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Stress, Signalling and Control

2—4 July 2003

University of Essex, UK



Special Events

Wednesday 2 July 2003
11:30 - 12:20
Colworth Medal Lecture
Linking endocytic cargo to clathrin : structural and functional insights into coated vesicle formation
Dr David Owen (CIMR, Cambridge, UK)
Thursday 3 July 2003
11:20 - 12:10
Novartis Medal Lecture
Modular proteins at the cell surface
Professor Iain Campbell (Oxford, UK)
15:00 - 15:50
Keilin Memorial Lecture
The molecular machinery of Keilin's respiratory chain
Professor Peter Rich (University College London, UK)

Timetable

Wednesday 2 July 2003Thursday 3 July 2003Friday 4 July 2003
09:00 - 17:50
Annual Symposium - Free Radicals: Enzymology, Signalling and Disease

09:00 - 17:50
Superoxide: Production and Destruction

09:00 - 17:50
The Glucose/Fatty Acid Cycle 1963-2003: A Tribute to Sir Philip Randle

09:00 - 17:50
The Enzymatic Defence against Glycation in Health, Disease and Therapeutics

14:00 - 17:50
Integration of Mitogenic and Migratory Signals from G-Protein-Coupled Receptors and Tyrosine Kinases

08:45 - 17:20
Annual Symposium - Free Radicals: Enzymology, Signalling and Disease

08:45 - 17:00
Protein Synthesis and Quality Control at the Endoplasmic Reticulum

08:45 - 17:20
Superoxide: Production and Destruction

08:45 - 17:20
The Glucose/Fatty Acid Cycle 1963-2003: A Tribute to Sir Philip Randle

08:45 - 17:20
The Enzymatic Defence against Glycation in Health, Disease and Therapeutics

09:25 - 17:20
Integration of Mitogenic and Migratory Signals from G-Protein-Coupled Receptors and Tyrosine Kinases

08:30 - 16:15
Annual Symposium - Free Radicals: Enzymology, Signalling and Disease

08:30 - 12:10
Molecular Mechanisms of Signalling

09:40 - 15:35
Protein Synthesis and Quality Control at the Endoplasmic Reticulum

09:40 - 16:15
Exercise Metabolism: Nutrition, Substrate Utilization and Regulation

09:40 - 16:15
The Enzymatic Defence against Glycation in Health, Disease and Therapeutics

12:10 - 16:15
The Glucose/Fatty Acid Cycle 1963-2003: A Tribute to Sir Philip Randle


Annual Symposium - Free Radicals: Enzymology, Signalling and Disease

Organizers:
Mike Wilson (Essex, UK)
Victor Darley-Usmar (Birmingham, AL, USA)
Chris Cooper (Essex, UK)
Sponsors:

Radical Enzymology

Wednesday 2 July 2003
09:00 - 09:40
Metal/radical enzymes - an overview       
Andy Thomson (Norwich, UK)
09:40 - 10:20
Cofactor processing in galactose oxidase
Mike McPherson (Leeds, UK)
09:40 - 10:20
Pascal Ferré and Mike Titheradge
10:20 - 11:00
Mechanisms of evolution of ribonucleotide reductases         
Britt-Marie Sjoberg (Stockholm, Sweden)
10:20 - 11:00
The glucose-fatty acid cycle: a physiological perspective
Keith Frayn (Oxford, UK)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee/Tea Break

11:30 - 12:20
Colworth Medal Lecture
Linking endocytic cargo to clathrin : structural and functional insights into coated vesicle formation
Dr David Owen (CIMR, Cambridge, UK)
12:20 - 14:00 Lunch and Poster Session

14:00 - 14:40
Molecular mechanisms regulating hormone-sensitive lipase and lipolysis
Cecilia Holm (Lund, Sweden)
14:00 - 14:40
Defining substrate specificity and catalytic mechanism in ascorbate peroxidase
Emma Raven (Leicester, UK)
14:40 - 15:20
Fatty acid recycling in adipocytes: a role for glyceroneogenesis and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase
Claude Forest (Paris, France)
14:40 - 15:20
Flavin radicals and electron transfer
Nigel Scrutton (Leicester, UK)
15:20 - 15:50 Coffee/Tea Break

15:50 - 16:30
Protein radicals in cytochrome c oxidase - tyrosine or tryptophan?
Dimitri Svistunenko (Essex, UK)
15:50 - 16:30
Roles of peroxisome proliferator delta in the control of muscle development and metabolism
Paul Grimaldi (Institute de Signalisation, Nice, France)
16:30 - 16:50
Activation of cytochrome c to a peroxidase compound I-type intermediate by H2O2: Relevance to redox signalling in apoptosis
Selected Poster Presentation - Mark Burkitt (Gray Cancer Institute, Northwood, UK)
16:30 - 17:10
Tyrosine nitration of muscle carnitine palmitoyl transferase I in sepsis
Simon Eaton (Institute of Child Health, London, UK)
16:50 - 17:10
Iron chelators reduce ferryl myoglobin and inhibit cytotoxic haem-to-protein cross-linking
Selected Poster Presentation - Brandon Reeder (Essex, UK)
17:10 - 17:50
The TIBS Lecture - Radical reactions of nitric oxide synthases 
Dennis Stuehr (Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, OH, USA)
18:00 - 19:30 Welcome Drinks Reception
(must be pre-booked)

19:30 Summer Barbeque
(must be pre-booked)

Radical Disease

Thursday 3 July 2003
08:45 - 09:25
Mitochondrial superoxide and aging
Martin Brand (Cambridge, UK)
09:25 - 10:05
SOD activity of prion proteins                
David Brown (Bath, UK)
10:10 - 10:50
Clinical aspects of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species biology
Thomas Munzel (Hamburg, Germany)
10:50 - 11:20 Coffee/Tea Break

11:20 - 12:10
Novartis Medal Lecture
Modular proteins at the cell surface
Professor Iain Campbell (Oxford, UK)
12:10 - 13:10 Lunch

13:10 - 13:50
Modulation of the L-arginine-nitric oxide signalling pathway in the vasculature
Giovanni Mann (King's College London, UK)
13:50 - 14:30
Biological role of haem oxygenase-1 in response to oxidative and nitrosative stress
Roberto Motterlini (Imperial College London, UK)
14:30 - 15:00 Coffee/Tea Break

15:00 - 15:50
Keilin Memorial Lecture
The molecular machinery of Keilin's respiratory chain
Professor Peter Rich (University College London, UK)
16:00 - 16:20
Role of S-nitrosohemoglobin in vascular dysfunction associated with Sepsis
Selected Poster Presentation - Rakesh Patel (Birmingham, AL, USA)
16:20 - 16:40
Proteomics analysis of cellular responses in drosophila melanogaster to oxidative stress
Selected Poster Presentation - Joanne Mathers (Dundee,UK)
16:40 - 17:20
Haem proteins, radicals and oxidative stress
Kevin Moore (Royal Free Hospital London, UK)
17:30 - 19:00 Drinks and Poster Session

19:30 Meeting Dinner
(must be pre-booked)

Radical Signalling

Friday 4 July 2003
08:30 - 11:00
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee/Tea Break

11:30 - 12:10
12:10 - 12:50
The WPI Lecture - Radical signalling; from NO in mitochondria to oxidized lipids
Victor Darley-Usmar (Birmingham, AL, USA)
12:50 - 14:15 Lunch and Poster Session

14:15 - 14:55
Nitric oxide activation of guanylate cyclase
Doris Koesling (Bochum, Germany)
14:55 - 15:35
Superoxide and peroxide signalling
Dave Lambeth (Emory, GA, USA)
15:35 - 16:15
Nitric oxide signalling: insect brains and photocytes
Barry Trimmer (Medford, MA, USA)

Protein Synthesis and Quality Control at the Endoplasmic Reticulum

Membrane Group

Organizers:
Stephen High (Manchester, UK)
Neil Bulleid (Manchester, UK)
Sponsors:
Thursday 3 July 2003
08:45 - 09:25
Nascent chain control of ribosome and translocon structure and function
Art Johnson (Texas A & M, TX, USA)
09:25 - 10:05
Regulation of protein targeting to the endoplasmic reticulum
Martin Pool (Manchester, UK)
10:10 - 10:50
Sss1p recruits Sec63p to the translocon and is required to initiate translocation of the secretory precursors bound to Sec61p
Colin Stirling (Manchester, UK)
10:50 - 11:20 Coffee/Tea Break

11:20 - 12:10
Novartis Medal Lecture
Modular proteins at the cell surface
Professor Iain Campbell (Oxford, UK)
12:10 - 13:10 Lunch

13:10 - 13:50
Biogenesis of C tail-anchored proteins
Nica Borgese (Milan, Italy)
13:50 - 14:30
Intramembrane proteolysis and post-targeting functions of signal peptides
Bruno Martoglio (ETH, Zurich, Switzerland)
14:30 - 15:00 Coffee/Tea Break

15:00 - 15:50
Keilin Memorial Lecture
The molecular machinery of Keilin's respiratory chain
Professor Peter Rich (University College London, UK)
16:00 - 16:40
Membrane protein biosynthesis at the ER
Stephen High (Manchester, UK)
16:40 - 17:00
Dissecting the roles of Sec63p in protein translocation
Selected Poster Presentation - Andy Jermy (Manchester, UK)
17:30 - 19:00 Drinks and Poster Session

19:30 Meeting Dinner
(must be pre-booked)

Friday 4 July 2003
09:40 - 10:20
Organization of translocon complexes in the ER membrane
Gert Kreibich (New York, NY, USA)
10:20 - 11:00
GPI - anchored membrane protein biosynthesis
Neil Bulleid (Manchester, UK)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee/Tea Break

11:30 - 12:10
Pathways for disulfide bond formation living cells
Chris Kaiser (MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA)
12:10 - 12:50
Glycoprotein folding in the ER lumen
Ari Helenius (ETH, Zurich, Switzerland)
12:50 - 14:15 Lunch and Poster Session

14:15 - 14:55
Retrograde transport of toxins across the ER membrane
Mike Lord (Warwick, UK)
14:55 - 15:35
Protein quality control and autosomal dominant retinitis pimentosa
Ron Kopito (Stanford, CA, USA)

Integration of Mitogenic and Migratory Signals from G-Protein-Coupled Receptors and Tyrosine Kinases

Hormone Group

Organizer:
Tim Palmer (Glasgow, UK)
Wednesday 2 July 2003
12:20 - 14:00 Lunch and Poster Session

14:00 - 14:40
VEGF receptor signaling and its integrating role in endothelial biology
Ian Zachary (University College London, UK)
14:40 - 15:20
Receptor tyrosine kinase signalling and endocytosis
Ivan Dikic (Goethe University Medical School, Frankfurt, Germany)
15:20 - 15:50 Coffee/Tea Break

15:50 - 16:30
G-protein coupled receptor anti-apoptotic response
Andrew Tobin (Leicester, UK)
16:30 - 17:10
Erk2 docking and phosphorylation of PDE4 cAMP phosphodiesterases isoforms in the control of cAMP signalling
Miles D. Houslay (Glasgow, UK)
17:10 - 17:50
Protease-regulated signalling by G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs)
Nigel Bunnett (San Francisco, CA, USA)
18:00 - 19:30 Welcome Drinks Reception
(must be pre-booked)

19:30 Summer Barbeque
(must be pre-booked)

Thursday 3 July 2003
09:25 - 10:05
Metalloprotease-dependent ErbB ligand shedding in mediating EGFR transactivation and vascular remodeling
Satoru Eguchi (Vanderbilt, TN, USA)
10:10 - 10:50
EGFR transactivation in cancer cells
Oliver Fischer (Martinsried, Germany)
10:50 - 11:20 Coffee/Tea Break

11:20 - 12:10
Novartis Medal Lecture
Modular proteins at the cell surface
Professor Iain Campbell (Oxford, UK)
12:10 - 13:10 Lunch

13:30 - 14:10
Lysophosphatidic acid, mitogen and motility factor
Frank van Leeuwen (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
14:10 - 14:30
Stress-induced ATP release and growth modulation of human lens and retinal pigment epithelial cells
Selected Poster Presentation - Julie Eldred (East Anglia, UK)
14:30 - 15:00 Coffee/Tea Break

15:00 - 15:50
Keilin Memorial Lecture
The molecular machinery of Keilin's respiratory chain
Professor Peter Rich (University College London, UK)
16:00 - 16:40
The many hues of sphingosine-1-phosphate
Sarah Spiegel (Richmond, VA, USA)
16:40 - 17:20
Receptor tyrosine kinase-GPCR signal complexes
Nigel Pyne (Strathclyde, UK)
17:30 - 19:00 Drinks and Poster Session

19:30 Meeting Dinner
(must be pre-booked)

Superoxide: Production and Destruction

Bioenergetics Group

Organizers:
Martin Brand (Cambridge, UK)
John Moody (Plymouth, UK)
Tony Moore (Sussex, UK)
Wednesday 2 July 2003
09:00 - 09:40
Mitochondrial targetted antioxidants
Mike Murphy (Cambridge, UK)
09:40 - 10:00
Mitochondrial matrix ROS production is very sensitive to mild uncoupling
Selected Poster Presentation - Satomi Miwa (Cambridge, UK)
10:00 - 10:20
Novel SOD and catalase mimics for the treatment of inflammatory diseases
Selected Poster Presentation - Declan Naughton (Brighton, UK)
10:20 - 11:00
Use of SOD/catalase mimetics to extend lifespan
Matthew Gill (Buck Institute for Age Research, Novato, CA, USA)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee/Tea Break

11:30 - 12:20
Colworth Medal Lecture
Linking endocytic cargo to clathrin : structural and functional insights into coated vesicle formation
Dr David Owen (CIMR, Cambridge, UK)
12:20 - 14:00 Lunch and Poster Session

14:00 - 14:40
Antioxidants as treatments for mitochondrial diseases
Tony Shapira (Royal Free Hospital London, UK)
14:40 - 15:20
Mechanisms of the development of diabetic complications
Michael Brownlee - sponsored by Woerwag Pharma (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, USA)
15:20 - 15:50 Coffee/Tea Break

15:50 - 16:30
Does mitochondrial superoxide production occur in the living cell?
Hans Nohl (Vienna, Austria)
16:30 - 17:10
Cytochrome c, ideal antioxidant
Vladimir Skulachev (Moscow, Russia)
17:10 - 17:30
Inhibition of UCP3 causes mitochondrial oxidative damage
Selected Poster Presentation - Darren Talbot (Cambridge, UK)
17:30 - 17:50
Control of superoxide production in cauliflower mitochondria
Selected Poster Presentation - Vasily Popov (Voronezh State, Russia)
18:00 - 19:30 Welcome Drinks Reception
(must be pre-booked)

19:30 Summer Barbeque
(must be pre-booked)

Thursday 3 July 2003
08:45 - 09:25
Mitochondrial superoxide and aging
Martin Brand (Cambridge, UK)
09:25 - 10:05
SOD activity of prion proteins
David Brown (Bath, UK)
10:10 - 10:50
The irony of manganese superoxide dismutase
James Whittaker (Beaverton, OR, USA)
10:50 - 11:20 Coffee/Tea Break

11:20 - 12:10
Novartis Medal Lecture
Modular proteins at the cell surface
Professor Iain Campbell (Oxford, UK)
12:10 - 13:10 Lunch

13:10 - 13:50
Prokaryotic copper/zinc superoxide dismutase
Alessandro Desideri (Rome, Italy)
13:50 - 14:30
Role of prokaryotic Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase in pathogenesis
Andrea Battistoni (Rome, Italy)
14:30 - 15:00 Coffee/Tea Break

15:00 - 15:50
Keilin Memorial Lecture
The molecular machinery of Keilin's respiratory chain
Professor Peter Rich (University College London, UK)
16:00 - 16:40
Iron superoxide dismutase: structure and function of an archaic enzyme
Günter Schäfer (Institute für Biochemie, Lübeck, Germany)
16:40 - 17:00
Reduction of one-electron acceptors by cellobiose oxidoreductase
Selected Poster Presentation - Maria Mason (Essex, UK)
17:00 - 17:20
Kinetics of superoxide scavenging by glutathione: an evaluation of its role in the removal of mitochondrial superoxide
Selected Poster Presentation - Clare Jones (Gray Cancer Institute, Northwood, UK)
17:30 - 19:00 Drinks and Poster Session

19:30 Meeting Dinner
(must be pre-booked)

The Glucose/Fatty Acid Cycle 1963-2003: A Tribute to Sir Philip Randle

Regulation in Metabolism Group

Organizers:
Mike Titheradge (Sussex, UK)
Pascal Ferré (INSERM, Paris, France)
Sponsors:
Institut de Recherches Servier
Friday 4 July 2003
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee/Tea Break

12:10 - 12:50
The WPI Lecture - Radical signalling; from NO in mitochondria to oxidized lipids
Victor Darley-Usmar (Birmingham, AL, USA)
12:50 - 14:15 Lunch and Poster Session

14:15 - 14:55
Nitric oxide activation of guanylate cyclase
Doris Koesling (Bochum, Germany)
14:55 - 15:35
Superoxide and peroxide signalling
Dave Lambeth (Emory, GA, USA)
15:35 - 16:15
Nitric oxide signalling: insect brains and photocytes
Barry Trimmer (Medford, MA, USA)

Overview

Wednesday 2 July 2003
09:00 - 09:40
Metal/radical enzymes - an overview       
Andy Thomson (Norwich, UK)
09:40 - 10:20
Cofactor processing in galactose oxidase
Mike McPherson (Leeds, UK)
09:40 - 10:20
Pascal Ferré and Mike Titheradge
10:20 - 11:00
Mechanisms of evolution of ribonucleotide reductases         
Britt-Marie Sjoberg (Stockholm, Sweden)
10:20 - 11:00
The glucose-fatty acid cycle: a physiological perspective
Keith Frayn (Oxford, UK)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee/Tea Break

11:30 - 12:20
Colworth Medal Lecture
Linking endocytic cargo to clathrin : structural and functional insights into coated vesicle formation
Dr David Owen (CIMR, Cambridge, UK)
12:20 - 14:00 Lunch and Poster Session

14:00 - 14:40
Defining substrate specificity and catalytic mechanism in ascorbate peroxidase
Emma Raven (Leicester, UK)

Fatty Acid Release by Adipose Tissue

Wednesday 2 July 2003
12:20 - 14:00 Lunch and Poster Session

14:00 - 14:40
Molecular mechanisms regulating hormone-sensitive lipase and lipolysis
Cecilia Holm (Lund, Sweden)
14:00 - 14:40
Defining substrate specificity and catalytic mechanism in ascorbate peroxidase
Emma Raven (Leicester, UK)
14:40 - 15:20
Fatty acid recycling in adipocytes: a role for glyceroneogenesis and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase
Claude Forest (Paris, France)
14:40 - 15:20
Flavin radicals and electron transfer
Nigel Scrutton (Leicester, UK)
15:20 - 15:50 Coffee/Tea Break

15:50 - 16:30
Protein radicals in cytochrome c oxidase - tyrosine or tryptophan?
Dimitri Svistunenko (Essex, UK)
17:10 - 17:50
The TIBS Lecture - Radical reactions of nitric oxide synthases 
Dennis Stuehr (Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, OH, USA)
17:10 - 17:20
SCHAD deficiency associated with hyperinsulinism: a novel glucose-fatty acid cycle?
Selected Poster Presentation - Simon Eaton (Institute of Child Health, London, UK)
17:20 - 17:30
Identification of adipocyte glyceroneogenesis as a major target for the hypolipidemic action of thiazolidinediones
Selected Poster Presentation - Bénédicte Antoine (Inserm-Université René Descartes, Paris, France)
17:30 - 17:40
Mechanism of glucose sensing in the small intestine
Selected Poster Presentation - Jane Dyer (Liverpool, UK)
18:00 - 19:30 Welcome Drinks Reception
(must be pre-booked)

19:30 Summer Barbeque
(must be pre-booked)

Fatty Acid Uptake and Oxidation in Muscle

Wednesday 2 July 2003
12:20 - 14:00 Lunch and Poster Session

14:00 - 14:40
Defining substrate specificity and catalytic mechanism in ascorbate peroxidase
Emma Raven (Leicester, UK)
14:40 - 15:20
Flavin radicals and electron transfer
Nigel Scrutton (Leicester, UK)
15:20 - 15:50 Coffee/Tea Break

15:50 - 16:30
Protein radicals in cytochrome c oxidase - tyrosine or tryptophan?
Dimitri Svistunenko (Essex, UK)
15:50 - 16:30
Roles of peroxisome proliferator delta in the control of muscle development and metabolism
Paul Grimaldi (Institute de Signalisation, Nice, France)
16:30 - 17:10
Tyrosine nitration of muscle carnitine palmitoyl transferase I in sepsis
Simon Eaton (Institute of Child Health, London, UK)
17:10 - 17:50
The TIBS Lecture - Radical reactions of nitric oxide synthases 
Dennis Stuehr (Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, OH, USA)
17:10 - 17:20
SCHAD deficiency associated with hyperinsulinism: a novel glucose-fatty acid cycle?
Selected Poster Presentation - Simon Eaton (Institute of Child Health, London, UK)
17:20 - 17:30
Identification of adipocyte glyceroneogenesis as a major target for the hypolipidemic action of thiazolidinediones
Selected Poster Presentation - Bénédicte Antoine (Inserm-Université René Descartes, Paris, France)
17:30 - 17:40
Mechanism of glucose sensing in the small intestine
Selected Poster Presentation - Jane Dyer (Liverpool, UK)
18:00 - 19:30 Welcome Drinks Reception
(must be pre-booked)

19:30 Summer Barbeque
(must be pre-booked)

Biochemical Basis for the Glucose/Fatty Acid Cycle

Thursday 3 July 2003
08:45 - 09:25
Mitochondrial superoxide and aging
Martin Brand (Cambridge, UK)
08:45 - 09:25
Regulation of pyruvate dehydrogenase activity by reversible phosphorylation
Mary Sugden (London, UK)
09:25 - 10:05
SOD activity of prion proteins                
David Brown (Bath, UK)
09:25 - 10:05
Phosphofructokinases-hexokinase
Louis Hue (Brussels, Belguim)
10:10 - 10:50
Clinical aspects of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species biology
Thomas Munzel (Hamburg, Germany)
10:50 - 11:20 Coffee/Tea Break

11:20 - 12:10
Novartis Medal Lecture
Modular proteins at the cell surface
Professor Iain Campbell (Oxford, UK)
12:10 - 13:10 Lunch

13:10 - 13:50
Modulation of the L-arginine-nitric oxide signalling pathway in the vasculature
Giovanni Mann (King's College London, UK)

Physiopathological and New Aspects of the Glucose/Fatty Acid Cycle

Thursday 3 July 2003
08:45 - 09:25
Mitochondrial superoxide and aging
Martin Brand (Cambridge, UK)
09:25 - 10:05
SOD activity of prion proteins                
David Brown (Bath, UK)
10:10 - 10:50
Clinical aspects of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species biology
Thomas Munzel (Hamburg, Germany)
10:10 - 10:50
Fatty acids, insulin resistance and glucose transport
Yannick Le Marchand-Brustel (Nice, France)
10:50 - 11:20 Coffee/Tea Break

11:20 - 12:10
Novartis Medal Lecture
Modular proteins at the cell surface
Professor Iain Campbell (Oxford, UK)
12:10 - 13:10 Lunch

13:10 - 13:50
Modulation of the L-arginine-nitric oxide signalling pathway in the vasculature
Giovanni Mann (King's College London, UK)
13:10 - 13:50
Molecular mechanisms in human insulin resistance
Stephen O'Rahilly (Cambridge, UK)
13:50 - 14:30
Bypassing the glucose fatty acid cycle: AMP-activated protein kinase
David Carling (Imperial College London, UK)
13:50 - 14:30
Biological role of haem oxygenase-1 in response to oxidative and nitrosative stress
Roberto Motterlini (Imperial College London, UK)
14:30 - 15:00 Coffee/Tea Break

15:00 - 15:50
Keilin Memorial Lecture
The molecular machinery of Keilin's respiratory chain
Professor Peter Rich (University College London, UK)
16:00 - 16:40
Extending the glucose-fatty acid cycle: a glucose-adipose tissue cycle
Michèle Guerre-Millo (Paris, France)
16:40 - 17:20
Haem proteins, radicals and oxidative stress
Kevin Moore (Royal Free Hospital London, UK)
16:40 - 16:50
AZD7545, a novel inhibitor of PDHK2, activates PDH in vivo and improves blood glucose control in obese (fa/fa) Zucker rats
Selected Poster Presentation - Rachel Mayers (AstraZeneca, UK)
16:50 - 17:00
AZD7545 is a Selective Inhibitor of Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Kinase2
Selected Poster Presentation - Jenny Morrell (AstraZeneca, UK)
17:30 - 19:00 Drinks and Poster Session

19:30 Meeting Dinner
(must be pre-booked)

Exercise Metabolism: Nutrition, Substrate Utilization and Regulation

Organizers:
Gareth Jones (Essex, UK)
Jeremy Shearman (Essex, UK)
Ralph Beneke (Essex, UK)
Friday 4 July 2003
09:40 - 10:20
Experiment and computer aided simulation as tools to understand exercise metabolism
Ralph Beneke (Essex, UK)
10:20 - 11:00
Nutritional status, metabolic responses to exercise and implications for performance
Ronald Maughan (Aberdeen, UK)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee/Tea Break

11:30 - 12:10
Modulation of carbohydrate and fat utilization by diet, exercise and environment
Asker Jeukendrup (Birmingham, UK)
12:10 - 12:50
Regulation of PDH activity, isoform expression, diet and exercise
Sandra Peters (Brock, Ontario, Canada)
12:50 - 14:15 Lunch and Poster Session

14:15 - 14:55
Insulin signalling, exercise and cellular integrity
John Kirwan (Case Western Reserve, OH, USA)
14:55 - 15:35
The genetics of human physical performance
Hugh Montgomery (Royal Free and University College London, UK)
15:35 - 16:15
Trangenic models- Scientific tool to understand exercise induced metabolism
Jorgen Wojtaszewski (Copenhagen, Denmark)

The Enzymatic Defence against Glycation in Health, Disease and Therapeutics

Organizer:
Paul Thornalley (Essex, UK)
Sponsors:
Cancer Research UK
Baxter Healthcare, USA
Gambro AB, Sweden
Fresenius Medical Care AG, Germany
Dynamis Therapeutics Inc., USA
TransGenic Inc, Japan
GlaxoSmithKline
Chroma Therapeutics, UK
Wednesday 2 July 2003
09:00 - 09:40
Functional plasticity of the protein folds of glyoxalases and glutathione transferases
Bengt Mannervik (Uppsala, Sweden)
09:40 - 10:20
Amadoriase enzymes: structure function studies
Vincent Monnier (Cleveland, OH, USA)
10:20 - 11:00
Fructosamine 3-kinase: an enzyme involved in protein deglycation
Ghislain Delpierre (Louvain, Belgium)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee/Tea Break

11:30 - 12:20
Colworth Medal Lecture
Linking endocytic cargo to clathrin : structural and functional insights into coated vesicle formation
Dr David Owen (CIMR, Cambridge, UK)
12:20 - 14:00 Lunch and Poster Session

14:00 - 14:40
Aldose reductase and the importance of experimental design
James Crabbe (Reading, UK)
14:40 - 15:20
Mechanisms of the development of diabetic complications
Michael Brownlee - sponsored by Woerwag Pharma (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, USA)
15:20 - 15:50 Coffee/Tea Break

15:50 - 16:30
-oxoaldehyde metabolism and diabetic complications
Paul Beisswenger (Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA)
16:30 - 17:10
Therapeutic potential of fructosamine 3-phosphokinase inhibitors
Truman Brown (Dynamis Therapeutics Inc. and Columbia, NY, USA)
17:10 - 17:30
Physiological function of RAGE?
Selected Poster Presentation - Angelika Bierhaus (Heidelberg, Germany)
17:30 - 17:50
Relationship between genetic polymorphism of antioxidant enzyme and diabetic complications
Selected Poster Presentation - Katerina Kankova (Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic)
18:00 - 19:30 Welcome Drinks Reception
(must be pre-booked)

19:30 Summer Barbeque
(must be pre-booked)

Thursday 3 July 2003
08:45 - 09:25
Protecting the genome: defence against nucleotide glycation and emerging role in multidrug resistance in cancer chemotherapy
Paul Thornalley (Essex, UK)
09:25 - 10:05
The Cancer Research Lecture - Glyoxalase I inhibitors in cancer chemotherapy
Don Creighton (Baltimore, MD, USA)
10:10 - 10:50
Intake of exogenous AGEs: glycation in food and metabolic transit
Thomas Henle (Dresden, Germany)
10:50 - 11:20 Coffee/Tea Break

11:20 - 12:10
Novartis Medal Lecture
Modular proteins at the cell surface
Professor Iain Campbell (Oxford, UK)
12:10 - 13:10 Lunch

13:10 - 13:50
Renal clearance of glycation adducts: anti-glycation defence in uraemia and dialysis
Anne Dawnay (University College London Hospitals, UK)
13:50 - 14:10
Glyoxal , oxidative stress and thiamine deficiency induced colon cancer
Selected Poster Presentation - Nandita Shangari (Toronto, ON, Canada)
14:10 - 14:30
Removal of advanced glycation end products in clinical renal failure by peritoneal dialysis and haemodialysis
Selected Poster Presentation - Stamatina Agalou (Essex, UK)
14:30 - 15:00 Coffee/Tea Break

15:00 - 15:50
Keilin Memorial Lecture
The molecular machinery of Keilin's respiratory chain
Professor Peter Rich (University College London, UK)
16:00 - 16:40
Anti-glycation defences in Alzheimer¿s disease
Gerald Munch (Leipzig, Germany)
16:40 - 17:00
The role of glyoxalase-1 inhibition on endothelial cell activation
Selected Poster presentation - Meriem Bourajjaj (Institute for Cardiovascular Research ¿Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.)
17:00 - 17:20
Tissue protein modification by advanced Maillard adducts can be modulated by dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids
Selected Poster Presentation - Manuel Portero-Otin (Lleida, Spain)
17:30 - 19:00 Drinks and Poster Session

19:30 Meeting Dinner
(must be pre-booked)

Friday 4 July 2003
09:40 - 10:20
Methylglyoxal production in bacteria: suicide or survival?
Ian Booth (Aberdeen, UK)
10:20 - 11:00
The anti-glycation defences in yeast
Ana Ponces-Freire (Lisbon, Portugal)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee/Tea Break

11:30 - 12:10
Pyridoxamine inhibits AGE/ALE formation and development of chronic complications in diabetic and obese rats: mechanisms of action of pyridoxamine
John Baynes (South Carolina, SC, USA)
12:10 - 12:50
Application of LC-MS/MS for the quantitation and peptide mapping of glycation, oxidation and nitrosation adducts
Naila Ahmed (Essex, UK)
12:50 - 14:15 Lunch and Poster Session

14:15 - 14:55
Application of monoclonal antibody libraries for the measurement of glycation adducts
Seikoh Horiuchi (Kumamoto, Japan)
14:55 - 15:15
Accumulation of fructosyl-lysine and advanced glycation endproducts in the kidney, retina and peripheral nerve of streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats
Selected Poster Presentation - Nikolaos Karachalias (Essex, UK)
15:15 - 15:35
Proteomic analysis of N-omega-(carboxymethyl)arginine formation in ribonuclease-glyoxal model systems
Selected Poster Presentation - Jennifer Ames (Reading, UK)
15:35 - 16:15
Enzymatic deglycation - a new paradigm or an epiphenomenon?
Ben Szwergold (Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA)

Molecular Mechanisms of Signalling

Pfizer Research Colloquium

Sponsor:
Friday 4 July 2003
08:30 - 09:30
Nitric oxide and cell respiration: physiology and pathophysiology
Salvador Moncada (Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, UK)
09:40 - 10:00
MnSOD overexpression-induced senescence is independent of Nox1 activity
Selected Poster Presentation - Lars Behrend (Ulm, Germany)
10:00 - 10:20
A functional polymorphic variant of DDAH2 in a basal promoter element
Selected Poster Presentation - Cam Thanh Tran (University College London, UK)
10:20 - 10:40
Sprouty-attenuator in RTK signalling pathway
Selected Poster Presentation - Xuan Li (Birmingham, UK)
10:40 - 11:00
Age-related vasomotor dysfunction may be due to altered Akt status in the endothelium
Selected Poster Presentation - Anthony Smith (Linus Pauling Institute, Oregon, USA)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee/Tea Break

11:30 - 11:50
Rapid S-nitrosothiol metabolism by platelets and megakaryocytes
Selected Poster Presentation - Chirag Shah (Westminster, UK)
11:50 - 12:10
Colocalisation of cell surface receptors at high spatial solution by single particle fluorescence imaging
Selected Poster Presentation - Ioannis Karakikes (Essex, UK)