Cell Stress Society International
Registration for the Fourth International Symposium on Heat Shock Proteins
in Biology and Medicine is now open. See the list of invited speakers and
the program here. In order to register by
either fax or email, see the instructions here.
Send abstracts (deadline, October 14) directly to Stuart Calderwood at
scalderw@bidmc.harvard.edu
Invitation from the Organizers
IVth International Symposium on Heat Shock Proteins in Biology
and Medicine
"HEAT SHOCK PROTEINS IN CANCER AND IMMUNOLOGY"
Woods Hole Marine Biology Laboratory
Woods Hole, MA USA
November 3-6, 2008
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to draw your attention to the IVth International Symposium
on Heat Shock Proteins in Biology and Medicine. The meeting will
take place at the Woods Hole Marine Biology Laboratory (MBL), November 3-6,
2008.
The primary focus of the meeting will be the role of heat shock proteins
in cancer, and the immune and inflammatory responses.
The Keynote Speaker will be Susan Lindquist (Whitehead Institute). Other
featured speakers will be Daniel Ciocca (Argentina), Carmen Garrido (France),
Fred Goldberg (USA), Marja Jäättelä (Denmark), Cam Patterson
(USA), Pramod Srivastava (USA), Noriyuki Sato (Japan), Paul Workman (UK),
and many more. This will be small intimate meeting devoted to pathophysiological
functions of the HSP family.
Woods Hole is a small fishing Village on Cape Cod in Massachusetts that
houses the world famous Marine Biology Laboratory as well as the
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. The MBL has a long and illustrious
history in discoveries both in marine biology and cell biology in general
and offers a unique environment for scientific discussion.
Sincerely
Stuart K. Calderwood, Ph.D., Larry Hightower, Ph.D., Alexzander Asea,
Ph.D
Preliminary Announcement of the Fourth International Congress on Stress
Responses in Biology and Medicine, Sapporo, Japan, sponsored by the CSSI
October 6-9, 2009
Chairman: Noriyuki Sato, MD, Ph.D.
Check the meeting website
for updates
Society News
The Third International Congress in Budapest was a great success, thanks
primarily to the vision and efforts of Chairman Peter Csermely and the
local organization that he assembled. Peter is shown below receiving a
certificate of appreciation from the CSSI Council during the meeting:
The CSSI table at the Congress was the setting for much visiting and
activity as shown here.
Emeritus Professor R. John Ellis FRS receiving the CSSI Medallion for
2007 from Professor Saskia van der Vies, representing the CSSI Council.
John is an accomplished landscape photographer as well as a pioneer in
chaperonin research. Go here to view
two examples.
Speakers' table at the opening ceremony of the Budapest Congress: (L
to R) Katalin Sulyok, Managing President of the Hungarian Research Student
Association; Lawrence Hightower, Founding President of the CSSI; Sylvester
Vizi, President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; László
Sólyom, President of the Republic of Hungary; Ferene Hudecz, Rector
of Eötvös Loránd University; Péter Csermely, Chairman
of the Congress; Tamás Korcsmaros, Secretary of the Organizing Committee.
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