Hall Institute, Australia
Using cell death inhibitors to understand pathways of apoptosis
Dale Bredesen
La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation, La Jolla, CA
Thanatopsis: Principles emerging from the study of neural cell death.
Coffee Break
Session IV
Chair: Richard Lockshin
Martin Tenniswood
W. Alton Jones Cell Science Center, Lake Placid NY
Is there a causative link between apoptosis and metastasis in glandular
tissues?
Mauro Piacentini
Universita degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy
"Tissue" transglutaminase: A multifunctional element of the physiological
cell death program
Closing Remarks: Richard Lockshin
Organizers: Zahra Zakeri, Queens College, Ray Birge, Rockefeller
Organizing Committee: Richard Lang, NYU; Richard Lockshin, St. John's U.,
Michael Hengartner, Cold Spring Harbor Labs.
FEES: BEFORE OCTOBER 1, 1996,
INCLUDES LUNCH
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS AND STUDENTS $25
OTHERS $50
ON-SITE REGISTRATION, ALL $75
MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION (CELL DEATH CLUB). SEND
TO: MS UMA NARAYAN, QUEENS COLLEGE, REMSEN HALL 125, FLUSHING, NY 11367-
1597. SORRY, NO CREDIT CARDS
REGISTRATION IS LIMITED TO 400.
Contact:
Zahra Zakeri
Department of Biology
Queens College and Graduate Center of CUNY Flushing, NY 11367
Tel: 718: 997-3417
Fax: 718: 997-3445
Email: zhz$biol at qc1.qc.edu
OUR CLUB
The formation of a Metropolitan Area Cell Death Society (Club) at
Rockefeller University, with meetings each month, has been a great success.
Attendance hovers around 60-90 people, coming from several institutions,
and a mailing list of over 200, from several countries. If you are
interested in getting details of the monthly meeting, and having others
know about your interest in cell death, please contact us. In addition, it
would be helpful if you let others know about us and ask them to get this
information to us.
FOR INSTRUCTIONS, DIRECTIONS, HOTEL INSTRUCTIONS, ETC. CONTACT ZAHRA ZAKERI
AT ABOVE ADDRESSES.
(OR REPLY TO ME AT lockshin at stjohns.edu. Our newsreader was unhappy
today.)
