Conference Program
 
OXIDATIVE STRESS AND DISEASE

March 16-21, 2003
Ventura Beach Marriott
Ventura, CA

Chair:
Valeria Culotta

Vice Chair:
Mark Gurney

SUNDAY
2:00 - 9:00Arrival and Check-in
6:00Dinner
7:30-7:35Welcoming remarks:
Chair, Val Culotta
7:35-9:30Oxidative Stress and Aging I
Discussion Leader - Bruce Freeman (U. Alabama at Birmingham, USA)
7:35 - 7:50Introduction to session: Bruce Freeman
7:50 - 8:30Bruce Ames (U. California Berkeley, USA)
"Delaying the mitochondrial decay of aging"
8:30 - 8:40 Discussion
8:40 - 9:20Earl Stadtman (NIH, USA)
"Methionine sulfoxide reductase as a genetic determinant of aging"
9:20 - 9:30 Discussion
9:30 - 11:00Chair's Reception
MONDAY
7:30 - 8:30Breakfast
9:00 - 12:30 Oxidative Stress and Aging II
Discussion Leader - Cynthia Kenyon (U. California San Francisco, USA)
9:00 - 9:15 Introduction to session: Cynthia Kenyon
9:15 - 9:40Leonard Guarente (MIT, Boston, USA)
"Sir2, oxidative Damage and aging"
9:40 - 9:50Discussion
9:50 - 10:15 Catherine Clarke (U. California, Los Angeles, USA)
"Co-enzyme Q and life span in C. elegans"
10:15 - 10:25 Discussion
10:25 - 10:50Siegried Hekimi (McGill University, Montreal, Canada)
"Molecular mechanism of action of mutations in the clk-1 gene of C. elegans"
11:50 - 11:00 Discussion
11:00 - 11:35 Coffee Break and Group Photo
11:35 - 12:00Toshinori Hoshi (U. Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)
"Methionine oxidation in regulation of aging and neuronal excitability"
12:00 - 12:10 Discussion
12:10 - 12:30Shawn Flanagan (U. Iowa, USA)
"Cytoprotective role of the copper chaperone in a mutant SOD1-model of ALS"
12:30Lunch
4:00 - 6:00 PM Poster session
6:00Dinner
7:30 - 9:30 Mitochondria and oxidative damage
Discussion Leader - Douglas Wallace (U. California, Irvine, USA)
7:30 - 7:45 Introduction to session: Douglas Wallace
7:45 - 8:10 Martin Brand (MRC, Cambridge, UK)
"Effect of superoxide on mitochondrial uncoupling proteins"
8:10 - 8:20Discussion
8:20 - 8:45 Valina Dawson (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA)
"Nuclear-Mitochondrial Cross-Talk in Experimental Stroke and Parkinson's disease"
8:45 - 8:55Discussion
8:55 - 9:20William Woodruff (Los Alamos Natl Lab, USA)
"The Scale of Things: Allometric Scaling in Bioenergetics and Related Processes"
9:20 - 9:30Discussion
TUESDAY
7:30 - 8:30Breakfast
9:00 - 12:30Reactive oxygen and pathogenecity
Discussion leader - Jim Imlay (U. Illinois, Urbana, USA)
9:00 - 9:15 Introduction to session: Jim Imlay
9:15 - 9:40Ferric Fang (U. Washington, Seattle, USA)
"Pumping Iron by FieA: A New Twist in Bacterial Iron Metabolism and Susceptibility to Reactive Oxygen Species"
9:40 - 9:50 Discussion
9:50 - 10:15Carl Nathan (Cornell U., New York, USA)
"Targeting Bacterial Defenses Against Oxidative Stress"
10:15 - 10:25 Discussion
10:25 - 10:55Coffee Break
10:55 - 11:20Mary Dinauer (Indiana U., Indianapolis, USA)
"Role of NADPH oxidase in host defense and inflammation"
11:20 - 11:30 Discussion
11:30 - 11:55Anthony Segal (Centre Mol. Med, London, UK)
"A brand new model for how reactive oxygen kills microbes"
11:55 - 12:05 Discussion
12:05 - 12:30Colette Dooley (U. California, San Diego, USA)
"Imaging redox changes in mammalian cells using green fluorescent protein sensors"
12:30Lunch
4:00 - 6:00 PMPoster session
6:00Dinner
7:30 - 9:30 Therapeutic approaches
Discussion Leader - Manisha Patel (National Jewish Medical & Research Center, Denver, USA)
7:30 - 7:45 Introduction to session: Manisha Patel
7:45 - 8:10 Simon Melov (Buck Institute, San Francisco, USA)
"Pharmacogenomic intervention of aging in mice"
8:10 - 8:20 Discussion
8:20 - 8:45Jay Groves (Princeton U., USA)
Metalloporphyrins as Peroxynitrite Decomposition Catalysts: Mechanisms and Applications
8:45 - 8:55Discussion
8:55 - 9:20Daniela Salvemini
"SOD mimetics as effective therapeutic agents"
9:20 - 9:30Discussion
WEDNESDAY
7:30 - 8:30Breakfast
9:00 - 12:30Diseases of heavy metal overload
Discussion Leader - Tracey Rouault (NIH, Bethesda, USA)
9:00 - 9:15 Introduction to session: Tracey Rouault
9:15 - 9:40 Jonathan Gitlin (Washington U., St. Louis, USA)
"Wilson Disease and hepatic copper toxicity"
9:40 - 9:50Discussion
9:50 - 10:15 Jerry Kaplan (U. Utah, Salt Lake City, USA)
"Genetic analysis of iron mediated damage in yeast"
10:15 - 10:25 Discussion
10:25 - 10:55 Coffee Break
10:55 - 11:20 William Sly (St. Louis U., USA)
"Hereditary haemochromatosis and iron overload syndromes"
11:20 - 11:30 Discussion
11:30 - 11:55John Burn (Institute of Human Genetics, Newcastle, UK)
"Neuroferritinopathy and iron-mediated damage"
11:55 - 12:05 Discussion
12:05 - 12:30Elizabeth C. Theil (CHORI, Oakland, USA)
"Effects of transfusional iron on ferritin expression in sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia"
12:30Lunch
4:00 - 6:00 PM Poster Session
6:00Dinner
7:30 - 7:50 Business meeting
7:50 - 9:30 Nrf2 and oxidative stress signaling
Discussion Leader - Kelvin Davies (U. Southern California, USA)
7:50 - 8:05 Introduction to session: Kelvin Davies
8:05 - 8:40 Paul Talalay (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA)
"Protection against oxidative stress by phase 2 gene induction"
8:40 - 8:55 Discussion
8:55 - 9:20 Jeff Johnson (U. Wisconsin, Madison, USA)
"The spectrum of the Nrf2 stress response"
9:20 - 9:30 Discussion
THURSDAY
7:30 - 8:30Breakfast
9:00 - 12:30Neurodegenerative Disorders and Oxidative damage
Discussion leader - Mark Gurney (DeCode Genetics, Iceland)
9:00 - 9:15 Introduction to session: Mark Gurney
9:15 - 9:40 Flint Beal (Cornell U., New York, USA)
"Markers of oxidative stress in neurodegeneration"
9:40 - 9:50 Discussion
9:50 - 10:15Greg Cole (VA Medical Center/UCLA, Los Angeles, USA)
"Antioxidant Approaches for the Prevention or Treatment of Alzheimer's"
10:15 - 10:25 Discussion
10:25 - 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:10Dave Borchelt (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA)
"Copper-null SOD1 and Motor Neuron Disease"
11:10 - 11:20 Discussion
11:20 - 11:45Li-Huei Tsai (Harvard U., Boston, USA)
"Dysregulation of Cdk5 and neurotoxicity"
11:45 - 11:55 Discussion
11:55 12:200Ashley Bush (Mass General Hospital, Boston, USA)
"The metallobiology of neurodegeneration: Alzheimer's disease, ALS and cataracts"
12:20 - 12:30 Discussion
12:30Lunch
4:00 - 6:00 PM Poster session
6:00Dinner
7:30 - 9:30 Oxidative stress and cancer
Discussion Leader - Joan Valentine (U. California, Los Angeles, USA)
7:30 - 7:45 Introduction to session: Joan Valentine
7:45 - 8:10Ting Ting Huang (U. California, San Francisco, USA)
"High frequency of tumor formation in SOD1 knock out mice"
8:10 - 8:20Discussion
8:20 - 8:45 Lee Ann MacMillan-Crow (U. Alabama, Birmingham, USA)
"Peroxynitrite, MnSOD, and Pancreatic Cancer"
8:45 - 8:55 Discussion
8:55 - 9:20Larry Oberley (U. Iowa, USA)
"Antioxidant Proteins and Cancer"
9:20 - 9:30 Discussion
FRIDAY
7:30 - 8:30Breakfast
9:00Departure

Last Updated: May 4, 2006