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Irish Area Section Meeting: Cellular Stress Responses and Cancer

4—5 July 2002

National University of Ireland, Galway



Timetable

Thursday 4 July 2002Friday 5 July 2002
09:00 - 17:30
Predoctoral Day

18:15 - 00:00
Cellular Stress Responses and Cancer

09:00 - 17:20
Cellular Stress Responses and Cancer


Predoctoral Day

Organizer:
David T Croke (RCSI, Dublin, Ireland)
Sponsors:
LABPLAN- Science Support Solutions
Kinetic Imaging Limited

Predoctoral day (morning)

Thursday 4 July 2002
09:00 - 09:30
Isoprenylation of the prostacyclin receptor: implications for intracellular signalling
Sarah O' Meara (University College Dublin, Ireland)
09:30 - 10:00
Targetting Listeria Monocytogenes
Stephen Hearty (Dublin City University, Ireland)
10:00 - 10:30
Investigation of EGF-EGFR interactions using phage display
Michael Mullin (Queen¿s University, Belfast, Ireland)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee and posters

11:00 - 11:30
Factors affecting mitochondrial efficiency
Oliver Joyce (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
11:30 - 12:00
Paul O¿Sullivan (University College Cork, Ireland)
12:00 - 12:30
Mitochondrial disruption in differentiated HL-60 cell apoptosis
Belinda Doyle (University College Dublin, Ireland)

Royal Irish Academy Medal Lecture

Thursday 4 July 2002
12:30 - 13:30
Antibodies: key components of natural and artificial sensing and detection systems
Richard O'Kennedy (Dublin City University, Ireland)

Predoctoral day (afternoon)

Thursday 4 July 2002
14:30 - 15:00
Phosphorylation of protein kinase C in T lymphocytes
Michael Freeley (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland)
15:00 - 15:30
The molecular genetics of xylanase production in Talaromyces emersonii
Jerry Reen (National University of Ireland Galway)
15:30 - 16:00
Carbon-phosphorous bond cleavage by phosphoenolpyruvate hydrolase
Mandy Houston (Queen¿s University, Belfast, Ireland)
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee and posters

16:30 - 17:00
The expression of annexin II in myeloid leukaemia
Shane Olwill (University of Ulster, Ireland)
17:00 - 17:30
The mechanisms of adjuvant activity of bacterial AB toxins
Olive Leavy (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
17:30 Reception, IT Foyer

Cellular Stress Responses and Cancer

Organizers:
Michael P Carty (NUI, Galway, Ireland)
Noel Lowndes (NUI, Galway, Ireland)
Thursday 4 July 2002
18:15
DNA repair pathways
Guest Lecturer - Tomas Lindahl (ICRF)
Friday 5 July 2002
09:00 - 09:40
Sensing and responding to DNA damage
Noel Lowndes (NUI, Galway, Ireland)
09:40 - 10:20
Detection, signalling and repair of DNA damage.
Steve Jackson (Cambridge, UK)
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee and posters

10:50 - 11:30
S-phase checkpoints
Marco Foiani (Instituto di Oncologica Molecolare, Milan, Italy)
11:30 - 12:10
UV-Induced, ATM-Dependent Phosphorylation of RPA: Signal Induction and Biochemical Consequences
Kathleen Dixon (Cincinnati, USA)
12:10 - 12:50
Mammalian DNA Single Strand Break Repair
Keith Caldecott (Sussex, UK)
12:50 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 14:40
The RAD30 cancer susceptibility gene
Michael Carty (NUI, Galway, Ireland)
14:40 - 15:20
Role played by BRCA-1 in regulating the cellular response to stress
Paul Harkin (Queens, Belfast, Ireland)
15:20 - 16:00 Coffee and posters

16:00 - 16:40
Sister chromatid cohesion and genome stability in vertebrate cells
Ciaran Morrison (Edinburgh, UK)
16:40 - 17:20
Human proteins regulating DNA replication initiation
Corrado Santocanale (Pharmacia, Nerviano, Italy)