Cell Stress Society International
Scientific Program of the Bangkok Workshop
Scientific Program of the Bangkok Workshop
We have an exciting program scheduled for this year's workshop that
includes presentations of cutting-edge research findings dealing with
both prokaryotic and eukaryotic stress responses. This year the scope of
the scientific research covered has been considerably broadened to
include investigations into the underlying mechanisms and cellular
responses to stresses such as: pH, nitrosative and oxidative stress,
although the effects and cellular responses to heat stress are still a
major theme.
In general, research work in areas related to stresses such as heat, pH,
nitrosative and oxidative stress are suitable for presentation in the
workshop. The following topics are a few examples of scientific areas
which will be covered in the workshop.
1. Microbial stress response:
1.1 The molecular mechanisms governing the
biochemical processes, genetics and physiological response to stresses.
1.2 The ability of microbes to sense and respond to these stresses in
the environment and during their interactions with host organisms. 1.3
Stress responses during microbial pathogenesis and their role in virulence.
2. Plant stress responses:
plants possess many interesting stress
response strategies. 2.1 Physiology and genetics of the plant stress
response and. 2.2 Molecular mechanisms governing plant stress responses.
3. Eukaryotic stress responses:
3.1 Regulation of gene expression in
response to stresses. 3.2 The molecular mechanisms and physiological
functions of various stress proteins.
4. Stresses and Medicine:
4.1 The role of stress proteins in diseases,
diagnosis and treatments: 4.2 Stress proteins as future therapeutic
agents and as disease markers
5. Novel methods and tools for investigating stress responses in
prokaryotes, eukaryotes and human health and diseases.
*Stresses in Prokaryotes *
1 Costa Georgopoulos, (Switzerland) "/Escherichia coli/ Chaperone
Machines and Bacteriophage Growth"
2 Wolfgang Schumann (Germany) "Regulation by Degradation: The Sigma-W
Regulon of /Bacillus subtilis/
3 Tom Ferenci(Australia) "What Evolutionary Pressures Affect the
Stress-Resistance Capabilities of Bacteria?
4 Bernd Bukau (Germany) "Mechanism of Chaperone-Assisted Protein
Disaggregation
5 Ma Mar Tav'io P'erez (Portugal) "Quorum Sensing Systems and Multiple
Antimicrobial Resistance"
6 Regine Hengge (Germany) "Cyclic-di-GMP Signaling in Bacterial
"Life-Style" Switching
7 Hitoshi Nakamoto (Japan) "Molecular Chaperones in cyanobacteria:
Regulation and Function
8 Alastair McEwan (Australia) "The Response to Oxidative and
Nitrosative Stress in /Neisseria// gonorrhoeae/
9 Jung-Hye Roe (Korea)
10 Francois Baneyx (USA)
11 Skorn Mongkolsuk (Thailand)
12 Paiboon Vatanaviboon (Thailand)
*Stresses in Health and Diseases*
1 Linda Hendershot (U.S.A) "Role of the UPR in Tumorigenesis and
Chemosensitivity"
2 Len Neckers (U.S.A.) "Is Hsp90 the Cancer Chaperone?",
3 Alexzander A. A. Asea (U.S.A.) "Chaperokine Activity of Hsp72:
Biological Significance and Clinical Implications"
4 Lawrence Hightower (U.S.A.) "Human Hsp70B', a Better Biomarker of
Stress?
5 Stuart Calderwood (U.S.A.) "Scavenger Receptors Mediate the Effects
of Extracellular Hsp70
6 Robert Tanguay (Canada) "Small Chaperones, Aging and Resistance to
Stress
7 Ian Brown (Toronto, Canada ) "Heat Shock Proteins and Protection of
the Nervous System
8 Tangchun Wu (PRC, China) "Genetic Variations of /hsp// /in Lung
Cancer and Coronary Heart Diseases
9 Alberto Macario (U.S.A.) "Abnormal chaperones: impact on the cell
10 Hideo Iwasaka (Japan) "New Strategy for Pulmonary Fibrosis.
11 Akira Nakai (Japan) "Coordinate Regulation of Heat Shock and
Inflammatory Responses by HSF
12 Renu Wadhwa (Japan) "Stress Chaperone Mortalin in Human Cancers"
13. Subhash Lakhotia (India) "Developmental Roles of Hsp60 Family Proteins in Drosophila"
*Old Age Diseases*
13 John Williams, (U.K.)
14 Graham Pockley (U.K.)
15 Yoshiro Saito (Japan)
*Stresses in Plant*
1 Herve Chrestin (France, Thailand) "Molecular Studies of the Response
to Ethylene and of Trunk Phloem Necrosis in Rubber Tree (Hevea
brasiliensis)
2 Andreas Weber (Germany)
*Stress Proteins in Disease Diagnosis and Treatment*
1. Michael Lynes (USA) Metallothionein: the extracellular roles of an "intracellular" stress protein.
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