Conference leaflet

Supported by EC within the framework of the
Marie Curie Conferences and Training Courses
ECDO scientific committee (2007)
Location
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The Conference and Training Course will take place in
the St. Bernardin Resort & Convention Centre,
located on the Slovenian Adriatic Coast between the
towns of Portorož and Piran. The resort is about 150
km away from the Ljubljana airport and about 50 km
from Trieste airport.
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Klaus-Michael Debatin, University Children's
Hospital, Ulm, Germany
Wim Declercq, Department for Molecular
Biomedical Research, Ghent University, Belgium
László
Fésüs,
University
of
Debrecen,
Debrecen, Hungary
Marie-Lise Gougeon, Institut Pasteur, Paris,
France
Marja Jäättelä, Institute for Cancer Biology,
Apoptosis Department, Copenhagen, Denmark)
Peter Krammer, German Cancer Research
Centre, Heidelberg, Germany
Guido Kroemer, Institut Gustave Roussy,
Villejuif, France
Mauro Piacentini, University of Rome “Tor
Vergata”, Rome, Italy
Hans-Uwe Simon, University of Bern, Bern,
Switzerland
Boris Turk, Jozef Stefan Institute, Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Peter
Vandenabeele,
Department
for
Molecular
Biomedical
Research,
Ghent
University, Belgium
Boris Zhivotovsky,
Karolinska
Institutet,
Stockholm, Sweden
At the end of October, the weather at the Slovenian
coast is mild with an average temperature of 16°C.
Local organisation
Boris Turk
J. Stefan Institute
Jamova 39
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
Tel. +386 1 477 3772
Fax. +386 1 477 3984
e-mail: boris.turk@ijs.si
ECDO secretariat
Veronique Vandevoorde
Department for Molecular Biomedical Research
VIB-University of Ghent
Technologiepark 927
B-9052 Ghent (Zwijnaarde)
Belgium
Conference website
http://www.ecdo.eu/portoroz
Tel: +32-(0)9-33-13682
Fax:+32-(0)9-33-13511
e-mail: Veronique.Vandevoorde@dmbr.UGent.be
ecdo@dmbr.ugent.be
http://www.ecdo.eu/
15th Euroconference on Apoptosis
&
4th Training course on ”Concepts and
Methods
in Programmed Cell Death”
Portoroz, Slovenia, October 26-31,
2007
http://www.ecdo.eu/portoroz/
15th Euroconference on Apoptosis
The 15th Euroconference on Apoptosis, organized by
the European Cell Death Organization, will take
place in Portorož, Slovenia, from October 26
(arrival) till October 31 (departure), 2007.
The Conference and Training Course will take place
in the St. Bernardin Resort & Convention
Centre, located on the Slovenian Adriatic Coast
between the towns of Portorož and Piran. The resort
combines a multifunctional convention centre with
three hotels of different categories.
Every year, we welcome about 300 people, from all
over the world. The focus of the conference, the
special attention for the poster presentations and
short oral communications, the common lunches and
social programs create an atmosphere of stimulating
discussions and contacts. Therefore, the ECDO
conferences are considered as one of the best
meetings in the field of cell death research.
Thematic areas
The thematic areas that will be addressed in the
Euroconference are:
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Cell
Cell
Cell
Cell
death
death
death
death
in small model organisms
and autophagy
and cancer
signalling
Special Lectures
Keynote address
Aaron Ciechanover (Haifa, Israel).
ECDO Honoaray Lecture
Marie-Lise Gougeon (Paris, France)
Confirmed Speakers
Eileen White (Piscataway, USA)
Vojo Deretic (Albuquerque, USA)
Beth Levine (Dallas, USA)
Michael Hengartner (Zürich, Switzerland)
Herman Steller (New York, USA)
Pierre Golstein (Marseille, France)
Nektarios Tavernarakis (Heraklion, Greece)
Patrick Mehlen (Lyon, France)
Henning Walczak (Heidelberg, Germany)
Simone Fulda (Ulm, Germany)
Judy Lieberman (Boston, USA)
Guy Salvesen (La Jolla, USA)
Luca Scorrano (Padova, Italy)
Martina Müller-Schilling (Heidelberg, Germany)
Adi Kimchi (Rehovot, Israel)
Michael Lenardo (Bethesda, USA)
Registration and call for abstracts
Participants are asked to preregister and submit their
abstract before June 15, 2007. Registration fees
cover admittance to lectures and poster sessions,
abstract book, welcome reception, coffee breaks and
transport from the Ljubljana or Trieste airport to the
conference venue (and return) on scheduled hours
during the days of arrival (October 26-27) and
departure (October 31) for those participants
reporting their detailed flight schedule via the online
form.
Registration Fee
Full registration ECDO
members
Full registration nonECDO members
Student ECDO members
Student non-ECDO
members
Training Course
Before
August 31
After
August 31
330 euro
380 euro
430 euro
480 euro
280 euro
330 euro
330 euro
380 euro
100 euro
100 euro
ECDO membership offers reduced conference registration fee and
a free online subscription to Apoptosis for 2007. More information
available at the ECDO homepage http://www.ecdo.eu/
4th Training course on 'Concepts and Methods in
Programmed Cell Death'
The 4th Training course on Concepts and Methods in
Programmed Cell Death is organised jointly with the
15th Euroconference on Apoptosis and will also take
place in the St. Bernardin Resort & Convention Centre
on the first day of the conference (Saturday, October
27, 2007).
The aim of the training course is to introduce young
scientists and newcomers in the field, into the current
concepts, methodologies and tools used in the study
of programmed cell death.
The course consists of 6 lectures (60 minutes per
lecture, including discussion time).
Speakers and topics
Klaus-Michael Debatin (Ulm, Germany)
Cell death and treatment of cancer
Lazslo Fesus (Debrecen, Hungary)
Apoptosis and chronic inflammation disease
Roberta Gottlieb (La Jolla, USA)
Cell death and ischemia
Douglas Green (Memphis, USA)
Evolution of cell death program
Gabriel Nunez (Ann Arbor, USA)
Role of inflammasome in fighting against
infection
Hans-Uwe Simon (Bern, Switzerland)
Non-caspase proteases in cell death
Scholarships
Thanks to the European Commission Marie Curie
Actions Programme, scholarships are available for the
15th Euroconference on Apoptosis and/or the 4th
Training course on Concepts and Methods of
Programmed Cell Death. Eligibility guidelines can be
found on the conference website. The ECDO Scientific
Committee will grant the scholarships on the basis of
submitted abstracts and scholarship documents.
Deadline for scholarship application is June 15,
2007.