2021 ICDS Meeting Registration

INTERNATIONAL CELL DEATH SOCIETY
&
SOUTH AFRICAN CHAPTER OF ICDS

PRESENT

Virtual meeting: A webinar
Cell Death in 2021 Looking Forward

Date:
 June 7-10 / 2021: 9am-12noon Eastern Daylight Time (GMT-4)

All are welcome, the webinar is free BUT REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED (link to registration page)

The International Cell Death Society welcomes you to join our upcoming virtual meeting.

A very few abstracts will be accepted for presentation. Abstract submission form is part of registration page.

SESSIONS

June 7th — Chair Richard A Lockshin, St. John’s Univ., USA—“Cell death new ideas in therapeutics” 

Speakers:
Patrizia Agostinis, Univ. Leuven, Belgium—“Autophagy, a key player of the tumor-stroma dialogue and responses to inflammation”
Peter Vandenabeele, Univ. Ghent, Belgium—“Ferroptosis in anti-cancer therapy: a good thing or maybe not really?”

Chair: Zahra Zakeri, Queens College of CUNY, USA—“Cell death and Covid-19”

Speakers:
Dror Mevorach, Weizmann Inst., Israel— “Covid-19 therapeutics strategies: Regulating the uncontrolled immune response”
Adolfo García-Sastre, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, USA—“Covid-19 antiviral discovery”

June 8th — Chair Jerry Chipuk, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, USA— “Mitochondrial Control of Regulated Cell Death” 

Speakers:
Hülya Bayir M.D.; Univ. Pittsburgh, USA—”Mitochondrial Oxidized Phospholipid Signaling in Regulated Cell Death”
Pere Puigserver Ph.D.; Dana-Farber Cancer Inst., USA—”Mechanisms of Mitochondrial Bioenergetic Failures and Cell Death”|
Anne Hamacher-Brady, Ph.D.; Johns Hopkins Univ., USA—”Endolysosomes as Determinants of Mitochondrial Cell Death Signaling”
Luca Scorrano, M.D. Ph.D., Univ. Padua, Italy—”Keeping Mitochondria in Shape: A Matter of Life and Death”

June 9th — Chair Sarit Larisch, Univ. Haifa, Israel—”Caspases in Cancer; expected and surprising outcomes”

Speakers:
Philipp Jost, Medical Univ. Graz, Austria and Technical Univ. Munich, Germany—“Cell death and inflammation in myeloid leukemia”
Eli Arama- Weizmann Institute, Israel, “Inhibition of EMT and cell invasion by sub-lethal levels of caspase activity in Drosophila.”
Andreas Bergmann, Univ. Massachusetts Medical School, USA—“Caspase Function in Apoptosis-induced Proliferation”
Dagmar Kulms, University of Dresden, Germany—“Nuclear Caspase-8 promotes progression of p53-proficient tumors.”

 June 10th —Chair Shazib Pervaiz, Univ. Singapore, Singapore—“Glorious uncertainties of Life:  Self-eating and Self-preservation”:

Speakers:
Laura Attardi, Stanford Univ., USA—“Understanding the role of p53-driven cell death in developmental syndromes”
Matthew Davids, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, USA—”Venetoclax resistance in CLL”
Franck Oury, INSERM/Univ. Paris, France—“Autophagy promotes hippocampal functions and prevents aging-associated cognitive decline”
Joan Brugge, Harvard Univ. Medical School, USA—TBA