Conference Program
 
OXIDATIVE STRESS AND DISEASE

March 18-23, 2001
Ventura Beach Marriott
Ventura, CA

Chair:
Simon L. Melov


The organizers would like to thank NINDS and NIA for their generous support of this meeting. We would also like to thank Mitokor and deCode Genetics for their additional support.

Sunday 18th March PM
7:20 pmWelcome and Administrative issues
Session 1.Cellular models of Oxidative stress
Discussion Leader - J. S. Valentine (UCLA)
7:30 pmJ. S. Valentine
"Copper, SOD, and ALS"
8:00 pm J. P. Crow (University of Alabama)
"Role of Zinc and Copper in SOD1-Mediated Toxicity"
8:30 Plenary Lecture:
B. Halliwell (National University of Singapore)
"Adventures with hydrogen peroxide in nutrition and Neuroscience
9:30 pm End of Day 1.
Monday 19th March AM
9:00 am Session 2Oxidative stress and neurodegeneration
Discussion Leader: R.H. Brown (Harvard Medical School)
9:10 amM.F. Beal (Cornell University)
"Oxidative Damage in ALS and HD pathogenesis"
9:40 amM.P. Mattson (National Institute of Aging/Johns Hopkins University)
"Mechanisms of Oxidative Stress-Induced Apoptosis and Excitotoxicity in neurodegenerative Disorders"
10:10-10:30 am Break
10:30 amT.M Dawson (Johns Hopkins University)
"Unraveling of the mechanisms of oxidative stress-induced neurodegeneration"
11:00 amGroup photo
11:30 amD.W. Cleveland (UCSD)
"Toxicity of superoxide dismutase mutants in Lou Gehrig's disease: testing the oxidative hypothesis in neurodegeneration"
12:00 pmShort Talk: Tom O'Halloran:
"Copper Chaperone/SOD1 Interactions in ALS: Roles of Oxidation and Protein Aggregation States."
12:30 pmLunch
Afternoon Free
4-6 pmPoster Session 1, Refreshments sponsored by Mitokor
6-7:30 pmDinner
7:00 pm Session 3Oxidative stress and Apoptosis
Discussion Leader: D. Nicholls (Buck Institute for Age Research)
7:30 pmJ.H.M Prehn (IZKF, Germany)
"Role of Superoxide Production and Caspase Activation in Apoptosis: More than one way to kill a cell"
8:00 pm A. Murphy (Mitokor)
"Probing the Mechanisms of Mitochondrial Reactive Oxygen Species Production and Cytochrome c Release"
8:30 pmD. Nicholls (Buck Institute for Age Research)
"Monitoring mitochondrial membrane potential in dying neurons"
9:00 pmS. Passarella (Molise University, Italy)
"Mitochondria and oxidative stress"
9:30 pmEnd of Day 2.
Tuesday 20th March AM
9:00 am Session 4.Oxidative stress and the Cardiovascular and Pulmonary systems
Discussion Leader - B. A. Freeman (UAB)
9:10 amJ.D. Crapo (National Jewish Medical Research Institute)
"EC-SOD and SOD mimetics in modulating intracellular signaling and oxidative stress"
9:40 am D.S. Warner (Duke University)
"Catalytic Antioxidants and the Injured Brain"
10:10-10:40 am Break
10:40 amJ. Hickman-Davis (UAB)
"Nitric oxide derived reactive species in infectious lung disease: specific mechanisms and consequences"
11:10 J. P. Eiserich (UC Davis)
"Heme peroxidases are bifunctional nitric oxide and nitrite oxidases: Physiologic and pathophysiological implications for nitric oxide signaling"
11:40 pmShort Talk: J. Friedman:
"Pathogenesis and Therapy of Sideroblastic Anemia: Insights from a Murine Model Utilizing SOD2 Deficient Stem Cells."
12:30 pm Lunch
Afternoon Free
4-6 pmPoster Session 2, Refreshments sponsored by deCode Genetics
6-7:30 pmDinner
7:30 pm Session 5Oxidative stress and Alzheimers Disease
Discussion Leader - G. Perry (Case Western Reserve University)
7:30 pm A. I. Bush (Harvard Medical School)
"Abeta oxidation activity in Alzheimer's disease: problem and remedy"
8:00 pmC. Behl (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
"Oxidative stress in Alzheimer's Disease and Neuroprotection - Estrogens as Neuroprotectants"
8:30 pmL.M. Sayre (Case Western Reserve University)
"Protein side-chain oxidation and adduction in oxidative stress"
9 pm G. Perry (Case Western Reserve University)
"Oxidative stress and responses in Alzheimer disease"
9:30 pmEnd of Day 3.
Wednesday 21st March AM
9:00 am Session 6.Oxidative stress and metabolic disease
Discussion Leader - T. Rouault (NICHD)
9:00 amR.E. Fleming (St. Louis University School of Medicine)
"Hepatic Iron Loading: Lessons from a Murine Model of Hereditary Hemochromatosis"
9:30 am A.H. Schapira (Royal Free and University College Medical School, London)
"Mitochondrial respiratory chain defects, oxidative stress and human disease"
10:00 -10:30 am Break
10:30 amT. Rouault (NICHD)
"Misregulation of iron metabolism and neurodegenerative disease in mice that lack iron regulatory protein 2"
11:00 am L Harris (St. Louis Childrens Hospital)
"The role of multi-copper oxidases in disease"
11: 30 am V. Culotta (Johns Hopkins University)
"SOD, oxidative damage and the mitochondria: new insights from yeast"
12:30 pm Lunch
Afternoon Free
4-6 pmPoster Session 3. Refreshments sponsored by Mitokor and deCode Genetics
6-7:30 pmDinner
7:30 pm Session 7. Mouse models of Oxidative stress
Discussion Leader - C. J. Epstein (UCSF)
7:30 pmT.T. Huang (UCSF)
"Differential sensitivity to oxidative stress in MnSOD mutant mice on different genetic backgrounds"
8:00 pmJ. A. Andersen (Buck Institute for Age Research)
"Iron, Glutathione and Parkinson's Disease"
8:30 pmZ. Xu (University of Mass. Medical School)
"Mitochondrial damage is an early step in mutant SOD1-induced motoneuron degeneration in ALS"
9:00 pmM. Gurney (deCode Genetics, Iceland)
"Mutant Cu,Zn SOD, Oxidative Stress and Motor Neuron Disease"
9:30 pm End of Day 4.
Thursday 22nd March AM
9:00 am Session 8.Aging and Oxidative stress
Discussion Leader - J. Tower (USC)
9:00 amJ. Tower (USC)
"Manipulating Drosophila oxidative stress resistance and life span with inducible transgenic systems"
9:30 am J. Phillips (University of Guelph, Canada).
"Anoxic paralysis, membrane channels and lifespan: three faces of reactive oxygen biology in Drosophila"
10:00-10:30 am Break
10:30 am G. R. Lithgow (Buck Institute for Age Research)
"C. elegans ageing and oxidative stress - a mechanistic relationship?"
11:00 am A.R. Richardson (University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio)
"Using Transgenic/Knockout Mice to Study the Oxidative Stress Theory of Aging"
11:30-11:45 am Short talk. C. Clarke
"A Dietary Source of Coenzyme Q is Essential for Growth of Long-lived C. elegans clk-1 Mutants"
11:45-12:00 pm Short talk T. Shirasawa
"Mitochondrial Respiratory Dysfunction in Clk-1/Coq7-deficient Mice"
12:00 -12:30 pmBusiness meeting and election of Vice Chair for 2003 GRC on Oxidative stress and disease
12:30 pm Lunch
Afternoon Free
6-7:30 pmDinner
7:30 pm Session 9 Special Plenary Lecture
Discussion leader - V. Culotta
I. Fridovich (Duke University)
"Cu, Zn SOD: Superoxide Dismutase; Superoxide Reductase; and Bicarbonate Peroxidase"
Session 10. Oxidative stress and Therapeutics
Discussion Leader - A.I. Bush
8:30 pm L.L. Dugan (Washingon University School of Medicine)
"C60 fullerene compounds as Neurotherapeutics"
9:00 pm S.R. Doctrow (Eukarion)
"Salen-Manganese complexes: combined SOD/Catalase mimics with broad pharmacological efficacy"
9:30 pm End of Conference

Last Updated: May 4, 2006