3rd International p63/p73 workshop
18-21 March, 2007 - Complesso Monumentale S. Michele di Ripa - Rome

 

Provisional Program

 

Sunday 18th March, 2007

h. 16.30 Welcome: Institutional Authorities
Chairperson: Giovanni Blandino
Prof. Finazzi Agrò (President University of Tor Vergata)
Prof Luigi Frati (Vice-President University La Sapienza)
Prof. Francesco Balsano (President Andrea Cesalino Foundation)
Prof. Paola Muti (Scientific Director IRE)

h. 17.00 Keynote Lecture : Frank Mc Keon (Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA)
"p63 Through the Ages: the Female Germline and Epithelial Stem Cells "
Introduced by Massimo Levrero
sponsored by ROC

h. 18.00 Keynote Lecture: Tak Mak (University Health Network, Toronto, Canada)
"TA p73 deficiency leeds to tumorigenesis" "
Introduced by Gerry Melino
sponsored by Active p53 Consortium

h. 19.00 Welcome Cocktail



 

Monday 19th March, 2007

Session 1
Chairpersons: Y. Shaul and G. Cesareni

9.00 Daniel Aberdam (Nice, France)
"Key role of DeltaNp63a in ectodermal commitment and epidermal differentiation of embryonic stem cells"
9.30 Gerry Melino (Rome, Italy)
"The Nedd4 Binding Partner 1 (N4BP1) protein is a novel inhibitor of the E3 ligase Itch"
10.00

Zhi-Xiong Jim Xiao (Boston MA USA)
"Regulation of TAp63 Stability and Activity"

10.20 Roberto Mantovani (Milan, Italy)
"Reciprocal regulation of p63 by C/EBP delta in human keratinocytes"


10.40 - 11.10 Coffee Break

Session 2
Chairpersons: X.Lu and R.Mantovani

11.10
Elsa R. Flores (Houston, TX, USA)
"Investigating the roles of TAp63 in tumor suppression and metastasis using mouse models"
11.40
Charlotte Ruptier (Lyon, France)
"DeltaNp63 expression is regulated by p53, DeltaNp63 and beta-catenin"
12.00
Sergio Marchini (Milan, Italy)
"DNp63 expression associates with poor survival in ovarian cancer"

 

12.30 - 14.00 Lunch and Poster View

Session 3
Chairpersons: F.Mc Keon and I.Screpanti

14.00 Dennis Roop (Houston, TX, USA)
p63 induces key target genes required for epidermal morphogenesis
14.30 Alea Mills (Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA)
To be Announced
15.00 Rose-Anne Romano (Buffalo, NY, USA)
"Transgenic mice reveal unique roles for DNp63 in epidermal cell lineage commitment"
15.20

Filipa Pinto (Boston, MA, USA)
"Isoform-Selective Knockout Reveals an Essential Role of DNp63 in Epithelial Stem Cells"

15.40 Makoto Senoo (Boston, MA, USA)
"p63 is Essential for Maintenance of Thymic Epithelial Stem Cells"
16.00 Eleonora Candi (Rome, Italy)
"Role of p63 isoforms in development of epidermis and thymus"

 

16.20 - 16.50 Coffee Break

Session 4
Chairpersons: A.Gulino and P.Amati

16.50 Hans van Bokhoven (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
"Pattern of p63 mutations and their phenotypes in human ectodermal dysplasia syndromes"
17.20 Caterina Missero (Naples, Italy)
"Toward an Understanding of The Molecular Basis Of The AEC Syndrome"
17.40 Antonio Costanzo (Rome, Italy)
"A role for the p63-IKKalpha pathway in the development of ectodermal dysplasias"
18.00 Maria I. Morasso (Bethesda, MD, USA)
"Dlx3 as a downstream target of p63: possible relevance in the pathogenesis of ectodermal dysplasias"
18.20 Luisa Guerrini (Milano, Italy)
"p63 regulates the expression of Dlx genes in the embryonic limb buds"

 

 


 

Tuesday 20th March, 2007

Session 5
Chairpersons: U.Moll and S.Alema

9.00 Akira Nakagawara (Chiba, Japan)
"Specific and redundant regulation of p53 family members in Cancer"
9.30 Xin Lu (London, UK)
"Crosstalk between p73 and ASPP"
10.00 Alfredo Cabrera Socorro (SC de Tenerife, Spain)
"p73 in the human central nervous system. New perspectives"
10,20 Gundela Meyer (Leon, Spain)
"p73, p63 and p53 cooperate in postnatal neurogenesis"
10.40 David Kaplan (Toronto, Canada)
"A role for p73 in age-related neurodegeneration"


11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break

Session 6
Chairpersons: E.Flores and R.Knight

11.30 Ute Moll (Stony Brook, NY, USA)
"p73 suppresses polyploidy and aneuploidy in the absence of functional p53 in "primary cells"
12.00 Penka Nikolova (London, UK)
"Stability and DNA binding studies of p73 protein"
12.20 Vivienne Armbruester (Homburg-Saar, Germany)
"Physical interaction between p53/p63/p73 and the novel inhibitor protein of histone acetyltransferases, NIR"
12.40 Kanaga Sabapathy (Singapore, Singapore)
"A novel role for p73 in supporting cellular growth through c-Jun-dependent AP-1 transactivation"

13.00 - 14.30 Lunch and Poster View

Session 7
Chairpersons: A.Nakagawara and G.Del Sal

14.30 Yosef Shaul (Rehovot, Israel)
"p73, Yap and c-Abl are friends in need"
15.00 Subham Basu (London, UK)
"Yes-Associated Protein (YAP) is critical for c-Jun mediated chemosensitivity"
15.20 Massimo Levrero (Rome, Italy)
"To be Announced"
15.50 Thorsten Stiewe (Würzburg, Germany)
"p73 inhibits malignant transformation by limiting anchorage-independent growth"
16.10 Madhavi Kadakia (Dayton, OH, USA)
"Induction of VDR expression upon DNA damage is p73 dependent"

 

16.30 - 17.00 Coffee Break


Session 8
Chairpersons: V.Doetsch and C.Balsano

17.00 Giovanni Blandino (Rome, Italy)
"Reactivation of p73 is dangerous for tumor cells"
17.30 Francesco Frasca (Catania, Italy)
"Tap73? Increases p53 tumor suppressor activity in thyroid cancer cells via the inhibition of mdm2-mediated degradation"
17.50 Mahvash Tavassoli (London, UK)
"PML is an important component of p73-induced EGFR downregulation and apoptosis in head and neck cancer cells"
18.10 Paolo Lunghi (Parma, Italy)
"p73 Pathway is activated in MEK inhibitor plus Arsenic Trioxide treatment of acute myelogenous leukemia blasts"


 


 

Wednesday 21st March, 2007

Session 9
Chairpersons: A.Mills and Giulia Piaggio

9.00 Volker Dötsch (Frankfurt, Germany)
"Domain-domain interactions within the p53 protein family"
9.30 Brent Derry (Toronto, Canada)
"CEP-1: Mother of prevention or mother of invention?"
10.00 Anton Gartner (Dundee, UK)
"Learning from invertebrates? C. elegans cep-1 pathways"

 

10.30- 11.00 Coffee Break

11.00 Andrea Lunardi (Trieste, Italy)
"An in vitro protein interaction profile of Drosophila p53 by small pool expression screening"
11.20 Casimir Bamberger (Zurich, Switzerland)
"Parcae controlling life in an immortal organism - a novel p53-like protein family in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis"
11.40 Horng Der Ou (Frankfurt, Germany)
"Invertebrate p53s use different structural elements to stabilize their oligomeric state"

 

Session 10
Chairpersons: Y.Haupt and A.Sacchi

12.00 Jean-Christophe Bourdon (Dundee, UK)
"Loss of p53 isoform expression can be associated with poor survival in primary breast tumours"
12.20 Selected
"to be announced"
12.40 Elisabetta Sbisà (Bari, Italy)
"p53FamTaG database: a public resource which integrates genome-wide in silico and experimental analyses of p53 family direct target genes"

 

13,00 - 13.30
Conclusive remarks


Dr. Marino Nonis (General Director IFO-IRE)