Conference Series

European Molecular Biology Organization

NUCLEAR RECEPTORS:

 

from molecular mechanisms to molecular medicine

 


 

 

 

 

 

 



25 - 29 September | 2009 | Dubrovnik | Croatia

Speakers & Plenary Speakers

 

(In alphabetical order)

  PLENARY SPEAKERS  
 

Peter Fraser

Chromatin and Gene Expression Laboratory, Babraham Institut, Cambridge, UK

“Transcriptional interactome; spatial networks of co-regulated genes”

 

Bruce Spiegelman

Department of Cancer Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

“Transcriptional Control of Preadipocyte Determination and PPARg by Zfp423”

     

 

SPEAKERS

 

Patricia V. Elizalde

Institute of Biology and Experimental Medicine (IBYME), CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina

“Progesterone receptor rapid activation of signaling pathways modulate nonclassical transcriptional effects”

 

Ronald M. Evans

Gene Expression Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological, Studies, San Diego, California, USA

“Nuclear Receptors and AMPK – Resetting Metabolism”

 

Xiang-Dong Fu

Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine,University of California, San Diego, USA
"Reprogramming the Androgen Receptor in Prostate Cancer Cells”

 

Christopher K.  Glass

Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, USA
“Nuclear receptor transrepression pathways that regulate inflammation”

 

Jan-Ake Gustafsson

Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling, Dept of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Texas, USA

“Novel aspects of LXR action”

 

Gordon Hager

Laboratory of Receptor Biology and Gene Expression, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, USA

“Genome-wide Nuclear Receptor/chromatin Interactions”

 

Shigeaki  Kato

Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
“Regulated histone methyltransferase/demethylase supporting nuclear receptor function”

 

Adriana Maggi

Center of Excellence on Neurodegenerative Diseases of the University of Milan, Italy

“Estrogen receptor in liver: a sensor of the energetic status?”
Sara della Torre, Gianpaolo Rando, Cristian Ibarra and Adriana Maggi

 

David Mangelsdorf

UT Southwestern Medical Center, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Dallas, USA

“Nuclear receptors, man, and their hero the conqueror worm”

 

Raphaël Metivier

 

Interactions Cellulaires et Moléculaires, CNRS, University of Rennes, France

“Spatio-temporal regulations of an estrogen-dependent gene cluster”

 

Daniel Metzger

Department of Physiological Genetics and Nuclear, Signaling, IGBMC, Strasbourg, France
"The transcriptional intermediary factor TIF2 prevents mitochondrial uncoupling in skeletal muscle myocytes of adult mice"

 

Noa Noy

Department of Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Cleveland, Ohio, USA
"Retinoids in adipocyte biology"

 

Bert O'Malley

Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX USA

“NR Coactivators:Physiology of Disease”

 

Malcolm Parker

Laboratory of Molecular Endocrinology, Imperial College, London, UK
"Diverse actions of the Nuclear Receptor Corepressor RIP140"

 

Thomas Perlmann

Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

“NR4A Orphan Receptors Mediate CREB-induced Neuroprotection”

 

Didier Picard

Département de biologie cellulaire, University of Geneva, Switzerland
"Unorthodox twists in the regulation of ERalpha levels and activity"

 

Michela Plateroti

Molecular Biology and Biochemistry,Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France
"Thyroid hormone signaling and intestinal physiopathology"

 

Catherine Postic

Département d'Endocrinologie, Métabolisme et Cancer, Institut Cochin, Paris, France
"Molecular control of the lipogenic pathway in liver: contribution of nuclear receptor LXR and transcription factors ChREBP, SREBP-1c"

 

Fraydoon Rastinejad

School of Medicine's new Center for Molecular Design, University of Virginia, USA

"Structural Organization of the intact PPARgamma-RXRalpha heterodimer"
 

Kristina Schoonjans

Institut interfacultaire de Bioingénierie, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
"Bile acid signaling and control of metabolism"

 

Roland Schüle

Centre for Clinical Reserch, University of Freiburg, Germany

“Chromatin modifications control prostate cancer growth”

 

John Schwabe

Department of Biochemistry, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

“Assembly of the SMRT/NCoR transcriptional repression machinery”

 

Henk Stunnenberg

Department of Molecular Biology, Nijmegen Center for Molecular Life Sciences, Nijmegen,

The Netherlands

“Genome wide approaches to decipher Nuclear Hormone Receptor function”

 

Peter Tontonoz

Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
"Control of cholesterol homeostasis by LXRs"

 

Walter Wahli

Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
"Sumoylated PPARalpha mediates gender-specific gene repression"

 

Keith Yamamoto

Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, USA

     

 

 

 

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