Organizers:
Soraya Shirazi-Beechey (Liverpool, UK)
Johan Thevelein (Leuven, Belgium)
Frank Stolz (Leuven, Belgium)
Timetable
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Arrival and registration
Saturday 25 September 2004
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Nutrient sensing in yeast
Afternoon visit to the village of Bibury
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One
Chair:
Morten Kielland-Brandt (Carlsberg Laboratory, Copenhagen, Denmark)
Glucose receptors and glucose signal transduction in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Mark Johnston (Washington, MO, USA)
Nutrient sensing systems for rapid activation of the Protein Kinase A pathway in yeast
Johan Thevelein (Leuven, Belgium)
Glucose sensing via the PKA pathway in Schizosaccharomyces pombe
Charles Hoffman (Boston, MA, USA)
Poster viewing and mounting
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Two
Chair:
Johan Thevelein (Leuven, Belgium)
Glucose repression in the yeast Hansenula polymorpha is controlled by hexose transporter homologue
Oleh Stasyk (Institute of Cell Biology, Lviv, Ukraine)
Amino acid sensing by Ssy1
Morten Kielland-Brandt (Carlsberg Laboratory, Copenhagen, Denmark)
Glucose sensing through the Hxk2-dependent signalling pathway
Fernando Moreno (Oviedo, Spain)
Poster viewing and mounting
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Nutrient sensing in plants
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One
Chair:
Ian Graham (York, UK)
Sugar sensing and signalling networks in plants
Jenq-Yunn Sheen (Harvard, MA, USA)
Sucrose-specific signalling in plants
Sjef Smeekens (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Trehalose metabolism and glucose sensing in plants
Gabriel Iturriaga (Morelos, Mexico)
Nitrate and glutamate sensing in plant roots
Brian Forde (Lancaster, UK)
Development and use of fluorescent nanosensors for metabolite imaging in living cells
Marcus Fehr (Stanford, CA, USA)
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Two
Chair:
Sjef Smeekens (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
The role of trehalose 6 phosphate synthase in Arabidopsis embryo development
Nitrate and glutamate sensing in plant roots
Brian Forde (Lancaster, UK)
Development and use of fluorescent nanosensors for metabolite imaging in living cells
Marcus Fehr (Stanford, CA, USA)
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Selected poster presentations
The C. albicans G protein-coupled receptor and its Galpha protein CaGpa2 regulate yeast-hypha transition through the cAMP-PKA pathway
Selected poster presentation - Patrick Van Dijck (Leuven, Belgium)
Glucose modulation of cell size in yeast
Selected poster presentation - Marco Vanoni (Milano, Italy)
G-Protein Coupled Sugar Sensing in Arabidopsis Involving a Novel Plastid Protein
Selected poster presentation - Alan Jones (North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
15:40 - 16:00 Coffee/tea break
Phosphate signalling in Arabidopsis
Selected poster presentation - Fan Lai (Edinburgh, UK)
Acquired glucose sensitivity of k-ras transformed fibroblasts
Selected poster presentation - Marco Vanoni (Milano, Italy)
Nutrient sensing in pancreatic beta cells suppresses mitochondrial superoxide generation and its contribution to apoptosis
Selected poster presentation - Geert Martens (Diabetes Research Center, Brussels, Belgium)
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Nutrient sensing in yeast
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Nutrient sensing in plants
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Nutrient sensing in mammalian cells
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Nutrient sensing in mammalian cells
Tuesday 28 September 2004
Poster session and discussion
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One
Chair:
Nada Abumrad (Stony Brook, NY, USA)
Tuesday 28 September 2004
What taste may tell us about gastrointestinal chemosensation
Robert Margolskee (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, NY, USA)
Glucose sensing in the intestinal epithelium
Soraya Shirazi-Beechey (Liverpool, UK)
Glucokinase and glucose homeostasis: a 2004 perspective
Franz Matschinsky (Pennsylvania, PA, USA)
Amino acid sensing in mammalian cells: mechanisms underpinning the regulation of the system A amino acid transporter by amino acid availability
Extracellular calcium-sensing receptors in physiology and disease
Daniela Riccardi (Manchester, UK)
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Two
Chair:
Soraya Shirazi-Beechey (Liverpool, UK)
Tuesday 28 September 2004
Glucose sensing in the intestinal epithelium
Soraya Shirazi-Beechey (Liverpool, UK)
Glucokinase and glucose homeostasis: a 2004 perspective
Franz Matschinsky (Pennsylvania, PA, USA)
Membrane fatty acid transporter and nutrient sensing
Nada Abumrad (Stony Brook, NY, USA)
Amino acid sensing in mammalian cells: mechanisms underpinning the regulation of the system A amino acid transporter by amino acid availability
Extracellular calcium-sensing receptors in physiology and disease
Daniela Riccardi (Manchester, UK)
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