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Events of 2008
Second Woods Hole Symposium
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Events of 2008
Second Woods Hole Symposium
The Fourth International Symposium on Heat Shock Proteins in Biology and Medicine, "HEAT SHOCK PROTEINS IN CANCER AND IMMUNOLOGY" was held at Woods Hole Marine Biology Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA USA, November 3-6, 2008. There were about 85 participants including colleagues who traveled from Australia, Japan, Canada, Brazil, Argentina and Europe. See photos here.
The Sixth International CSSI Workshop in Bangkok, March 25-29, 2008, attracted over 100 scientists including graduate students, postdocs and lab directors. A photo collage from the workshop will be posted soon.
Chulabhorn Research Institute in Bangkok, Thailand
Events of 2007
The response to the 2007 World Conference of Stress set a record for participation in a stress conference with over 1000 registered participants. Go here for more information.
Eötvös Convention Center, Budapest, Hungary.
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.
Events of 2006
The International Symposium on Environmental Factors, Cellular Stress
and Evolution was held at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, October
13-15, 2006. The organizers were Subhash C. Lakhotia, Martin E. Feder and
Sree K. Apte. Stress affects every biological system and environmental stress
factors have been key players in shaping organic evolution. Therefore, there
is a strong need for understanding the roles of stress proteins and stress
responses from an integrative biological perspective. This symposium provided
a common platform for interactions between those studying stress responses
and stress proteins from different viewpoints like evolutionary biology,
ecology, molecular biology or biotechnology. (Sponsored by: International
Union of Biological Sciences, Paris; Cell Stress Society International,
USA; Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi; Indian National Science Academy,
N. Delhi; Prof. S. P. Ray-Chaudhuri Memorial Foundation, Varanasi; and other
funding agencies in India)
Go here for additional images of Varanasi
meeting.
The Fifth International Workshop on the Molecular Biology of Stress Responses was held in Concepción, Chile, March 21-25, 2006 (go here for an overview). The workshop was very successful, attracting over 100 participants from 17 countries. Images of the meeting are presented here, and the workshop photograph of participants is shown below:
Events of 2005
The Second CSSI International Congress on Stress Responses in Biology and Medicine was organized by Professor Dr. Claudina Rodrigues-Pousada and was held September 24-28, 2005, in Tomar Portugal. Approximately 216 participants enjoyed a scientific program that included symposia, workshops and poster sessions. Professor Aaron Ciechanover, the 2004 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, was the keynote speaker.
Professor Aaron Ciechanover launches into his keynote address to the Congress
Professor Ciechanover, session chair Larry Hightower, CSSI President Stuart Calderwood and Congress Chairman Claudina Rodrigues-Pousada assemble for awarding of the CSSI Medallion to Aaron Ciechanover
Session chair Larry Hightower awards the First Alfred Tissières Young Investigator Award to Anton Vila-Sanjurjo while his nominator Professor Claudio Gualerzi looks on approvingly
Chairman Claudina, Anthony Marotta from Stressgen Bioreagents, poster award winner Paivi Ostling from Finland , and President Calderwood. Stressgen Bioreagents generously sponsored three awards for the best posters and the winners were recognized at the congress banquet. The other winners were John den Engelsmann from The Netherlands and Carla Marques from Portugal.
Go here for more photos of the meeting.
We are sad to report that Professor James Lepock died suddenly from a brain aneurysm and cerebral hemorrhage. Jim was a great friend, colleague and collaborator to many of us. He was one of the founding members of CSSI. His passing is a great and premature loss. Jim's family has indicated that those who so wish can make donations in Jim's memory to the Canadian Cancer Society (20 Holly St. Suite 101, Toronto, Ontario, M4S 3B1) or the American Cancer Society (P.O. Box 102454, Atlanta, Georgia, 30368-2454).
Photo: Jim and friends chatting during the social at the 2003 CSSI meeting in Québec
Events of 2004
The Fourth International Workshop on the Molecular Biology of Stress Responses was held in Wuhan and Yichang, P.R. China, May 13-16., 2004. The workshop organized by Professors Tangchun Wu (Tongji Medical College), Lawrence E. Hightower (University of Connecticut) and Robert M. Tanguay (Université Laval) attracted around 100 scientists mainly from different regions of China but also from Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the USA. Many of the international scientists participating in the workshop arrived a day or two before the meeting and were treated to tours of the Yellow Crane Tower and the Hubei Provincial Museum in Wuhan.
By all accounts the workshop was very successful both scientifically and socially. See additional photos assembled by Professor Tanguay here. A meeting report and the abstracts provided by the participants will be included in issue 9(3) of Cell Stress & Chaperones.
Events of 2003
The inaugural meeting of the Society entitled the First International Congress on Stress Responses in Biology and Medicine was held at Mount St. Anne near Québec City in September of 2003. The meeting drew 357 participants from around the world and featured 40 plenary speakers, 16 workshops, and over 100 posters:
The keynote address was delivered by Professor Susan Lindquist, Director of the Whitehead Institute at MIT. Susan was honored for her pioneering studies of the regulation of the heat shock response in Drosophila and for her more recent but equally pioneering work on yeast prions. Susan is the second recipient of the CSSI Medallion, awarded to recognize both scientific accomplishment and contributions to international scientific cooperation:
We are sad to pass along the news that Alfred Tissières, a pioneering figure in the heat shock field, a good friend to many who followed in his footsteps, and a fine gentleman, died on Saturday, June 7, in Geneva.
Events of 2002
President Robert Tanguay convenes 2002 CSSI Council Meeting during Cold Spring Harbor Heat Shock Meeting, May 4, 2002.
Plans for the 2003 Québec Meeting were discussed along with new journal initiatives for Cell Stress & Chaperones including all-electronic manuscript submission, review and tracking, and a new rapidly published PDF version.
(pictured are Larry Hightower, EIC of Cell Stress & Chaperones, President Robert Tanguay and Secretary/Treasurer Linda Hendershot)
Events of 2001
Images from the Third International Workshop on Molecular Biology of Stress Responses, Mendoza, Argentina, October, 2001, attended by colleagues from thirteen countries.
CSSI President Richard Morimoto has founded a new Gordon Research Conference entitled "Stress-Induced Gene Expression. The inaugural meeting was held at Connecticut College, July 8-13, 2001. The approximately 135 participants were treated to an excellent menu of talks and posters. As judged by images from the conference posted here, the meeting was very enjoyable.
President Morimoto and President-elect Robert Tanguay, pictured here, share a light moment during the conference. The CSSI sent an enthusiastic letter to the GRC in support of Rick's effort to start this new conference. One of the stated aims of the Cell Stress Society International is to promote the organization of conferences on stress response research.
Photo credit: Larry Hightower
Immediate Past President Larry Hightower presents CSSI President Takashi Yura with the first Society Medallion awarded for career achievement. The occasion was a meeting entitled "Regulation and Function of Heat Shock Proteins" held at the Banbury Center, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2-3 May 2000. The meeting marked Takashi's second retirement, this time from the HSP Research Institute in Kyoto, Japan. A certificate of achievement accompanied the medallion. The participants presented talks noting Takashi's influence on their careers.
Symposium Chairman Stuart Calderwood opens the International Symposium on Heat Shock Proteins in Biology and Medicine held at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. The progress in medical applications of stress proteins, cytoprotection and the clinical use of hyperthermia reported at the meeting was impressive. The CSSI produced the Abstract/Program booklet for this conference and the proceedings of the conference along with the abstracts are published in the November issue 5(5) of Cell Stress & Chaperones. The approximately 100 participants enjoyed a tour of the Marine Resources Center at MBL and danced to Latin and African rhythms at the social. (Click here to see images from the meeting).
Conference organizer Pramod Srivastava addresses the approximately 200 participants at the Second International Conference on Heat Shock Proteins in Immune Response. Approximately 80% of the participants of the first conference returned to Farmington, Connecticut for a very successful second conference that featured new information on stress proteins as modulators of immune functions. Encouraging results of human trials with cancer vaccines based on peptide-bound chaperones were presented. The meeting abstracts have been published in the October issue of Cell Stress & Chaperones. (click here to see images from the meeting)
IN MEMORIAM
David Antony Walsh [1945 - 2000]
David with the Bushfire print, the logo of the 5th IFTS Scientific Conference, which he organized in Sydney in 1997.
David's family and colleagues have set up the David Walsh Memorial Fund at the University of New South Wales to help fund a research student each year to continue David's research interests. The address is:
The David Walsh Memorial Fund,
c/o Lorraine Brooks,
School of Anatomy,
The University of New South Wales,
Sydney 2052, NSW, Australia
Events of 1999
CSSI Councilor Robert Tanguay receives the Chimes Bell Award from the Governor of Hubei Province, P.R. China for his work with Tangchun Wu and colleagues at Tongji Medical University.
These studies were published in part in Cell Stress & Chaperones journal [vol. 3 (3), p. 161].
The first business meeting of our society was held during the 2nd International Workshop on the Molecular Biology of Stress Response, October 15-18, 1999, Tongji Medical University, Wuhan , PR China. (Minutes of the meeting)
To commemorate this historic occasion, the CSSI Commemorative Medallion and a certificate were presented to Dr. Hong Guangxiang, Chairman of the Organizing Committee and President of Tongji Medical University.
Professor Hong accepts award from CSSI President Larry Hightower on behalf of the organizers and participants in the Wuhan Workshop
photo courtesy of Andrei Laszlo
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