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4th Intracellular proteolysis meeting
Ubiquitin-proteasome system, dynamics and targeting

27—29 May 2009

Barcelona, Spain



Organizers:
Timothy Thomson (IBMB-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain)
Bernat Crosas (IBMB-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain)
Gemma Marfany (University of Barcelona, Spain)
Rosa Farràs (Prince Felipe Research Centre (CIPF), Spain)
Manuel Rodríguez (CICbioGUNE–CIBERhed, Spain)

Timetable

Wednesday 27 May 2009Thursday 28 May 2009Friday 29 May 2009
09:15 - 13:10
Session I: Mechanisms of specificity regulating the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System

15:00 - 18:30
Session II: SUMO-regulated processes

09:00 - 13:10
Session III: Ubiquitin and the cell cycle

15:00 - 18:35
Session IV: Ubiquitin and DNA damage repair

09:00 - 12:55
Session V: Drug discovery in UPS

17:25 - 19:30
Session VI: Ubiquitin and UBL in intracellular traffic


Session I: Mechanisms of specificity regulating the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System

Chair:
Alfred Vertegaal (Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands)
Wednesday 27 May 2009
08:00 - 09:00 Registration

09:00 - 09:15 Welcome and introduction from the organizers

09:15 - 09:50
Chaperone-mediated assembly of the proteasome RP
Daniel Finley (Harvard Medical School, USA)
09:50 - 10:25
Regulation of gate opening into the 20S proteasome
Alfred Goldberg (Harvard Medical School, USA)
10:25 - 10:45
Regulation of the ubiquitin receptor Rpn10 by monoubiquitination
Bernat Crosas (IBMB-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain)
10:45 - 11:05
The assembly pathway of the 19S regulatory particle of the proteasome
Anne Peyroche (Institute of Biology Technologies, France)
11:05 - 11:30 Coffee/tea break

11:30 - 11:50
Chaperone-assisted assembly of the proteasome core particle
Juergen Dohmen (University of Cologne, Germany)
11:50 - 12:10
A family of ubiquitin conjugating enzymes involved in plant cell death regulation senses oxidative signals
Karolin Eifler (University of Vienna, Austria)
12:10 - 12:30
The UBA-UIM domains of USP25 regulate the enzyme ubiquitination state and modulate substrate recognition
Gemma Marfany (University of Barcelona, Spain)
12:30 - 12:50
Differential Ufd2-binding properties of budding yeast UBL-UBA proteins Rad23 and Dsk2 adds up to their functional diversity
Shahri Raasi (University of Konstanz, Germany)
12:50 - 13:10
Versatile use of Tandem Ubiquitin Binding Entities (TUBEs) for the functional characterisation of ubiquitin-regulated macromolecular complexes
Fabienne Aillet (CICbioGUNE–CIBERhed, Spain)
13:10 - 15:00 Lunch

Session II: SUMO-regulated processes

Chair:
Bernat Crosas (IBMB-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain)
Wednesday 27 May 2009
15:00 - 15:35
Control of promyelocytic leukaemia protein metabolism by SUMO
Ron Hay (University of Dundee, UK)
15:35 - 16:10
Two functionally non-equivalent Ubc9 molecules in the RanBP2 SUMO E2/E3 ligase
Frauke Melchior (University of Göttingen, Germany)
16:10 - 16:30
Crosstalk between SUMO-2/3 and the ubiquitin-proteasome system
Alfred Vertegaal (Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands)
16:30 - 16:50
SIRT1 stabilizes PML through sumoylation and protects against viral infection
Michela Campagna (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)
16:50 - 17:15 Coffee/tea break

17:15 - 17:35
Sumoylation modulates Spalt activity
Rosa Barrio (CICbioGUNE, Spain)
17:35 - 17:55
SUMO activation as a regulatory step in the conjugation cascade
Maria Lois (University of Barcelona, Spain)
17:55 - 18:30
Double-strand break repair: chromosome behaviour and regulation by SUMO
Stefan Jentsch (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany)
18:30 - 21:00 Poster session 1 and welcome cocktails reception

Session III: Ubiquitin and the cell cycle

Chair:
Olivier Coux (CRBM-CNRS, Montpellier, France)
Thursday 28 May 2009
09:00 - 09:35
Genetic and proteomic analysis of the ubiquitin system
Wade Harper (Harvard Medical School, USA)
09:35 - 10:10
Chaining ubiquitin to the spindle
Michael Rape (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
10:10 - 10:30
Control of mammalian development and cell proliferation by the Anaphase Promoting Complex (APC/C) ubiquitin ligase
Marcos Malumbres (Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO) Madrid, Spain)
10:30 - 10:50
Roles for Cks in APC/C-Cdc20-dependent destruction of cyclin A and cyclin B1
Rob Wolthuis (The Netherlands Cancer Institute, The Netherlands)
10:50 - 11:15 Coffee/tea break

11:15 - 11:35
Protection by protein binding - a novel mechanism for synchronized degradation
Michael Brandeis (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
11:35 - 11:55
Degradation of cyclin A is regulated by acetylation
Miriam Vidal-Laliena (University of Barcelona, Spain)
11:55 - 12:15
Regulation of Aurora kinase B by the lipid raft protein Flotillin-1
Rosanna Paciucci (Institut de Recerca Hospital Vall d’Hebrón Barcelona, Spain)
12:15 - 12:35
MPF and MAPK are required for inhibiting premature destruction of securin by APC/Cdh1 in mouse oocytes
Ibtissem Nabti (University College London, UK)
12:35 - 13:10
Beta-TrCP- and Rsk1/2-mediated degradation of BimEL inhibits apoptosis
Michele Pagano (New York University School of Medicine, USA)
13:10 - 15:00 Lunch

Session IV: Ubiquitin and DNA damage repair

Chair:
Gemma Marfany (University of Barcelona, Spain)
Thursday 28 May 2009
15:00 - 15:35
RNF8 and RNF168 define orchestrate the response to DNA double-strand breaks
Dan Durocher (University of Toronto, Canada)
15:35 - 15:55
The role of ubiquitination in DNA damage response: proteomic analysis to identify new DNA-damage induced ubiquitinated proteins
Jogitha Selvarajah (St George’s University of London, UK)
15:55 - 16:15
The Gid-E3 and Cdc48 machines are central components in ubiquitin-proteasome triggered regulation of carbohydrate metabolism in yeast
Lise Barbin (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
16:15 - 16:35
BRCA1 activity is regulated by the SUMO modification pathway in response to genotoxic stress
Jo Morris (King’s College London, UK)
16:35 - 17:00 Coffee/tea break

17:00 - 17:20
Cross-talks between ubiquitylation and acetylation in the regulation of p53
Olivier Coux (CRBM-CNRS, Montpellier, France)
17:20 - 17:40
Control of PCNA deubiquitylation in yeast
Avelino Bueno (University of Salamanca-CSIC, Spain)
17:40 - 18:00
REV7-mediated polyubiquitination and degradation of human REV1
Abel Chun (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
18:00 - 18:35
Ubiquitylation in DNA damage signalling, checkpoint control, and relevance to cancer
Jiri Bartek (Danish Cancer Society, Denmark)
18:35 - 21:00 Poster session 2

Session V: Drug discovery in UPS

Chair:
Alfred Goldberg (Harvard Medical School, USA)
Friday 29 May 2009
09:00 - 09:35
Chemistry of ubiquitination, proteolysis and antigen presentation
Huib Ovaa (Netherlands Cancer Institute, The Netherlands)
09:35 - 09:55
A genome-wide siRNA screen for modulators of bortezomib-induced cell death
Eric Lightcap (Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Cambridge, USA)
09:55 - 10:15
Development of a high-throughput assay to profile proteasome inhibition and activation in live cells
Celia Berkers (Netherlands Cancer Institute, The Netherlands)
10:15 - 10:35
Observations and insights into the mechanisms of Ub and Ubl activating enzymes
James Gavin (Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company, USA)
10:35 - 10:55
Discovery of novel proteasome inhibitors, using a high-content cell-based screening system
Irena Lavelin (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
10:55 - 11:20 Coffee/tea break

11:20 - 11:40
A comprehensive approach for detecting inhibitors of the therapeutic target USP7
Seth Goldenberg (Progenra, Inc, Malvern, USA)
11:40 - 12:00
Recent progress towards the identification of selective inhibitors of ubiquitin specific proteases
Frédéric Colland (Hybrigenics Pharma, Paris, France)
12:00 - 12:20
Live imaging and quantification of proteasome activity in C. elegans
Olli Matilainen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
12:20 - 12:55
Targeting ubiquitin networks
Ivan Dikic (Goethe University Medical School, Germany)
12:55 - 15:00 Lunch

Session VI: Ubiquitin and UBL in intracellular traffic

Chair:
Timothy Thomson (IBMB-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain)
Friday 29 May 2009
15:00 - 17:25 Poster session 3

17:25 - 18:00
How ubiquitin controls EGFR endocytosis and fate
Sara Sigismund (The FIRC Institute for Molecular Oncology, Italy)
18:00 - 18:20
A late domain-based pathway plays a key role during virus entry
Harald Wodrich (University of Bordeaux 2, France)
18:20 - 18:40
Parkin-mediated K63-linked polyubiquitination targets misfolded proteins to the aggresome-autophagy pathway
Lih-Shen Chin (Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA)
18:40 - 19:00
The novel Alzheimer's disease-associated protein ubiquilin-1 regulates presenilin-1 aggregation and formation of aggresomes
Annakaisa Haapasalo (University of Kuopio, Finland)
19:00 - 19:20
COP9 signalosome controls signal functions in the NF-kB system
Katrin Schweitzer (Otto von Guericke University, Germany)
19:20 - 19:30
Conclusions and farewell remarks
Manuel Rodríguez (CICbioGUNE–CIBERhed, Spain)
21:00 Gala Dinner